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It was recently reported that Andrew Garfield has joined Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial. Garfield, who can also be seen in Guadagnino’s upcoming After the Hunt, joins Cooper Koch, who broke out in a big way thanks to playing Erik Menendez in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Additionally, Anora‘s Yura Borisov will also star in the film, which is described as a “comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence.“

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As the fall festival lineup continues to take shape, a major piece has now slid into place. Film at Lincoln Center has announced Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt will open the 63rd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere on Friday, September 26. The festival takes place through October 13.

Here’s the NYFF synopsis: “In his razor-sharp new drama, the prolific Luca Guadagnino plunges with refreshing abandon into the murky seas of contemporary morality—and gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career. Roberts embodies chilly, seemingly self-assured Yale philosophy professor Alma Olsson, whose comfortable professional career and domestic life with her mercurial husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) are thrown into chaos after her PhD candidate protégée Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) accuses Alma’s longtime colleague and friend Henrik (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. As a result, the air of rarefied academic privilege on campus begins to dissolve,...

Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” will kick off the 63rd New York Film Festival as its opening night feature.

The film boasts an all-star cast led by Julia Roberts in a story about the impact of an alleged sexual assault on an Ivy League campus. Michael Stuhlbarg, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny and Andrew Garfield co-star in “After the Hunt,” which Amazon MGM Studios backed. Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay.

Previous opening night films at the festival have included Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Todd Haynes’ “May December.” RaMell Ross’s “Nickle Boys” opened last year’s edition.

Billed as the film’s North American premiere, “After the Hunt” will return Guadagnino to the festival, a place where he previously screened “Call Me by Your Name” and “Queer.” “After the Hunt” will screen at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino...

Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt is to get its North American premiere as the opening night film at this year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF) on September 26.

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 63rd edition of NYFF will run from September 26 to October 13. After The Hunt will screen at Alice Tully Hall with Guadagnino and members of the film’s cast in attendance.

Guadagnino’s much anticipated drama – just announced to screen out of competition at next month’s Venice festival – stars Julia Roberts as an emotionally chilly Yale professor whose life is thrown into chaos when...

Luca Guadagnino’s latest drama, “After the Hunt,” will open the 63rd New York Film Festival with its North American premiere, Film at Lincoln Center announced Wednesday.

The film stars Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor whose comfortable life is upended when her star graduate student, played by “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri, accuses another professor (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. Written by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, “After the Hunt” tackles gender, sexuality, race and power as they play out in the privileged world of academia.

Julia Roberts in “After the Hunt” (Amazon MGM Studios)

Guadagnino will attend the Sept. 26 screening with members of the cast (names have not yet been announced). The acclaimed director came to last year’s New York Film Festival with “Queer” and brought “Bones and All” in 2022 and “Call Me by Your Name” in 2017. “After the Hunt” reunites the filmmaker with Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny,...

Not to be outdone by Venice and TIFF, this year’s New York Film Festival on Tuesday began rolling out its own lineup.

First up: opening night, which will be celebrated with the North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt.” The Opening Night gala of the 63rd New York Film Festival, presented in partnership with Rolex, will take place at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 26, with Guadagnino and members of the cast in attendance.

In today’s announcement, NYFF classifies the film as a “razor-sharp new drama” in which the filmmaker “plunges with refreshing abandon into the murky seas of contemporary morality — and gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career.” The film will have its world premiere out of competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival and will be released by Amazon MGM Studios in New York and LA theaters on Friday,...

The 2025 New York Film Festival has selected Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt as its opening night film.

The movie — which stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield — will receive its North American premiere at New York’s Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Sept. 26.

After the Hunt, from Amazon MGM Studios, follows Roberts’ Yale philosophy professor Alma whose personal and professional lives are disrupted after her PhD candidate protégée Maggie (Edebiri) accuses Alma’s longtime friend and colleague Henrik (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. Exploring the murkiness of contemporary morality, the film sees Alma navigating minefields of gender, sexuality, race and institutional power, as she attempts to reconcile her choices with past demons. Directed by Guadagnino from a script by Nora Garrett, After the Hunt also stars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny.

