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The stars of September 5 are hitting the red carpet.

John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ben Chaplin posed together at the premiere of their new movie on Thursday evening (November 14) held at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles.

Director Tim Fehlbaum and producer Sean Penn were also in attendance.

Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.”

September 5 hits select theaters on November 29, and opens nationwide in theaters on December 13. Watch the trailer here!

Click through the gallery inside for 20+ pictures of the stars at the premiere…...

The Denver Film Festival has announced the winners of its annual Audience Awards and Festival Juried Awards, with films like “Bob Trevino Likes It” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” taking top prizes.

Following the conclusion of the 47th edition of the festival, which ran from November 1 to November 10, Denver Film Festival artistic director Matthew Campbell said via statement, “This year’s Denver Film Festival brought us fantastic films, phenomenal guests, and unforgettable experiences. The films recognized this year tell strong stories through powerful perspectives, providing viewers with the chance to see themselves on the screen while also seeing something completely new. We are honored to recognize so many voices, both new and familiar, and to bring those stories to audiences right here in Denver.”

It is worth noting that, outside of the audience favorite short film “Jellyfish and Lobster,” the audience award winners were not eligible for juried prizes.

Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 stars John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Leonie Benesch, and Ben Chaplin as ABC sports journalists unexpectedly put in the position of narrativizing the hostage crisis of the 1972 Munich Olympics. It’s an effective thriller––one couldn’t accuse it of being boring––but takes what feels like the safest possible approach to its fraught subject matter.

September 5 opens with ABC’s vintage logo as a cheerful voice announces these as the first Olympic Games to be broadcast live, promising that the Munich edition will remind the world of what unites us––an irony-loaded statement for those who know what’s coming. The handheld camera follows the ABC journalists as they begin their day in the studio. It is director Geoffrey’s (Magaro) first day on the job. He’s hoping to impress his bosses: the ambitious Roone Arledge (Sarsgaard) and “voice of reason” Marvin (Chaplin). Soon, shocking...

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Paramount Pictures ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de Septiembre 5, un thriller sobre el fatídico momento que cambió para siempre la cobertura informativa en los medios de comunicación y que ha seguido influyendo en el tratamiento de la actualidad.

Septiembre 5 se ambienta en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972 y narra las peripecias de un equipo de retransmisión deportiva estadounidense que hace rápidamente la transición de la información deportiva a la cobertura en directo del secuestro de los atletas israelíes. Geoff (John Magaro), un joven y ambicioso productor, se esfuerza por demostrar su valía a su jefe, el legendario ejecutivo de televisión Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Junto con la intérprete alemana Marianne (Leonie Benesch) y su mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), Geoff se hace cargo inesperadamente de la cobertura en directo. Enfrentado a temas y narrativas cambiantes,...

Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 follows the ABC Sports team that covered the armed attack by the Palestinian militant group Black September during the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics that resulted in the deaths of 11 Israeli Olympians. It’s a crisis freighted with geopolitical significance, but Fehlbaum and co-writer Moritz Binder seem almost desperate to avoid engaging with it. Still, the sympathies of September 5 do seem readily apparent. This is a film about a story with clear victims and clear perpetrators, being sold to a global audience by a group of well-meaning American journalists who happened to be caught in the fray.

September 5 is a journalism procedural that’s only impressive for its taut, docu-realistic depiction of a 17-hour ordeal as it affected the members of the ABC Sports crew on the titular day. Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) is being relieved for the night by rookie TV producer Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro) when...

Journalism thrillers have a long history at the Oscars — All the President’s Men and Best Picture-winner Spotlight being among the most influential in the genre. Although September 5 does not reach those heights, it is a consistently entertaining picture with strong crafts and a solid ensemble.

September 5 Review

September 5 follows the ABC Sports broadcasting team as they find themselves in over their heads at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, having to report on a hostage crisis in which a group of Israeli athletes are taken by a group of terrorists. It’s a story that many people know (and has been told in film before) but from a different perspective than we usually see.

This blend of journalism drama and political thriller results in an utterly gripping thriller. Even though the story takes place over the course of an entire day, Tim Fehlbaum does a great job of ramping...

Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, and Peter Sarsgaard are stepping out to promote their new movie.

The guys posed for photos as they arrived at the AMPAS Tastemaker Luncheon for their new movie September 5 on Friday afternoon (October 25) held at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills in West Hollywood, Calif.

Also in attendance was director Tim Fehlbaum.

Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.”

September 5 hits select theaters on November 29, and opens nationwide in theaters on December 13. Watch the trailer here!

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Paramount Pictures just released an intense, riveting new trailer for September 5, a potential Oscar contender. The film delves into ABC’s coverage of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, putting the decisions made behind the scenes in the spotlight.

Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, and Zinedine Soualem star. The cast also includes Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker, and Ferdinand Dörfler.

“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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time,” reads Paramount’s synopsis.

“At the heart of the story is...

September 5 is coming.

The movie hits select theaters on November 29, and opens nationwide in theaters on December 13.

Here’s a synopsis: “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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.”

The synopsis continues: “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), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away,...

The trailer for September 5 brings the ethical and moral dilemmas that journalists face to the forefront when an ABC Sports team on the ground in Munich for the 1972 Olympics pivot to covering the terrorist attacks that took place in the Olympic Village that year.

The most in-depth look at the film thus far begins on a regular Olympics morning as the sports newsroom begins covering the games on Sept. 5, 1972, but before they know it, they’re thrust into an entirely different story.

“There’s a hostage situation going on right now in the Olympic Village,” John Magaro’s Geoff says in the trailer, as ABC News insists on taking over the story since the sports team is in “way over your head.” But legendary TV executive Roone Arledge, portrayed by Peter Sarsgaard, shuts the news team down and states the sports team will handle it.

“What do I tell the cameras?...

Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for the drama ‘September 5.’

The movie 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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, “September 5” provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion 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), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumours spread, with the hostages’ lives hanging in the balance,...

Called “Gripping” by The Hollywood Reporter in their Venice Film Festival review, watch the trailer for September 5.

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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, “September 5” provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion 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), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumors spread, with...

“September 5” has awards prognosticators buzzing, and the first trailer released on Thursday offers a look at this pulse-pounding thriller that draws a direct corollary between a historic event and modern media.

The film takes place during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics and is told entirely from the point of view of the American Sports broadcasting team on the ground that was forced to jump into action when Israeli athletes were taken hostage. The story chronicles the tough decisions made in the newsroom, like whether their live coverage of the situation may be aiding the terrorists and what to do if someone gets shot live on camera.

John Magaro stars as a young and ambitious producer at the center of the situation, while Peter Sarsgaard plays legendary TV executive Roone Arledge. The cast also includes Leonie Benesch as a German interpreter and Ben Chaplin as Marvin Bader.

Tim Fehlbaum directed the...

Paramount has released the official trailer for September 5, the critically acclaimed drama that follows the ABC Sports TV team during the horrific events of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, when the Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September took the entire Israeli Olympic team hostage in Munich.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, September 5 follows the ABC broadcasting team as it quickly adapts from sports reporting to live coverage of the ever-deteriorating hostage situation. As the film’s synopsis states, “Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.”

The synopsis: “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), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage.

Tim Fehlbaum‘s docudrama “September 5” was an unexpected hit at the Venice Film Festival, generating plenty of buzz for its gripping retelling of the 1972 Olympics hostage crisis. Paramount picked it up and has slotted it for an awards-friendly release date of November 29. The new trailer packs a lot into two minutes, encapsulating the conflict at ABC about how to cover the rapidly unfolding events.

Peter Sarsgaard portrays Roone Arledge, the ABC Sports executive overseeing the live coverage produced by John Magaro (Geoffrey Mason) under the direction of Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin). Caught in the middle of the ongoing debate about the ethics of giving airtime to the terrorists is their German interpreter Marianne Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch).

At his Venice Film Festival press conference, the Swiss director praised Arledge: “He was a visionary storyteller. He had ideas that are standard in today’s sports coverage, like handheld cameras on the field,...

