A documentary intended to celebrate Betty White’s 100th birthday is nonetheless coming quickly to theaters, even even though the beloved actor died at age 99 on New Year’s Eve.
The producers of “Betty White: 100 Decades Youthful — A Birthday Celebration” verified Friday that the film will be launched as prepared Jan. 17, which would have been the Emmy winner‘s centennial birthday. The title of the characteristic, having said that, has been modified to “Betty White: A Celebration.”
“Our hearts mourn these days with the passing of Betty White,” explained creation duo Steve Boettcher and Mike Trinklein in a statement.
“During the quite a few many years we worked with her, we created a good enjoy and admiration for Betty as a person, and as an completed entertainer. … We will go forward with our ideas to clearly show the movie … in hopes our film will provide a way for all who liked her to celebrate her everyday living — and encounter what produced her this kind of a nationwide treasure.”
Screening at a quantity of Los Angeles cinemas, “Betty White: A Celebration” will aspect interviews with a lot of of the “Golden Girls” star’s Hollywood mates and colleagues, including Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno, Carol Burnett, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli, James Corden, Wendie Malick and Jennifer Adore Hewitt.
Reynolds, who starred reverse White in the 2009 intimate comedy “The Proposal,” paid out tribute Friday to his late costar, who “managed to mature extremely previous and by some means, not old enough.”
The documentary will also sample online video from White’s final interview though giving “a backstage search at her occupation, and insights into what was most critical to her.”
“Betty often said she was the ‘luckiest wide on two feet’ to have experienced a vocation as extensive as she did. And honestly, we had been the blessed kinds to have experienced her for so long,” Boettcher and Trinklein said in a information posted on the Fathom Functions web-site.
“This celebration of America’s sweetheart is an chance to bear in mind Betty White’s wonderful existence and job. It’s a time to appear together and delight in Betty’s traditional moments on The Golden Women, SNL, Sizzling in Cleveland, The Proposal, and The Mary Tyler Moore Demonstrate, among others.”
Moviegoers can invest in tickets to see “Betty White: A Celebration” at FathomEvents.com. Beneath are some of the theaters exhibiting the movie in L.A. County:
- L.A. Dwell 14 (Los Angeles)
- AMC Century Town 15 (L.A.)
- High-quality Arts Theatre (Beverly Hills)
- AMC CityWalk 18 (Common Town)
- AMC Burbank 16 (Burbank)
- AMC South Bay Galleria 16 (Redondo Beach front)
- Cinemark 18 and XD (Los Angeles)
- AMC Del Amo 18 (Torrance)
- AMC Rolling Hills 20 (Torrance)
- AMC Norwalk 20 (Norwalk)
- Regal Very long Seaside Stadium 26 (Very long Seaside)
- AMC Santa Anita 16 (Arcadia)
- Regal Alhambra Renaissance 14 (Alhambra)
- AMC Atlantic Situations Sq. 14 (Monterey Park)
