Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ Will Go Platform Before Wide Fall Expansion – Update
deadline.comUPDATE: Following the critical acclaim for Jason Reitman‘s SNL origins pic, Saturday Night, coming out of its Telluride release, Sony is changing up the release pattern of the ensemble pic to a platform roll-out.
The movie will go exclusive on Sept 27 in LA, NYC and Toronto, then limited on Oct. 4 before breaking wide on Oct. 11. Saturday Night will have its international premiere up here at TIFF on Tuesday, Sept.
10. The pic is already 85% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes Deadline’s Awards Editor and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond declared that Reitman “nailed it” in casting the 80-speaking role movie with the likes of Gabriel LaBelle as SNL producer as Lorne Michaels, Dyan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Willem Dafoe as NBC exec David Tebet, Cory Michael Smith’s “spot-on Chevy Chase”; Lamorne Morris’s Garrett Morris, Matt Wood’s John Belushi and Succession‘s Nicholas Braun doing double duty as Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman.
Hammond also says Saturday Night is a “a masterful movie comedy firing on all cylinders” and that it’s also “a suspense thriller too.” “One false move and this whole ambitious soufflé could have fallen, but Reitman steers this all in style creating on the great movies about show business I have ever seen,” exclaimed Hammond. PREVIOUS JULY 30: Jason Reitman’s Untitled SNL 1975 project has been titledSaturday Nightand will be released in theaters on October 11 via Columbia Pictures.
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