Exclusive Beneath the Fold Trailer Previews Newspaper-Set Noir Crime Drama

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive Beneath the Fold trailer, previewing the upcoming newspaper-themed noir crime drama about the end of print media.

What happens in the Beneath the Fold trailer?

The Beneath the Fold trailer shows off a bit of the film’s homage to the classic 1957 film 12 Angry Men. Set entirely within the conference room of an upstate New York newspaper struggling during the 2007-09 recession, the film follows a team of local news people who discuss the changing world of media, resources, and more as they clash over a mystery story that involves one of their own.

Beneath the Fold is set to release on North American video-on-demand platforms and on DVD on October 8, 2024. Check out the exclusive Beneath the Fold trailer below (watch other trailers and clips):

Beneath the Fold is written and directed by Neil Thomas Kirby, a former upstate New York reporter. The film also stars Jamie Lee, Scott Cohen, Frederick Weller, Jelani Alladin, Nick Dillenburg, Max Garfin, Dorcas Sowunmi, and Chris Lindsay-Abaire.

“The plot involves a team of local news people who cope with the realities of a changing world, waning resources, and a clash of personalities,” reads the film’s official synopsis. “The time and circumstances are detrimental to the staff in all ways but one–unbeknownst to them, their managing editor was involved in a hit-and-run, and their lack of resources gives him hope he can escape justice not only by the police but by his reporters. As the journalists attempt to investigate the accident that left a special needs man in critical condition, their editor tries to block their pathways to reporting on what he conveys to them as a relatively minor story. Will they uncover one of their own as the guilty? Or bury the lead?”