Sony Classics To Release ‘Foxcatcher’ On November 14

Sony Classics To Release ‘Foxcatcher’ On November 14

The long road of Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher to the big screen finally has a finish line. Sony Pictures Classics has set a November 14 release date for the pic starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, which last week landed a competition berth at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s a prime awards-season spot for the drama, which tells the true story of Olympic wrestling champion brothers Mark Schultz (Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Carell), heir to the DuPont Chemical fortune, that led to murder. Right now it will share the November 14 date with Universal’s Dumb And Dumber To, Sony/Columbia’s Brad Pitt war drama Fury and Relativity’s Blackbird.

Foxcatcher was being primed for a big AFI Fest bow and an Oscar-season splash last fall before pulling out at the last minute. SPC said the move was so filmmakers “can have more time to finish the film.” It had been set for a December 2013 release. AFI Fest later set August: Osage County for the gala premiere spot.

Megan Ellison is producing Foxcatcher via Annapurna Pictures along with Miller, Jon Kilik, and Anthony Bregman. Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller, and Anthony Michael Hall co-star in the film scripted by E. Max Frye and and Dan Futterman.

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