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As there’s constructive vibes (knock on wooden) popping out the AMPTP and WGA talks on the time of this submit, there are fascinating maneuvers taking place on the theatrical release-date calendar. Particularly, extra movies preserve getting added.
After Paramount dated its subsequent Imply Ladies for MLK weekend 2024 right this moment, a constructive indication that the winter gained’t be utterly dry of films as a result of strikes: Lionsgate has plopped John Woo’s subsequent motion film, Silent Night time, on December 1.
Silent Night time is an acquisition by Lionsgate.
That’s the post-Black Friday weekend body, which generally sees style pics pull in a younger viewers. At the moment, twentieth Century Studios/Disney has the Jeff Nichols-directed The Bikeriders on that date. There’s additionally MGM’s enlargement of Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.
Silent Night time is Woo’s first American theatrical film since 2003’s Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Aaron Eckhart. The brand new movie, which uniquely has no dialogue, stars Joel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Harold Torres, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Robert Archer Lynn wrote the script. The pic can be produced by John Wick producers Thunder Street Movies.
The gritty revenge story follows a tormented father (Kinnaman) who witnesses his younger son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. Whereas recovering from a wound that prices him his voice, Kinnaman makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing coaching routine so as to avenge his son’s demise.
Producers are Christian Mercuri, Lori Tilkin deFelice, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Woo. Along with Thunder Street, Capstone Studios and A Higher Tomorrow Movies are the manufacturing corporations.