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Big casting news for Vince Vaughn‘s upcoming gangster thriller, The Bookie & the Bruiser, is upon us! Theo James is joining Vince Vaughn for the upcoming feature about living life dangerously in New York City in the 1950s.

The Bookie & the Bruiser finds Vaughn reuniting with S. Craig Zahler, who directed the actor’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete. Like the films above, Zahler will write and direct The Bookie & the Bruiser with Academy Award-winner Anthony Katagas producing via Keep Your Head Productions alongside Dave Caplan.

The Bookie & the Bruiser is set in 1959 New York City and features a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner (James) and an oversized Italian American tough named Boscolo (Vaughn). Having served in World War II, the two return as changed men, no longer fitting into their old lives. Unwilling to take orders or play by the rules of polite society,...

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in May 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 11 best movies coming to Shudder in May 2025.

Overlord (May 1)

Overlord is an alternate history action horror film directed by Julius Avery from a screenplay co-written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. The 2018 film is set in an alternate 1940s, towards the end of World War II, and it revolves around a group of American paratroopers on a mission to destroy a German radio tower. They soon find themselves in a...

Natalie Portman has spoken in detail about the impact of being sexualized as a young performer, describing her early years in the film industry as defined by what she called a “long Lolita phase.” Speaking with Jenna Ortega in a feature for Interview magazine, Portman reflected on the image projected onto her following her debut in Léon: The Professional, filmed when she was just 12.

“There’s a public understanding of me that’s different from who I am,” Portman said. “I’ve talked about it a little before — about how, as a kid, I was really sexualized, which I think happens to a lot of young girls who are onscreen. I felt very scared by it. Obviously sexuality is a huge part of being a kid, but I wanted it to be inside of me, not directed towards me.”

She described building a persona to protect herself from attention she didn’t want.

After making her onscreen debut at 11, Natalie Portman quickly learned to separate herself from her public image.

The Oscar winner recently opened up about being subjected to “a long Lolita phase” when she was “really sexualized” as a child actor, making her debut performance in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional.

“I think there’s a public understanding of me that’s different from who I am,” she told Jenna Ortega for Interview. “I’ve talked about it a little before—about how, as a kid, I was really sexualized, which I think happens to a lot of young girls who are onscreen. I felt very scared by it. Obviously sexuality is a huge part of being a kid, but I wanted it to be inside of me, not directed towards me. And I felt like my way of protecting myself was to be like, ‘I’m so serious. I’m so studious.

A number of dead bodies turn up in 1998’s Wild Things: Sam, Kelly, Ray, that random dude floating in the river…Wait, what? As it turns out, the deaths weren’t just happening on screen but also near the set, as the crew soon found out that sometimes people are exactly what they appear to be…

Kevin Bacon recently told Variety that one of the Florida locations for Wild Things brought some unique problems that brought a slight disruption to filming. “We were out in the swamp one night — a lot of mosquitoes, wow — and we were shooting some scene. I don’t remember what it was, by kind of a river. They had floated a raft out there so that they could put a light. All of a sudden I hear across the walkie-talkie: ‘Hey, uh, I think I just saw a floater.’ And it was a body that was floating by…...

Kim Basinger has been a part of numerous marvelous projects over the years, all of which have significantly impacted her acting career in making her more and more renowned in Hollywood’s entertainment industry.

But one of these projects really had the actress going through hell, which was also her riskiest movie to date, where she starred opposite Mickey Rourke. This one project was 1986’s erotic-romance flick 9½ Weeks, which was more or less the 1980s version of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Kim Basinger. | Credits: 9½ Weeks / 20th Century Studios.

To say the least, as deciphered from the details shared by director Adrian Lyne, that one risky project really had Basinger, who was in her early thirties at the time it was shot, going through some seriously hell-ish stuff for the sake of it.

Kim Basinger really had to go through hell while shooting 9½ Weeks

Back when 9½ Weeks originally came out,...

In a new edition of This Day That Year, Subhash K Jha rexamines Mahesh Bhatt-Anurag Basu’s drama Murder, which released in 2004.

On a wet, windy morning in Bangkok, the forlorn Indian housewife Simran (Mallika Sherawat) in a clinging blue chiffon sari waves frantically for a taxi, drops her shopping bags in the wet chaos and comes face to face with a sensuous silhouette. “Come to my apartment for a cuppa,” the smirking stranger tells the housewife. Face mirroring a repressed sexuality and challenged values, she refuses and then changes her mind…to plunge into a lustful liaison that brings her well-ordered life to a crashing crescendo…

Welcome to the second remake of Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful in a week. With a far better cast, production values, and music score than last week’s Hawas, Murder kills your murderous murmurs about exploitative adaptations in the bud.

Where you expect a sleaze-fest,...

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Glenn Close at the Oscars, awaiting on the verdict yet again

Welcome back to the boiling and bloody finale of our three-part retrospective of Adrian Lyne's classic thriller Fatal Attraction (1987). In part 1, Husband and father Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas in his best performance of 1987 -- sorry Wall Street) stumbled out of the pouring rain and straight into an even wetter two-night stand with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close in her most iconic role). Things start hot but end bloody with a suicide attempt. In part 2, Dan clings hard to his wife Beth and his daughter Ellen, desperate for normalcy again. He eagerly grants them their dream gifts: a new home in the suburbs and a pet bunny rabbit, respectively. As we return to the film, Beth and Ellen are still oblivious to the family's pregnant stalker.

One more thing: I realize this retrospective would have been less...