After the Hunt just earlier this week was selected for the 2025 Venice Film Festival and is set...

Amazon MGM Studios has released the official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's suspenseful drama After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield. The upcoming film set to release in October, is one of the year's most-anticipated Oscar contenders.

What's the plot?

Roberts plays college professor Alma Olsson, who becomes entangled in a moral and personal dilemma when her top student, Maggie Price (played by Ayo Edebiri), accuses a colleague, Henrik "Hank" Gibson (Andrew Garfield), of inappropriate behavior.

In the trailer, Maggie tells Alma, “I need to speak with you. Hank walked me home. He crossed the line.” She adds, “It’s the right thing to do, you know tell someone. Given your history,” hinting at Alma’s hidden secrets from the past.

Alma becomes caught in the middle of the allegations and appears torn between protecting her friend and colleague and supporting her student. In the trailer Alma tells Maggie,...

Based on the first trailer for After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino looks to have made his most Oscar-friendly film since Call Me by Your Name. Written by Nora Garrett, the #MeToo thriller, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny, concerns a sexual assault scandal at a university, and the trailer is unnervingly fixated on how more than just words are weaponized in such academic settings.

Per the logline, “After the Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.”

After the Hunt open in NY and LA on October 10, before expanding on October 17.

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The first trailer for ‘After the Hunt,’ the latest film from acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino, has officially dropped, offering a chilling glimpse into a world of moral ambiguity, buried secrets, and personal reckoning.

Led by Julia Roberts in what promises to be one of her most gripping dramatic roles to date, the movie centres on a veteran college professor whose professional and personal stability begins to fracture when a star student, played by Ayo Edebiri, accuses one of her colleagues—portrayed by Andrew Garfield—of misconduct. As tensions rise and the institution closes ranks, a long-suppressed secret from the professor’s past threatens to resurface, forcing her to confront the uncomfortable truths that bind them all.

The film also stars Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg, rounding out a powerhouse ensemble cast in a story that pulses with psychological tension and emotional complexity.

Written by Nora Garrett, ‘After the Hunt’ marks...

Julia Roberts’ college professor Alma Olsson is forced to face secrets from her own dark past, and possibly see them come to light, in the official trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt psychological thriller for Amazon MGM Studios.

In the preview, Roberts’ professor’s star student Maggie Price, played by Ayo Edebiri, confides in her that a colleague, Henrik Gibson (Andrew Garfield), had crossed the line.

“It’s the right thing to do, isn’t it? To tell someone and, you know, given your history,” Edebiri asks Roberts at one point in the trailer. “What does that mean, my history?” Roberts responds with what becomes a key point in the feature from Imagine Entertainment as her own past threatens to be revealed.

At first Gibson accuses Price of plagiarism. But at another point in the teaser, an increasingly desperate Gibson tells Olsson “you know the truth, and you won’t say it,...

Amazon MGM Studios has released the first look at Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” a tense psychological thriller that casts Julia Roberts as a veteran professor whose campus is upended by a sexual-assault allegation and a long-buried secret of her own. The two-minute trailer, revealed online early Wednesday, immediately ignited debate over its pointed #MeToo themes and Guadagnino’s trademark intimacy.

Set at a New England university, the film follows star student Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) after she accuses charismatic lecturer Hank (Andrew Garfield) of “crossing the line,” forcing Roberts’ Alma to choose between institutional loyalty and personal conscience while confronting an incident she once hoped was forgotten. Screenwriter Nora Garrett’s script promises inter-generational friction and Demme-style direct address that pulls viewers into every confrontation.

Critics who previewed the footage noted Guadagnino’s shift from the stylised sensuality of “Challengers” to sharper social commentary; JoBlo described Garfield’s role as deliberately “anti-woke,...

Millennials and Gen Z collide in the new trailer for After the Hunt. Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time), Michael Stuhlbarg (Bones and All) and Chloë Sevigny (Russian Doll) all star in the intense drama from Challengers and Queer director Luca Guadagnino. The psychological thriller comes from Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment. Imagine Entertainment’s Allan Mandelbaum brought the script to the production company and worked with CAA to bring Roberts and Guadagnino onto the project.

