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The 2025 AFI Fest will end with some beautiful noise. The 39th edition of American Film Institute\u2019s annual event has set the world premiere of Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson\u2019s Song Sung Blue as its closing-night film on Sunday, October 26.<\/p>\n
The Focus Features pic from writer-director Craig Brewer follows the true-life tale of two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a Neil Diamond\u00a0tribute band that changes their lives.\u00a0Michael Imperioli, Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, Hudson Hensley co-star, with Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi also appearing. Brewer also produced alongside John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAFI Fest is proud to close our annual celebration of excellence and artistry with the world premiere of Song Sung Blue \u2013 a timely film about love and resilience, music and magic,\u201d AFI President and CEO Bob Gazzale said. \u201cAudiences will leave the theater chanting the refrain of \u2018Sweet Caroline\u2019 \u2013 so good, so good, so good!\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: Kate Hudson On Her Hit Netflix Comedy Series \u2018Running Point\u2019, Her New Movie With Hugh Jackman And Life Advice From Sophia Loren \u2013 The Actor\u2019s Side<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Today\u2019s announcement means this year\u2019s AFI Fest will be bookended by music-themed films, with the Nebraska-era biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White opening the show on October 22. <\/a>AFI said last month that three-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro will be this year\u2019s guest artistic director.<\/p>\n AFI\u00a0Fest is set for October 22-26<\/a> at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The full lineup will be revealed on September 30.<\/p>\n Focus Features opens Song Song Blue in theaters on Christmas Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2025 AFI Fest will end with some beautiful noise. The 39th edition of American Film Institute\u2019s annual event has set the world premiere of Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson\u2019s Song Sung Blue as its closing-night film on Sunday, October 26. The Focus Features pic from writer-director Craig Brewer follows the true-life tale of two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2012336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[351756,366978,366985,368282,366980,35108,368281,365711,368280,366986,366977,312645],"class_list":["post-2012335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-afi-fest","tag-craig-brewer","tag-ella-anderson","tag-fisher-stevens","tag-hudson-hensley","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-jim-belushi","tag-john-davis","tag-john-fox","tag-mustafa-shakir","tag-song-sung-blue","tag-world-premiere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Song-Sung-Blue-World-Premiere-To-Close-AFI-Fest.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}