Cold Copy
2023 film directed by Roxine Helberg
Cold Copy is a 2023 American thriller film written and directed by Roxine Helberg and starring Bel Powley, Tracee Ellis Ross, James Tupper, Ekaterina Baker, Nesta Cooper, and Jacob Tremblay. It is Helberg's feature directorial debut.
Cold Copy was released on 26 January 2024.
Plot
An ambitious journalism student falls under the yoke of a renowned but ruthless journalist whom she strives to impress, even if it means manipulating her latest article and the very idea of truth.
Cast
Bel Powley as Mia Scott
Tracee Ellis Ross as Diane Heger
Jacob Tremblay as Igor Nowak
Nesta Cooper as Kim
Ekaterina Baker as Alix
James Tupper as Alexsy
Production
In September 2022, it was announced that filming had wrapped.
Release
Cold Copy premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, 2023. In October 2023, Vertical Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film.
The film was released in select theaters and on VOD on January 26, 2024.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 33% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.4/10.
Damon Wise of Deadline Hollywood gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Just lately, with the exception of Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler (2014), there hasn't been too much evidence of a renaissance, but Roxine Hellberg's satisfying feature debut taps back into the same dark wells of oral ambivalence corruption and power, casting the excellent Bel Powley as a journalism student who will do whatever it takes to make it in the cut-throat world of TV news broadcasting".
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