Sony Moves ‘Oh Hell No’ Off Schedule, Confirms ‘A Man Called Otto’ For Christmas, Sets ‘Umma’ Date & More
deadline.comSony revealed a number of release-date moves tonight, including taking the Jack Black-Ice Cube comedy off the schedule, dating the Sandra Oh horror pic Umma for next month and confirming the Tom Hanks-led remake A Man Called Otto for Christmas Day, as Deadline reported last week.The studio also said tonight that the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody starring Naomi Ackie will open two days earlier than planned, now on Wednesday, December 21, and it moved Sam Raimi’s Adam Driver-led sci-fi thriller 65 back nearly a year to April 14, 2023.
It had been set for this April 29.Stage 6’s Umma — Korean for “mother” — has been set for March 18, just a month from now. The pic from writer-director Iris K.
Shim follows Amanda (Oh) and her daughter (Fivel Stewart) living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.Kasi Lemmons directs I Wanna Dance with Somebody from a script by Anthony McCarten.
It focuses on the life and career of hitmaker Houston and also stars Stanley Tucci, Nafessa Williams, Clarke Peters, Tamara Tunie and Ashton Sanders.Marc Foster directs and David Magee scripted A Man Called Otto, a remake of the Swedish hit A Man Called Ove.
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