Bleecker Street Moves Up 'Musk' Doc to October 9 — SkimNews
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- Bleecker Street moved the Alex Gibney-directed "Musk" documentary theatrical release from October 16 to October 9, citing intense demand following its Venice world premiere last week
- "Musk" runs 3 hours 45 minutes with a 10-minute intermission and holds a 100% positive Rotten Tomatoes rating; Deadline's review called it a deserved takedown depicting Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel"
- Elon Musk responded on X with an hours-long rant calling Gibney a "bitter old man who lost the plot" and a "horrible human," sharing a @DogeDesigner graphic branding the director a puppet of "team Soros"
- Ashley St. Clair appears in the film alleging Musk told her he'd exploit "an anomaly in the matrix" and use Starlink "space lasers" to ensure Donald Trump's 2024 election, a claim Musk denied through attorney Alex Spiro
- Justine Musk appears in the documentary reporting that Musk falsely claimed to have held their dying infant son Nevada in his arms, stating she held the 10-week-old as he died and Elon was not present
- Toronto Film Festival hosts the documentary's North American premiere later Monday, with theatrical bow on October 9 in New York and Los Angeles before expanding nationwide
Why it matters: Bleecker Street's decision to release on October 9 despite a legal threat from Musk's attorney Alex Spiro means the "space lasers" election claim and the dying-infant allegation from Justine Musk will reach theater audiences within a month, while the earlier bow gives the nearly four-hour takedown a longer awards-season runway. Musk's own hours-long X counter-attack appears to have amplified rather than suppressed demand for the film.
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