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Sometimes, a movie character is cast so perfectly that you can’t even fathom another actor playing the role. Cue Christian Bale in American Psycho, a career-launching breakout performance as Patrick Bateman, the greedy, materialistic Wall Street yuppie who moonlights as a murderous, stark-raving mad psycho killer while trying to preserve his public mask of sanity. Whether it’s all in his mind, Bale plays Bateman with such outward surety and inward insecurity, such brooding intensity and mordant comedy at once, that he keeps viewers guessing about Bateman’s sick, twisted, hyperviolent fantasies.

To think that director Mary Harron had to fight tooth and nail to cast Bateman in the role is preposterous to consider now, 25 years after the film was released. But again, even if Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt played Patrick Bateman, both of whom were attached to the role at one point, neither would likely strike the...

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Prime Video is ready with an entertainment-packed May this year. The upcoming month will see the much-anticipated sequel of the hit film A Simple Favor and the release of the much-anticipated mystery thriller series, The Better Sister. Just like every month, Prime Video is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the best 8 new movies and TV shows coming to Prime Video in May 2025.

Another Simple Favor (May 1) Credit – Amazon MGM Studios

Another Simple Favor is a mystery crime thriller and dark comedy film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay co-written by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis. The 2025 sequel film follows Stephanie as she is invited to Emily’s extravagant wedding in Capri, Italy, but when she gets there, she once again finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery.

MGM+ has announced the titles coming to the premium linear channel and streaming service in March. The MGM Plus Mach 2025 lineup includes the new series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue and the films The Fire Inside and September 5.

MGM+, an Amazon company, is a premium linear channel and streaming service delivering a broad lineup of exclusive original series and docuseries, the latest movie releases, and classic film franchises—all available in the U.S. on TV, on-demand, online, and across devices.

MGM Plus March 2025 Schedule

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Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

The series premieres on March 2 and new episodes follow every Sunday

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is a strikingly original and taut thriller series with a jaw-dropping reveal waiting at the end. A light aircraft with nine passengers crashes in the Mexican jungle and everyone survives.

But then, one after another, they begin to...

September 5, one of the best thrillers of last year, is now streaming on Paramount+, and clearly audiences are intrigued, as the real-time thriller debuted at the top of the charts. The film premiered on the streamer on February 25 and, after one day, had climbed up the most popular movies list, where it has now fallen down to third behind swords and sandals sequel Gladiator 2 and video game follow-up Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, September 5 proved to be a somewhat controversial release, as it follows the events that transpired in Munich on September 5, 1972, during the Summer Olympics. On that day, the ABC team in charge of sports coverage decided to show to the entire world what was happening in the Olympic villas when a group of terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage. Led by Roone Arledge, the president of the ABC Sports division, the crew at the station...

Mark your calendars: September 5, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars this year, is releasing on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada on February 25. This gives those who missed the critically acclaimed movie on the big screen a chance to watch it at home before it competes at the 97th Academy Awards.

Directed and co-written by Tim Fehlbaum, September 5 marks a dark day in history that occurred at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. The movie utilizes its 95-minute runtime to exude a sense of urgency while also depicting the chaos that ensued behind the scenes of a newsroom where a broadcasting team was thrust into reporting live on a high-stakes hostage situation between the Palestinian militant group known as Black September and the Israeli Olympic team that turned into a massacre.

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Paramount+ has announced the release date for its Oscar-nominated drama, September 5. The movie will make its streaming debut in the U.S. and Canada on Feb. 25.

Deadline reported the film's streaming debut date on Paramount's streaming service, noting that its availability in international markets will be announced at a later time. The historical drama/thriller flick was directed, co-produced and co-written by Tim Fehlbaum and stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch. September 5 tells the story of the 1972 Munich massacre, from the perspective of the ABC Sports crew who covered the eventsduring the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.

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Sarsgaard portrays Roone Arledge, the president of ABC Sports, while Magaro plays Geoffrey Mason,...

Today, Paramount+ announced that the Paramount Pictures film September 5 will be available to stream on the service starting February 25 in the U.S. and Canada.

September 5 is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes boasting a 93% critics’ score and a Verified Hot 90% Popcornmeter rating. The film has received widespread acclaim from critics at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and more.

