Cold Copy is a 2023 American thriller film written and directed by Roxine Helberg and starring Bel Powley, Tracee Ellis Ross and Jacob Tremblay. It is Helberg's feature directorial debut.
Cast
Bel Powley
Tracee Ellis Ross
Jacob Tremblay
Nesta Cooper
James Tupper
Ekaterina Baker
Production
In September 2022, it was announced that filming had wrapped.
Release
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2023. In October 2023, Vertical Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film, planning a limited release in select theaters and video on demand release sometime in early 2024.
Reception
The film has a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on nine reviews.
Damon Wise of Deadline Hollywood gave the film a positive review and wrote, “Just lately, with the exception of Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (2014), there hasn’t been too much evidence of a renaissance, but Roxine Hellberg’s satisfying feature debut taps back into the same dark wells of oral ambivalence corruption and power, casting the excellent Bel Powley as a journalism student who will do whatever it takes to make it in the cut-throat world of TV news broadcasting.”
Christian Zilko of IndieWire graded the film a C- and wrote, “With so many new journalism stories begging to be told, there’s simply no reason to retread old ones this poorly.”
Lex Briscuso of TheWrap gave the film a negative review and wrote, “Cold Copy is a tense journalism drama that ultimately can’t be saved by a group of strong leads who are running lengths with the material they’ve been given.”