‘Rosewater’ Live Preview Event with
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to Screen in Select U.S. Cinemas Exclusively on November 13
Fathom Events and Open Road Films to Give Audiences Sneak Peek at
Jon Stewart’s Directorial Debut in ‘Rosewater’ Followed by
Live Q&A on the Eve Before Its National Release
DENVER – October 29, 2014 – Fathom Events and Open Road Films are partnering to present the exclusive
“Rosewater:
Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert LIVE”
event, including the feature film Rosewater
followed by a Live Q&A with Jon Stewart, the film’s
screen writer, director and producer, interviewed by Stephen Colbert,
host and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award Winning series
“The
Colbert Report,” broadcast from New York City. Fans can
join the conversation by Tweeting questions now via Twitter using the
hashtag #RosewaterLive. This special event will be showcased in select
cinemas nationwide for only one night on November
13 live at 7:30 p.m. ET and tape delayed to 7:30 p.m. local time in all
other time zones.
Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival,”
written by the BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, which is now available in
paperback and titled after the upcoming movie. Following the exclusive
Fathom Events preview on November 13,
Rosewater will be in theaters nationwide on November 14.
Tickets for
“Rosewater: Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert LIVE”
are available at participating theater box offices and online at
www.FathomEvents.com. The event will be presented in more than 300 select movie theaters nationwide through Fathom’s
Digital Broadcast Network. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the Fathom Events website
(theaters and participants are subject to change).
A true story,
Rosewater marks the screenwriting and
directorial debut of “The Daily Show” host and executive producer Jon
Stewart, and stars Gael García Bernal, leading an international cast.
Rosewater is
produced by Scott Rudin, Stewart and Gigi Pritzker, with Lila Yacoub,
Eli Bush and Chris McShane serving as executive producers.
Rosewater
has a direct connection to Stewart, who since taking over as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”
in 1999, has turned
the nightly half-hour satirical look at newsmakers and news-coverers
into not only a perennial Emmy-winning juggernaut, but also an important
touchstone on the zeitgeist. Stewart and “The Daily Show”
covered Bahari’s saga nightly and the journalist appeared on the show
to talk about his ordeal once he was released from prison.
Rosewater
follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a 42-year-old broadcast journalist with
Canadian
citizenship living in London. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to
interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to
controversial incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Moussavi’s
supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory
declaration hours before the polls closed on election day, Bahari
endured great personal risk by submitting camera footage of the
unfolding street riots to the BBC. Bahari was soon arrested by
Revolutionary Guard police, led by a man identifying himself only
as “Rosewater,” who proceeded to torture and interrogate the journalist
over the next 118 days. In October 2009, with Bahari’s wife leading an
international campaign from London to have her husband freed, and
Western media outlets including “The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart” continuing to keep the story alive, Iranian
authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would
act as a spy for the government.
"Rosewater
has been celebrated by early festival audiences as well as critics,”
said Tom Ortenberg, CEO
of Open Road Films. “Moviegoers have expressed incredible enthusiasm
about the upcoming release of Jon Stewart's directorial debut and we are
thrilled to be able to bring this special event with two icons to
theaters across the country."
“Rosewater is an important story that must be told to the world,” said Fathom Events CEO John Rubey. “The
chance to see it first and hear the thought-provoking insight directly from the film’s creator should not be missed.”