Overview

• Peck begins Q&As at New York’s IFC Center today, with stops planned in Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles, plus a virtual session for Chicago.
• Neon schedules a national rollout for October 10 following select-theater openings this week.
• Neon released a new clip as part of the theatrical push after the film’s Cannes debut and subsequent festival play.
• Critics note Damian Lewis’s performance of Orwell’s words and the film’s use of archival montage to link history to current flashpoints including Ukraine, Gaza, Jan. 6 and Myanmar.
• The film runs 119 minutes, is unrated by the Motion Picture Association, and has drawn strong notices such as Rolling Stone’s description of it as “the scariest movie of 2025.”