{"id":68748,"date":"2025-04-11T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=68748"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:57:49","slug":"scarlett-johanssons-directorial-debut-eleanor-the-great-starring-june-squibb-is-set-to-premiere-at-cannes-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/scarlett-johanssons-directorial-debut-eleanor-the-great-starring-june-squibb-is-set-to-premiere-at-cannes-2025\/68748\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson\u2019s directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb, is set to premiere at Cannes 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"423\">Scarlett Johansson is set to make her directorial debut with <em data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"184\">Eleanor the Great<\/em>, a heartwarming drama that will premiere at the prestigious 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The film will be featured in the <em data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"324\">Un Certain Regard<\/em> section, which celebrates fresh, original storytelling. Variety first reported this exciting news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"723\">The film tells the story of Eleanor Morgenstein, a 94-year-old woman from Florida, played by June Squibb, who travels to New York City and unexpectedly forms a bond with a 19-year-old student. The touching drama also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht, and Erin Kellyman in key supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"725\" data-end=\"1087\">Johansson, best known for her iconic roles in <em data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"792\">Lost in Translation<\/em> and the <em data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"811\">Avengers<\/em> films, shot the movie in early 2024, capturing scenes in renowned New York City locations such as Coney Island and Times Square. The project wrapped filming in April 2024, marking a new chapter in Johansson\u2019s career as she steps behind the camera to tell this intimate story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1354\">Written by Tory Kamen, <em data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1131\">Eleanor the Great<\/em> features cinematography by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Louvart, known for her work on <em data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1228\">Never Rarely Sometimes Always<\/em>. The film is produced by Maven Screen Media and TriStar Pictures, with global distribution handled by Sony Pictures Classics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1780\">For Johansson, this is a significant milestone in her long-standing acting career, as she joins a growing group of actors-turned-directors shaping the future of cinema. <em data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1544\">Eleanor the Great<\/em> is one of several debut films set to premiere at this year\u2019s Cannes, which runs from May 13 to 24, alongside directorial debuts from Harris Dickinson (<em data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1704\">Urchin<\/em>) and other notable films by Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1940\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johansson is set to make her directorial debut with Eleanor the Great, a heartwarming drama that will premiere at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":68749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4409],"class_list":["post-68748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-scarlett-johansson"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}