The movie has earned prestigious awards recognition, winning this year’s LA Press Club’s Veritas Award and receiving nominations from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Producers Guild of America Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards.

September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows the ABC Sports broadcasting team who quickly shifted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #440: Making of ‘September 5’ cast & writer-director Special with Peter Sarsgaard,...

War films tend to follow a familiar path, focussing on the action and camaraderie between soldiers. The Thin Red Line takes a different route. Directed by Terrence Malick and adapted from James Jones’ 1962 novel, the film is less about tactical victories and more about the inner lives of the men sent to fight.

Yet, beyond its emotional depth, The Thin Red Line also boasts one of the greatest casts in cinema history. Big names like Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Elias Koteas share the screen with rising stars like Jim Caviezel and Ben Chaplin. But just as striking as the cast itself is Malick’s unconventional approach – where even major stars were reduced to mere minutes of screen time or cut entirely. The result is a film that defies expectations, standing apart from other World War II epics with an accurate representation of the U.S. Army’s involvement in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

September 5

Director Tim Fehlbaum's September 5, co-written with Moritz Binder and Alex David, revisits the first time a terrorist attack was broadcast live on international television. Set in the ABC control room at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, it sees the American sports broadcaster, led by TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), pivot from covering sport to an unprecedented situation, when the Palestinian militant group Black September takes the Israeli Olympic team hostage. Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro), a young producer, his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin) and German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) work in unprecedented circumstances to document one of history’s darkest chapters.

September 5 is Binder's first feature screenplay. His other writing credits include the long-running anthology crime series Tatort (1970-); München Mord (2013-), about a trio of criminal investigators; and Neue Geschichten vom Pumucki (2023). Binder has also showcased his art installations at the Academy of Fine Arts...

RankFilm (origin)DistributorFeb 7-9 grossTotalWeek 1 Dog Man (US) Universal £3.2m £3.2m 1 2 A Complete Unknown (US) Disney £831,546 £10m 4 3 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £700,071 £30.3m 8 4 Macbeth: David Tennant And Cush Jumbo (UK) Trafalgar £680,840 £1.5m 1 5 September 5 (Ger-us) Paramount £517,000 £639,000 1

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Universal animation Dog Man topped the UK-Ireland box office with a £3.2m opening weekend.

The film, based on Dav Pilkey’s children’s graphic novel series of the same name, played in 610 locations, taking a strong £5,347 location average.

That putsDog Man ahead of animation comparisons The Smurfs 2 (a lesser £3.2m in 2013), Trolls Band Together (£3.1m in 2023) and...

The 1972 Munich massacre at the Olympics has expectedly been rich fodder for films and television alike. Adaptive attempts speak to a buzzing need for spectatorship, vicarious consumption of tragedy, and the unfolding terror attack serving as a cornerstone for new global tensions. The incident sends into a tailspin global anxieties, fault lines getting redrawn in its wake. That it happened in Munich in Germany brings to the fore designed repercussions. An opportunity for Germany to course-correct its shameful past, and present a new face that turned into one of its darkest disasters. What could have been a glorious chapter becomes horrific, humiliating, and desperately sad. Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” (2024) skates clear of the political mudslinging to veer into the optics and initial real-time presentation of the day’s dramatic events.

It is a quintessential TV newsroom drama, rife with escalating tension. The stakes are especially compounded by the threat posed...

September 5 is a captivating new thriller that studies the moral and ethical responsibility of journalists, in the face of a major moving news story. In this case, we take ourselves back to the Olympic Games in Munich 1972, when the Israeli athletes were taken hostage, and the ABC sports team, were leading the charge with live reporting.

We had the pleasure in speaking to both director Tim Fehlbaum, as well as a collection of his impressive leading cast. You can find our interviews with Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin, and then John Magaro with Leonie Benesch. We talk about the responsibility of journalists, and how reporting has changed in the modern world. They also talk about shooting a real-time piece, and the challenges that come with that intensity. Watch all three interviews in their entirety, below.

Peter Sarsgaard & Ben Chaplin

John Magaro & Leonie Benesch

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During the 1972 Munich Olympics,...

