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Dead Man’s Wire, the latest project from director Gas Van Sant, is a hostage thriller based on a true story. The film has established a stellar cast of actors prepared to take on the intense roles.

Al Pacino is the latest addition to Dead Man’s Wire directed by Gus Van Sant, as reported by Deadline. It will be Van Sant’s first directorial role in a feature film since Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018), which also took inspiration from real-life events.

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“The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. 'Tony' Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him...

Exclusive: Myha’la (HBO’s Industry), Cary Elwes (Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning), and John Robinson (Elephant) are joining Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire, which is currently filming in Louisville, Kentucky.

Based on a true story, the film follows a former real estate developer who takes the mortgage banker who did him wrong hostage, demanding $5M and a personal apology. Script is by Austin Kolodney.

As we revealed this week, two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo has joined Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgard and Stranger Things‘ Dacre Montgomery in the movie.

The official logline reads: “The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to Tony’s own neck. This is the true story of the stand-off that took...

Nosferatu star Bill Skarsgård is set to star alongside Stranger Things actor Dacre Montogomery in a new film from director Gus Van Sant.

Per Deadline, Skarsgård and Montgomery will star in Dead Man's Wire, a hostage thriller directed by Van Sant. The film is reportedly based on a true story and is centered around "a former real estate developer who takes the mortgage banker who did him wrong hostage, demanding $5 million and a personal apology." Van Sant, known for films such as Good Will Hunting and My Own Private Idaho, hasn't directed a feature since 2018's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, an adaptation of cartoonist John's Callahan's memoir of the same name.

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“Joker: Folie à Deux” is upon us.

The sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning, R-rated “Joker” is a different beast altogether. As Arthur Fleck (a returning Joaquin Phoenix) awaits trial for the murders he committed in the first film, he falls in love with a fellow inmate (Lady Gaga) and finds himself drawn into a song-and-dance fantasy world.

But who returns for the sequel and what new characters are introduced? Read on to find out, with our complete “Joker: Folie à Deux” cast and character guide.

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, Joker

Arthur Fleck is back. As introduced in the first film, he was a weakling who was pushed around by his abusive mother (Frances Conroy), who used to work for the Wayne family and claimed that Arthur was the illegitimate child of Thomas Wayne. (He was not.

Affleck & Damon reunite in "Killing Gawker" for their closest shot at a Good Will Hunting sequel. Damon & Affleck were launched by Good Will Hunting and are now set to star in the new Hulk Hogan legal drama. The duo passed on a Good Will Hunting 2 idea, opting for fresh collaborations like "Killing Gawker" and "Rip".

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new movie is the closest they'll ever come to actually making a Good Will Hunting sequel. Affleck and Damon, who got their massive Hollywood break for starring and writing the 1997 coming-of-age classic, are teaming up once again with Good Will Hunting director Gus van Sant in the upcoming film Killing Gawker. Damon and Affleck notably won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, which remains to be Damon's only Oscar to this day, although Affleck also won for his 2013 Best Picture winner Argo. Van Sant was nominated for Best...

You might be able to spot Ramy Youssef for a minute in Gus Van Sant’s 2018 film “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.” Maybe.

“I think I’m in it? I don’t remember if I saw it,” laughs Youssef, who is credited for the role of Drinker. “There were so many times where I booked roles where the character has a name like Drinker or Guy in Kitchen, and then I would, like, not be invited to do anything. I’m like, ‘Oh, I guess I didn’t get in?”

So for all intents and purposes, his turn as Max McCandles in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” is his first-ever film role after years spent building a career in TV. And as the creator and star of “Ramy” on Hulu, Youssef is used to writing his own dialogue, so playing Max also gave him his first real opportunity...

Joaquin Phoenix has established himself as one of the industry’s greatest living actors because of his commitment to offbeat and unusual characters. What qualifies as great acting can mean different things depending on what a given genre requires, and Phoenix has done a great job at keeping his roles versatile. He has shown off his skills as a physical comedian in Buffalo Soldiers and Inherent Vice, explored the psychology of damaged characters in Joker and You Were Never Really Here, and dedicated himself to playing historical figures in Napoleon and Quills. Gus Van Sant’s 2018 biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot forced Phoenix to do all three of these things, even if it isn’t necessarily remembered as one of his best films. Although the film ran the risk of becoming a generic biopic, Phoenix's highly underrated performance turned Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot into a hilarious,...

