The streaming launch date for After the Hunt has been revealed. The Luca Guadagnino-directed film stars Andrew Garfield, Julia Roberts, and Ayo Edebiri. The story revolves round faculty pupil Margaret “Maggie” Resnick (Edebiri) accusing Professor Henrik “Hank” Gibson of sexually assaulting her. This raises troublesome questions for Professor Alma Imhoff (Roberts), who has her personal darkish secret.
Now, After the Hunt will now start streaming on Prime Video on November 20. This comes after a 41-day theatrical window and following the film’s debut on the 2025 Venice Worldwide Movie Competition.
Whereas Roberts, Garfield, and Edebiri acquired reward for his or her performances, After the Hunt‘s critiques weren’t as constructive in comparison with lots of Guadagnino’s earlier movies. Amazon MGM Studios’ R-rated thriller holds a 37% vital rating and 38% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
ScreenRant‘s Jack Walters notes in his evaluate that among the points stem from After the Hunt‘s ending, as “it has an finally unconvincing pay-off” and “the ultimate act is structurally weak due to [Guadagnino’s] insistence on conserving the viewers at such a distance.”
The movie additionally struggled commercially, because it was made on a reported finances ranging between $70 and $80 million and solely went on to gross $9 million worldwide and $3.2 million domestically.
Guadagnino and Roberts are nonetheless being acknowledged for his or her work on After the Hunt, although, as they’re set to obtain the 2025 Gotham Awards Visionary Tribute throughout the thirty fifth annual Gotham Movie Awards on December 1. James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet received this award final 12 months for his or her Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown.
Following After the Hunt, Garfield and Guadagnino have reunited for an additional Amazon MGM Studios movie. This time, they’re making Synthetic, a comedy drama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was closely concerned within the growth and launch of ChatGPT. Garfield is taking part in Altman in a solid that additionally contains Monica Barbaro, Yura Borisov, Cooper Hoffman, Cooper Koch, Jason Schwartzman, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, and Chris O’Dowd. It’s going to additionally function Ike Barinholtz within the position of Elon Musk.
Garfield’s different post-After the Hunt tasks embrace Voyagers, a movie the place he’ll play scientist Carl Sagan, and the restricted tv sequence Wild Issues, the place he’ll star alongside Jude Regulation. Roberts leads the solid of Sam Esmail’s upcoming thriller film Panic Rigorously, reuniting with him after they beforehand labored collectively on season 1 of Prime Video’s Homecoming. She can be anticipated to return for the in-development Ocean’s 14.
- Launch Date
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October 10, 2025
- Director
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Luca Guadagnino
- Writers
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Nora Garrett
- Producers
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Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, Allan Mandelbaum
