A Monster Calls Now Set for Christmas Weekend Release
Originally slated to debut during the crowded Halloween season, A Monster Calls has now been pushed back a bit and will arrive in a limited Top 10 city run on December 23rd in 20-plus theaters before going wide in 1,500 venues on January 6th.
Per Deadline, the release change is a result of some very early positive audience and press reactions as well as the film’s aggressive festival roll-out. After having its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 1st, A Monster Calls will visit the San Sebastian Film Festival on September 21st and the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 10th.
The move leaves the busy pre-Halloween weekend of October 21st to Paramount’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 20th Century Fox’s comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses, Universal/Blumhouse’s Ouija: Origin of Evil, Lionsgate’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, and Pure Flix’s Columbine tragedy teen drama I’m Not Ashamed.
A Monster Calls is directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) and written by Patrick Ness based on his award-winning children’s fantasy novel. Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell, Lewis MacDougall, and Liam Neeson star. Participant Media and River Road are producers with Lionsgate handling the film abroad.
Synopsis:
Twelve-year-old Conor (MacDougall), dealing with his mother’s (Jones) illness, a less-than-sympathetic grandmother (Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a Monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the Monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth. Kebbell plays Conor’s father, and Neeson stars in performance-capture and voiceover as the nocturnally visiting Monster of the title.
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