The official synopsis reads, “From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After The Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. After The Hunt is written by Nora Garrett.

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped the first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stulbarg, and Chloë Sevigny.

Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.

The movie, written by screenwriter Nora Garrett, follows in the wake of ever-busy Italian director Guardagnino’s sports romance Challengers, starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, and Queer adaptation, starring Daniel Craig.

Talking to Deadline at CinemaCon in April, Garfield praised Guadagnino’s spontaneous but laser focused approach on set.

“What was exciting and surprising about being with Luca on set was how loose he is, how relaxed he is, how kind of spontaneous,...

The devil works hard but Luca Guadagnino works harder. After releasing two films last year — “Challengers” and “Queer” — the Oscar-nominated filmmaker is back with yet another new film this year in “After the Hunt,” a gripping thriller about a possible sexual assault accusation on a college campus that sends ripples throughout its insular world.

Julia Roberts plays a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student, played by Ayo Edebiri, accuses one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield) of “crossing the line.” Matters are made more complicated by a dark secret from the past of Roberts’ character.

Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay for the Amazon MGM Studios original film, which makes use of Jonathan Demme-like direct-address to put the audience even closer to this cadre of characters.

Watch the trailer above. “After the Hunt” will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Oct.

“After The Hunt” just might be Luca Guadagnino’s version of “Notes on a Scandal” with a twist. The highly-anticipated academia-set psychological thriller stars Julia Roberts as a college professor whose star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) accuses another beloved teacher (Andrew Garfield) of assault. That professor then in turn alleges that the student’s claims are only due to him catching her plagiarizing a piece. Who will Roberts believe?

The trailer teases Edebiri’s character’s queer obsession with Roberts’, as the ensemble also debate the privilege of higher education amid a growing generational divide. The tagline reads: “Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable,” while the synopsis hints that Roberts’ character will “find herself at a personal and professional crossroads […] as a dark secret from her own past also threatens to come into the light.”

“After The Hunt” is written by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett. Director Guadagnino reunites with...

Following up the double dose of last year’s Challengers and Queer, Luca Guadagnino is readying a fall release for his next feature, After the Hunt. Led by Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stulbarg, and Chloë Sevigny, the psychological thriller has been set for an October 10 release from Amazon MGM Studios and now the first trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After The Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. After The Hunt is written by Nora Garrett.”

See the trailer below for the film shot by Malik Hassan Sayeed.

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The trailer for After the Huntreveals a first look at the star-studded cast. The next movie by acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino is described as a crime drama thriller about a college professor who finds herself in a tough situation when an excellent student issues a damning accusation against one of her colleagues.

The film's script was written by Nora Garrett, and After the Hunt features Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Christine Dye. The movie is set for release on October 17, 2025.

Now, Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer for After the Hunt. The trailer opens with Garfield's character speaking at a party, talking about how the younger generation makes people afraid to say the wrong thing. The scene then transitions to better establish Roberts' role, playing a well-liked college professor named Alma.

Alma is established to be close friends with Garfield's Hank, a colleague of hers.

Julia Roberts is a professor caught in the middle of a #MeToo scandal in the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming psychological drama “After the Hunt.”

The R-rated film also stars Andrew Garfield and “The Bear” breakout Ayo Edebiri, alongside Guadagnino regulars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny in supporting roles. It was written by Nora Garrett.

According to its synopsis, “After the Hunt” follows a college professor (Roberts) who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroad when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), threatening to expose a dark secret from her own past.”

The tense trailer opens with Garfield’s character, Hank, laying into Gen Z. “All your generation, you’re scared of saying the wrong thing,” he says. “When did offending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?”

“Maybe it’s around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?...

Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment have inked a multi-year deal for Sony to distribute the former’s upcoming titles After the Hunt, Mercy, Crime 101, and Project Hail Mary abroad.

