{"id":1527705,"date":"2026-07-24T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=0a787aeaef819fd36e3af23040a0b866"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:20:48","slug":"in-brief-primetime-gets-theatrical-release-date-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527705","title":{"rendered":"In brief: &#8216;Primetime&#8217; gets theatrical release date and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/3a40c4836331dc502968789249d15d45-1.jpg\" alt\/><\/figure><p>The lineup for the 2026 Venice Film Festival has been revealed. Films from directors Martin McDonagh, Florian Zeller, Danny Boyle, Werner Herzog and Lance Oppenheim are all set to open at the festival. Among them are McDonagh's <em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em>, which stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell; Zeller's <em>Bunker<\/em>, a psychological thriller starring Javier Bardem and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz; Boyle's <em>Ink<\/em>, starring Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch; and Oppenheim's <em>Primetime<\/em>, which comes from A24 ...<\/p><p>Speaking of <em>Primetime<\/em>, the Robert Pattinson-starring film has also received a theatrical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbImf5GxREW\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release date<\/a>. The movie is set to debut nationwide on Sept. 25. Its plot follows Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the host of <em>To Catch a Predator<\/em>, as he made TV history with the show's premiere in 2006 ...<\/p><p>Audiences have been changed for good by Jon M. Chu's <em>Wicked<\/em> films. Fans may have another opportunity to witness the story of Elphaba and Glinda, as the film's official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbJVreRAni2\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> is teasing a live <em>Wicked<\/em> concert. \"Everyone, we have an announcement,\" the post is captioned. <em>Wicked in Concert<\/em> seems to be a version of the film that includes a live orchestra, and the post teases more information will be \"coming soon\" ...<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lineup for the 2026 Venice Film Festival has been revealed. Films from directors Martin McDonagh, Florian Zeller, Danny Boyle, Werner Herzog and Lance Oppenheim are all set to open at the festival. Among them are McDonagh&#8217;s Wild Horse Nine, which s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1527744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-23\/E_inbriefgraphic.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-26 11:10:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-23\/E_inbriefgraphic.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527743,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527705\/revisions\/1527743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}