Disney’s “A Complete Unknown” continued its reign atop the U.K. and Ireland box office, bringing in £1.2 million ($1.5 million) in its third weekend and pushing its total to £8.3 million ($10.3 million), according to numbers from Comscore. The Bob Dylan biopic, starring Timothée Chalamet, has demonstrated strong staying power, maintaining its grip on the top spot despite competition from new releases.

Holding steady at No. 2, Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” roared to another $1.3 million in its seventh frame, bringing its cumulative gross to $36.4 million. Warner Bros.’ “Companion” debuted at No. 3 with a solid $915,609.

Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 4” secured fourth place with $877,857 and is now touching $30 million in the territory. Universal’s awards season favorite “The Brutalist” stayed at No. 5 in its second weekend, adding $753,520 to its total, which now stands at $2.1 million.

The event cinema release of Universal’s “Les Miserables: The Staged Concert” was at No. 6 with $680,938. Lionsgate U.

Un thriller paranoico de la mano del creador de ‘Mr Robot’. © Getty Pictures

Ya se conoce el reparto al completo de lo nuevo de Sam Esmail, el cineasta conocido por Mr. Robot y Dejar el mundo atrás. Y, como era de esperar, no decepciona.

Según ha anunciado Deadline, será un reparo de primera fila: Julia Roberts (Dejar el mundo atrás), en su segunda colaboración con el director, Eddie Redmayne (Chacal), Elizabeth Olsen (Wandavision), Brian Tyree Henry (Godzilla y Kong: El nuevo imperio), Aidan Gillen (Juego de tronos), Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist), Naledi Murray (Sweet Tooth), Ben Chaplin (September 5) y Sebastián Orozco (El cuervo).

Poco se sabe de la película escrita y dirigida por Esmail para Warner Bros, pero se dice que será un thriller paranoico en la línea de Mr. Robot y El silencio de los corderos, con una trama centrada en la persecución de un ciberterrorista.

Panic Carefully comenzará...

Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and Julia Roberts have worked together multiple times already. She starred in the series Homecoming, which he co-created; he was an executive producer on the limited series Gaslit, which she starred in; and she starred in his thriller Leave the World Behind, which was a big hit for the Netflix streaming service, landing on their list of Top 10 Most Popular Movies. As of right now, Leave the World Behind stands as Netflix’s fifth most popular English-language film of all time, with 143.4 million views. Last month, we learned that Esmail and Roberts are going to continue their working relationship with another thriller, this one called Panic Carefully… and since then, Esmail has been building a supporting cast around Roberts. Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), and Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals) are in there, and now Deadline reveals that the cast has been...

Exclusive: Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist), Naledi Murray (Sweet Tooth), Ben Chaplin (September 5) and Sebastian Orozco (The Crow) round out the cast of Sam Esmail’s upcoming film Panic Carefully for Warner Bros.

They join the previously announced leading cast of Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Brian Tyree Henry.

Details regarding the film’s premise and character descriptions are under wraps. Panic Carefully is described as a paranoid thriller in the vein of Esmail’s Mr. Robot and Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber-terrorist.

Esmail wrote the film and will direct. He and Chad Hamilton will produce for Esmail Corp., along with Scott Stuber, Roberts, Marisa Yeres Gill, and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros.

Gillen is known for portraying “Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish” in HBO’s critically acclaimed hit Game of Thrones,...

Paramount Pictures’ “September 5,” the film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today, set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. the film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today, set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. Courtesy of Paramount

The tragic events at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli athletes and took some hostage, has been to subject of other movies, including Stephen Spielberg’s Munich, but September 5 tells that story from a unique viewpoint, that of the new media on site to cover that sporting event, and now thrust into a very different role. September 5 is a taut historic drama specifically takes the perspective of the ABC Sports TV crew that was on-site when the attacks took place. As well as a shocking event that shattered the since of...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson for Wbgr-fm on January 16th, 2025, reviewing “September 5,” the broadcasting point of view from ABC-tv during the 1972 Olympics crisis. In theaters beginning January 17th.

This is about the media coverage, through the lens of ABC-tv, who were broadcasting the Games that year. When it becomes apparent that a hostage event has taken place, the broadcast staff … Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro), an ambitious up-and-comer who heads the TV control room, his boss Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), head of operations at ABC Sports, Marianne Gebhartdt (Leonie Benesch) a German and Hebrew translator and Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) president of ABC Sports … all have decisions to make regarding their coverage, and not all of them will be correct.