While Steven Spielberg‘s 2005 film Munich explored the fallout of the shocking event at the 1972 Olympics, the new thriller, September 5, follows the newsroom of an American Sports broadcasting crew as the incident unfolds. Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for what’s being hailed as “One of the best movies of the year.” The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker and Ferdinand Dörfler.

The official synopsis reads,

“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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.

"Can we show someone being shot on live television?" Paramount Pictures has finally unveiled the official US trailer for a film called September 5, which premiered to exceptional praise at both the 2024 Venice & Telluride Film Festivals this fall. It has earned some very positive reviews but is only beginning to get buzz with a release dates set for November and December in US theaters. 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 in the Olympic village, covering all the sports events live for the first time ever in television history. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time. It's a ticking clock thriller without showing any violence - it's...

As much as I loathe to wade into awards season chatter, one of the most humorous things thus far this year is various pundits predicting September 5 as the frontrunner for Best Picture, a film that has not earned all that much acclaim nor buzz in its festival debuts. Now audiences will get a chance to decide for themselves as Paramount rolls out the film, directed by Tim Fehlbaum and starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker, and Ferdinand Dörfler, on November 29 before expanding wider on December 13. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “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 an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting...

Paramount Pictures has revealed the official trailer and poster for September 5, which unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, the film will open in select theaters on November 29, 2024, and opens nationwide on December 13.

Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, September 5 follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, the film provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion 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), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage.

For the first time in its history, the contest for the Audience Award at the Middleburg Film Festival has resulted in a tie. “Conclave” from Edward Berger and “September 5” from Tim Fehlbaum won top honors at the 12th edition of the Northern Virginia event.

“Conclave” centers on a cardinal (Ralph Fiennes) who is tasked with leading the secretive papal election after the sudden death of the Pope and finds himself in the middle of a battle for the direction of the Universal Church. It also stars Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. Rossellini received the Agnès Varda Trailblazing Film Artist Award at this year’s festivities.

“September 5” chronicles the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis from the perspective of the ABC television crew that covered the Olympics outside the Olympic Village. It stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch.

The top honor for documentary filmmaking went to “Martha,...

Paramount Global label Republic Pictures taken US and Canadian distribution rights to Alex Winter-directed Adulthood.

The parent company revived the Republic label in 2023 with a remit to acquire third-party fare. Paramount Global’s chief content licensing officer Dan Cohen is also president of Republic Pictures.

Cohen shared news of the acquisition in a keynote address at Mipcom today.

Cohen described Adulthood as a Coen Brothers-esque caper gone wrong. It stars Josh Gad, Kaya Scodelario,Anthony Carrigan and Winter himself, who is known for playing Bill in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. “But what he really is is a director.

Paramount is making some big shifts on its 2025 release calendar, the biggest title dated being Edgar Wright’s reboot of The Running Man starring Glen Powell. The pic is going the Friday before Thanksgiving next year, on November 21.

Running Man will race against Wicked: Part Two on that date as well as Angel Studios’ David and a Warner Bros event movie.

In regards to this year, Paramount also said Friday that its awards-season contender September 5 is now opening November 29 limited before getting a December 13 expansion. Previously, the pic that world premiered at the Venice and Telluride film festivals was set to go on November 27. The Tim Fehlbaum-directed movie starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch depicts what happened with the ABC Sports TV control booth had to contend with a live act of terrorism during the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Related: Breaking Baz: ‘September 5’ Vividly Recalls Tragedy Of...

After stealing the hearts of rom-com fans, tornado enthusiasts and hitmen this year, Glen Powell finally has his next major role dated for 2025.

He’ll star in director Edgar Wright’s remake of “The Running Man,” which is being released by Paramount on Nov. 21, 2025, the company announced Friday. Powell is taking on the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 action film, based on the novel by Stephen King. The film takes place in a dystopian future where a TV show follows criminal “runners” escape professional killers.

Paramount shuffled the dates for several other 2025 films. The “Naked Gun” reboot, starring Liam Neeson, has moved from July 18 to August 1. The cast includes Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, Cch Pounder and Busta Rhymes. Neeson stars as the son of Leslie Nielsen’s character in his classic, slapstick comedy franchise. It’s directed by Akiva Schaffer...

