By Oliver Gettell

Los Angeles Times

“Foxcatcher,” Bennett Miller’s fact-based drama set against the world of Olympic wrestling, has pinned down a Nov. 14 release date, a clear indication Sony Pictures Classics is positioning the film as an awards-season contender.

Miller’s highly anticipated follow-up to “Moneyball” was originally slated for release last December but was ultimately pulled from that date to give Miller more time to finish the film.

“Foxcatcher” was also intended to debut at the AFI Fest last November but will now bow at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

The film stars Steve Carell as the eccentric chemical fortune heir John Du Pont, who infamously shot and killed wrestler Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) in 1996 at the state-of-the-art Foxcatcher National Training Center, which Du Pont had built on his palatial estate near Philadelphia.

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