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Tony to Open in India and Expand Across U.S. Cinemas in August

Coordinated August release windows will test A24’s global rollout as critics praise the film’s narrow, coming‑of‑age take on a young Anthony Bourdain.

Overview

  • PVR INOX confirmed on August 3–4 that Tony will reach Indian cinemas on August 21, matching A24’s planned wide U.S. expansion on the same date.
  • A24 will give the film a limited opening in Los Angeles and New York on August 7 before expanding nationwide on August 21, per distributor schedules.
  • Early reviews single out Dominic Sessa’s performance as the young Tony and Antonio Banderas’s supporting role as major strengths, calling the movie character‑driven rather than a full biopic.
  • The film adapts a short section of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential to dramatize one summer in Provincetown in 1975 and uses compressed and fictionalized characters for dramatic focus.
  • Tony is rated R, runs 106 minutes, and critics compare its kitchen scenes to recent culinary dramas, a factor distributors say could broaden its international box‑office appeal.