When Warner Bros. premiered Don’t Worry Darling at the Venice Film Festival last year, the studio must have been hoping reports of production problems and on-set disputes for Olivia Wilde’s new film would be replaced with glossy glamour shots of the film’s A-list stars, Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, strutting the Lido’s red carpet.

Instead, they got #Spitgate.

A short video shot from the gallery during Don’t Worry‘s premiere, which, if you squint, purports to show Styles spitting on co-star Chris Pine just before he sits down next to him, became all anyone wanted to talk about. The video, viewed millions of times online, was given the Zapruder treatment. Instead of discussing Wilde’s stylish feminist thriller, Pugh’s performance or the shocking last-reel twist, the discussion focused on whether Harry did or didn’t gob on Chris, something Pine strongly denied.

“The buzz wasn’t about the film,...

An island visitor discovers social media isn’t real life on Fox’s Fantasy Island season two episode seven. “Happy” will air on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Roselyn Sanchez leads the cast as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke played by Ricardo Montalban in the original ’70s series. Kiara Barnes (The Bold and the Beautiful) plays Ruby Akuda and John Gabriel Rodriguez (Rosewood) stars as Javier.

“Happy” Plot: Amber’s fantasy is to have her actual life be as perfect as her Instagram life. But when Amber’s family transforms into the perfect Insta-versions of themselves, she soon realizes something about all this perfection is very wrong. Meanwhile, Roarke presents another guest, Isaiah, with an envelope that reveals the date of his death.

Episode seven guest stars include Melinda Clarke (The O.C.), Reggie Austin (Desperate Housewives), Stephen Friedrich (Vice), Selah Austria (Cobra Kai), and Cree Kawa.

The shortlist for the first edition of the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, sponsored by Creo, has been announced. The awards aim to elevate original voices from around the globe with a fresh perspective on storytelling.

The awards ceremony will take place Feb. 22 on the Sony Pictures Studio lot in Culver City, Calif. After the awards, the 30 shortlisted filmmakers will then take part in a three-day workshop program.

The jury included filmmaker Justin Chadwick, president of TriStar Pictures Nicole Brown, UTA Partner Jeremy Barber, and cinematographer Roger Deakins.

Chadwick said, “The global response has been truly exhilarating. New voices from all over the world have sent in films in all categories in huge numbers. Films that are original, diverse and fresh, filled with passion and originality.”

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More than 4,000 films from 3,000 filmmakers in 140 countries were submitted.

The shortlisted films are...

Exclusive: Kanoa Goo (The Rookie) has signed on to star in the indie Chaperone, written and to be directed by Zoë Eisenberg in her solo feature debut.

The film going into production in Hawai’i in early 2023 follows a 29-year-old woman alienated by friends and family for her lack of ambition. While struggling beneath the judgment of her peers, she finds a dangerous acceptance in a bright 18-year-old boy who mistakes her for a fellow student. Goo will play the protagonist’s half-brother and close friend, Vik, with Mitzi Akaha (Bashira), Laird Akeo (Paradise City), Jessica Jade Andres and Ioane Goodhue (Next Goal Wins) also set to star. Alison Week and Devin Murphy will produce, with Gerard Elmore, Adam Wong, Lauran Bromley, David Singh and Gill Holland serving as EPs.

Goo can currently be seen in a major recurring arc as...

Paramount is staying in the Damien Chazelle business. The studio behind Chazelle’s latest and upcoming film “Babylon” has signed a multi-year first-look directing and producing deal with Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton’s production banner Wild Chickens Productions that will keep the “La La Land” filmmaker in the studio fold.

No specific projects or number of films were included as part of the announcement, but the deal will make Paramount Chazelle’s creative home for the near future.

“Damien is one of the rare auteur filmmakers making an indelible mark on the theatrical landscape, and it’s a testament to this studio’s best-in-class production, marketing and distribution teams that he and his producing partner, Olivia, have decided to make Paramount Pictures their creative home,” said Paramount Pictures president and CEO Brian Robbins.

“We are honored to join the Paramount family. We are grateful to Brian, Michael and Daria and...

