Primetime
Are you ready to make television history?
R / 1h 50m / Drama · Thriller
In theaters Fri, Sep 25, 2026
About the film
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.
Primetime, from director Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), is a drama-thriller starring Robert Pattinson and Merritt Wever about Chris Hansen’s 2006 television sting that goes fatally wrong. Tagline: "Are you ready to make television history?"
- Directed by
- Lance Oppenheim
- Starring
- Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher
Trailer
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- Wide release
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