“September 5” is in theaters beginning January 17th. Featuring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Beseech. Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David.

The new thriller September 5 recounts the taking of hostages during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. It does so with such finesse and skill that it often feels more like a documentary of the event than a dramatic retelling, which is to say that the film proves to be very powerful indeed.

The film begins as an American sports broadcasting crew is closing out their day of coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics when they suddenly find themselves in the unique position to cover the taking of Israeli athletes as hostages by Palestinian soldiers. What follows is a thrilling tale of the crew attempting to cover the story without jeopardizing the hostages safety, or placing themselves in harm’s way as well.

Director Tim Fehlbaum’s previous features – 2021’s The Colony and 2011’s Hell – only hinted at the dramatic weight the filmmaker was to throw down in September 5. Those were more stylistic,...

September 5 is a jolt of a film. Telling the story of a news crew covering the Olympics in 1972, who find themselves in the middle of terrorist attack. The new feature brings this piece of history to life. The new feature directed by Tim Fehlbaum is compelling, and utterly thrilling. Running over just 90 minutes, it’s an immensely powerful look at a scary time in history. The exceptional cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, and the talented John Magaro. Each one brings realism to this powerful film. It’s terrific to see this kind of story that manages to be just as exciting as any blockbuster out there.

It was fantastic speaking to this exceptional cast. One that includes a favorite of mine. As a long time fan of Mr. Sarsgaard, it was a terrific chat. Add to that Ben Chaplin, and it’s a great duo to speak to.

September 5 is a perfectly fine thriller, telling the story of the ABC team that broadcast the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage situation to over 900 million people around the world. It has both the feel of a made-for-tv movie (back when they were good) and a traditional "process" thriller, and it succeeds in both regards. Where it falters, though, is when it wrestles with the ideas at the core of the film, opting for an apolitical approach that rings hollow.

The 1972 Munich Olympics saw an American sports broadcasting crew unexpectedly tasked with covering a hostage situation involving Israeli athletes.

Release Date November 29, 2024Runtime 91 MinutesGenres Drama, ThrillerCast Robert Porter Templeton, Georgina Rich, Solomon Mousley, Daniel Adeosun, Rony Herman, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Peter Sarsgaard, Marcus Rutherford, Corey Johnson, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Benjamin WalkerDirector Tim FehlbaumWriters Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum

In a way, it feels like an apt metaphor for our times: September 5 is...

Plot: While covering the 1972 Munich Olympics, the team at ABC Sports find themselves covering the horrifying Munich Massacre in real-time.

Review: September 5 isn’t the first movie about the Munich Massacre. Steven Spielberg brilliantly depicted the events and their aftermath in Munich (perhaps his last truly great film). However, this movie takes a different approach in how it covers the events unravelling in real time from the studios at ABC Sports in Germany. We follow a team of sleep-deprived journalists who are supposed to be there covering the Olympics and find themselves chronicling events that they know can only end in tragedy and will have global consequences, the repercussions of which are still felt today.

For me, the film had particular resonance. Before I started working for JoBlo, I worked in radio as an “op”, which basically meant I handled the audio boards, screened the calls, and ran the operations side of live radio broadcasts.

September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows the ABC Sports broadcasting team who quickly shifted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides an important perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by millions of people at the time.

At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), the story focuses on the intricate details of the high-tech broadcast capabilities of the time, juxtaposed against the many lives at stake and themoral decisions that needed to be made against an impossible ticking clock.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum,...

Director, writer and producer Tim Fehlbaum and writer Moritz Binder took guests behind their riveting thriller “September 5,” about the game-changing, real-time broadcast coverage of the 1972 Munich massacre from the perspective of the sports broadcasters who raced to cover the events, during the latest presentation of the Variety Screening Series presented by Barco.

They did tremendous research before starting to write the script, and that included a key conversation with producer Geoffrey Mason who was played by John Magaro in the movie. This prompted the decision to tell the story, uniquely from the point of view of CBS Sports broadcasters that were on site to cover the Olympics.

“We thought we were talking to a source, but [Mason] became the source,” Binder related of Mason taking them through the tense 22 hours in Munich. “He’s a very good storyteller; he got into so much detail. He talked about the questions that...

