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A24's Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony expands to 1,642 theaters and grossed about $5 million for the weekend, $6.6 million cumulative in week 3, with Dominic Sessa playing a young Bourdain and Antonio Banderas as his mentor; the coming-of-age drama is Certified Fresh at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 92% audience score.
In an exclusive interview, Eric Ripert discusses Anthony Bourdain’s portrayal in the biopic Tony, noting the film centers on a 19-year-old Bourdain with artistic liberties and touches on his past heroin use; Ripert, who knew a very different, more confident man later in life, praises Dominic Sessa’s credible performance and describes his cameo as a turning-point moment that frames Bourdain’s evolution over time.
Director Matt Johnson’s Tony reimagines Anthony Bourdain by focusing on his adolescence in Provincetown rather than the chef’s fame, with Dominic Sessa as a young Bourdain and Antonio Banderas as a mentor boss; the project, born from Johnson’s own coming‑of‑age experiences, uses food as a social catalyst and includes a cameo from Eric Ripert to anchor Bourdain’s life in reality. The film aims to demystify the icon, presenting a flawed, relatable version of the man behind the legend, and hits theaters in limited release August 7 and wide release August 21.
Dominic Sessa discusses playing a young Anthony Bourdain in Tony, a 1975 Provincetown-set drama that channels kitchen-life initiation rites and coming-of-age longing, drawing on his Jersey Shore summers and Deerfield Academy to explain his appetite for risk, with the film avoiding the Bourdain death arc and releasing in cinemas August 14.
Matt Johnson’s Tony reimagines Anthony Bourdain’s formative years as a high-energy, superhero‑like coming‑of‑age story rather than a straightforward biopic. Set in 1975‑era Cape Cod and Provincetown, the film follows Tony’s push to write and to find his culinary future under mentors Chef (Antonio Banderas) and Sal, blending vivid kitchen lore with rebellious nightlife. While Banderas delivers the film’s emotional throughline, the piece argues the movie trades strict biopic fidelity for a universal, myth‑making origin story, raising questions about truth versus myth in pre‑fame storytelling.
Eric Ripert makes a closing cameo in the A24 biopic Tony about Anthony Bourdain, interviewing a teenage Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) during a Provincetown summer and highlighting their deep friendship; the film stars Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones and tracks Bourdain’s early path to cooking, ahead of its August 7 release.
Matt Johnson’s Tony chronicles the 1975 Provincetown summer that shapes a young Anthony Bourdain, with Dominic Sessa delivering a breakout, magnetic performance as Tony. The biopic follows his hunger to write, a volatile romance with Nancy, and his mentorship under Chef (Antonio Banderas) in a kitchen that becomes his crucible, blending nostalgic, Adventureland–like atmosphere with a kinetic, Linklater-esque sensibility.
A24-backed biopic Tony follows 19-year-old Tony Bourdain during a transformative 1975 summer in Provincetown, with Dominic Sessa leading as the young writer-chef; directed by Matt Johnson, the film portrays the early kitchen days and Tony’s love-hate relationship with restaurants, not a standard life montage, with Emilia Jones, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommers, Stavros Halkias, Leo Woodall, and Antonio Banderas in the cast, and a release this August.