Yes, Amazon MGM is continuing to build its own international theatrical distribution infrastructure. The new deal will fill the gap as Amazon MGM Studios’ international deal with Warner Bros ends, and the shopping site-streamer-theatrical distributor looks for a chief executive to lead its new foreign distribution arm.

Following those theatrical releases, Amazon MGM will directly distribute its slate in territories overseas where it launches owned and operated offices, with Sony supporting the studio in other international markets.

Luca Guadagnino’s thriller After the Hunt, will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by a release in select theaters on Oct. 10 and expand on Oct. 17. The pic, written by Nora Garrett, stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield,...

On Tuesday evening, Deadline launched its Deadline Dinners event series with Eleanor the Great screenwriter Tory Kamen as our first host. Proper Presents: Deadline Dinners is a new writer-focused event series designed to foster candid conversation, celebrate breakthrough storytelling and build community around the written word.

Kamen’s chosen theme for the evening was first-time female screenwriters, and she brought together a group of guests that included Ilana Wolpert (Anyone But You), Nora Garrett (After the Hunt), Rose Gilroy (Fly Me to the Moon), Amy Wang (Slanted), Jess Righthand (Grey’s Anatomy), Kale Futterman (Ginny & Georgia), Rebecca Rosenberg (The Librarians: The Next Chapter), Tracie Laymon (Bob Trevino Likes It) and Anna Greenfield (Late Bloomers).

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Kamen said of bringing the group together: “I really wanted a community of people that I could relate to, as somebody who’s trying to write features and really loves theatrical. What tonight’s about is celebrating future writers.

Hollywood cannot stop Luca Guadagnino from making a movie. With his DC Universe movie Sgt. Rock delayed until 2026, the filmmaker is quickly pushing ahead with a radically different feature at Amazon MGM Studios.

According to Deadline, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker (Call Me By Your Name) is set to reunite with his After the Hunt star Andrew Garfield on Artificial, which sources state will revolve around "the period at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days." However, it's not a done deal just yet, as Guadagnino and Garfield are still in talks for the movie.

Also in talks for the movie are recent acting Oscar nominees Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown) and Yura Borisov (Anora). If all the deals close, the plan would be to shoot Artificial, which boasts a screenplay by Simon Rich, later this year. Guadagnino was initially...

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On the latest episode of IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast, Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio review what was seen (and not seen) during the Las Vegas presentation. We’re equally excited about Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious action comedy “One Battle After Another”, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who it seems won’t be returning to another film whose news overtook CinemaCon: David Fincher’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” sequel, written by Quentin Tarantino, for Netflix. Anne argues that Tarantino is passing the project on to Fincher...

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Meanwhile, Verity is Michael Showalter’s project, starring Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett, and Dakota Johnson. Verity is based on It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover’s novel, published in 2018. The CinemaCon crowd saw a trailer with Hathaway playing a famous author and Hartnett as her husband. She’s now paralyzed, and Dakota Johnson is a writer doing her biography. Johnson becomes infatuated with Hartnett, but Hathaway’s Verity might not be paralyzed and might be hiding a dark secret! Dun dun dunnnn!

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One of the year's most-anticipated Oscar contenders has gotten its first look at CinemaCon.

On Wednesday, Amazon MGM Studios debuted the first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, which is expected to be one of the studio’s top awards contenders this year.

Written by Nora Garrett and directed by Guadagnino, After the Hunt focuses on the fallout at a small college after a student (The Bear Emmy Award winner Ayo Edebiri) accuses one of the school’s beloved professors (Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield) of sexual misconduct. Alma (Oscar winner Julia Roberts), a professor connected to both the accuser and the accused, is caught in the middle of the allegations.

In the trailer, Garfield’s character, Henrik, denies the allegations made by Maggie, the student played by Edebiri. However, his friendship with Alma threatens her place on the campus, mainly as the students begin to criticize Alma for...

Riding high off “Challengers,” Luca Guadagnino is teaming up again with Amazon MGM Studios for “After the Hunt,” a tense drama and thriller starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield.

