{"id":29679,"date":"2025-05-02T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29679"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:41:13","slug":"the-surfer-exclusive-interview-with-director-lorcan-finnegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29679","title":{"rendered":"The Surfer : Exclusive Interview with Director Lorcan Finnegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\">Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-Surfer5.png\" alt=\"The Surfer \" width=\"640\" height=\"1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-Surfer5.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-Surfer5-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Surfer<\/strong> : In the psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is &#8220;don&#8217;t live here, don&#8217;t surf here.&#8221; Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Director<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2705923\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1\">Lorcan Finnegan <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Leonora Darby, James Harris, Robert Connolly, James Grandison, Brunella Cocchiglia, Nicolas Cage, Nathan Klingher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Thomas Martin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsgate.com\/\"> Lionsgate<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roadside_Attractions\">Roadside Attractions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Production Co<\/strong> : Arenamedia, Tea Shop Productions<\/p>\n<p><strong> Rating<\/strong> : R (Some Violence|Drug Content|Sexual Material|Language|Suicide)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Mystery &amp; Thriller, Drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : May 2, 2025, Wide Runtime : 1h 43m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KBLSsR3eiaY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Surfer (2025) Official Trailer - Nicolas Cage\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBLSsR3eiaY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[26713,196,26319,474,26712,2713,2894,26314],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Surfer : Exclusive Interview with Director Lorcan Finnegan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Surfer : A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. 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