{"id":104957,"date":"2025-07-30T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104957\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:57:12","slug":"bradley-cooper-is-this-thing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104957\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Cooper Is This Thing On?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2025 New York Film Festival<\/a> has selected Bradley Cooper<\/a>\u2018s Is This Thing On? as its closing night film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie, which Cooper directed and co-wrote and stars Will Arnett<\/a> and Laura Dern<\/a>, will have its world premiere on Friday, Oct. 10 at Lincoln Center\u2019s Alice Tully Hall on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Searchlight film follows Arnett and Dern\u2019s married couple as they divorce and embark upon midlife self-examinations, as Arnett\u2019s character makes a dramatic career pivot to become a confessional stand-up comedian in New York City\u2019s West Village, where he finds a new purpose and community. Inspired by the true story of British comedian John Bishop, Is This Thing On? features a screenplay co-written by Arnett and Mark Chappell with Cooper. The cast includes Andra Day, Christine Ebersole, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Sean Hayes, Peyton Manning and Amy Sedaris.<\/p>\n

\n\tCooper previously directed the acclaimed A Star Is Born and Maestro, the latter of which had its North American premiere as part of the 2023 New York Film Festival.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are honored and humbled to premiere our film at the New York Film Festival,\u201d Cooper said in a statement. \u201cEarlier this year we had the wonderful opportunity to shoot this story all throughout the city, so it\u2019s very exciting to debut it on the closing evening of the festival. NYC injects an energy into every aspect of filmmaking that just can\u2019t be replicated. I have attended many premieres at NYFF over the years and to have the support and belief in our film from [NYFF artistic director] Dennis Lim and his team is an enormous thing for us. Thank you! On behalf of Will, Laura and the entire cast and crew\u2014we can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLim added, \u201cWe are thrilled to close the festival with Bradley Cooper\u2019s delightful third feature. Is This Thing On? is a film of many dimensions and surprises: a fond tribute to New York City\u2019s comedy scene, a sensitive study of midlife discontent and a modern-day comedy of remarriage, pitch-perfect in its balance of humor and feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe NYFF previously announced that Luca Guadagnino\u2019s Julia Roberts starrer After the Hunt, which also features Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield<\/a>, would be its 2025 opening night film and that Jim Jarmusch\u2019s Father Mother Sister Brother<\/a> would serve as its centerpiece film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 63rd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 26-Oct. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 New York Film Festival has selected Bradley Cooper\u2018s Is This Thing On? as its closing night…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,43583,32747,405,403,58178,5226,5225,5228,5227,67573,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,67574],"class_list":{"0":"post-104957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bradley-cooper","10":"tag-laura-dern","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-film-festival","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-searchlight-pictures","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-will-arnett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114942538758163834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}