Ahead of the opening of Damien Chazelle’s 80 million early-Hollywood opus Babylon, the Brian Robbins-run Paramount Pictures is doubling down on the filmmaker and his producer wife Olivia Hamilton with a multi-year, first-look directing and producing deal with their Wild Chickens Productions.

The studio has been a huge champion of Babylon, screening it as early as mid November with the world premiere this Thursday in Hollywood. The pic, which stars Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva among others notched five Golden Globe noms yesterday including Best Picture. The movie opens wide on Dec. 23 and tracking has the pic at a 18M opening over four days.

Babylon marks Hamilton’s first feature producing credit. Previously, she produced, wrote, directed, and starred in the film Surrogate, which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Hamilton also ran the LA theatre group Play, which she founded in 2013 and for which she served as creative director.

Paramount Pictures has entered a multi-year, first look directing and producing deal with Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton’s Wild Chickens Productions, the studio announced Tuesday.

The studio most recently partnered with Chazelle and Hamilton on “Babylon,” which earned five Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture, and releases wide theatrically on December 23rd.

“Damien is one of the rare auteur filmmakers making an indelible mark on the theatrical landscape, and it’s a testament to this studio’s best-in-class production, marketing and distribution teams that he and his producing partner, Olivia, have decided to make Paramount Pictures their creative home,” Paramount Pictures President and CEO Brian Robbins said in a statement.

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Added Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group Co-Presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland, “We are already full speed ahead on this collaboration with the upcoming release of Babylon,...

Paramount Pictures has signed a multi-year, first-look directing and producing deal with Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton’s Wild Chickens Productions. The announcement comes just before the studio is set to release “Babylon,” a Dionysian epic set in the world of silent movies that Chazelle wrote and directed and Hamilton produced. “Babylon” opens on Dec. 23.

“Damien is one of the rare auteur filmmakers making an indelible mark on the theatrical landscape, and it’s a testament to this studio’s best-in-class production, marketing and distribution teams that he and his producing partner, Olivia, have decided to make Paramount Pictures their creative home,” said Paramount Pictures President and CEO Brian Robbins.

Chazelle is the Oscar-winning director of “La La Land” and also directed “Whiplash” and “First Man.” He made his first feature, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” as an undergraduate student, and the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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A return trip to Pandora and the soaring long-awaited sequel to Top Gun made the cut and earned spots on my Top 10 Films of 2022 list. So did the story of young adult cannibals finding love in Bones and All, and the twisted tale of a friendship gone south in writer/director Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin. Austin Butler’s extraordinary work channeling the King of Rock and Roll in Elvis deserved a spot, as did the powerful retelling of the murder of Emmett Till by white supremacists in director Chinonye Chukwu’s Till.

Everything Everywhere All at Once had everything necessary to make it into the top 10 of 2022 including sci-fi, action, comedy, drama, and a fabulous cast led by Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. You couldn’t ask for a more entertaining murder mystery than what...

Helen Slayton-Hughes, the actress best known for playing Ethel Beavers on “Parks and Recreation,” died Wednesday, according to a post on her official Facebook page. She was 92.

“To the friends and fans of our beloved Helen, Helen passed away last night,” read the caption accompanying a montage video of her life and work. “Her pain has ended but her fierce spirit lives on. Thank you for the love and support of her and her work. Rest sweet one.…”

With a stage and screen career spanning more than 200 credits, Slayton-Hughes enjoyed dozens of scene-stealing turns throughout her 40-year career. From 2011 to 2015, she appeared on “Parks and Rec” as the chaotic court stenographer Ethel Beavers. The character was so beloved that Aubrey Plaza and Chris Pratt’s characters adopt her as their grandmother.

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Olivia Wilde made sure all eyes were on her as she attended the 2022 People’s Choice Awards on Tuesday night.

The actress, who reportedly called it quits with Harry Styles last month after dating for nearly two years, donned a sheer black Christian Dior gown at the bash.

Wilde teamed the daring get-up with a pair of black hot pants and a chunky black waist belt.

Olivia Wilde looks stunning as she strikes a pose in a Dior black lace dress, that she teams with a chunky waist belt. — Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty

While at the star-studded awards bash, Wilde accepted the gong for drama movie of 2022 for her much-talked about film “Don’t Worry Darling”, featuring Styles and Florence Pugh as the lead characters.

