--- description: The film will debut in Berlin two days before it opens in U.S. theaters on Feb. 13, 2015 title: '50 Shades of Grey' To Debut At Berlin Film Festival image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _50 Shades of Grey_ to Debut at Berlin Film Festival by [Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 22, 2014 4:32 PM CUT by [Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 22, 2014 4:32 PM CUT _50 Shades of Grey_ will make its international debut at February’s Berlin Film Festival, two days before the film opens in U.S. theaters on Feb. 13\. E L James’s best-seller about the erotic awakening of a young woman and her mysterious billionaire boyfriend is one of 2015’s most anticipated cinematic events. Dakota Johnson (_The Social Network_) stars as prim Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan is the mysterious Christian Grey. Sam Taylor-Johnson (_Nowhere Boy_) directed the film. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/22/50-shades-of-grey-berlin-film-festival/?xid=IFT-Trending "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3644183/50-shades-berlin-festival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3644183/50-shades-berlin-festival/"},"headline":"50 Shades of Grey to Debut at Berlin Film Festival","datePublished":"2014-12-22T16:32:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:04:32.507Z","description":"The film will debut in Berlin two days before it opens in U.S. theaters on Feb. 13, 2015","url":"https://time.com/3644183/50-shades-berlin-festival/","keywords":["movies","50 shades of grey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3644183/50-shades-berlin-festival/","name":"50 Shades of Grey to Debut at Berlin Film Festival"}}]}] ```