Overview
- Searchlight released new trailers on Thursday that pushed the film’s profile online and reportedly drew more than 5 million views in 24 hours.
- Pedro Pascal stars as Alex Serian, a gifted cellist who returns to Los Angeles after two decades and enters Hollywood film scoring.
- The movie premiered as the Centerpiece at the New York Film Festival and holds an 86% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes after early reviews praised the performances while noting mixed reactions to the story.
- Gilroy wrote and directed the film as a personal drama and assembled a nine-composer group called the Behemoth! Collective, which includes Michael Giacchino, James Newton Howard and Alan Silvestri.
- Pascal’s intensive cello training has been widely noted as central to the role, the film opens in U.S. theaters on December 4, and industry observers are watching how crediting rules for the multi-composer score could affect awards campaigns.