Spotlight UK Premiere

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Event:
Spotlight UK Premiere
Start:
January 20, 2016 6:00 pm
End:
January 20, 2016 8:00 pm
Category:
Updated:
January 7, 2016
Venue:
Curzon Mayfar
Address:
London, United Kingdom

WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2016

AT

CURZON MAYFAIR

 

ATTENDED BY

CAST MARK RUFFALO, MICHAEL KEATON, STANLEY TUCCI

DIRECTOR TOM MCCARTHY

 

AND

THE REAL-LIFE JOURNALISTS PORTRAYED IN THE FILM

ROBBY ROBINSON, SACHA PFEIFFER, MIKE REZENDES

 

OTHER GUESTS TBC

 

SPOTLIGHT tells the astonishing true story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Spotlight” team of investigative journalists, who in 2002 shock the city and the world by exposing a global cover-up by the Catholic Church of widespread child abuse perpetrated by more than 70 local priests.

When newly appointed editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) takes charge of the Globe in the summer of 2001, he directs the Spotlight team to follow up on a column about a local priest accused of abusing dozens of young parishioners. Aware that taking on the Catholic Church will have major ramifications, Spotlight editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) and researcher Matt Carrol (Brian d’Arcy James) begin delving more deeply into the case.

As they confer with victims’ attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci), interview survivors and pursue the release of sealed court records, it becomes clear that the Church’s cover-up is far more wide-reaching than any of them ever imagined.

SPOTLIGHT stars Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher, The Avengers), Michael Keaton (Birdman), Rachel McAdams (Southpaw), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan), John Slattery (Mad Men) and Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games franchise), is written by BAFTA-winner Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent) and Josh Singer (The West Wing) and directed by Tom McCarthy.

SPOTLIGHT has been named best film of the year by the L.A Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, and is nominated for three Golden Globes.

SPOTLIGHT will be released in UK & Ireland on 29 January 2016 by Entertainment One UK.