With one month to go before showtime at the 47th Denver Film Festival, festival organizers have peeled back the curtain to reveal this year’s official selections, honorees and jurors.

Presented by Denver Film, the festival will kick off with the opening night presentation of Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut The Piano Lesson from Netflix on Nov. 1. Hitting the screen at the McA Denver at the Holiday Theater, The Piano Lesson is an August Wilson adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Stephan James, Erykah Badu and more.

The festival runs Nov. 1-10, and during that time 185 features, documentaries and shorts will screen in the Colorado capital. Justin Kurzel’s The Order starring Jude Law as an FBI agent on the trail of a white supremacist group in the Pacific Northwest will serve as a centerpiece presentation on Nov. 8. The film, which also...

Paramount Pictures’ historical drama, “September 5,” which recounts the harrowing true story of the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, is gearing up for the upcoming Oscar race with a full-scale awards campaign.

Following enthusiastic receptions at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, the film’s ensemble cast, including Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch, will compete in the supporting acting categories. In addition, the film is set to contend in major categories such as best picture, director, and original screenplay. Paramount Pictures acquired the film from its boutique label Republic Pictures shortly after yjr festival debuts.

“September 5” joins Paramount’s awards slate, which also includes Ridley Scott’s epic sequel “Gladiator II,” two music biopics — Michael Gracey’s Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “Bob Marley:One Love” — and Josh Cooley’s animated feature “Transformers One.”

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, who co-wrote the screenplay with Moritz Binder,...

Paramount Pictures has set a November 27 limited theatrical release for Tim Felbaum’s thriller September 5 after a great response for the movie out of the Venice and Telluride film festivals.

Staring Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and John Magaro , September 5 is described as being akin to Best Picture Oscar winner Argo and follows the ABC Sports TV control booth and the ethical and nail-biting dilemma they faced in covering the first televised act of terrorism when the militant Palestinian group known as Black September took the entire Israeli Olympic team hostage in Munich.

Swiss-born director Fehlbaum worked off a script he co-wrote with German writer Moritz Binder, in what is a play-by-play scenario from the Pov of those watching the tragedy unfold in front of a wall of TV monitors.

Deadline film critic Pete Hammond praised, “September 5 succeeds on every level.” In addition, “The acting across the board is superb,...

Paramount Pictures has announced plans to debut the celebrated newsroom drama “September 5” in select theaters on November 27. The movie tells the behind-the-scenes story of ABC Sports’ coverage of the deadly 1972 Munich Olympics attack. It will expand nationwide in December, positioning it for award season success.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, “September 5” follows ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge as he leads live coverage of the crisis. Palestinian militant group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympics. Peter Sarsgaard stars as Arledge, forced to manageABC’s broadcast as the attack unfolded.

The film garnered praise after premiering at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year. Paramount Global’s Republic Pictures then acquired distribution rights. Brian Robbins, co-ceo of the Paramount film division, decided adding “September 5” complemented their fall awards hopefuls like “Better Man” and “Gladiator II.”

Experts say the addition of “September 5” provides much-needed filler to an otherwise thin year for potential best picture nominees.

Paramount Pictures has set the historical drama “September 5” for a limited theatrical release on Thanksgiving weekend, with plans to expand the film nationwide in December.

The film 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.

“Past Lives” star John Magaro also stars in the film along with Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch also star in the film, which was directed by Tim Fehlbaum from a script he co-wrote with Moritz Binder.

Paramount’s Republic Pictures acquired the film back in July ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it has received widespread acclaim. Paramount will handle...

“September 5,” a historical thriller about the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, will be released by Paramount Pictures. The film, which was a buzzy sales title on the festival circuit, is set to open in select theaters on Nov. 27 ahead of a nationwide release in December.

After playing to rapturous crowds at Venice and Telluride film festivals, Oscar pundits expect “September 5” to be a major player during awards season.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum and starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch, “September 5” recounts the ABC Sports crew who covered the terrorist attack during the summer Olympics in Germany. The suspenseful control-room drama captures the tough decisions as the broadcasting team reported on the live coverage of the Israeli athletes who were taken hostage.