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She said on stage, “This award isn’t for me,...

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness took home the top award of the night at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards for best movie of the year.

The Adam Project, Top Gun: Maverick and Don’t Worry Darling received prizes for top comedy, action and drama movies, respectively, with Stranger Things, Grey’s Anatomy and Never Have I Ever taking the event’s top television awards.

Taylor Swift won best female artist, best album for Midnights and best music video for “Anti-Hero,” while Harry Styles took home the award for best male artist and BTS for best music group. Lizzo, Carrie Underwood, Becky G and Latto were also recognized for their music.

Kenan Thompson hosted the awards, which aired live from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica Tuesday and celebrated the best in movies, TV, music and pop culture.

In addition to her song...

This article contains spoilers for The Peripheral season 1 and Don’t Worry, Darling.

The first season of Prime Video’s William Gibson adaptation, The Peripheral has come to an end, an absolutely wild trip through issues of environmentalism, fascism, warfare, and technology that will likely take us ages to fully unpack. But the series has also been about video games in general and virtual reality in particular. Yes, it turns out that virtual reality can actually be a kind of alternate universe telepresence time travel, but virtuality remains pretty close to the core of the story throughout. Even the finale pivoted around the concept of a real life “save game” (or “reboot” as they call it in the episode).

When we first meet Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz), she is moonlighting as a videogame grinder for wealthy clients who are stuck on a first-person shooter. When she enters a post-apocalyptic alternate future London,...

Netflix has offered up a first look at the upcoming comedy film “You People” — and if you can’t handle cringe, this teaser trailer may be a tough watch for you.

Jonah Hill stars in and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2023 comedy with Kenya Barris (“black-ish”), which is loosely based on the 1967 romantic comedy “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and follows a young couple as they clash cultures and generational differences when they meet each other’s families.

Barris makes his directorial debut with the film after creating and showrunning the series “black-ish,” while also writing the scripts for the films “Coming 2 America,” “Shaft” and “The Witches.”

In this short teaser, Hill is explaining to Eddie Murphy why he and Murphy’s daughter are a good fit, but keeps putting his foot in his mouth.

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As Don't Worry Darling and Batgirl both proved earlier this year, not every movie gets a fair chance to be a success, the former because of the controversy that overshadowed its release and the latter because it was decided to leave the movie unreleased, ostensibly for financial reasons.

They're far from the only movies undermined by bad press and studio meddling, though. From 2017's Justice League to the ill-fated Artemis Fowl movie, there are several movies Redditors think had no chance of ever working out.

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Combining an immensely popular Young Adult series with a popular director in the form of Kenneth Brannagh should have been a sure-fire recipe for success for the Artemis Fowl movie, but, for some, it only took the release of a trailer that showed the titular genius surfing to signal it wasn't going to work. Redditor Louiebox comments, "if there was...

Comedian, actor, hard-rockin' musician ... Jack Black is an entertainment triple threat. Over the past 20-something years, this California native has been making audiences across the world fire soda through their nose with his distinctive brand of loose-lipped humor, appearing in some of the most enduring and bankable comedy movies of all time in the process. One-half of the touring mock-rock music duo Tenacious D alongside his guitar-shredding buddy Kyle Gass, Black has carved out his own niche in the world of funny, finding himself just as much at home on a live stage as he is in front of a camera. Through it all, he's not been afraid to mix it up either, mixing out-and-out rib-ticklers with more thoughtful fare like Richard Linklater's "Bernie" in 2011 and Gus Van Sant's 2018 dramedy "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot."

He's been no stranger to a quick cameo either, memorably...

Nate Moore is confirming the Eternals' future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Chloé Zhao, Eternals premiered back in 2021 and introduced audiences to a new slate of heroes, along with a more serious tone and distinctive visuals, but its story and overall runtime faced mixed reactions from critics. The film focuses on its titular group of immortal beings, created by the Celestials, who reconnect after years of separation in an effort to protect the people of Earth from their counterparts, the Deviants, and a cosmic event known as the Emergence. It features a large cast that includes Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Kit Harington, Angelina Jolie, and Salma Hayek.

Prior to its release, Eternals was met with heavy criticism by those seemingly upset over Marvel Studios' increase in diversity. Issues with the film's representation also led to censorship from several countries which,...

