Overview

• A PVOD release on Nov. 11 has been reported by the tracker When to Stream, though Paramount has not confirmed the date and listings note pricing typical of $24.99 purchase and $19.99 rental on services like Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube and Fandango at Home.
• The movie has grossed about $8.1 million domestically against a reported $19 million production budget and holds an 84% critics score and an 86% verified audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, according to Forbes.
• At the London Film Festival, Channing Tatum and director Derek Cianfrance emphasized a theme of empathy and grace in portraying Jeffrey Manchester, with Tatum describing the real man as warm and self-aware in phone conversations.
• Cianfrance says he conducted roughly 400 hours of prison interviews with Manchester over several years, while coverage notes inconsistent reporting on the length of Manchester’s sentence and projected release timeline.
• Fact-checkers say the film takes liberties with how key relationships began and how events unfolded, even as some seemingly unlikely episodes are grounded in contemporaneous reporting.