In what was Amazon MGM’s first presentation at CinemaCon, Guadagnino, Edebiri, and Garfield took the stage at the Colosseum to present the trailer for the film ahead of the movie’s release on October 17, 2025.

The film follows Roberts as a college professor who is caught up in a political and personal crisis when one of her star pupils (Edebiri) accuses one of her fellow professors of an act of abuse. Let’s just say it was a pretty tense experience, one that grapples with the culture wars and generational divide in the post-#MeToo era in fascinating ways.

Garfield referred to Guadagino as “a radical artist” and that it was a “dream come true to be directed by a living master,...

Luca Guadagnino, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield flew into Vegas today to talk up their upcoming thriller After the Hunt from Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment. It’s the filmmaker’s fourth movie with Amazon MGM Studios after Suspiria, Bones and All and Challengers. Guadagnino never dwells in one genre, or one subject, and After the Hunt is a throwback to ’90s thrillers like Michael Crichton’s Disclosure with a little Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys thrown in.

Set for limited domestic release on October 10, the psychological drama is about a college professor (Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.

The highly anticipated prestige drama “After the Hunt” put CinemaCon in its crosshairs on Wednesday, delivering an exhilarating and deeply conflicting first look at the Julia Roberts-Luca Guadagnino film collaboration.

Heavily tipped for awards buzz already, “After the Hunt” played confidently and compelled the audience of global movie theater owners at their annual Las Vegas convention.

Roberts stars as a college professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield),” according to a synopsis. As she grapples with an ugly situation, “a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.”

In what Guadagnino teased as the best performance of Roberts’ career, the footage played shows the Oscar winner in top form as a shock-blonde, east coast academic elite. Her circle of slightly sycophantic colleagues tout her brilliance, even...

Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri brought the tense first trailer from their new thriller After the Hunt to CinemaCon.

Luca Guadagnino joined his castmembers to tease the Amazon MGM Studios film that also stars Julia Roberts and hits select theaters Oct. 10 before expanding the following week. Hailing from Imagine Entertainment, After the Hunt focuses on a college professor (Roberts) who is forced to confront her own dark past when a prominent student (Edebiri) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield).

“I’ve wanted to work with Luca for 15, 20 years and finally we’ve gotten to do it,” Garfield told the crowd. He called Guadagnino’s work “sumptuous, sensual and life-affirming.”

Edebiri added, “This is a movie that’s built to see with other people to talk about and discuss and just feel.”

The trailer shows Edebiri coming to Roberts to confide in her. “He crossed the line,” Edebiri says of Garfield’s character.

Julia Roberts and Challengers director Luca Guadagnino's new thriller, After the Hunt, has set a theatrical date for later this year. The film will have a limited opening on Oct. 10 before going wide a week later on Oct. 17. That puts it up against Universal and Blumhouse's The Black Phone 2 along with Good Fortune starring Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, and Keke Palmer.

The film's story, which was written by actress Nora Garrett, and is her first screenplay, has been kept under wraps. However, the official plot reads:

A college professor (Roberts) finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield) and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

After the Hunt also features a phenomenal cast, including Roberts, Edebiri, Garfield, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, Thaddea Graham, Lio Mehiel, Ariyan Kassam,...

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Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment’s Luca Guadagnino thriller After the Hunt, is going into limited release October 10, with a nationwide break October 17.

The film follows a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny also star along with Lío Mehiel, Thaddea Graham, Will Price, Christine Dye, and Burgess Byrd.

The After the Hunt screenplay is by Nora Garrett. Producers are Guadagnino, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum.

Don’t be shocked if this one makes a premiere during the fall film festival troika. Guadagnino loves to launch at the Venice Film Festival, as he did for his latest pics Bones and All and Queer.

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Amazon MGM will release “After the Hunt,” a psychological drama directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts, during prime awards season, starting with select theaters on Oct. 10, 2025, followed by a wider release on Oct. 17, the company announced on Thursday.

The film will debut nationwide alongside two other major releases: Blumhouse’s “The Black Phone 2” starring Ethan Hawke, and Lionsgate’s R-rated comedy “Good Fortune” featuring Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, and Seth Rogen.

