{"id":5605,"date":"2026-08-19T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:38:12","slug":"wild-horse-nine-to-open-mill-valley-film-festival-with-star-sam-rockwell-set-for-tribute-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5605","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wild Horse Nine\u2019 to Open Mill Valley Film Festival With Star Sam Rockwell Set for Tribute (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em> is preparing to run free, as the feature is set to open the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5603\">Nielsen Rolls Out Suite of TV Ratings Updates for 2026-27 Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWriter-director Martin McDonagh\u2018s film, starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, will screen as the opening night title on Oct. 1, <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> has learned. McDonagh, Rockwell and co-star Mariana Di Girolamo are expected to attend the screening. <em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em> premieres in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival next month. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRockwell\u2019s career of acclaimed work will be the focus of a Mill Valley tribute on Oct. 2. The actor\u2019s memorable performances include his Academy Award-winning role in McDonagh\u2019s 2017 feature <em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri<\/em>, along with his Oscar-nominated role as President George W. Bush in Adam McKay\u2019s 2018 movie <em>Vice<\/em>. He earned Emmy Award nominations for the series <em>Fosse\/Verdon<\/em> and <em>The White Lotus<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em> stars Malkovich and Rockwell as two CIA operatives who travel from Santiago, Chile, to Easter Island amid the tense lead-up to the South American nation\u2019s 1973 coup. The mission gets complicated due to one agent\u2019s connection to two young activists, played by Di Girolamo and Ail\u00edn Salas. Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits and Parker Posey also star in the film that Searchlight Pictures releases in theaters Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5601\">\u2018Lanterns\u2019 Showrunner Chris Mundy Talks James Gunn\u2019s Hands-Off Approach: \u201cWe Weren\u2019t Shoehorned Into Anything\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAdditionally, the festival adds a New Directors Section this year to spotlight first and second features from rising American and international filmmakers. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cOpening night is always the moment this festival comes alive, and this year is no exception,\u201d says Mill Valley Film Festival founder and executive director Mark Fishkin. \u201cBringing\u00a0<em>Wild Horse Nine<\/em>\u00a0to our audience first, with a filmmaker as bold as Martin McDonagh and a cast featuring a fearless performance by\u00a0Sam Rockwell, is exactly the kind of moment Mill Valley exists to create. It\u2019s a night that reminds us why we do this work, and a fitting start to our 49th year and the next seminal\u00a0decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 2026 Mill Valley Film Festival runs Oct. 1-11 in Marin County and Berkeley, California. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5599\">\u2018California Schemin\u201d Trailer: Two Scottish Rappers Con Their Way to a Record Deal in James McAvoy\u2019s Directorial Debut (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, Martin McDonagh&#039;s movie &#039;Wild Horse Nine&#039; opens the 2026 Mill Valley Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3540,3541,3542,1484,2532,3543],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-john-malkovich","tag-martin-mcdonagh","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-searchlight-pictures","tag-venice","tag-wild-horse-nine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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