NEON and Picturehouse Entertainment are delighted to announce the release date of James Gray’s highly anticipated film PAPER TIGER.
Acclaimed filmmaker James Gray is a five-time Cannes Competition filmmaker, whose celebrated body of work has earned international acclaim across three decades. His feature directorial debut Little Odessa won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, establishing Gray as one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices. With PAPER TIGER, Gray returns to the crime thriller in a deeply felt and intense story set against the world of the Russian mafia.
In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense crime thriller, set in 1986 New York, a naïve engineer, Irwin accepts a seemingly lucrative business proposition from his brother, Gary, a former cop. But when Irwin witnesses something he wasn’t meant to see at the Gowanus Canal, the brothers find themselves pulled into a dangerous confrontation with the newly emerging Russian mafia. As the threat of violence escalates, Irwin’s wife Hester sounds the alarm, Irwin desperately tries to protect his family, and Gary is forced to make an impossible choice to save those he loves.
PAPER TIGER features an outstanding ensemble cast led by Oscar and BAFTA-nominated actors Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Paterson) and Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, Lost in Translation), alongside acclaimed actor Miles Teller (Whiplash, Top Gun: Maverick). The film had its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it earned strong reviews. It then received its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 10 October, ahead of its release in UK and Irish cinemas from 1 January 2027.
