Overview

• Netflix unveiled first-look images, a teaser and a full trailer this week for Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach’s dramedy starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler.
• In a Vanity Fair interview, Clooney defended Sandler’s dramatic range and urged cast members to stop calling him “Sand Man.”
• Clooney revealed he negotiated on-set stamina limits with Baumbach, joking that at 63 he couldn’t endure the director’s typical multi-take approach.
• Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly features an ensemble cast including Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig and Jim Broadbent.
• Jay Kelly will compete at the Venice International Film Festival on August 28 before opening in select U.S. theaters on November 14 and streaming on Netflix December 5.