Variety’s Peter Debruge praised “September 5” for capturing the way the hostage crisis “forever changed TV news,” adding that “the film’s relevance is also...

Stars John Magaro and Leonie Benesch had no way of anticipating that their new film “September 5,” depicting how ABC handled coverage of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, would be premiering at the Venice and Telluride film festivals so shortly after this year’s games in Paris, or at a time where all eyes are on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Going into production directly from last year’s Berlin Film Festival, where their respective films “Past Lives” and “The Teachers’ Lounge” both screened, the pair did not even know “September 5” would be coming off of a turning point in their careers, as both those films would go on to receive Oscar nominations. “It’s just coincidence,” said Magaro over Zoom. “It could have [premiered] in the winter and it would’ve been totally different.”

Directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, who wrote the script with Munich native Moritz Binder, “September 5” sees Magaro play Geoffrey Mason,...

A hot sales title and potential Oscar contender is generating buzz on the festival circuit: Tim Fehlbaum’s tension-filled drama, “September 5.” If any studio feels like adding another worthy awards hopeful to its slate, this film could go far under the right guidance.

The film, which has received outstanding reviews at both Venice and Telluride, could make a significant impact given its timely and compelling story. Set on Sept. 5, 1972, it portrays the international hostage crisis involving the Israeli Olympic team, as it unfolded live on global television. However, the story is told from the perspective of the broadcasters. The period drama features a talented ensemble cast, including John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch.

“September 5” is a taut, suspenseful thriller, and even if you’ve seen (and hopefully admired) Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” (2005), this retelling more than warrants its perspective, reminiscent of previous Oscar winners like “Spotlight” and “All the President’s Men.

The story of the horrifying crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where militant Palestinian terrorists known as Black September took the entire Israeli team hostage, killing all, has been told many times via TV movies, as well as a different perspective in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated Munich. That widely praised 2005 film followed the hunt for the terrorists. Now comes a completely different and absolutely riveting account in September 5, a docudrama set almost entirely in the ABC control booth where the network’s sports crew was headquartered to cover the games as a live TV event. No one could have foreseen the drama that would unfold over 22 tense hours as this group of television professionals, inexperienced in hard news, would have to switch gears and bring these tragic, unfolding events in real time to billions around the globe.

Swiss-born director Tim Fehlbaum, working from a screenplay he wrote with German writer Moritz Binder,...

On Sept. 5, 1972, millions watched a tense international hostage situation unfold live on ABC television, as members of a militant Palestinian faction calling itself Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village in Munich and held the Israeli team hostage. In “September 5,” we watch the sports crew of an American TV network step up to the challenge of covering such a monumental event. For better or worse, their decisions made history, as the incident fed on media attention, and ABC became the first network to broadcast an act of terrorism on live TV.

Even those who weren’t alive at the time likely have a pretty good idea of what happened, thanks in part to Steven Spielberg, whose film “Munich” opens with a reenactment of the same massacre. In the nerve-racking opening minutes of that movie, Spielberg established a core reason that Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum’s focus on the media makes sense...

At a time when world events are instantaneously reported on social media and news sites, it’s an enlightening, altogether gripping experience to watch a film like September 5, which depicts how a dedicated crew at ABC Sports managed to broadcast the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attacks live to an entire nation.

Not only does German director Tim Fehlbaum’s accomplished third feature detail all the logistical hurdles the team needed to scale so they could capture the crisis as it happened, relying on massive TV cameras, smuggled 16mm film stock, a slew of walkie talkies and plenty of ingenuity. Even more importantly, the movie tackles the tough questions faced by several hardworking newsmen — and one vital female translator — as they dealt with a situation in which many human lives hung in the balance.

Those enduring questions, as well as intense, lived-in performances from a terrific cast, help to make September 5 more...

Atemloser Thriller in Real-Time-Anmutung, der die Ereignisse vom 5. September 1972 bei den Olympischen Spielen aus der Sicht der Reporter von ABC Sports erzählt.

