{"id":759482,"date":"2026-04-28T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759482\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:56:13","slug":"hot-spot-release-date-when-focus-features-releases-agnieszka-smoczynska-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759482\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Spot Release Date: When Focus Features Releases Agnieszka Smoczy\u0144ska Pic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/focus-features\/\" id=\"auto-tag_focus-features\" data-tag=\"focus-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Features<\/a> has announced that it\u2019ll release <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hot-spot\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hot-spot\" data-tag=\"hot-spot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Spot<\/a>, an AI-themed sci-fi thriller reuniting the studio with The Silent Twins director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/agnieszka-smoczynska\/\" id=\"auto-tag_agnieszka-smoczynska\" data-tag=\"agnieszka-smoczynska\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agnieszka Smoczy\u0144ska<\/a>, in theaters in North America on August 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is set to open against Black Bear\u2019s crime thriller The Rivals of Amziah King and comedy Spa Weekend, Screen Gems\u2019 Insidious: Out of the Further, and Lionsgate\u2019s action thriller Mutiny starring Jason Statham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHot Spot is set in a near future society ruled by sentient A.I., where a private eye investigates a murder case, only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Polish\u2013Greek co-production penned by Robert Bolesto, the film had Madants and its partners producing on the Polish side, and Neda Film and its partners co-producing for Greece. Bogna Szewczyk-Skupie\u0144 and Klaudia \u015amieja-Rostworowska produced for Madants, along with Gregory Jankilevitsch, with Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, and Reika Kirishima leading the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tComing off the release of docs The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist and Lorne, the first authorized doc on SNL\u2018s Lorne Michaels, Focus Features\u2019 slate for the rest of the year also includes Curry Barker\u2019s horror flick Obsession (May 15), the D-Day thriller Pressure (May 29) from Anthony Maras, Hayley Kiyoko\u2019s Girls Like Girls (June 19), Paul Greengrass\u2019 The Uprising (September 11) starring Andrew Garfield, a new take on Jane Austen\u2019s Sense and Sensibility (October 16) starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Robert Egger\u2019s Werwulf (December 25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focus Features has announced that it\u2019ll release Hot Spot, an AI-themed sci-fi thriller reuniting the studio with The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":759483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[312116,171,42316,149071,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-759482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-agnieszka-smoczyu0144ska","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-focus-features","11":"tag-hot-spot","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116483626581490070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759482","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=759482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}