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.