Roadside Attractions is giving Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl an awards-qualifying run in Los Angeles on December 13, with a wide break on January 10.
Deadline first told you that Roadside acquired North American rights to the critically acclaimed feature (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) out of the Toronto Film Festival, 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 career-transforming performance for Baywatch alum Pamela Anderson, who plays a glamorous Las Vegas showgirl, Shelley, 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 Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Shelley’s best friend, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.
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The Last Showgirl was written by Kate Gersten (The Good Place, Mozart in the Jungle, Schmigadoon) and produced by filmmaker and Utopia Media co-founder 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 Andrew Wyatt (Barbie) and written by Cyrus, Wyatt and Lykke Li.
The film was packaged and produced by Utopia under their Originals company, in association with Pinky Promise, High Frequency Holdings and Digital Ignition Entertainment. Dani Koenigsberg serves as co-producer. Executive producers are Nick Darmstaedter, 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, and Robina Riccitiello and Josh Peters for Spark Features.