EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse and WG Pictures have set a March 27 release in NYC and an April 3 L.A. debut for the Tribeca Film Festival title, Our Hero, Balthazar.
The dramedy stars Jaeden Martell as a wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, follows an online connection to Texas where he believes he can stop an act of extreme violence. Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield also stars alongside Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov, Noah Centineo, Becky Ann Baker, Avan Jogia and Pippa Knowles also star. The movie is currently 100% from 12 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Producer Oscar Boyson (Uncut Gems, Good Time, Frances Ha) makes his directorial debut here from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ricky Camilleri. The film is produced by Boyson and Camilleri alongside Jon Wroblewski, David Duque-Estrada, Miles Skinner, Jaeden Martell and Alex Hughes. Executive producers include Scott Aharoni, Sinan Eczasibasi, Metin Alihan Yalcindag, Riccardo Maddalosso, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Noah Centineo, Enzo Marc, Blaine Kern III, Peter Gold, Anna-Nora Bernstein, Nicholas Erickson, DJ Jiang, Nathan Wing and Del Eswar.
The film was produced by Oh Boy, Spacemaker Productions and Curious Gremlin, in association with Arkhum, Roosevelt Film Labs, Hypothesis, Giant Leap Media and Bureau Unknown.
The North American acquisition was negotiated by Ryan Kampe of Visit Films and Peter Gold on behalf of WG Pictures.
The movie will play the Regal Union Square in NY and the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Los Angeles. A teaser trailer and poster also dropped today.
WG Pictures was founded by Gold and Brad Wyman. The company is also releasing the comedy Toad, which we first told you about, that pic starring Katt Williams, Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, Craig Robinson, James Franco, Howie Mandel and Bobby Lee.
