Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #36. Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat

The Laundromat

His cut your teeth on something and techno-friendly attitude as a film buff, culture consumer and filmmaker now celebrating his third decade in filmmaking, of the two Steven Soderbergh projects being launched in 2019, it’s The Laundromat that has got some serious street cred. A project that the filmmaker has been attached to since 2016, big casting announcements were made in May when Gary Oldman and Meryl Streep were circling the project. A subject matter of this magnitude deserves a proper treatment and we’re hoping that the dots are connected for the masses to understand a complex prism. Prior to filming in October, Netflix landed the rights.

Gist: Written by Scott Z. Burns and based on Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein, this follows a group of journalists who take part in unearthing 11.5 million files, linking the world’s most powerful political figures to secret banking accounts to avoid taxes.

Release Date/Prediction: Netflix has the rights for this project – which should be a film festival contender. We think Venice and/or TIFF.