“After the Hunt” also stars Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny.

Written by newcomer Nora Garrett, who will also serve as executive producer, “After the Hunt” will see Roberts play a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.

Allan Mandelbaum, who brought...

After the Hunt has tracked down a prime awards season slot from Amazon MGM Studios.

Director Luca Guadagnino’s thriller feature is set to launch in limited theatrical release on Oct. 10, with the film expanding its theater count the following week. Julia Roberts leads a cast that includes Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny.

Also set for nationwide release on Oct. 17, when After the Hunt is scheduled to go wide, are Universal’s horror sequel The Black Phone 2 and Lionsgate’s Aziz Ansari-directed comedy Good Fortune that stars Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.

Hailing from Imagine Entertainment, After the Hunt focuses on a college professor (Roberts) who is forced to confront her own dark past when a prominent student (Edebiri) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield).

Guadagnino helmed the movie from a script by Nora Garrett. Serving as producers are Guadagnino,...

“After the Hunt,” a thriller directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, will land in theaters this fall.

Amazon MGM is granting the film a prime awards season release date, with a limited rollout on Oct. 10 before expanding on Oct. 17. “After the Hunt” will open nationwide on the same date as Blumhouse’s thriller “The Black Phone 2” with Ethan Hawke and Lionsgate’s R-rated comedy “Good Fortune,” starring Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen.

Described as a “gripping psychological drama,” the film follows Roberts as a college professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield),” according to the official logline. As she navigates the difficult situation, “a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.” Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast.

With a solid list of films under his belt, director Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming project, After the Hunt, is likely to be another impressive piece of work. With a screenplay by first-time writer Nora Garrett, the film aims to explore the divisions between people that often lead to extreme points of view. As such, it promises to be a movie that’s emblematic of the current time.

Given it’s not a movie about love or sexuality, the thriller will be a bit different from Guadagnino’s recent films. It will instead tackle issues surrounding concepts of consent, particularly between people of different generations within the world of academia. However, specific details of After the Hunt are relatively hard to come by. Nonetheless, its stellar cast indicates the film is all but guaranteed to be a must-watch once it arrives in theaters, whenever that may be.

Accompanying Guadagnino’s direction...

From “I Am Love” to “Queer,” romance and desire have always been fundamental to Luca Guadagnino’s storytelling. Even in more mainstream fare like “Call Me by Your Name” and “Challengers,” Guadagnino has found ways to incorporate intimacy as a way of exploring humanity, but the Italian filmmaker recently shared that his latest film, “After the Hunt,” will diverge from these subjects.

“It’s not a movie about sexuality or love. It’s one of my very rare movies where I didn’t tackle that,” Guadagnino said in a recent interview on “Wtf with Marc Maron.” In describing what the film would cover, he added, “It’s a very timely movie for where we are now. In terms of the society and the division in society and the extreme positions that we can have vis-a-vis an opinion in a way.”

Guadagnino described the project, which is currently in post-production, as “a very surprising movie,...

On Friday, Oct. 19, Variety partnered with the Santa Fe International Film festival to celebrate its 10 Screenwriters to Watch. All 10 recipients gathered at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center for a lively conversation about their path to screenwriting and the work that earned them their place on Variety’s annual list of the most promising up-and-coming scribes in the entertainment industry.

The panel began with a conversation about the films that first made them want to be screenwriters — and in some cases, exposed them to the idea that writing for film and television was a job they could pursue. Among their responses, “Fancy Dance” co-screenwriter Miciana Alise named John Huston’s “Annie” (“Carol Burnett just takes up the whole screen”), while her partner Erica Tremblay remembered “The Last Emperor” making a lasting impression; Noah Pink (“Eden”) said “Jurassic Park;” Tory Kamen (“Eleanor the Great”) and Nora Garrett (“After the Hunt”) agreed that “Juno,...

Exclusive: Sugar23 has added managers Antoni Kaczmarek and Sydney Blanke to its literary department

“We could not be happier to have both Antoni and Sydney joining our literary ranks. With Antoni’s deep relationships and experience in scripted television, and Sydney’s impeccable taste and reputation, we feel lucky to have them,” says Sugar23 founder Michael Sugar.

