{"id":79658,"date":"2025-08-20T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79658\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:57:10","slug":"colin-farrell-stars-as-gambling-addict-in-new-film-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79658\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell stars as gambling addict in new film | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/colin-farrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Farrell<\/a> portray a gambling addict in the trailer for a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> film from the director of Conclave.<\/p>\n<p>Released on Tuesday (19 August), the preview for \u201cBallad of a Small Player\u201d shows Farrell\u2019s character, Lord Doyle, getting ready for a night out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/macau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macau<\/a>, often dubbed the \u201cLas Vegas of Asia\u201d, before he hits the casinos.<\/p>\n<p>A synopsis of the film, directed by Edward Berger, reads: \u201cWhen his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thriller will be released in select <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> theatres on 15 October, hitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> two days later and dropping on the streaming giant on 29 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Colin Farrell portray a gambling addict in the trailer for a new Netflix film from the director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-79658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}