Julia Roberts & Luca Guadagnino Thriller ‘After The Hunt’ Gets October Release

Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment’s Luca Guadagnino thriller After the Hunt, is going into limited release October 10, with a nationwide break October 17.

The film follows a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny also star along with Lío Mehiel, Thaddea Graham, Will Price, Christine Dye, and Burgess Byrd.

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The After the Hunt screenplay is by Nora Garrett. Producers are Guadagnino, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum.

Don’t be shocked if this one makes a premiere during the fall film festival troika. Guadagnino loves to launch at the Venice Film Festival, as he did for his latest pics Bones and All and Queer.

On October 17, After the Hunt will face off on the release date calendar with Universal/Blumhouse’s The Black Phone 2 and Lionsgate’s Aziz Ansari-directed comedy Good Fortune with Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.

Amazon MGM Studios propelled Guadagnino to his first No. 1 opening weekend last April with the Zendaya tennis romance drama Challengers, which opened with $15 million and went on to gross $50.1M stateside and more than $96M worldwide.

In addition to Challengers, Guadagnino released Bones and All via MGM, and the reboot of the Dario Argento classic giallo movie Suspiria through Amazon Studios.

The Palermo, Sicily-born filmmaker has Sgt. Rock in the works at DC, the redux of American Psycho at Lionsgate, and Separate Rooms at Fremantle.

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