Kaczmarek joins Sugar23 after spending the last three years at A3 Artists Agency as a television literary agent. He began his career as an agent trainee at UTA and in series development at FX Networks. He first became an agent in 2018 at Paradigm where he focused on international formats, playwrights, and development.

Along with his experience, Kaczmarek brings to the Sugar23 team screenwriters including: Adam Starks, Pamela Garcia Rooney, Jonny Gomez, Erick Galindo, Jerry Kontogiorgis, Miriam Hernandez, Candace Jackson and others.

Blanke joins Sugar23 from Fourth Wall Management, where she was a literary...

Exclusive: Lío Mehiel, Thaddea Graham, Will Price, Christine Dye, and Burgess Byrd have joined previously announced cast members Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature After the Hunt. The pic is produced by Imagine Entertainment will be released in theaters next year.

Luca Guadagnino is directing the film from a script penned by Nora Garrett. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner. Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder will executive produce alongside Nora Garrett. The film will start production this summer.

The film follows a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Mehiel made their feature film debut starring in Sundance 2023’s Mutt.

Fresh off the success of “Challengers,” director Luca Guadagnino has wasted no time in moving forward with his next film, “After the Hunt.” The project, which boasts an impressive ensemble cast, has officially entered pre-production in London.

On Saturday, cast members Julia Roberts, Chloë Sevigny, and Ayo Edebiri shared a group photo on social media, seemingly from the first day of pre-production. Sevigny captioned her Instagram post with “#backtowork After The Hunt directed by the great Luca Guadagnino,” while also sharing dinner photos with the director.

The cast photo also included co-stars Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lio Meheil, Ariyan Kassam, and Will Price, suggesting that a table read for the film had taken place. Edebiri’s post humorously included a screenshot of Guadagnino urging her to share the photo, emphasizing “Not a story!!!”

“After the Hunt,” written by Nora Garrett, is described as an intense dramatic thriller. The plot centers on a college professor,...

As movie theater seats are still damp from Challengers showings, director Luca Guadagnino has already moved on to his next production.

Julia Roberts, Chloë Sevigny and Ayo Edebiri shared a cast photo on Saturday from what appeared to be the first day of pre-production on Guadagnino’s After the Hunt in London.

“#backtowork After The Hunt directed by the great Luca Guadagnino,” Sevigny captioned the photo on Instagram, also sharing photos from dinner with Guadagnino to her Instagram Story. “Like we do,” she wrote with the snaps.

“Here we go! Luca!!!!!” wrote Roberts with her own post.

Edebiri also shared the photo along with a screenshot of Guadagnino’s text urging her to post it. “Post it!! I sent it to Julia too!” he wrote to the Bear actress. “Not a story!!!”

Director Luca Guadagnino and actress Chloë Sevigny pose for a photo at dinner after kicking off production on their movie After the Hunt.

The Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield thriller “After the Hunt” has entered production, according to a pair of photos shared on Instagram by Ayo Edebiri. The actress hashtagged the post #NotAStory after Luca Guadagnino seemed to request Edebiri post the photo on her grid (hence the hashtag), not to her Instagram Stories, according to a text from the director she also shared.

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The enthusiastic Guadagnino also noted that he’d sent the photo to Roberts.

Amazon MGM acquired the rights to the film in March. Writer Nora Garrett will also serve as executive producer on the movie, which stars Julia Roberts as a college professor whose life is thrown into chaos after a student makes an accusation against one of her colleagues.

Andrew Garfield and Chloë Sevigny also star. The movie marks Guadagnino’s followup to his acclaimed “Challengers,...

Joining Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edibiri, Chloë Sevigny is to co-star in Luca Guadagnino’s drama, After The Hunt.

Having already worked with the filmmaker for 2022’s Bones And All, Chloë Sevigny is to star in Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming thriller, After The Hunt.

Sevigny is the latest addition to an already starry cast, which so far includes Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri and another Guadagnino favourite, Michael Stuhlbarg.

