"Everybody Digs Bill Evans" from Cohen Media Group for an Academy Award. Watch the trailer
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group will release its latest pic, Bill Evans' Everybody, starring Anders Danielsen-Lee, Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf on Dec. 4 at the Academy Awards at The Quad in New York.
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group will release its latest picture, Bill Evans' All People , starring Anders Danielsen-Lee, Bill Pohlman and Laurie Metcalf, on Dec. 4 at the Oscars Preliminaries at The Quad in New York City, ahead of a wider release on Jan. 9, 2027.
The distributor will also send Pullman for Best Supporting Actor, Metcalf for Best Supporting Actress and Lies for Best Actor in the awards season.
Watch the first trailer above for the film, which won Grant Gay a Silver Bear for directing at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it premiered in world competition.
Lee plays legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans in this unconventional biopic. It follows Evans' decline following the death of his trio, Scott LaFaro, in a car accident in 1961, shortly after recording his landmark album Sunday at the Village Vanguard. Watch on Deadline
Pullman and Metcalfe play Evans' parents, Florida retirees who take in Bill, numb with grief, as he tries to slow a spiral of heroin addiction and jazz withdrawal. Barry Ward, Valen Cain and Katie McGrath also star.
This photo was adapted from Owen Martel's novel Intermission by Mark O'Halloran. Janin Marmot and Alan Maher are the producers.
After its premiere in Berlin, Deadline's Damon Wise called the film "superb, intimate and gloriously experimental" in his review.
Since then, the film has been on the festival circuit, including at the just-concluded Mill Valley (CA) Film Festival. Next up is the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia, which runs today through October 18.
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