By Last week came the news that Warner Bros. Pictures was giving Clint Eastwood’s new film “Juror #2” only a rather limited theatrical run – less than 50 theaters when it debuts on November 1st. In addition, there is no planned wide expansion rollout.
It was surprising news, to say the least, as the trailer had gone online a few weeks ago to a very positive reception and early reaction to the film was said to be strong.
Eastwood also has a decades-long track record at Warners even as his last film, “Cry Macho,” flopped. Mostly it seemed as if current WB CEO David Zaslav wasn’t doing him any favors.
Cut to today and Puck News via (WOR) reports that we’re seemingly lucky to get that much of a theatrical run as the film was originally intended as a streaming-only release on Max and that plan was in place up until fairly recently.
That’s when Warners decided to bump it up to a limited theatrical release, and the trailer reportedly garnered a much more positive response than the studio had initially anticipated.
There are no immediate plans to expand the rollout and Warners is apparently not going to do much marketing on the film either.
Nicholas Hoult stars in the film as a man selected to sit on jury duty for a murder case. As the trial unfolds, he realizes that he may have actually been the one who killed the victim in a hit-and-run accident.
That puts him in a difficult position – can he influence the jury to acquit the innocent defendant without implicating himself in the process? Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, Gabriel Basso, Leslie Bibb, Chris Messina, J. K. Simmons, Amy Aquino, Adrienne C. Moore, Cedric Yarbrough, and Francesca Eastwood co-star.
“Juror #2” will have its world premiere at AFI Fest on October 27th before a limited release on November 1st.
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