Amy Winehouse Biopic "Back To Black" Release Date Unveiled

The release dates for the highly-anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic "Back to Black" have been unveiled.

The movie charting the life of the Rehab singer stars Marisa Abela as the iconic artist, will hit the cinemas in the UK and Poland on April 12, 2024, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia on April 18 and France and New Zealand the following week. Focus Features will announce a U.S. release date soon.

The logline for the movie reads: “Back to Black will focus on Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused everything she did. A journey that took her from the craziness and colour of 90’s Camden High Street to global adoration – and back again, Back to Black crashes through the looking glass of celebrity to watch this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy saw, to feel what she felt.”

Abela, who broke out in the BBC and HBO’s Industry, stars alongside Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Lesley Manville.

"Back to Black" reunites director Sam Taylor-Johnson with scriptwriter Matt Greenhalgh following their 2009 collaboration on "Nowhere Boy". 

It features many of the acclaimed singer's hits and has the full support of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Publishing, and The Amy Winehouse Estate.

Alison Owen (Saving Mr Banks, Me Before You, Elizabeth) and Debra Hayward (Les Miserables, Bridget Jones’s Baby) of Monumental Pictures are producing, Nicky Kentish-Barnes (What’s Love Got To Do With it?, Everest) executive produces, with Nina Gold leading the casting of the pic. 

EVP Global Production Ron Halpern and SVP Global Production Joe Naftalin executive produce and are overseeing for Studiocanal.