The Laundromat is a new Steven Soderbergh movie distributed by Netflix and starring Meryl Streep. It will premiere in cinemas on September 27.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about this new movie!
- The Laundromat is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama film
- It is directed by Steven Soderbergh
- With a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns
- It stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Cromwell and Sharon Stone
- The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019
- It is scheduled to be theatrically released on September 27, 2019
- Before digital streaming on October 18, 2019, by Netflix
- The film has received mixed reviews from critics
- The film follows Ellen Martin (Streep)
- Whose dream vacation takes a wrong turn and leads her down a rabbit hole of shady dealings that can all be traced to one Panama City law firm
- The law firm is run by seductive partners Jürgen Mossack (Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Banderas)
- She soon learns that her minor predicament is only a drop in the bucket of millions of files linking an off-shore tax scheme to the world’s richest and most powerful political leaders
- In July 2016, it was announced that Steven Soderbergh was set to produce a then-untitled Panama Papers project
- Later, in April 2018, it was announced that Soderbergh would also direct the film
- Its title was changed to The Laundromat
- Scott Z. Burns wrote the screenplay
- Production was set to commence in the fall of 2018
- In May 2018, it was reported that Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas were in talks to star in the film
- With Netflix interested in acquiring the distribution rights
- Soderbergh affirmed Netflix would likely be the film’s distributor in July
- In August 2018, Alex Pettyfer joined the cast of the film
- In October, Netflix was confirmed to be releasing the movie
- With David Schwimmer and Will Forte added to the cast
- That same month, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Parnell, James Cromwell, Melissa Rauch, Larry Wilmore and Robert Patrick joined the cast of the film
- Principal photography began on October 15, 2018
- It had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019
- It will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival
- And the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2019
- It is scheduled to be released on September 27, 2019
- Before digital streaming on October 18, 2019
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval of 44%
- Based on 50 reviews
- With a weighted average of 5.67/10
- The site’s critical consensus reads: “The Laundromat misuses its incredible cast by taking a disappointingly blunt and unfocused approach to dramatizing the real-life events that inspired it”
- On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”
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