TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner ‘American Fiction’ Moves To December
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut, American Fiction, is changing up its release plan from Nov.
3rd limited opening to Dec. 15. The MGM theatrical release which stars Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, Skyler Wright among others is a scathing satire on the publishing industry and its treatment of serious works by Black writers.
One of those writers is Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Wright). He travels back to his hometown of Boston to attend a book festival, but the turnout is low in favor of another book seminar with author Sintara Golden’s (Issa Rae) bestseller We Lives in Da Ghetto.
Originally MGM was going to expand on Nov. 10 and 17. Now following that mid December release, there will be an expansion on Dec.
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