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The nominees for the 2022 People’s Choice Awards were revealed on Wednesday morning.

Top Gun: Maverick and Hocus Pocus 2 were among the movie nominees, while Abbott Elementary and Euphoria scored in the TV categories. Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, the latter of which just released her 10th studio album Midnights on Oct. 21, were nominated in various categories such as the album of 2022.

RuPaul’s Drag Race and Selling Sunset were among the reality TV nominees.

The annual awards show will air simultaneously on NBC and E! on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA.

This year’s show will be hosted by actor, comedian and People’s Choice Awards nominee Kenan Thompson, hot off his Emmys hosting stint. He is nominated this year in the comedy TV Star category for Saturday Night Live.

See the full list of nominees below.

Former partners Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis have issued a joint statement after their former nanny gave a bombshell interview about their breakup.

In a statement, the pair alleged that the former nanny, who was not named in the interview, had been on an “18-month-long campaign” of harassment.

“As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly,” the former couple wrote in their statement to People.

“Her now 18-month-long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex.”

They concluded: “We will continue to focus on raising and protecting our children with the sincere hope that she will now choose to leave our family alone.”

In the wide-ranging interview with Daily Mail, which included screenshots of alleged texts between the nanny and the celebrity couple,...

Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” press tour was chaotic, to say the least. In a new interview with Elle magazine, Wilde expressed disappointment in how the media took all of the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding the film and “minimized [it] into bite-size TikTok points,” adding, “This film is trying to ask big questions, but [it’s] ‘Let’s just focus on this sideshow over here.’”

Rumors circulated for months that Wilde and her “Don’t Worry Darling” lead Florence Pugh feuded on set. Social media users spent much of the film’s press tour hunting for confirmation wherever they could find it, be it Pugh’s lack of social media promotion for the movie or the duo keeping their distance during the movie’s Venice Film Festival world premiere. Then drama erupted around Shia Labeouf’s exit from the film, with Labeouf leaking a video of Wilde trying to get him back, despite clear...

Florence Pugh must contend with faith and science in Netflix’s new film “The Wonder”.

The streamer released the trailer for the upcoming drama on Tuesday, in which the actress plays an English nurse, Lib Wright, sent out to conduct a 15-day examination in the Irish Midlands.

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A small devout community claims a young girl, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), has not eaten for four months by surviving on “manna from heaven.” Faith and science collide as Wright contends with the girl’s deteriorating health in the face of the community’s strict devotion.

“I’m here to find out the truth,” Pugh declares in the teaser.

The Wonder. (L to R) Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna OÕDonnell, Tom Burke as Will Byrne, Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in The Wonder.

When you think of content that’s most likely to go viral on TikTok — lesbian influencer breakups and/or mukbangs, girls surprising their lackadasical boyfriends at college, women calling out fuckboy employees at high-end furniture stores — Orthodox Jewish kiddie pop groups seem like they’d be pretty low on the list. For one thing, many of the songs are in Hebrew, a language not spoken by the majority of the TikTok-using populace; for another, Middle Eastern geopolitics seem like it would be an ideal target for the ire of cancel-happy zoomers.

Her first film was Booksmart, and her second should have been titled Mediasmart. Instead it’s Don’t Worry Darling, and it’s been a worry from the outset.

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Olivia Wilde, the filmmaker/movie star, was born with instant access to media savvy thanks to her accomplished parents — feminist Mom was a congressional candidate, Dad a gifted novelist. But Don’t Worry Darling had its issues from the start. Both its plot and its promotion seemed overly ambitious, its release improbably tied to the Venice Film Festival with its arty fare and fussy critics.

This followed casting disputes during pre-production and flaky antics during post. Wilde’s Booksmart was smart and also fun, but Worry seemed to marry The Truman Show to The Stepford Wives, an uneasy connect.

The media buzz was intense. If it all worked, would Wilde become the next Elaine May? Or would Don’t Worry become her Ishtar?...

After months of buildup and frenzied tabloid gossip, Olivia Wilde's sophomore feature, "Don't Worry Darling," hit theaters on September 23, 2022. The movie is about a woman named Alice (Florence Pugh), who comes to suspect that the idyllic community where she lives with her husband Jack (Harry Styles) is anything but. As she attempts to discover what is going on at the Victory Project's mysterious headquarters, she finds her sanity slipping as everyone around her says she's imagining things.

