{"id":29623,"date":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/beatles-manager-biopic-midas-man-opening-toronto-jewish-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:02:46","slug":"beatles-manager-biopic-midas-man-opening-toronto-jewish-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/beatles-manager-biopic-midas-man-opening-toronto-jewish-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles manager biopic \ufeff&#8217;Midas Man\ufeff&#8217; opening Toronto Jewish Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-30\/Getty_BrianEpsteinandBeatles_053024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Brian Epstein, left, with The Beatles; Cummings Archives\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Midas Man<\/em>, the long-in-the-works biopic about late <strong>Beatles<\/strong> manager <strong>Brian Epstein<\/strong>, is set to open the 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The film will premiere Thursday at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. For more info, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tjff.com\/films\/midas-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TJFF.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Midas Man<\/em> stars <em>The Queen&#8217;s Gambit<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Jacob Fortune-Lloyd<\/strong> as Epstein, who became The Beatles&#8217; manager in 1962 after discovering them in their hometown of Liverpool. He continued to work with the Fab Four until his death in 1967 and is often referred to as the &#8220;fifth Beatle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An Epstein biopic was first announced way back in 2020 and went through multiple directors before finally landing in the hands of British filmmaker <strong>Joe Stephenson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The cast for <em>\ufeffMidas Man<\/em>\ufeff also includes<strong>\u00a0Emily Watson<\/strong>, <strong>Eddie Marsan<\/strong>, <strong>Jay Leno<\/strong> and <strong>Eddie Izzard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Epstein, left, with The Beatles; Cummings Archives\/Redferns Midas Man, the long-in-the-works biopic about late Beatles manager Brian Epstein, is set to open the 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film will premiere Thursday at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. For more info, visit TJFF.com. Midas Man stars The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/beatles-manager-biopic-midas-man-opening-toronto-jewish-film-festival\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}