Guadagnino has been busy of late; his most recent film, the tennis-based love triangle Challengers, emerged to critical applause in April, while his next opus, Queer – starring Daniel Craig and based on the book of the same name by William S Burroughs – is out later in 2024.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the Sevigny news, After The Hunt is due to begin filming this summer – so presumably within the next few weeks. Written by Nora Garrett, it...

Chloë Sevigny is the latest A-lister to join Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming thriller After the Hunt, re-teaming with the director for a third time after the cannibal love story Bones & All and HBO series We Are Who We Are.

Sevigny joins a cast that includes Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, and fellow Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg, with the film due to begin production this summer.

Guadagnino is directing from a script penned by Nora Garrett, which follows a college professor who has to contest with the personal and professional ramifications of a star pupil leveling an accusation against one of her colleagues. All the while, a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Amazon MGM is behind the project after worked with Guadagnino on his latest film, Zendaya’s tennis romantic drama Challengers, which has grossed $90 million at the global box office. Imagine Entertainment is set to produce,...

The cast for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller After The Hunt just keeps getting better and better. Since last month's news that Andrew Garfield has signed on to star alongside Julia Roberts in the Challengers filmmaker's latest project, The Bear star Ayo Edebiri has already slipped into the movie's ensemble. And now, as reported by Deadline, Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name collaborator and Academy Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg has become the latest acting heavyweight to join the film.

Penned by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett, Guadagnino's "intense dramatic thriller" is set to centre around Julia Roberts' character, a college professor who finds both her professional and private life coming undone when one of her star pupils levels a serious accusation against one of her colleagues. And in classic Guadagnino style, there's more to the story yet, as the incident at the heart of the film also threatens to dredge up...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominee Michael Stuhlbarg is set to join Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature After the Hunt, which will be released in theaters next year. The film stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew garfield. Luca Guadagnino is directing the film from a script penned by Nora Garrett. Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum are producing alongside Guadagnino via his Frenesy banner. Imagine Entertainment’s Karen Lunder will executive produce alongside Nora Garrett. The film is targeting a summer start-of-production.

After the Hunt is an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

The project has been a hot property going back to when Imagine landed the script and began developing it at the top of...

The record-breaking success of Julia Roberts' last thriller, Leave the World Behind, makes her casting in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller, After the Hunt, even more exciting. The strong cast involved in "After the Hunt," including Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri, hints at a promising film. Director Luca Guadagnino's track record with successful films like Call Me by Your Name and Challengers adds to the potential of After the Hunt.

Julia Roberts starring in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming thriller, After the Hunt, is already exciting, but even moreso in light of her recent smash hit on Netflix. With the release of Challengers behind him and the expected festival debut of Queer later this year, Luca Guadagnino's next movie is set to be After the Hunt, written by Nora Garrett. The Amazon MGM Studios production will begin filming this summer and is expected to premiere in theaters sometime in 2025.

Per Deadline,...

Ayo Edebiri is the latest star to be cast in 'After The Hunt'.The 28-year-old actress has joined Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield in the film that is being directed by Luca Guadagnino.The movie is an intense thriller about a college professor who finds herself in a personal and professional quandary when a star pupil makes an allegation towards one of her colleagues as it threatens to expose a dark secret from her past.Guadagnino is helming from a screenplay written by Nora Garrett and is also producing for his Frenesy company with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum.The movie is due to begin production this summer ahead of a 2025 release.Ayo plays chef Sydney Adamu in the hit TV series 'The Bear' and explains that she considers her co-star Jeremy Allen White to be like "family" as they have been able to rely...

Ayo Edebiri has found her next project in one of Luca Guadagnino's next films, according to Deadline. The star has been confirmed to appear in After the Hunt, an upcoming story about a college professor who will see her life changed when one of her favorite students brings up a major accusation against one of her colleagues. However, if an investigation takes place when it comes to the claims, some of her own secrets might be exposed. The screenplay for the upcoming drama will be written by Nora Garrett, who previously worked as an actress in titles such as Beirut.