Academy Award® Nominees Hit Cinemas Nationwide from the NT Live Stage with Andrew Garfield in ‘Angels in America’ and Jude Law in ‘Obsession,’ for Three Days This Summer

Two Hit Stage Productions Light Up the Big Screen in Exclusive
Programming from National Theatre Live in May and July

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#NTLive–Love, temptation and fear will captivate moviegoers as Fathom Events, BY
Experience and National Theatre Live partner to bring the best of the
stage to U.S. cinemas with “NT
LIVE: Obsession
” on May 11 and “NT
LIVE: Angels in America
” on July 20 and 27, all captured live
each day.

Tickets for “NT LIVE: Obsession” and “NT LIVE:
Angels in America
” can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com
or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will
be able to enjoy the event in more than 500 select movie theaters
through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). For a complete list of
theater locations visit the Fathom Events website
(theaters and participants are subject to change).

Obsession” features Jude Law (“The Young Pope”) in a tale
of adultery and crime full of passion and destruction in this one-night
event on Thursday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Law stars as the
handsome, down-on-his-luck Gino in the new stage adaptation of
Visconti’s penetrating social drama directed by Tony Award®-winner
Ivo van Hove (“Hedda Gabler,” “A View from the Bridge”). Drifter
Gino encounters Giuseppe and his much younger, trapped wife Giovanna at
their roadside restaurant and petrol station. He and Giovanna are so
irresistibly attracted to one another they begin an affair while
plotting to murder her husband. But the crime does not unite them in
this chilling story where passion can lead only to destruction.
Broadcast from the prestigious Barbican Theatre, “Obsession
marks Law’s first London theatre performance in four years.

Andrew Garfield (“Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge”) stars in “Angels
in America
,” a story set in New York during the 1980s AIDS crisis in
a conservative America, as people fight for their lives. “Angels in
America
” will be broadcast in two parts; “Part 1: Millennium
Approaches” on Thursday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. local time and “Part 2:
Perestroika” on Thursday, July 27 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Andrew
Garfield
plays Prior Walter alongside cast including Denise Gough
(“People, Places and Things”), Nathan Lane (“The Producers”), James
McArdle
(“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) and Russell Tovey
(“The Pass”).

This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi award-winning two-part
play is directed by Olivier® and Tony Award-winning director Marianne
Elliott
(“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” and
“War Horse”). “Part One: Millennium Approaches” was first performed at
the National Theatre in 1992 and was followed by “Part Two: Perestroika”
the following year.

“National Theatre Live continues to make some of the best stage shows
with the biggest names accessible to cinema audiences,” Fathom Events
Vice President of Programming Kymberli Frueh said. “Theatre fans of all
kinds will appreciate these two compelling shows from the ‘best seats in
the house’ – at their local movie theater.”

For artwork/photos related to “NT LIVE: Obsession” and “NT
LIVE: Angels in America
,” visit the Fathom Events press
site
.

About Fathom Events

Fathom Events is recognized as the leading domestic distributor of event
cinema with participating affiliate theaters in all 100 of the top
Designated Market Areas®, and ranks as one of the largest
overall distributors of content to movie theaters. Owned by AMC
Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and
Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) (known collectively as AC JV,
LLC), Fathom Events offers a variety of one-of-a-kind entertainment
events such as live, high-definition performances of the Metropolitan
Opera, dance and theatre productions like the Bolshoi Ballet and
National Theatre Live, sporting events like Copa America Centenario,
concerts with artists like Michael Bublé, Rush and Mötley Crüe, the
yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics film series and inspirational events
such as To Joey With Love and Kirk Cameron’s Revive US. Fathom Events
takes audiences behind the scenes and offers unique extras including
audience Q&As, backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew,
creating the ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events’ live digital
broadcast network (“DBN”) is the largest cinema broadcast network in
North America, bringing live and pre-recorded events to 896 locations
and 1,383 screens in 181 DMAs. For more information, visit www.fathomevents.com.

About BY Experience

BY Experience kicked off the digital revolution of live
events to movie theaters and other locations globally with David Bowie’s
2003 Reality album launch and since then, over 30
million tickets have been sold worldwide for cinema events BY Experience
has distributed globally. Current cinema series credits: Distribution
Representative, The Met: Live in HD (Worldwide; since 2006),
the UK’s National Theatre Live (Ex-UK; since 2009), Bolshoi
Ballet 
(North America; since 2014). BY Experience has executive
produced and/or distributed several diverse programs for cinema
including numerous rock concerts, radio programs, fine art exhibits
other special content events including national theatrical re-releases
of classic and in some cases fully restored films such as “The Breakfast
Club” (30th anniversary), “My Fair Lady” (50th),
“Oklahoma!” (60th), and “Fantasia” (75th). BY
Experience distributes to over 70 countries, to over 3,000 movie
screens. www.byexperience.net.

About National Theatre Live

National Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of the
National Theatre production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren. The
company has since broadcast more than 50 other productions live, from
both the National Theatre and from other theatres in the UK. NT Live
broadcasts have now been experienced by over 6 million people in over
2,000 venues around the world, including over 700 venues in the UK
alone. Past broadcasts from the National Theatre have included Danny
Boyle’s Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee
Miller; War Horse; Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes;
and most recently Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. Broadcasts from other
UK theatres include Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Coriolanus
from the Donmar Warehouse; A View from the Bridge from the Young
Vic; Macbeth from the Manchester International Festival; and Hangmen,
Skylight, The Audience
and No Man’s Land from London’s West
End. The biggest single broadcast to date is Hamlet with Benedict
Cumberbatch at the Barbican, which has been seen by over 600,000 people.
In 2014 the National Theatre recorded its first production on Broadway, Of
Mice and Men
with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, captured at the
Longacre Theatre.

Contacts

Fathom Events
Jessica Nelson, 720-262-2753
jnelson@fathomevents.com
or
Katherine
Schwappach, 720-262-2713
kschwappach@fathomevents.com
or
Boneau/Bryan-Brown
for NT Live
Heath Schwartz
hschwartz@bbbway.com
or
Amy
Kass
akass@bbbway.com

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