{"id":31341,"date":"2025-09-01T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31341"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:37:12","slug":"the-roses-exclusive-interview-with-director-jay-roach-and-writer-tony-mcnamara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31341","title":{"rendered":"The Roses : Exclusive Interview with Director Jay Roach and Writer Tony McNamara"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31342\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Roses-poster.png\" alt=\"The Roses \" width=\"746\" height=\"1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Roses-poster.png 746w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Roses-poster-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Roses-poster-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Roses-poster-696x1067.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Roses<\/strong> : Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the fa\u00e7ade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing &#8212; as Theo&#8217;s career nosedives while Ivy&#8217;s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.<\/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><strong>Director<\/strong> : Jay Roach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Adam Ackland, Tom Carver, Leah Clarke, Michelle Graham, Jay Roach, Ed Sinclair<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Tony McNamara<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : Searchlight Pictures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : SunnyMarch, South of the River, Delirious Media<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong> : R (Sexual Content|Language Throughout|Drug Content)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Comedy, Drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Aug 29, 2025, Wide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> :1h 45m<\/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.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XkgMaS5gbaA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE ROSES | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkgMaS5gbaA?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" 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\" 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