{"id":681196,"date":"2026-03-25T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681196\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:18:14","slug":"john-wilson-doc-the-history-of-concrete-gets-theatrical-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681196\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wilson Doc &#8216;The History of Concrete&#8217; Gets Theatrical Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/john-wilson-the-history-of-concrete-new-series-idea-cphdox-1236540525\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Wilson-directed documentary<\/a> The History of Concrete has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures for North America, with a theatrical release planned for later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe History of Concrete, the feature debut from the creative behind the popular HBO series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/how-to-with-john-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_how-to-with-john-wilson_1\" data-tag=\"how-to-with-john-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How To with John Wilson<\/a>, premiered at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sundance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sundance_1\" data-tag=\"sundance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance<\/a> Film Festival to critical acclaim. The doc follows Wilson, after the finale of his TV show and looking for a new creative outlet, as he attempts to make the definitive documentary about concrete and to tell that story through the structure of a Hallmark movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDan Fienberg, in his The Hollywood Reporter review out of Sundance, writes, \u201cJohn Wilson is the Werner Herzog of the mundane, the lo-fi poet laureate of New York City. He\u2019s half puckish prankster, half earnest documentarian, all inquisitive wanderer. Once you tap into his vibe, carefully written and edited to seem stream-of-consciousness, the viewing experience is like the most laconic roller coaster imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWilson produced the doc, along with Clark Filio, Shirel Kozak and Allie Viti. Executive producers are Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Conor Hannon and Richie Doyle, with Francis Carr Jr. co-producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cJohn Wilson\u2019s singular wit and wisdom make us want to get out and walk every block of every borough of New York, despite having lived here for decades,\u201d said Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley. \u201cThe film is a wildly funny odyssey that will literally change the way you see things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cMagnolia has long championed artistic and unconventional filmmaking, so it\u2019s a real honor to have The History of Concrete join that legacy,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cThis is a film that was always meant to be experienced collectively, and I can\u2019t wait for audiences to discover it in a real-life movie theater. Despite what the title might suggest, it\u2019s also a great date movie!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe deal was negotiated by UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The John Wilson-directed documentary The History of Concrete has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures for North America, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":681197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,286357,53,46541,235951,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-681196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-how-to-with-john-wilson","tag-movies","tag-sundance","tag-sundance-2026","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116290958411758374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681196","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=681196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}