David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ Gets Release Date From Sideshow/Janus Films

Jill Goldsmith

31 January 2025 at 10:12 am·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Sideshow and Janus Films will release The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Crash, Eastern Promises) and starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Academy Award nominee Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt on Friday, April 18 in New York and Los Angeles.

It will expand nationwide on Friday, April 25. See the latest teaser here.

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The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition and subsequently played at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

Producers of the film are Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It is an SBS, Prospero Pictures & Saint Laurent Productions Film with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates in association with Sphere Films, Crave & CBC Films with the support of Canal +, OCS & the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée.

Karsh (Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

Sideshow & Janus Films currently have Gints Zibalodis’ Flow in release. The film just received 2 Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature (Latvia) and is approaching $4 million at the box office.

Also in release is Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light and Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio.

Other upcoming releases include Alain Guiraduie’s Misericordia, which was just nominated for 8 Césars including Best Picture, Jia Zhangke’s Caught By The Tides and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud.

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