FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS TO RELEASE RICHARD LINKLATER’S ‘BLUE MOON’ STARRING ETHAN HAWKE, MARGARET QUALLEY, BOBBY CANNAVALE AND ANDREW SCOTT ON OCTOBER 17, 2025
The film, which received critical praise following its world debut at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, will expand nationwide on October 24, 2025
NEW YORK (May 12, 2025) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that BLUE MOON, directed by Academy Award® nominee Richard Linklater (HIT MAN, BOYHOOD, BEFORE SUNSET) and written by Robert Kaplow (author of the novel Me and Orson Welles), will be released on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles and New York, before expanding nationwide on October 24, 2025. The film, which stars Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke in his 9th collaboration with Linklater, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, had its world premiere at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it received rave reviews, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for Andrew Scott.
BLUE MOON profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart, and is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.
Linklater produced the film alongside Mike Blizzard (HIT MAN, APOLLO 10 1⁄2: A SPACE AGE ADVENTURE), and John Sloss (BOYHOOD, GREEN BOOK). The film is a Detour/Renovo production in association with Wild Atlantic Pictures, Under The Influence and Cinetic Media. Additional EPs include Wild Atlantic’s Macdara Kelleher, Donna Eperon and John Keville, Renovo Media Group’s David Kingland, Lisa Crnic and Aaron Wiederspahn, and Cinetic’s Steven Farneth.
Additional notable film creatives include Director of Photography Shane F. Kelly (HIT MAN, BOYHOOD), Production Designer Susie Cullen (ABIGAIL, I KILL GIANTS), Oscar® -nominated Editor Sandra Adair (BOYHOOD, DAZED AND CONFUSED), and three-time Academy Award® nominee, Costume Designer Consolata Boyle (THE QUEEN, FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS).
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