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NEWS
It’s a date
Hollywood news outlet, Deadline, reports that The Boys in the Boat is set to hit US theatres on Monday December 25th, 2023. The George Clooney directed MGM film is the most highly anticipated rowing film in years and features Callum Turner as Joe Rantz and Peter Guinness as George Pocock. According to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro the studio was ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the Christmas release date to attract family viewers. The film is based on Daniel James Brown’s non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
