GENIUS Trailer Debut Here is the first GENIUS trailer! The film, directed by Michael Grandage, stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, and Laura Linney. GENIUS will be released in theaters on July 29. A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.