Anthony Bourdain Documentary ‘Roadrunner’ Set for Summer

Anthony Bourdain. (AP)
Anthony Bourdain. (AP)
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Anthony Bourdain Documentary ‘Roadrunner’ Set for Summer

Anthony Bourdain. (AP)
Anthony Bourdain. (AP)

A documentary about the late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is coming to theaters this summer.

Directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville, Focus Features said Friday that “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” will hit theaters on July 16.

Bourdain shot to fame after the publication of his frank, behind-the-scenes account of restaurant life in “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” in 2000 and became a beloved culinary travel guide with his CNN series “Parts Unknown.” He died in June 2018 at age 61.

Neville is best known for his Oscar-winning film “20 Feet from Stardom,” about the lives of backup singers, and the Mr. Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.”

After its theatrical run, “Roadrunner” will be available on CNN and HBO Max. It'll have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.



‘Predator: Badlands’ Propels Predator Perspective at Comic-Con

 Director Dan Trachtenberg, left, and Elle Fanning attend a panel for "Predator: Badlands" during Comic-Con International on Friday, July 25, 2025, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Director Dan Trachtenberg, left, and Elle Fanning attend a panel for "Predator: Badlands" during Comic-Con International on Friday, July 25, 2025, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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‘Predator: Badlands’ Propels Predator Perspective at Comic-Con

 Director Dan Trachtenberg, left, and Elle Fanning attend a panel for "Predator: Badlands" during Comic-Con International on Friday, July 25, 2025, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Director Dan Trachtenberg, left, and Elle Fanning attend a panel for "Predator: Badlands" during Comic-Con International on Friday, July 25, 2025, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The latest movie in the "Predator" series flips the script to focus on the bad guys who always lose to the humans in the end, director Dan Trachtenberg said on Friday.

"The predator never wins," Trachtenberg told an audience at San Diego Comic-Con after footage of "Predator: Badlands" debuted at the convention's Disney panel.

This, the "Prey" director said, inspired him to tell the story from the predator species perspective in "Badlands," the seventh in the main movie series, dating back to the 1987 hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the ninth across the franchise.

It was key, Trachtenberg said, for him to explore a different aspect of the "Predator" world for this science fiction movie, developed by 20th Century Studios and landing in theaters on November 7.

"There are no humans in this film," said cast member Elle Fanning, discussing the challenges of learning the logistics of a completely fictional realm.

The biggest challenge was mastering the fictional Yautja language, said Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who stars as Dek, a young predator on a solo mission in a treacherous land of even bigger predators. He bonds with an android named Thia, played by Fanning.

Dek is "ferocious and badass, very much an anti-hero," Trachtenberg said.

Before the panel discussion with the director and several cast members, the audience got a glimpse of a Yautja-speaking predator prowling the stage with the signature glowing weaponry as stirring music played.