Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney Sent Their Regards to the Theater at the World Premiere of ‘Everything’s Going to Be Great’
Just a day after Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston—two of our all-time great television actors—appeared together as presenters at the 2025 Tony Awards, reminding one and all of their Broadway bona fides too (Janney is a two-time Tony nominee, last gracing the Main Stem as Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 in 2009, while Cranston’s performance as Howard Beale in Network won him his second Tony in 2019), the pair showed up at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the world-premiere screening of their theater-y new movie, Everything’s Going to Be Great, during the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival.
Loosely based on how screenwriter Steven Rogers (I, Tonya) grew up, Everything’s Going to Be Great follows the Smart family: mustachioed paterfamilias Buddy (Cranston), a tirelessly optimistic producer of middling regional theater; his long-suffering bookkeeper wife, Macy (Janney); their hunky elder son, Derrick (Jack Champion), whose primary ambitions are to lose his virginity and play football; and his theatrical younger brother, Les (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth), who has an easier time communing with the ghosts of Noël Coward, Ruth Gordon, and Tallulah Bankhead than with any fellow 14-year-olds.
Broadly speaking, it’s a film about faith—its virtues and, possibly more crucially, its hazards—as well as sacrifice, belonging, self-discovery, and family. (As Macy’s grizzled older brother, Walter, Chris Cooper is a sneaky heartbreaker.)
