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Roadside Attractions is giving Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl an awards qualifying run in Los Angeles on Dec. 13 with a wide break on Jan. 10.
Deadline first told you that RSA acquired North American rights to the critically acclaimed feature out of TIFF (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), with Sony taking the rest of the world.
The Last Showgirl also won the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 San Sebastián Film Festival.
The movie has been declared as a big career transforming performance for Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson who plays a glamorous Las Vegas showgirl, Shelly, who faces the dark prospects of her show closing after several years. She must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.
Pic also stars Oscar, SAG Award and Golden Globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Shelley’s best friend, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.
The Last Showgirl was written by Kate Gersten (The Good Place, Mozart in the Jungle, Schmigadoon) and produced by filmmaker and co-founder of Utopia Media, Robert Schwartzman (The Good Half, The Unicorn) and Natalie Farrey (Her, Where the Wild Things Are) and features a new original song “Beautiful That Way,” sung by Miley Cyrus, produced by Academy Award nominee Andrew Wyatt (Barbie) and written by Cyrus, Wyatt and Lykke Li.
The Last Showgirl was packaged and produced by Utopia under their Originals company, in Association with Pinky Promise, High Frequency Holdings, Digital Ignition Entertainment. Dani Koenigsberg serves as Co-Producer, Nick Darmestaedter, Kate Gersten, Brandon Thomas Lee, Michael Clofine for DI Entertainment, Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett for Pinky Promise, Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery and Jack Selby for High Frequency Entertainment, Robina Riccitiello and Josh Peters for Spark Features serve as EPs.
