“Day Drinker,” an motion thriller starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, will sail to theaters in 2027.
Lionsgate, which is releasing the movie, has set a launch of March 26, 2027. “Day Drinker” is taking the place of the studio’s “The Resurrection of the Christ Part One,” which was postponed to Might 6, 2027.
“Day Drinker” follows a private-yacht bartender (Madelyn Cline) who meets a mysterious onboard visitor (Depp) — just for each of them to search out themselves entangled with a legal determine (Cruz) and related in surprising methods. The venture reunites Depp and Cruz, who’ve shared the display in “Blow,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Murder on the Orient Express.”
This marks one among Depp’s first mainstream Hollywood film since his high-profile authorized battles with ex-wife Amber Heard. He’s additionally starring on this November’s holiday-themed fantasy journey “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol” at Paramount. Although he’s made a number of worldwide movies — starring in 2023’s “Jeanne du Barry” and directing “Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness” — he hadn’t been employed by a significant U.S. studio since 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” After dropping a 2020 U.Ok. libel case involving Heard’s abuse allegations, he was pressured to exit from the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise. Depp gained a subsequent defamation trial within the U.S. in 2022.
Marc Webb, finest recognized for “The Amazing Spider-Man” and Disney’s “Snow White” remake, is directing “Day Drinker.” Zach Dean, whose credit embrace “The Tomorrow War” and “Fast X,” wrote the screenplay. The movie will probably be produced by Thunder Street’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who backed the “John Wick” franchise for Lionsgate. Extra producers embrace Adam Kolbrenner, Dean and Nathan Kahane.
