{"id":260367,"date":"2026-01-31T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:06:08","slug":"soccer-drama-saipan-starring-steve-coogan-and-eanna-hardwicke-sets-theatrical-release-in-u-s-with-sunrise-films-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260367\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Drama \u2018Saipan,\u2019 Starring Steve Coogan and \u00c9anna Hardwicke, Sets Theatrical Release in U.S. With Sunrise Films (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSaipan<\/a>,\u201d the critically acclaimed Irish drama about the infamous fallout between former Irish soccer star Roy Keane<\/a> and national team manager Mick McCarthy<\/a>, is heading to the U.S. just in time for this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n

Sunrise Films<\/a> has acquired North American rights to the film, starring BAFTA nominee \u00c9anna Hardwicke<\/a> as Keane<\/a> and two-time Oscar nominee Steve Coogan<\/a> as McCarthy<\/a>, from Bankside Films<\/a>. Sunrise<\/a> is now planning a theatrical release in select U.S. cinemas on March 13.<\/p>\n

Directed by Lisa Barros D\u2019Sa<\/a> and Glenn Leyburn<\/a>, \u201cSaipan<\/a>\u201d chronicles one on most notorious moments in Irish sporting history and the events leading up to Ireland\u2019s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign. While preparing for the tournament on the Japanese island of Saipan, the famously hot-headed Irish captain Keane had a very public, very bitter disagreement with manager McCarthy, resulting in him flying home before it even began. Described as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaipan,\u201d the critically acclaimed Irish drama about the infamous fallout between former Irish soccer star Roy Keane and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,9719,156,434,4223,409,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-260367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-realisateurs","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}