Fast Facts:

• Atemberaubend effektiver Hochdruckthriller nach wahren Ereignissen

• Auf diese Weise wurde der Terrorangriff bei den Olympischen Spielen in 1972 noch nie verfilmt

• Mit einem Maximum an Authentizität realisiert

• Dritte Regiearbeit von Tim Fehlbaum nach „Hell“ und „Tides“

• Hochkarätige internationale Besetzung

• Sean Penn als amerikanischer Produzent mit an Bord

• Weltpremiere als Eröffnungsfilm der Orizzonti Extra in Venedig 2024

Credits:

Land / Jahr: Deutschland / USA 2024; Laufzeit: 95 Minuten; Regie: Tim Fehlbaum; Drehbuch: Tim Fehlbaum, Moritz Binder; Besetzung: Leonie Benesch, John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin; Verleih: Constantin Film; Start: 7. November 2024

Review:

Als der amerikanische Fernsehsender ABC Sport 1972 in München seine Zelte aufschlug, um von den Olympischen Spielen zu berichten – den ersten Olympischen Spielen auf deutschem Boden seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, mit denen sich Deutschland als verändertes, geläutertes, weltoffenes Land präsentieren wollte –, sollten Maßstäbe gesetzt werden,...

Tim Fehlbaum‘s September 5 — a Venice Film Festival world premiere about the terrorist attack that occurred at the 1972 Munich Olympics — is not a documentary. But the filmmaker, who made a mark in science fiction films like The Colony and Hell, treated it like one.

That meant that Fehlbaum and his team spent many months in a tireless research process to discover how the events unfolded, minute-by-minute, while also working with a set and production design team to create an authentic replica of a sports broadcasting facility like the one the ABC Sports team used in Munich on that fateful day, the filmmaker said during a September 5 press conference held in Venice on Thursday afternoon.

“When the idea came up for us to maybe tell the story [of September 5], it became a research conversation,” Fehlbaum said, adding that conversations with an eyewitness named Geoffrey Mason (played in the film by John Magaro) fueled...

September 5 may depict the massacre of Israelis at the 1972 Olympics, but the film is not designed to be a political statement about the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

That’s according to Tim Fehlbaum (The Colony), who directs the buzzy Sean Penn-produced picture, which opens the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra competition on Thursday.

Fehlbaum told a press conference that September 5 was in the late stages of post-production on October 7, when the conflict between Israel and Gaza escalated.

He said the movie sticks to the media narrative of the events during the 1972 Munich terror attack, depicting the sports broadcasting team that became hostage crisis reporters when Palestinian militants infiltrated the Olympic village.

“We don’t want to make a political statement on that,” Fehlbaum said of the Israel-Gaza conflict. “Of course, for us, we did our research and everything that led to that day, but at the end, the...

Exclusive: “They’re all gone.” Those were the harrowing, unforgettable words, delivered by ABC TV’s Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay that 11 Israeli athletes had been slaughtered by Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

McKay’s marathon 16-hour stint anchoring the shattering incident has long been held as a milestone in broadcast history. It was the first breaking news story to be beamed live globally in an unfettered way. Cameras had lenses trained on the balcony of the apartment where the Palestinian gunmen were holding the Israeli sportsmen hostage.

The cruel irony was that the Black September guerrillas were inside watching ABC’s coverage of their heinous act.

Also the families of the Israeli athletes and coaches and trainers being held at gunpoint were watching.

September 5, directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, opens the Venice Film Festival’s Horizon Extra sidebar on Thursday. It grippingly explores how ABC Sports,...

New films from Steve McQueen, Sean Baker, Edward Berger and Gia Coppola will get the red carpet treatment at the 20th Zurich Film Festival as part of Zff’s gala lineup.

Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, which will open 2024’s BFI London Film Festival (Lff), will have its international premiere in Zurich. Berger’s hotly anticipated Conclave, a Vatican conspiracy thriller featuring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow, and the follow-up to the German director’s multi-Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front, will screen at Zff following bows at Toronto and San Sebastian. And Baker’s Palme d’Or Winner Anora starring Mikey Madison in a star-making performance as a Brighton Beach sex worker who gets romantically entangled with the son of a Russian oligarch, will touch down at the Swiss festival after screening at TIFF.