Always playing provocative, captivating roles, Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin are character actors to be admired. While they have won audiences over with performances in massive films like The Batman and Disney’s Cinderella, respectively, both are also world-renowned stage actors. Saarsgard made his Broadway debut in Chekov’s The Seagull, and Chaplin has been tearing up London’s West End for decades in plays like The Glass Menagerie. Now, Sarsgaard and Chaplin are bringing an intimate, collaborative style of performance to their latest character-driven ensemble piece, September 5.

The historical weight of broadcast journalism drama “September 5” was carried by a star-studded ensemble cast, which, according to producer Sean Penn, is the whole reason why the film works.

Penn produced the film that captures the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. “September 5” follows an American sports broadcasting team that had to quickly adapt from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes being taken hostage. The film is an English-language German and U.S. co-production, and includes real archive footage with recreated scenes to have a documentary style.

“‘September 5’ is the true story of a sports television crew that had to make the switch from sports to news on that day,” writer/director/producer Tim Fehlbaum said in a featurette exclusive to IndieWire. “We wanted to have very unique casting.”

And producer Penn couldn’t agree more: “It’s a tremendous group of actors,...

Twenty years ago, John Magaro was an aspiring actor who had just moved to New York when he got a call about being a background actor in Munich, Steven Spielberg‘s historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis.

“Mainly it was sitting around in like a community center in Brooklyn, and then the ADs come in and they’re like, ‘Hey, you, you, you come over here.’ We’re walking on the street, walk across the street, past Eric Bana, and don’t f— it up. And that was my start. You can see my younger version of myself walking across the street from Eric Bana,” Magaro tells Gold Derby. “Eric Bana and I ended up working together on this movie that a lot of people haven’t seen called The Finest Hours, this Disney movie, and I never mentioned that [to him]. I never mentioned that I had walked across...

A scene from Paramount Pictures’ ‘September 5’ (Photo © 2024 Paramount Pictures)

Director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 examines the horrifying events of September 5, 1972, when terrorists took 11 Israeli athletes competing in the Munich Olympics hostage. Previous feature films and documentaries have covered the subject, but never from the perspective of the ABC Sports team assigned to cover the competition.

The ABC Sports team was not prepared for the near-instantaneous switchover from heralding athletic achievements in the ring, pool, and on the track to covering a terrorist attack live on air. And how could they have been? No network had ever been in their position before. The ’72 Olympics marked the first-ever live broadcast via satellite around the globe. The network stationed cameras throughout the Olympic venues, the Olympic Village, and atop the Olympic Tower to provide complete, round-the-clock coverage. Nothing would be missed.

Coordinating producer Geoff Mason (John Magaro) was preparing for his...

“September 5” feels as much like a time capsule as a pressure cooker of a film, as an ABC Sports crew doing cutting-edge live broadcasting of the 1972 Munich Olympics ends up covering much more than that.

In its most compelling moments, the Tim Fehlbaum film shows the audience the gulf between the journalists making decisions with imperfect information and the implications of those decisions — the characters’ goal may be “to follow the story,” but real life never abides by the rules of journalistic objectivity. To create this tension throughout the film, production designer Julian R. Wagner needed to craft sets that felt as grounded, authentic, and (sometimes) claustrophobic as possible.

So Wagner and his production design team made their lives a lot more difficult in service of giving “September 5” as honest a depiction as possible of what it would’ve been like to walk the halls of that Munich studio in the summer of ‘72. “Normally,...

In a technical sense, the archive footage of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay is the real star of “September 5,” director Tim Fehlbaum’s gripping docudrama about the Munich Summer Olympics hostage crisis of 1972. In fact, treating McKay as one of the characters allowed for a more authentic recreation of the events. This was accomplished by blending the broadcast footage, which played in real-time on the monitors, with directed scenes in the control room set (shot at Bavaria Studios in Munich).

The Munich massacre was historic for two reasons: It was the first live Summer Olympics broadcast (thanks to satellite tech), and it was the first live terrorist attack. For 22 hours, the ABC Sports production team pivoted to news in broadcasting the killing of the Israeli Olympic team, which was taken hostage in Munich by Black September (part of the Palestine Liberation Organization).