The film is a pastiche of sorts that seems almost as if the filmmakers took a bunch of other movies, put them in a blender, and splashed the results across celluloid. Wilde herself said at Cinemacon that the film was inspired by "The Matrix," "Inception," and "The Truman Show" — all films that play with the audience's understanding of what is real and what's imaginary. However, If you've seen "Don't Worry Darling" and those three wildly-popular touchstones,...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Don't Worry DarlingWhile there is a lot that can be said about the movie that proved to be the biggest internet sensation of the year, the concept behind Don’t Worry Darling is an ambitious take on the pre-established, patriarchal notions of what it means to be a woman from a man's perspective. That being said, the movie, rife with plot errors and what can only be considered rushed explanations and a predictable ending, does not result in a successful exposition of its intended concept.

Lily James has revealed that she would speak to her own mother in Pamela Anderson’s voice while Method acting as the model.

The British actor portrayed the Baywatch star in Pam & Tommy, a series which focused on the infamous leaking of Anderson and Tommy Lee’s (Sebastian Stan) sex tape.

James earned an Emmy nomination for her performance as Anderson, but has now spoken in a new interview about the lengths she went to embody the model.

“It was such a screwed-up process,” she told The Mirror. “You just have to be patient with yourself. The hours are so long and you feel really burnt out. Your nervous system is just like, shot to s***. I felt like a real wreck at the end of it.”

James admitted that she would wear Anderson’s blonde wig throughout filming “because I just felt that I needed to hold on...

This article contains very mild Don’t Worry Darling spoilers.

Harry Styles is not terrible in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling. Which is not to say he is particularly good. Like a fancy ‘50s dinner party where the meal is neither fish nor fowl, the performance is adequate; a rough-around-the-edges first attempt at being a leading man that doesn’t technically distract from the movie. It doesn’t help it either.

Unfortunately, with a film titled Don’t Worry Darling that is a problem. By the very notion of its moniker, in which the slow-boiling menace of being gaslit by your partner is implicit, the most important role after the “darling”—who is here portrayed by a magnetic Florence Pugh—is that of the husband telling her not to worry. In the actual Gaslight movie of 1944, from which sprang the popular term for misleading the almost always female spouse, Ingrid Bergman...

Although the controversy around Don’t Worry, Darling has mostly been centered around Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles, the media cycle has done a disservice to some of the film’s supporting players. Among them is Gemma Chan, a bright young talent who has only been adding more impressive titles to her resume in the last decade. Chan has appeared in acclaimed television shows, major blockbusters, and underrated independent films. Hopefully, Don’t Worry, Darling will simply be a minor note in her filmography.

Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” scored 3.1 million at the Thursday night box office, debuting at more than 3,300 locations before it expands to more than 4,000 theaters this weekend.

According to Warner Bros.’ projections, the New Line Cinema film will earn 17 million from its opening weekend. Independent projections put that number at 18 million to 20 million. According to reports, its budget falls in the mid-20 million range.

The Florence Pugh and Harry Styles-starring psychological thriller premieres opposite Disney’s re-release of “Avatar” (2009), a few months before its sequel “The Way of Water” hits theaters. The David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream” expands wide after last week’s successful limited opening of 1.6 million. Meanwhile, Viola Davis vehicle “The Woman King,” continues a strong run following its 19 million opening weekend.

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Amid all the infighting, awkward press conferences, festival no-shows, hypothetical spitting, on- and off-screen romance and general tabloid drama, the Don’t Worry Darling team has unveiled actual consumable content devoid and divorced (to the best of their ability) of the pretty hate machine now inextricably linked to Olivia Wilde’s sophomore effort.

“With You All the Time,” a duet between the film’s stars and on-screen love interests Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, closes the film’s soundtrack. Over minimalist piano that channels Julee Cruise, Lana Del Rey or your favorite smoky chanteuse,...

This review originally ran in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.

To say that “Don’t Worry Darling” is a mixture of “The Stepford Wives” and “Get Out” is both accurate and deeply misleading. It’s accurate because Olivia Wilde’s satiric and somewhat frantic psychological thriller does borrow from films like “Stepford,” where an idealized community is one in which the women are dolls designed for male satisfaction, and “Get Out,” which uses horror trappings to grapple with timely issues of power and privilege.

