Saturday Night

Jason Reitman structures the film almost like a countdown thriller. The audience already knows that Saturday Night Live eventually became one of television’s longest running comedy institutions, but the movie creates tension by showing how uncertain its first broadcast supposedly felt in the hours immediately beforehand. Rotten Tomatoes describes the film as the true-story-inspired account of the 90 minutes leading to SNL’s first broadcast.

Description

Saturday Night is a 2024 biographical comedy drama directed by Jason Reitman. The film recreates the frantic 90 minutes immediately before the first ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975.

Rather than covering decades of the television show’s history, the movie stays tightly focused on one evening inside NBC’s Studio 8H. Gabriel LaBelle plays a young Lorne Michaels as he tries to get an inexperienced group of comedians, writers, musicians and technicians ready for live television while network executives remain uncertain that the show will work at all. Sony Pictures describes the movie as a real time account of the chaos before the first broadcast that would eventually change American television comedy.

Movie Details

Detail Information
Movie Title Saturday Night
Release Year 2024
Director Jason Reitman
Writers Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan
Genre Comedy, Drama, Biography, History
Main Star Gabriel LaBelle
Runtime 109 Minutes
Rating R
Language English
Country United States

Main Cast

Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Lamorne Morris, Matt Wood, Emily Fairn, Kim Matula, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wolfhard, Jon Batiste, Matthew Rhys

Budget And Box Office

A consistently verified production budget is not listed by the strongest primary industry sources used here, so Tinyzone should avoid treating third-party estimates as confirmed.

Box Office Mojo reports:

  • Domestic: $9,511,315
  • International: $543,714
  • Worldwide: $10,055,029
  • Initial limited-opening weekend: $270,487

Genre And Style

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Biography
  • Television history
  • Workplace comedy
  • Behind the scenes drama

How To Watch Saturday Night

Sony Pictures maintains an official movie page with authorized digital and home entertainment information. Sony currently lists the film as available digitally and on Blu ray.

Streaming availability varies by region. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists Netflix and Hulu among U.S. subscription options, but viewers should check the services available in their own country because licensing changes.

Movie Story

Saturday Night turns one famous night in television history into a fast moving backstage comedy drama. Gabriel LaBelle leads an unusually large ensemble portraying Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and many of the people involved in the birth of Saturday Night Live.

With Jason Reitman directing, a 109-minute runtime, a real-time countdown structure and approximately $10.1 million in worldwide theatrical revenue, the movie works less like a conventional biopic and more like being dropped into Studio 8H shortly before someone finally announces that the show is live.

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