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‘Carol’ Premieres Here In December, George Clooney’s ‘Hail Caesar’ Opens in February

The Weinstein Company

The date has been set! “Carol,” the CateBlanchett-Rooney Mara period drama filmed here last year will have a Cincinnati premiere on Saturday, Dec. 12.

The Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission announced the date – but no other details – in its October newsletter emailed today.

“The premiere will be held on Saturday, December 12th, with the venue and time TBA (to be announced). Stay tuned."

Kristen Erwin Schlotman, film commission executive director, told me earlier this month that “Carol” and Don Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead,” both filmed here last year, will have Cincinnati premieres.

“Carol” is slated for a limited national release on Nov. 20, before Thanksgiving, along with “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” starring Jennifer Lawrence, Union native Josh Hutcherson and former Lebanon resident Woody Harrelson.

The Ohio distributor says “Carol” will likely arrive in Cincinnati theaters the second half of December.

“Carol,” directed by Todd Haynes, was greeted with lots of Oscar buzz at the New York Film Festival earlier this month, following raves reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

In other movie news:

“Hail, Caesar!” George Clooney’s comedy from brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, which also screened at the New York Film Festival, opens Feb. 5 in Ohio.

Scarlett Johnasson, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin, Jonah Hill, Dolph Lundgren, Clancy Brown and Frances McDormand and Urbana native Clancy Brown also star in "Hail, Caesar!," a caper set in the 1950s about a movie star (Clooney) kidnapped during filming.

Clooney has starred in three other films from the Coen brothers: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000), “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003) and “Burn After Reading” (2008).

John Kiesewetter, who has covered television and media for more than 35 years, has been working for Cincinnati Public Radio and WVXU-FM since 2015.