But it’s misleading because there’s another film to which “Don’t Worry Darling” owes even more than it does to those two – but to even mention the other film’s name would be to give away a crucial plot twist that happens late in the film and changes everything.

So we won’t mention The Film That Shall Remain Nameless,...

In the coming weeks, proven pop star and burgeoning actor Harry Styles toplines two of the season’s buzziest titles, Olivia Wilde’s scandal-plagued “Don’t Worry Darling” and Michael Grandage’s period gay romance “My Policeman.”

In Wilde’s film, he’s a too-good-to-be-true husband who wants to provide a better life for his wife (Florence Pugh), even if it’s built on secrets, lies, and double-crossings. In “My Policeman,” he’s… a a too-good-to-be-true husband seeking to provide his wife (Emma Corrin) and gay lover (David Dawson) with a better life, all of it built on secrets, lies, and double-crossings.

IndieWire executive editor Kate Erbland and deputy managing editor Ryan Lattanzio have seen both films and have plenty to say about them, (Erbland’s review of “Don’t Worry Darling” from Venice is here and Lattanizo’s TIFF review of “My Policeman” is here), but there’s more to explore in Styles’ acting.

Plot: In the 1950’s a loving housewife begins to question the community where her and her husband live a strangely “perfect” life.

Review: There’s been a lot of chatter about the behind-the-scenes of Don’t Worry Darling. The Olivia Wilde directorial effort showed promise with its first trailer but became gossip fodder. That had little effect on my viewing of the film. Instead of reading about the insanity on the set, I just waited to see what would eventually find its way to the theatre. After all, you often hear stories about problematic features that exceed all the negative press. Sad to say, this is not one of those films. The tepid thriller (?) features Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, and more, and it’s not that thrilling.

When we first meet Alice Chambers (Pugh), she is happily married to her husband, Jack (Styles). The two share an idyllic marriage during the 1950s.

Olivia Wilde had a golden night out at her boyfriend Harry Styles' latest concert. On Sept. 21, the Don't Worry Darling director was spotted at the singer's historic 15th consecutive performance at New York's Madison Square Garden. Olivia—who wore an all-white dress with a white feather boa around her neck—danced and sang along to "Music for a Sushi Restaurant." The venue commemorated Harry's big night—which was the final night of his Msg residency—honoring him by bringing out host Gayle King to unveil a massive banner that was hanging in the rafters. The banner read, "Harry Styles 15 Consecutive Nights at the Garden." The Garden also...

Florence Pugh once again finds herself starring in a genre film where an idyllic community uses welcoming perfection as a veneer to hide more insidious secrets. Don’t Worry Darling sees Pugh as a doting ’50s housewife in a picturesque suburban community who quickly finds herself alone in realizing something’s deeply amiss. While the thriller boasts no shortage of visual style and pizzazz, it struggles to build tension or offer narrative surprises.

Don’t Worry Darling opens to a lively dinner party that introduces Alice (Pugh) and her husband Jack (Harry Styles), happy and content among close friends. Alice and Jack are childless by choice, a topic that occasionally surfaces among couples Bunny (director Olivia Wilde) and Bill (Nick Kroll) and the perpetually pregnant Peg (Kate Berlant) with husband Peter (Asif Ali). All live in the isolated town of Victory, part of the mysterious “Victory Project” headed by the elusive Frank...

Director Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller Don’t Worry, Darling is getting a theatrical release on September 23rd, and with just over a week to go until the movie reaches the big screen a new poster has been unveiled. This one was designed exclusively for Dolby Cinemas, and you can check it out at the bottom of this article.

Written by Carey and Shane Van Dyke, with rewrites by Wilde and Katie Silberman, Don’t Worry, Darling is set “in an isolated, utopian community in the 1950s California desert”. It’s about what happens when “a 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.”

Here’s the lengthy official synopsis:

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families.

Click here to read the full article.

After a “for your consideration” season that somehow seems to have lasted longer than the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (too soon!), the 2022 Emmys are finally here.

Nominees, Hollywood power brokers and frightened publicists once again gathered inside Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, a first since 2019, but we commoners vowed to watch all the action and inevitable Don’t Worry Darling jokes unfold on the medium du jour — using the cable subscriptions we absolutely pay for ourselves and not the log-ins we’ve stolen from our parents.