“It was a very intuitive process,” editor Hansjörg Weißbrich told IndieWire.

Like many first ideas, Tim Fehlbaum’s initial vision for “September 5” was wider in scope. Broadly speaking, the film is about the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The Swiss director’s original script, which he co-wrote with Moritz Binder, told the story from the perspectives of reporters, politicians, and police.

But then he talked to Geoffrey Mason, one of the producers behind ABC Sports’ live 22-hour coverage of the ordeal.

“We started to learn more and more what an important role the media played on that day,” Fehlbaum tells Gold Derby. “And then listening to Geoffrey Mason and his stories of what they experienced as a crew, what challenges they faced … we said, ‘Maybe you can entirely tell it from that perspective.'”

Fehlbaum and Binder streamlined the script to focus solely on the ABC Sports team making on-the-fly decisions after Palestinian militant organization Black September killed two members...

“September 5” marks another film chronicling the 1972 Munich Olympic terror attacks and it’s hitting theaters with an introduction to streaming platforms at a later date.

The acclaimed film explores the events that found the Israeli athletes at the game being held hostage by a terrorist group through the eyes of an American TV broadcast team covering the Games. “September 5” follows them as they make judgement calls on what and how to show the ongoing developments.

Here’s everything you need to know about the new movie, how to watch “September 5” right now and where to expect it on streaming.

When does “September 5” come out?

“September 5” opened in theaters on Friday, Dec. 13.

Is “September 5” streaming or in theaters?

Right now, “September 5” is only playing in theaters so the only way to see it is by buying a movie ticket. Eventually, the film will stream on Paramount+ but details on the...

It’s a quiet afternoon in New York City, two days before Thanksgiving, and “September 5” star John Magaro and I are settled into a bright table at an East Village restaurant for drinks and professional chatter. A few feet away, a group of peppy young women are sitting down for their own mid-afternoon tipple, chatting about movies they’ve caught recently. “Have you seen ‘Wicked’?” one giddily asks her friends. They all have.

With a wry smile, Magaro leans an inch or so toward them, not close enough for the group to see or hear, but just enough to get a laugh out of me, and stage-whispers, “Have you seen ‘September 5’?”

Hire John Magaro for your film, and he’s going to work hard for it, every step of the way. That extends beyond winking recommendations, down to nuts-and-bolts prep and bringing his full self to each and every day.

September 5 actors Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin and John Magaro tell CineMovie that the multi-camera production felt like a theater setting in a guerillo-style shoot with continuous takes around the cramped sets. The actors also reveal shooting in the actual city of Munich and the nearby Olympic Village set the mood for the production. September 5 is playing in select cities now and expanding into more theaters on January 17, 2025. ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with September 5, Paramount’s gripping period thriller directed by Tim Fehlbaum, and written by Fehlbaum, Moritz Binder and co-writer Alex David.

Set amid the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the film follows what happens when ABC, which was covering the games for U.S. audiences, was on air when news came down that members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian militant group Black September. The script keeps the Pov of the ABC control room as events unfold, as producers and reporters and scramble to cover the fast-moving story with global implications — and sensitivities of the highest order — in real time, being the only TV network with live cameras filming the hostages’ location in the Olympic Village.

The writers used first-hand accounts including of Geoffrey Mason, the ABC Sports...

Tim Fehlbaum and John Palmer are bringing a fresh approach to one of history's more shocking events in September 5. The true-story-based thriller marks an interesting departure from Fehlbaum's past work in the sci-fi genre with 2011's Hell, which was produced by disaster genre vet Roland Emmerich, and 2021's Colony, which was led by American Star's Nora Arnezeder and Dune: Prophecy's Sarah-Sofie Boussnina. For Palmer, on the other hand, the movie continues his streak of grounded stories with Sean Penn's Flag Day and Asphalt City.

September 5 details the horrific events that actually happened during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, in which a group of eight Palestinian militants killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and took nine others hostage. The film primarily puts the focus on Roone Arledge and the rest of the ABC Sports team, who find themselves scrambling to shift their coverage from sports broadcasting to live...