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The Zurich Film Festival has revealed the first titles in their Gala section, which includes several films that will bring star power to the red carpet and directors with award-winning credentials.

Among the first 11 titles to be announced are “Conclave,” by the director of Oscar winner “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Edward Berger, with Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow heading the cast.

Also selected is Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5,” starring Peter Sarsgaard, and Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” which is toplined by Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Steve McQueen, an Oscar winner with “12 Years a Slave,” delivers “Blitz,” starring Saoirse Ronan and rock star Paul Weller, and Nick Hamm presents “William Tell,” starring Claes Bang and Ben Kingsley.

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” the winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, also joins the selection, as does Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” featuring...

Jetzt schon steht fest, dass „September 5“ von Tim Fehlbaum und der Münchner BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion eines der der deutschen Filmereignisse des Restjahres sein wird. Jetzt wurde der erste Trailer des Thrillers veröffentlicht, der in Venedig Weltpremiere feiert und am 7. November im Verleih von Constantin Film in die Kinos kommt.

Mit Spannung wartet man auf „September 5“, die dritte Regiearbeit von Tim Fehlbaum nach „Hell“ und „Tides“, wie „Tides“ produziert von Thomas Wöbke und Philipp Trauer von BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion sowie Sean Penn mit seiner Projected Picture Works, Fehlbaums erste Arbeit, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht: In der Zeitspanne eines Tages erzählt der Thriller von den Ereignissen am 5. September 1972, als ein palästinensisches Terrorkommando die israelische Olympia-Equipe als Geisel nahm und die Freilassung palästinensischer Häftlinge und der Terroristen von Baader-Meinhof erpressen wollte. Der Film ist aus der Sicht der amerikanischen Sportreporter von ABC erzählt und hat Leonie Benesch, John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard...

US filmmaker Debra Granik will chair the Horizons jury of the Venice Film Festival (August 28-September 7), joined by filmmakers Ali Asgari from Iran, Soudade Kaadan from Syria, Christos Nikou from Greece, Gabor Reisz from Hungary, Valia Santella from Italy and Tuva Novotny from Sweden.

The Horizons section will open with the world premiere of Valerio Mastandrea’s Nonostante, about a man whose life as a long-term patient is disrupted by the arrival of a new companion on his ward.

Mastandrea stars with Dolores Fonzi in the film produced by Viola Prestieri and Valeria Golino for Ht Film, Francesco Tato and Oscar Glioti for Damocle,...

The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for its Horizons and Horizons Extra competition sections.

Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Ride) will open the Horizons competition section on August 28. The Horizons Extra competition section will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympics starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin.

September 5 focuses on a sports broadcasting team who suddenly find themselves covering a hostage crisis when the Palestinian militant organization Black September infiltrates the Olympic Village, kills two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and takes the other nine hostage. The Teacher’s Lounge breakout Leonie Benesch also co-stars. Fehlbaum is best known for his sci-fi features Hell (2011) and The Colony (2021).

September 5 was produced by BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion and Projected Picture Works, in co-production with Constantin Film and Erf Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion. Fehlbaum,...

Paramount’s Republic Pictures has acquired global sales rights – apart from Germany, Switzerland and Austria – to Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5,” which stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch, who broke out last year with the Oscar nominated “The Teachers’ Lounge.”

The film, which has Sean Penn as one of its producers, will open Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra competition section on Aug. 29. Sarsgaard won best actor at Venice last year for “Memory.”

“September 5” is set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, and follows an American sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.

Through this lens, “September 5” provides a new perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time. The film “unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today,” according to a statement.

