Focus Features Sets Matt Damon-Tom McCarthy Drama ‘Stillwater’ for July Release

Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy’s thriller “Stillwater” will be coming to theaters this summer.Focus Features announced the highly anticipated film from the pair of Academy Award winners will hit theaters on July 30, 2021.Damon stars in the drama opposite Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and César Award nominee Camille Cottin. Damon plays Bill, an oil rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to France to attempt to exonerate his estranged daughter (Breslin), who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.The film, produced by Participant Media and Dreamwork Pictures, was written by McCarthy & Marcus Hinchey and Thomas Bidegain & Noé Debré. Jonathan King, Liza Chasin and the late Steve Golin produced the picture alongside McCarthy.In May 2019, Variety exclusively reported that Damon and McCarthy would team up for the project. It quickly found a home at Participant, which previously worked with McCarthy on the Oscar-winning drama “Spotlight....