John Magaro and Leonie Benesch are at the heart of one of the world's most harrowing events in September 5. While he's been acting for the better part of 20 years, Magaro has found more mainstream success over the past decade with everything from Netflix's The Umbrella Academy and Orange is the New Black to the Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, and Oscar-nominated drama Past Lives. After primarily working in her home country of Germany, Benesch has found international success with the Oscar-nominated Teacher's Lounge and PBS/BBC One's Around the World in 80 Days series.

September 5 takes viewers into the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today in which an American sports broadcasting team quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. Magaro, who previously appeared in Steven Spielberg's similar-subject thriller Munich,...

Releasing in theaters on December 13, September 5 is a gripping historical thriller that starts off as a sports movie. Starring Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin, September 5 dives into the Munich Massacre, which is the name given to the hostage crisis that occurred at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany. At the event, the Palestinian militant group known as "Bloody September" infiltrated the Olympic Village, killing two Israeli athletes and capturing nine others.

The film, September 5, places the spotlight not on the terrorists, athletes, or West German police involved in the Munich Massacre, but rather on the ABC sports team who followed the crisis in real time. September 5 foregrounds questions of narrative and journalistic ethics without ever losing the tension and pacing of a thriller. After releasing at the 81st Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2024, fans of historical dramas and thrillers alike have the chance to watch September 5 in a limited theatrical release this winter.

Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin are returning to the world of true-story filmmaking with September 5. The former is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor known for his work both on screen and on Broadway, having starred in everything from Shattered Glass to the Natalie Portman-led Jackie and Dopesick. Chaplin also has an extensive filmography of acclaimed titles, some of which include Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Oliver Stone's Snowden and HBO's The Nevers.

September 5's story is set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, specifically focusing on an American sports broadcasting team that was forced to quickly adapt from sports reporting to live coverage of terrifying events when Israeli athletes are taken hostage. Sarsgaard stars in the movie as Roone Arledge, the legendary TV executive who was a key figure in the coverage, while Chaplin stars as Marvin Bader, mentor to the young and ambitious producer Geoffrey Mason...

"That's a TV! Are they seeing what we're seeing?" Paramount has revealed a new making of featurette video for the film September 5, one of the major Oscar contenders in play this awards season. The official trailer dropped a few months ago, and the film premiered at both the 2024 Venice & Telluride Film Fests earlier in the fall. During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. The film focuses on the crew of the ABC Sports TV station that was located right inside the Olympic village, covering all the sports events live for the first time ever in TV history. The superb ensemble cast in the film includes Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Marcus Rutherford, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker, Ferdinand Dörfler. This featurette is more of a more detailed intro to...

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Currently, Chaplin can be seen starring opposite Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro in September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s historical thriller examining the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the perspective of the ABC Sports broadcasting team. The film delves into how the crew, initially covering the Olympics, swiftly transitioned to reporting on the unfolding tragedy involving Israeli athletes taken hostage by the Palestinian group Black September. This event marked a pivotal moment in live news coverage, as the world watched the crisis unfold in real-time.

Chaplin plays Marvin Bader, a seasoned ABC Sports producer who plays a crucial role in the network’s coverage of the hostage situation. His work in the film earned him the Best Actor Award from the Denver Film Festival.

Premiering to strong reviews out of Venice, September 5 hits limits theaters on December 13 before expanding nationwide on January 17 for MLK Day weekend.

Historical drama September 5 charts the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis and is tipped to be an Oscar contender. A trailer:

September 5 is releasing in the US this week, which means we’ve got a final trailer to absorb before the film itself lands. Based on the hostage crisis that occurred during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, September 5 is a Paramount film that is said to cover the events from a different angle from previous explorations of the story, including Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film, Munich.

According to the synopsis:

‘The story focuses on Geogg, a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to legendary TV executive Roone Arledge. Together with German interpreter Marianne and his mentor Marvin Bade, Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage.’

Some are speculating that the film is so good that it’ll son be in awards contention. Early reviews are strong, and while early critical...

John Magaro is the glue that holds September 5 together. He stars as ABC Sports producer Geoffrey Mason, who was covering the 1972 Munich Olympics when Black September terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic compound. Magaro must convey the enormous pressure and responsibility placed on Mason as he is suddenly thrust into the hot seat to produce live coverage. Director Tim Fehlbaum chose Magaro because, he says, “He’s one of the best there is.” Next, Magaro is set to appear with Michael Fassbender in the spy drama The Agency, followed by Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film The Bride.

