Warner Bros. invites CCLA members (plus 1 guest) to  a preview screening of Cornellian Andrea Berloff’s new drama on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

Set in Hell’s Kitchen in the 1970s, The Kitchen is about how the wives of New York gangsters continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after they are locked up in prison.  The film opens Aug. 9.

Director/screenwriter Andrea Berloff ‘95 earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, as well as nominations for a Critics’ Choice Award, BET Award, NAACP Image Award, and a WGA Award, as well as various other regional critics’ awards.  She wrote her first screenplay, World Trade Center, for Oliver Stone in 2006.  Her other credits include Sleepless and Blood Father.

Date: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Warner Bros. Studios, 3400 Warner Blvd., Burbank 91505

Parking:  Free on the lot – details will be provided

RSVP: Sign up below for your seat(s) THIS IS A MEMBERS-ONLY (PLUS 1 GUEST) EVENT – if you plan to bring a guest, sign up for 2 seats.

Questions: Nancy Mills – bartandnancy@verizon.net

More details about the film

New York City, 1978.  The 20 blocks of pawnshops, porn palaces and dive bars between 8th Avenue and the Hudson River owned by the Irish mafia and known as Hell’s Kitchen was never the easiest place to live. Or the safest.  But for mob wives Kathy, Ruby and Claire–played by Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss–things are about to take a radical, dramatic turn.  When their husbands are sent to prison by the FBI the women take business into their own hands, running the rackets and taking out the competition…literally.

Now they run the neighborhood.

The gritty, female-driven mob drama The Kitchen, from New Line Cinema and BRON Creative, is written and directed by Andrea Berloff, who was nominated for an Oscar for Original Screenplay for Straight Outta Compton.

The film also stars Domhnall Gleeson (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”), James Badge Dale (“Only the Brave”), Brian d’Arcy James (“Spotlight”), with Margo Martindale (TV’s “The Americans”), Oscar winner Common (“Selma,” “Marshall”), and Bill Camp (“Vice”), with an  ensemble cast including Jeremy Bobb (“Marshall”), E.J. Bonilla (TV’s “The Long Road Home”), Wayne Duvall (“Prisoners”), Annabella Sciorra (TV’s “Daredevil”), Myk Watford (HBO’s “True Detective”).

Berloff’s screenplay was based on the comic book series created for DC Vertigo by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. The film was produced by multiple Oscar nominee Michael De Luca (“Captain Phillips,” “Moneyball,” “The Social Network”) and Marcus Viscidi (“Rampage”).  Serving as executive producers were Richard Brener, Michael Disco, Dave Neustadter, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth, Elishia Holmes, and Adam Schlagman.

The creative filmmaking team included director of photography Maryse Alberti (“Creed”), production designer Shane Valentino (“Straight Outta Compton”), Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen (“Moneyball,” “A Quiet Place”) and costume designer Sarah Edwards (“Ocean’s 8,” Showtime’s “Billions”). The music was composed by Bryce Dessner.

Principal photography took place primarily in and around the film’s setting, New York City’s famed Hell’s Kitchen.  

New Line Cinema presents, in Association with BRON Creative, a Michael De Luca Production, The Kitchen.   Set for release on August 9, 2019, it will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.  Rated R for violence, language throughout and some sexual content.

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