Academy Award® Nominees Hit Cinemas Nationwide From the NT Live Stage With Andrew Garfield in ‘Angels in America’ and Jude Law in ‘Obsession,’ for Three Days This Summer
March 13, 2017
DENVER – March 13, 2017 – Love,
temptation and fear will captivate moviegoers as Fathom Events, BY Experience
and National Theatre Live partner to bring the best of the stage to U.S.
cinemas with “NT LIVE: Obsession” on May 11 and “NT LIVE: Angels in
America” on
July 20 and 27, all captured live each day.
Tickets for “NT LIVE: Obsession” and “NT LIVE: Angels in America” can be
purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or
at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to
enjoy the event in more than 500 select movie theaters through Fathom’s Digital
Broadcast Network (DBN). For a complete list
of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website
(theaters and participants are subject to change).
“Obsession” features Jude
Law (“The Young Pope”) in a tale of adultery and crime full of passion and
destruction in this one-night event on Thursday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. local
time. Law stars as the handsome, down-on-his-luck Gino in the new stage
adaptation of Visconti’s penetrating social drama directed by Tony Award®-winner
Ivo van Hove (“Hedda Gabler,” “A View from the Bridge”). Drifter Gino
encounters Giuseppe and his much younger, trapped wife Giovanna at their
roadside restaurant and petrol station. He and Giovanna are so irresistibly
attracted to one another they begin an affair while plotting to murder her
husband. But the crime does not unite them in this chilling story where passion
can lead only to destruction. Broadcast from the prestigious Barbican Theatre,
“Obsession” marks Law’s first London theatre performance in four years.
Andrew Garfield (“Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge”)
stars in “Angels in America,” a story set in New York during the 1980s
AIDS crisis in a conservative America, as people fight for their lives. “Angels
in America” will be broadcast in two parts; “Part 1: Millennium Approaches” on
Thursday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. local time and “Part 2: Perestroika” on
Thursday, July 27 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Andrew Garfield plays Prior
Walter alongside cast including Denise Gough (“People, Places and
Things”), Nathan Lane (“The Producers”), James McArdle (“Star
Wars: The Force Awakens”) and Russell Tovey (“The Pass”).
This new staging of Tony
Kushner’s multi award-winning two-part play is directed by Olivier®
and Tony Award-winning director Marianne Elliott (“The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time” and “War Horse”). “Part One: Millennium
Approaches” was first performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was
followed by “Part Two: Perestroika” the following year.
“National Theatre
Live continues to make some of the best stage shows with the biggest names
accessible to cinema audiences,” Fathom Events Vice President of Programming
Kymberli Frueh said. “Theatre fans of all kinds will appreciate these two
compelling shows from the ‘best seats in the house’ – at their local movie
theater.”
For artwork/photos related to “NT LIVE: Obsession” and “NT
LIVE: Angels in America,” visit the Fathom Events press site.
About
Fathom Events
Fathom Events is recognized as the leading domestic distributor of
event cinema with participating affiliate theaters in all 100 of the top
Designated Market Areas®, and ranks as one of the largest overall
distributors of content to movie theaters. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc.
(NYSE: AMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and Regal Entertainment Group
(NYSE: RGC) (known collectively as AC JV, LLC), Fathom Events offers a variety
of one-of-a-kind entertainment events such as live, high-definition
performances of the Metropolitan Opera, dance and theatre productions like the
Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre Live, sporting events like Copa America
Centenario, concerts with artists like Michael Bublé, Rush and Mötley Crüe, the
yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics film series and inspirational events such as
To Joey With Love and Kirk Cameron’s Revive US. Fathom Events takes audiences
behind the scenes and offers unique extras including audience Q&As,
backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew, creating the ultimate VIP
experience. Fathom Events’ live digital broadcast network (“DBN”) is the largest
cinema broadcast network in North America, bringing live and pre-recorded
events to 896 locations and 1,383 screens in 181 DMAs. For more information,
visit www.fathomevents.com.
About BY
Experience
BY
Experience kicked off the digital revolution of live events to
movie theaters and other locations globally with David Bowie’s 2003 Reality album
launch and since then, over 30 million tickets have been sold worldwide for
cinema events BY Experience has distributed globally. Current cinema
series credits: Distribution Representative, The Met: Live in HD (Worldwide;
since 2006), the UK’s National Theatre Live (Ex-UK; since
2009), Bolshoi Ballet (North America; since 2014). BY
Experience has executive produced and/or distributed several diverse programs
for cinema including numerous rock concerts, radio programs, fine art exhibits
other special content events including national theatrical re-releases of
classic and in some cases fully restored films such as “The Breakfast Club” (30th
anniversary), “My Fair Lady” (50th), “Oklahoma!” (60th),
and “Fantasia” (75th). BY Experience distributes to over 70
countries, to over 3,000 movie screens. www.byexperience.net.
About
National Theatre Live
National
Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of the National Theatre
production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren. The company has since broadcast
more than 50 other productions live, from both the National Theatre and from
other theatres in the UK. NT Live broadcasts have now been experienced by over
6 million people in over 2,000 venues around the world, including over 700
venues in the UK alone. Past broadcasts from the National Theatre have included
Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee
Miller; War Horse; Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes; and most
recently Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. Broadcasts from other UK theatres
include Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Coriolanus from the Donmar
Warehouse; A View from the Bridge from the Young Vic; Macbeth
from the Manchester International Festival; and Hangmen, Skylight, The
Audience and No Man’s Land from London’s West End. The biggest
single broadcast to date is Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican,
which has been seen by over 600,000 people. In 2014 the National Theatre
recorded its first production on Broadway, Of Mice and Men with James
Franco and Chris O’Dowd, captured at the Longacre Theatre.
MEDIA
CONTACTS:
Jessica Nelson / Katherine
Schwappach
Fathom
Events
720-262-2753 / 720-262-2713
jnelson@fathomevents.com / kschwappach@fathomevents.com
Heath
Schwartz / Amy Kass
Boneau/Bryan-Brown
for NT Live
hschwartz@bbbway.com / akass@bbbway.com
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