Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 biographical sports film directed by Dexter Fletcher. It stars Taron Egerton as Michael Edwards, a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928. Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Iris Berben and Jim Broadbent co-star. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on 26 January 2016. It was released in Canada and the U.S on 27 February 2016 and by Lionsgate in the UK on 28 March 2016.
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Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 biographical sports film directed by Dexter Fletcher. It stars Taron Egerton as Michael Edwards, a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928. Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Iris Berben and Jim Broadbent co-star. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on 26 January 2016. It was released by 20th Century Fox in Canada and the U.S on 27 February 2016 and by Lionsgate in the UK on 28 March 2016. In 2017 it was nominated for the Empire Award for Best British Film. It is based on the true story of Michael Edwards and his training to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Edwards was the first British ski jumper to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics since 1928, and the first to do so in the men’s ski jumping event since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
He was also the first Briton to win the gold medal for ski jumping in the women’s event, which he also won in 1936. The movie was released in UK cinemas on 27 March 2016 and in Canada on 27 April 2016. The UK release date for the US release date of the film was 27 March 2017. It has been released in U.K. cinemas and Canada on 29 March 2017 and in the US on 30 March 2017, and in Australia on 2 April 2017, as well as in Australia and New Zealand on 4 April and 4 April 2017. The US release dates for the UK release dates have not yet been announced, but they are expected to be announced in the near future. The British release the film in cinemas later this year. It will be released in US cinemas in October 2017 and the UK in November 2017, along with the European release of the US version.
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