The last time the TV industry set aside an evening to congratulate itself, Ted Lasso, The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit were the big winners. But a lot has changed in a year. Quinta Brunson gifted ABC with Abbott Elementary, the first broadcast series to stand a fighting chance at major recognition in almost a decade. The Crown entered its royal hiatus,...

Toronto film festival: A bland lead performance is one of many faults with a melodramatic and unconvincing drama about a love triangle in the 1950s

The narrative behind the big Harry Styles bid for movie stardom has so far been more alluring than the actual Harry Styles bid for movie stardom, an all-too-perfect ascent rapidly losing steam by the day. The teen heartthrob turned legit pop star kicked things off not inauspiciously, with a small turn in a large movie, Christopher Nolan’s second world war epic Dunkirk, and he proceeded to book back-to-back biggies, Olivia Wilde’s suburban sci-fi thriller Don’t Worry Darling and prestige gay romance My Policeman, both films headed for glitzy premieres on the fall festival circuit.

But as the train was ready to leave the station, the wheels were already close to falling off, a swirl of negativity surrounding both films and both performances. By now,...

Just over a week out from the premiere on Disney+, Lucasfilm on Saturday unveiled the final trailer for the new “Star Wars” series “Andor” during D23 Expo 2022. And you can watch it here now.

Things sure look bleak for the galaxy, as well it should given that, as explained during the Lucasfilm D23 presentation, the show is set about five years before the events of the 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Which puts it firmly in the same time frame as “Star Wars: Rebels,” or if you prefer, the era when the Empire was at its greatest power and freedom was but a distant memory. (Cue “Star Wars” music.)

“We’re going to go back five years. You won’t believe these characters,” star Diego Luna said during the presentation. “It’s about the awakening of a revolutionary. It’s about someone finding out there’s a purpose.

There are less than two weeks before the general public will be able to watch Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling in theaters. But buzz about the movie’s supposed celebration of millennial feminism, the female orgasm, and a mystery town called Victory has been surpassed by what people love more than a good film: batshit crazy drama.

This movie within a movie has everything: alleged steamy love affairs, alleged contentious breakups, alleged falling outs between directors and stars, alleged onset issues, an alleged spitting incident at the Venice Film...

I never start a review commenting on whatever the so-called Film Twitter Mafia have to say about it, sight unseen. Starting back at CinemaCon in April when its directo/co-star Olivia Wilde was served legal papers onstage regarding her custody hearings with ex Jason Sudeikis, there has been non-stop gossip about her movie Don’t Worry Darling. There has been so much of it, right up to today’s Venice Film Festival press conference (covered by my colleague Nancy Tartaglione) that you almost have to address the elephant in the room. Others can do that, but let us not forget there is also a movie here, one I was able to preview as just that a few weeks ago in Burbank. As a reviewer, to quote Being There’s Chauncey Gardner, “I like to watch,” and that means only what is on the screen.

That said, on its own terms Don’t Worry Darling...

This year at the Charlotte Pride Festival, Whitney Ann was more excited than ever to attend. Her pole dancing studio, Pole Body and Arts, was one of the sponsors of the event, and had a booth there. Plus, it was one of her first ever Pride after having come out as queer. When a little boy came by her booth to try out the pole, believing it was a firefighter pole, Whitney says, it was hot, and he kept slipping off. So she did a pole sit to try to hold him up.

Iconoclast, the international production group behind Romain Gavras’ Venice competition film “Athena,” is setting a wide-ranging slate of projects with emerging filmmakers from different audiovisual fields, including Leo Berne from the artists collective Megaforce, Elias Belkeddar and Said Belktibia from the collective Kourtrajmé. The company is also producing the next projects of Harmony Korine and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, among others.

In a rare interview, Nicolas Lhermitte, who co-founded Iconoclast with Mourad Belkeddar and Charles-Marie Anthonioz, says the company has emerged from the pandemic with a record number of developed projects. “We took the opportunity during the pandemic to develop a lot of projects, and today we have around 30 projects in the pipeline, spanning films and series that are set up at our studios in France, the U.S. and Germany,” says Lhermitte, who adds that Iconoclast aspired to “accompany multi-disciplinary artists to venture from one field to another, films, TV series,...