Netflix announced this morning that Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach‘s new film starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, is slated for release in theaters on November 14 and will debut on streaming on December 5.
The service also unveiled a first-look still of Clooney as the title character, which you can view below.
In announcing Jay Kelly, Netflix referred to the project as a “heartbreaking comedy,” though little about the project is known apart from that. Per the logline, everybody knows Jay Kelly…but Jay Kelly doesn’t know himself.
Baumbach wrote the script for the pic — marking his fourth outing with Netflix — with Emily Mortimer, one of many others featuring in the ensemble. He also produced the film alongside David Heyman and Amy Pascal, the duo who recently inked a deal to produce the next Bond film at Amazon MGM. Additional cast includes Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Patrick Wilson, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Jim Broadbent, Eve Hewson, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton, and Greta Gerwig.
Baumbach has a long history with Netflix, having first partnered with the streamer on the release for his 2017 dysfunctional family dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), starring Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and more. Following that acclaimed Cannes title, Baumbach reunited with the streamer on 2019’s Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, a poignant exploration of divorce that garnered six Oscar nominations and secured Dern a statuette for Best Supporting Actress.
On the heels of Marriage Story‘s success, Baumbach inked an exclusive multi-year deal to write and direct films for the platform in 2021. He released his third Netflix film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s postmodern novel White Noise starring Driver and Gerwig, the following year.
George Clooney is Jay Kelly
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