Disney+ has announced that Searchlight Pictures’ “O’Dessa” written and directed by Geremy Jasper, will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ in Canada (and Hulu in the United States) on March 13, 2025.
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, “O’Dessa” is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey leads her to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love – but in order to save his soul, she must put the power of destiny and song to the ultimate test.
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Geremy Jasper (“Patti Cake$”), “O’Dessa” stars SAG Award® nominee Sadie Sink (“Stranger Things,” “The Whale”), SAG Award® winner Kelvin Harrison Jr. (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”, “Elvis”), Emmy Award® winner and SAG Award® nominee Murray Bartlett (“The White Lotus,” “Welcome to Chippendales”), and Regina Hall (“Girls Trip”, “Support the Girls”). With an original screenplay by Jasper, the film is produced by Academy Award® nominee Michael Gottwald (“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Patti Cake$”) and Noah Stahl (“Patti Cake$,” “Reality”). Lourenço Sant’Anna, Rodrigo Teixeira, and Alan Terpins are executive producers.
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Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, along with The Simpsons and much more. In Canada, it also includes the general entertainment content brand, Star. The flagship direct-to-consumer streaming service from The Walt Disney Company, Disney+ offers an unmatched collection of exclusive originals, including feature-length films, next day TV, documentaries, live-action and animated series, short-form content, and live events. With unprecedented access to Disney’s long history of incredible film and television entertainment, Disney+ is also the exclusive streaming home for the newest releases from The Walt Disney Studios. For more, visit disneyplus.com, or find the Disney+ app on most mobile and connected TV devices.
ABOUT SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
Searchlight Pictures is a global specialty film and television company that develops, produces, finances and acquires motion pictures and series for both worldwide theatrical and streaming releases. It has its own marketing and distribution operations, and is part of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures, the company’s titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 51 Academy Awards including five Best Picture winners since 2009: “Slumdog Millionaire”, “12 Years a Slave”, “Birdman”, “The Shape of Water”, and “Nomadland”; 62 BAFTA Awards, 35 Golden Globe Awards, and 10 Grammy Awards. Searchlight recently released James Mangold’s ”A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan; Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” starring Amy Adams; “A Real Pain”, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic at Sundance; and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe. Upcoming releases include Andrew Stanton’s “In The Blink of an Eye” starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs; and Geremy Jasper’s “O’Dessa” starring Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Murray Bartlett, and Regina Hall. The company includes Searchlight Television, the division which develops and produces series for streaming, network, and cable partners, and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress and an additional 5 nominations for its first production “The Dropout” from Elizabeth Meriwether, in partnership with Hulu and 20th Studios. Searchlight Television also produced the Spanish-Language limited series “La Máquina”, with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
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