The 2025 New York Movie Competition has added the premiere of Scott Cooper‘s Bruce Springsteen biopic, Ship Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as the enduring musician, as its Highlight Gala choice.
The movie, tailored from Warren Zanes’ 2023 best-selling ebook of the identical title, is ready within the early ’80s at a key time in Springsteen’s profession as he was recording the non-public, acoustic songs that will make up his Nebraska album whereas additionally engaged on demos for Born in the usA. and navigating his rising fame. Cooper directs from his personal script. Along with White, Ship Me From Nowhere stars Jeremy Sturdy as Springsteen’s longtime supervisor Jon Landau in addition to Marc Maron, Stephen Graham, Gaby Hoffman, Paul Walter Hauser, David Krumholtz and Odessa Younger. Cooper, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson and Scott Stuber produce, with Tracey London and Zanes govt producing. twentieth Century Studios is ready to launch Ship Me From Nowhere in theaters Oct. 24.
Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere may have its New York Movie Competition premiere Sunday, Sept. 28, with Cooper, White, Sturdy, Younger and Springsteen, himself, all anticipated to be in attendance.
“The New York Movie Competition has at all times felt like a non secular house for the form of cinema I imagine in,” Cooper stated in an announcement. “To now arrive with a movie about Bruce Springsteen — an artist whose music formed not only a nation however my very own sense of storytelling — is one thing I might by no means have imagined. Attending to know Bruce, to discover his world and his spirit, has been one of the crucial profound artistic experiences of my life. To share that have with New York audiences, in a metropolis that defines inventive chance, is each an honor and a duty I maintain with deep gratitude.”
NYFF inventive director Dennis Lim added, “Taking its cue from the stark majesty of Bruce Springsteen’s traditional album Nebraska, Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere has an intimacy and immediacy that eludes most movie biographies. Anchored by Jeremy Allen White’s revelatory efficiency, this yr’s Highlight Gala choice is a becoming tribute to a residing legend.”
The NYFF beforehand introduced its currents lineup and important slate, together with its opening-night movie, Luca Guadagnino’s Julia Roberts starrer After the Hunt, which additionally options Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield; centerpiece movie Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mom Sister Brother; and shutting evening movie Bradley Cooper’s Is This Factor On?
Extra highlights from the 34-film important slate embrace Jafar Panahi’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner It Was Simply an Accident, Kathryn Bigelow‘s A Home of Dynamite, Noah Baumbach‘s George Clooney and Adam Sandler starrer Jay Kelly, Kelly Reichardt‘s The Mastermind, the Laura Poitras- and Mark Obenhaus-directed Seymour Hersh documentary Cowl-Up, and Mary Bronstein’s Rose Byrne and Conan O’Brien starrer If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
The 63rd New York Movie Competition, offered by Movie at Lincoln Middle, is ready to run Sept. 26 to Oct. 13.