Overview
- Lionsgate has scheduled Day Drinker for a March 26, 2027 theatrical release and moved the studio's Resurrection of the Christ Part One to a later date to free the slot.
- Variety and TheWrap report the film stars Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz with Madelyn Cline playing a private-yacht bartender who becomes entangled with a dangerous figure.
- Marc Webb is set to direct from a screenplay by Zach Dean, and Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are attached to the project.
- The move is notable because it represents one of Depp's first major U.S. studio projects after several years of international work and his high-profile legal battles.
- Putting Day Drinker in a spring release window places it in a crowded box-office period and changes Lionsgate's 2027 slate, so industry watchers will be looking for marketing and distribution plans next.