Fox Searchlight has just announced that their Sundance favorite The East, directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell, Shiloh Fernandez and PatriciaClarkson, is being given a limited release on May 31, 2013.
No city of theater information has been made available, but a national rollout should be expected.
The East tells the story of a Sarah, an opperative for a private intelligence firm whose primary goal is to protect the interest of their high ranking corporate clientelle. But when Sarah is assigned to go undercover and infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations, she finds herself torn between two worlds as she begins to fall in love with the groups charismatic leader.
About Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.
