A24 Sets Chris Rock’s 'Misty Green' for TIFF and October
Chris Rock’s next film, 'Misty Green,' is headed to Toronto’s Gala section before A24 opens it later this year, with reports pointing to an October 2026 release. The trailer gives Rosalind Eleazar a bruised, hard-used star turn and puts a lot of weight on what a comeback costs.
A24 puts 'Misty Green' on the road to Toronto
A24 has set Chris Rock’s Misty Green for a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and says the film will open later this year. Deadline puts the release in October 2026. That is the news here, and it matters because Rock is back behind the camera after more than a decade, while Rosalind Eleazar gets the kind of part that can make or break a career if the room around her is not alive to it.
The trailer, which arrived on July 22, 2026, presents Eleazar as Misty Green, an actress whose early break has curdled into a scramble for the next call. A24, IndieWire, Deadline, Yahoo and First Showing all point to the same broad shape: this is a Hollywood story about a woman trying to get back in the door after she has already been shut out once.
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Rosalind Eleazar gets the heavy lift
What the role asks of Eleazar is plain enough. She has to carry talent, embarrassment, anger, vanity and need, often in the same breath. Misty is shown trying to land work, looking for escape, and moving through rooms where every face seems to know her business better than she wants.
That is where the best casting choices get tricky. The actor has to suggest that a person still has value before the script says so out loud. The trailer gives Misty one of those roles that can turn into a public argument if the actor does not sell it. She is not being asked to play innocence. She is being asked to play a woman who has history on her, and history is expensive.
The reports say Misty’s past includes an on-set altercation with another cast member, which leaves her, in the film’s world, a hard sell. An agent in the trailer sounds as if the phone itself is tired of the whole thing. That detail does the useful work. It tells you this is not only about hurt feelings or pride. It is about a job market that can close fast when one story gets attached to a name.
