Tuesday. https://www.thewrap.com/napoleon-premiere-joaquin-phoenix-vanessa-kirby-strike/
At this time Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and Tahar Rahim are all scheduled to attend alongside Ridley Scott. It is, of course, possible for other performers to be confirmed prior to the premiere.
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Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ World Premieres in Paris With Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby
https://variety.com/2023/film/global/napoleon-paris-premiere-apple-sony-french-windowing-1235790441/
Holding the world premiere of Ridley Scott‘s “Napoleon” in Paris was a no-brainer for Sony’s motion picture group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, due to the film’s French DNA and its subject, the famous French emperor (played by Joaquin Phoenix).
“Where else could you begin the worldwide rollout of ‘Napoleon’ than France?,” said Rothman on the red carpet of the event at the Salle Pleyel concert hall, where Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and Tahar Rahim were able to attend thanks to the end of the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike.
But the French theatrical bow comes with a downside for Apple, which financed the pricey movie and will now have to wait 17 months to launch the movie on its service due to France’s strict windowing rules.
“It’s a great credit to Apple who made the film because this particular movie (…) is a big screen experience,” said Rothman. “It’s epic and it’s large and it’s robust and it wants to play on a big screen.”
Producer Kevin J. Walsh, who was at the Paris premiere, said the budget came to “under $200 million.” Walsh said the movie is expensive because it didn’t rely heavily on CGI and AI. “You see a lot of these movies that are so CGI-packed and they feel like when you’re in a war scene or a battle scene or an action sequence, it’s almost dizzying,” said Walsh. “It’s extraordinary to see the scope of some of the actual in-camera images we shot, and have all those horses and soldiers and cannons going off and mortars of mud getting shot up.”