--- title: Chilean Miner Film 'The 33' Set for November Release description: The film relives the story of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days. canonical: https://time.com/3839321/the-33-november-release/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-28T21:27:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:45:53.845Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Chilean Miner Film 'The 33' Set for November Release og:description: The film relives the story of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days og:url: https://time.com/3839321/the-33-november-release/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ec9d50f2260113/6987ed6c0b72e37bac6e1c83/ap10101302508-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma salutes after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chilean Miner Film 'The 33' Set for November Release twitter:description: The film relives the story of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ec9d50f2260113/6987ed6c0b72e37bac6e1c83/ap10101302508-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chilean Miner Film _The 33_ Set for November Release by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Apr 28, 2015 9:27 PM CUT  Miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma salutes after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010. Miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma salutes after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010.Roberto Candia—AP by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Apr 28, 2015 9:27 PM CUT [_The 33_](http://www.ew.com/article/2011/07/25/chilean-miners-movie "undefined"), the Antonio Banderas-starring project about the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, has been given a release date. Alcon Entertainment announced Tuesday it acquired the North American distribution rights and will put the film in the theaters November 13 by Warner Bros. “We don’t acquire many films, but we’re particularly excited to bring this incredible true story of perseverance and the strength of the human spirit to audiences around the world,” Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove said in a statement. “Few events of this kind have captured the attention and sympathies of people around the globe as this one did, and the huge emotional ride we all took as the rescuers struggled to free the miners is captured beautifully in this wonderful film.” _The 33_ relives the harrowing true story of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped more than 200 stories underground, enduring 100-degree temperatures beneath a megaton boulder for 69 days following the collapse of the San Jose copper and gold mine. All 33 were successfully rescued. The film is being directed by Patricia Riggen (_Girl in Progress_, _Under the Same Moon_) and also stars Juliette Binoche, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rodrigo Santoro, Gabriel Byrne, and James Brolin. The crew filmed in working mines in Chile and Colombia. Producer Mike Medavoy (_Black Swan_, _Shutter Island_) lived in Chile for 10 years and worked closely with all the significant parties of the accident and subsequent rescue to develop the feature. Robert Katz (_Crash_, _Seabiscuit_) and Edward McGurn also produced the movie. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/chilean-miner-film-33-acquired-alcon-entertainment "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839321/the-33-november-release/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839321/the-33-november-release/"},"headline":"Chilean Miner Film The 33 Set for November Release","datePublished":"2015-04-28T21:27:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:45:53.845Z","description":"The film relives the story of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days","url":"https://time.com/3839321/the-33-november-release/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ec9d50f2260113/6987ed6c0b72e37bac6e1c83/ap10101302508-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ec9d50f2260113/6987ed6c0b72e37bac6e1c83/ap10101302508-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma salutes after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010.","caption":"Miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma salutes after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010.","creditText":"Roberto Candia—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3839321/the-33-november-release/","name":"Chilean Miner Film The 33 Set for November Release"}}]}] ```