The Girls on the Bus is a political comedy-drama series created by Amy Chozick and Julie Plec. Inspired by Chozick’s 2018 memoir Chasing Hillary, the Max series follows the story of 4 journalists on different sides of political isles as they follow a parade of flawed presidential candidates while bonding with each other. The Girls on the Bus stars Melissa Benoist, Carla Gugino, Christina Elmore, and Natasha Behnam in the lead roles with Brandon Scott, Griffin Dunne, Hettienne Park, Mark Consuelos, Scott Cohen, Kyle Vincent Terry, and P.J. Sosko starring in supporting roles. If you loved all the political satire and friendships in The Girls on the Bus here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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A little girl with a dying father reaches out to the heavens for a spirit to protect her family, but what reaches back has other ideas in Benjamin Finkel’s SXSW Midnighters selection, Family. Having just moved across the country in an attempt to find new treatments for her father’s worsening cancer, young Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) has to start all over in a new place, and that’s tough. It certainly doesn’t help that her dad, Harry (Ben Chaplin) needs constant care and her mother Naomi (Ruth Wilson) is so beaten down by having to shoulder all of the family’s needs that their daughter is often the last priority. Johanna’s only solace is a little blue birdhouse, to which she believes she can lure a kind...

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The attention-grabbing opening scene in writer/director Benjamin Finkel’s Family effectively establishes the film’s peculiar, esoteric, yet bone-chilling tone. Evoking Relic or Ari Aster’s Hereditary, the cold open sees preteen protagonist Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) banging on the locked doors of a synagogue, pleading to be let in, only for her mother, Naomi (Ruth Wilson), to stalk across the lawn, drag her out into it, then stab her. Without any explanation or context, Family cuts to a less volatile time, unfurling a strange, unwieldy slice of arthouse horror that’s heightened by Finkel’s knack for viscerally disturbing horror and imagery.

The eleven-year-old Johanna, an only child homeschooled by her mom, has recently been uprooted to mom’s creaky old childhood home for closer access to medical care for her father, Harry (Ben Chaplin), who’s slowly deteriorating from cancer. Things are stable enough to start, but...

Once a taboo broken only by the boldest of directors, violence against children has become increasingly common in horror films. Credit (or blame) for this phenomenon — at least in its more recent incarnations — goes to “Hereditary,” a movie that boldly broke the once-sacred familial contract. There’s bound to be diminishing returns when other filmmakers start taking inspiration from such transgressions, however. Six years later, that brings us to “Family,” premiering at the 2024 edition of SXSW.

Directed by first-timer Benjamin Finkel, the film treads similar thematic territory to Aster’s film, but inverted, with a sci-fi/horror twist. “Family” begins with a quick, disturbing cold open, as 11-year-old Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) desperately bangs on the window of a building we later learn is the temple where her grandfather (Allan Corduner) serves as a rabbi. Then her mother (Ruth Wilson) comes up behind her, grabs her by her ankle, and...

The terror beneath the evil spirits and unexplained phenomena in Family is based on a cruel reality: a young girl’s well-founded dread of her father dying. In his self-assured first film, writer and director Benjamin Finkel wraps this fear in horror tropes, taking us inside the mind of a child imagining the worst. The film becomes increasingly tense and emotionally wrenching, even as Finkel ramps up genre touches that come to feel superfluous.

Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) is a lonely 11-year-old whose family has moved to another part of the country so her father can receive better cancer treatment. Finkel’s director’s statement makes it clear that this is a personal story, inspired by what he felt when his father suffered from cancer for much of Finkel’s childhood. Echoing that experience, the film is almost entirely from Johanna’s point of view. From the start we are in her nightmares and imagination,...

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“A revenge ghost story with elements of a monster movie” is how Irish helmer Damian McCarthy describes his latest chiller, which is set to bring “plenty of scares and a few a few laughs” to SXSW’s late-night line-up. A supernatural horror centered around spooky trinkets, Oddity follows a blind medium (You Are Not My Mother’s Carolyn Bracken) as she uncovers the truth behind her twin sister’s death with the help of a terrifying wooden mannequin.

“She collects a lot of haunted items—she can pick up an object and tell you everything about it,” explains McCarthy, the writer/director of 2020’s psychological thriller Caveat and celebrated horror short He Dies at the End. Not only does one of these objects—the aforementioned “wooden man”—help her to catch her sister’s killer,...