A24’s ‘Under The Silver Lake’ Gets Pushed Back To December

Three weeks before its release date, A24 Films had pulled “Under the Silver Lake” from the schedule. The highly-anticipated film from director David Robert Mitchell (“It Follows“) starring Andrew Garfield (“The Amazing Spider-Man“) and Riley Keough (“The Girlfriend Experience“) in a romantic detective story/experimental film noir and was originally set to debut in theaters June 22, which is just around the corner.

However, A24 will now release the film on December 7 during the awards season. ‘Silver Lake’ premiered at last month’s Cannes Film Festival and was met with a mixed and polarizing response. Our reviewer Jessica Kiang compared it to a mess like “Southland Tales,” and didn’t care for it while critics, many of them in Los Angeles where the film is set, flipped for it. But it’s Rotten Tomatoes score, 60%, while fresh, isn’t exactly something to boast about.

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So, the reasoning? Fixing the film. As Anne Thompson lays out nicely in a piece explaining the move, with six more months to go, Mitchell, also known for “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” will have time to rethink a movie that was a whopping 180 pages in screenplay format.

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Here’s the official synopsis and the trailer if you missed it.

From the dazzling imagination that brought you It Follows comes a delirious neo-noir fever dream about one man’s search for the truth behind the mysterious crimes, murders, and disappearances in his East L.A. neighborhood.

Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.

A24's UNDER THE SILVER LAKE will go into hiding for 6 months and reappear Dec. 7, 2018. Previous date was just 3 weeks away–June 22.

— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) June 1, 2018

Tom Hanks' GREYHOUND has been called into duty two months early–now Feb. 8, 2019 instead of April 5.

— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) June 1, 2018