Deadline: You weren’t even born then, but what did you already know about Munich ’72?

John Magaro: I knew about it. I don’t know why I knew about it. I mean, I’ve always been a lover of history. My mother’s Jewish. I was raised Jewish, so I think...

When Leonie Benesch‘s German agent called the actress about “September 5,” she knew what she was going to say. The script came from casting director Simone Bär, who died in January 2023 and had cast Benesch in several projects, including “The White Ribbon,” “The Teachers’ Lounge,” and the series “Babylon Berlin.”

“She said, ‘Apparently it’s about Munich ’72. I know what you’re going to say: It’s been done before. I agree with you, but Simona said it is a really thrilling read,'” Benesch tells Gold Derby. “And that’s what it was. Because it takes this stance.”

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, who co-wrote the script Moritz Binder, “September 5” chronicles the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Palestinian militant organization Black September killed two members of the Israel Olympic team in the Olympic Village and held nine others hostage who were later murdered as well. The stance it...

Paramount has tweaked the release dates of two of its awards season contenders heading into the year-end corridor.

Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom drama September 5, previously dated for an exclusive release on November 29 followed by expansion on December 13, shifts to an exclusive release on December 13 with expansion on January 17, 2025.

Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch lead the cast in the historical account of ABC Sports’ coverage of the unfolding crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, when members of the Black September terrorist group stormed the Olympic Village, killing two Israeli athletes and taking a further nine hostage.

Paramount has tweaked the release dates of two of its awards season contenders heading into the year-end corridor.

Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom drama September 5, previously dated for an exclusive release on November 29 followed by expansion on December 13, shifts to an exclusive release on December 13 with expansion on January 17, 2025.

Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch lead the cast in the historical account of ABC Sports’ coverage of the unfolding crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, when members of the Black September terrorist group stormed the Olympic Village, killing two Israeli athletes and taking a further nine hostage.

Paramount Pictures has changed the release dates of Oscar hopefuls “September 5” and “Better Man.”

“September 5,” which depicts the ABC Sports team’s coverage of the 1972 Munich hostage crisis, was scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 29 before expanding on Dec. 13. It will now open on Dec. 17 and expand on Jan. 17, aka the day of Oscar nominations.

“Better Man,” a Robbie Williams biopic in which the British singer is portrayed as a chimpanzee, will keep its limited release date of Dec. 25, but it will now go wide on Jan. 10 instead of Jan. 17.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, who co-wrote the script, and starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch, “September 5” premiered to solid reviews at the Venice Film Festival, kickstarting its Oscar buzz. It currently has an 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a 71 on Metacritic. It’s currently in 11th place in the Best Picture Oscar odds.

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Paramount is making an awards play with its upcoming journalism drama “September 5,” moving its limited released to December 13 before releasing it nationwide on January 17, 2025.

The film was previously dated for a limited release on Thanksgiving weekend with a wide release in December, but is now being pushed back to a wide January slot that Paramount previously held for the Robbie Williams music biopic “Better Man.” That film will now be released wide on January 10 after a Christmas Day limited release.

“September 5” recounts the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Munich Olympics, in which Palestinian militants took Israeli athletes hostage, through the perspective of the ABC Sports crew that was there to cover the event. Peter Sarsgaard stars as ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge, who found himself unexpectedly in the position of overseeing the first ever live televised coverage of a terrorist attack.

John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch also star in the film,...

As awards buzz accumulates for Paramount’s eclectic Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and the ABC Sports Munich Olympics thriller September 5, the studio is tweaking both titles’ theatrical rollout plan.

September 5, which was scheduled to open exclusively on Black Friday, November 29, and expand on December 13, will now bow on December 13 exclusively and go wide on January 17 for MLK Day weekend. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed movie is 86% fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Meanwhile, Better Man, will still open exclusively on Christmas Day. But instead of going wide over MLK weekend, it now will go coast-to-coast on January 10. The Michael Gracey-directed feature is 87% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.

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Written by Moritz Binder and Fehlbaum, September 5 follows the ABC Sports control room in Germany during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics as the sports-focused...