The Twilight Zone remains one of the most groundbreaking pieces of television ever made. Rod Serling's supernatural anthology series delivered dozens of classic episodes, cloaking moral lessons in clever twist endings, and ranging from the hilarious to the utterly terrifying. It lasted five seasons and was minted a masterpiece almost before it was off the air. In retrospect, it bowed out just in time, with its creative well running dry by Serling's own admission. It thus avoided jumping the shark, and several direct reboots have only fitfully found the magic that it delivered consistently from beginning to end.

The Twilight Zone famously received a little help from an outside source. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a supernatural anti-war movie which French filmmaker Robert Enrico shot in 1961, and appeared as an episode late in Season 5 as The Twilight Zone was wrapping up. It remains the only episode to come from an outside source,...

“They want crap,” Carolco executive Peter Hoffman once told the Los Angeles Times, “Every time people tell you they don’t, it’s bull. They want crap.” Hoffman was reflecting on the lackluster audience response to the Oscar-nominated Music Box (1989), while sci-fi action blockbusters such as Total Recall (1990) were filling coffers like mad.

Long before independent production houses like Skydance, A24, and Blumhouse were making waves alongside the major studios, Carolco made its name in Hollywood as a backer of lavish action films that included the Rambo series, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Cliffhanger (1993). Carolco’s rise and fall was as epic as one of their blockbuster action films.

It was known as “The Carolco Premium.” While rival indies TriStar and Orion had their share of respectable projects, Carolco led a rise of independent studios by creating and maintaining a blockbuster brand for making the most extravagant actions films of the era.

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Every once in a blue moon we'll take a movie and baton pass it around the team and really dive in. This time Nathaniel's going solo. But if you like this approach to investigate a movie we've gone long and deep before on the following films: Rebecca (1940), West Side Story (1961), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Cabaret (1972), Silence of the Lambs (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Aladdin (1992), and  A League of Their Own (1992) -Editor

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Did you know/remember that Fatal Attraction was released in Paramount's 75th year? I did not but it's a detail that feels somehow right. Founded in 1912, the second oldest of Hollywood's few surviving major studios (Universal predates it) celebrated its diamond anniversary in zeitgeist style with one of its all time most profitable and leggiest hits. The Adrian Lyne thriller, which we'll discuss in three installments, was the second highest...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights is set against the backdrop of the sex industry. New Line’s marketing team had to find a way to sell it.

It was back in October 1997 that the American Film Information Council bestowed upon the movie Boogie Nights the prize of the best marketed film of that month.

Appreciating that it’s a fairly closed shortlist it’ll have been competing against, it was still up against Kiss The Girls, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Devil’s Advocate. Even so, it was still likely to have been something of a split decision. Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie was treading a fine line between the old adage of sex sells, and American censors grappling with material of a fruity nature.

Boogie Nights, if you’re unfamiliar, is a superb film. It’s an ensemble movie set against the backdrop of the American porn industry,...

Kevin Bacon has been plugging away in movies since making his big-screen debut in 1978's highly problematic comedy classic "National Lampoon's Animal House," and has been in so many different kinds of films over the last 47 years that there's a trivia game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, that essentially holds him as the center of the cinema universe. While you can't make as many movies as Bacon has without appearing in more than a few stinkers, I don't think I've ever seen the man give a poor performance. He's been believable as heroes, villains, creeps and milquetoasts, and, despite getting cast in numerous Oscar contenders, has never competed for an Academy Award himself. That's gotta change.

The only bad thing I can say about his most recent project, "The Bondsman," is that it won't get him off the Oscar schneid. That's because it's a streaming horror series for Amazon Prime...

Hollywood wasn’t always big on boundaries, and one Marvel star took things way too far. Back in the day, Kim Basinger found herself in a scene that went off-script, and not in a good way. The incident left her physically scarred and shook her to the core.

Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential | Credits: Warner Bros.

Had that happened today, the backlash would’ve been nuclear. But back then, it barely made waves.

A role in 9 ½ Weeks that left a mark on Kim Basinger – literally and emotionally Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2 (2010) | Credits: Marvel Studios

Kim Basinger walked away from 9 ½ Weeks with more than just a career boost; she left with a literal scar. The 1986 erotic drama, co-starring Mickey Rourke (who played Whiplash in Iron Man 2), wasn’t just steamy on screen. Behind the scenes, stuff got way too real.

The actress later revealed...

Kim Basinger is sharing her thoughts on intimacy coordinators.

In a new interview, the 71-year-old Oscar-winning actress said that she would not have wanted an intimacy coordinator on set while filming the steamy scenes with co-star Mickey Rourke in their 1986 movie 9 1/2 Weeks.

Keep reading to find out more…“I can’t imagine having somebody come up to me and say, ‘Do you mind if they put their hand here?’” Kim told Variety. “That’s just another person in the room. Either we work it out or we don’t. I don’t see all of this need for supervised visits.”

Kim went on to say that movie from director Adrian Lyne earned her a lot of loyal fans.

“It’s a very hard thing to shoot a beautiful love scene,” Kim explained. “You think it’s just lay down with a bunch of baby oil. It’s not.

Hollywood legend Kim Basinger has played every kind of character during her decade-long career. She's been the love interest of Batman, an unofficial Bond girl, and a Bdsm enthusiast, among many others. And while the actress has appeared as some sensual and provocative roles over her long career, she has a controversial view on the need for intimacy coordinators on movie sets.

The actor of films like Batman, 8 Mile, 9½ Weeks and L.A. Confidential, which earned her an Academy Award in 1998, opened up to Variety during a rare interview in which she spoke about her various roles. Basinger spoke about the experience of shooting 9½ Weeks, the steamy 1986 romantic drama co-starring Mickey Rourke where she plays a New York City girl who commits to a Bdsm-style relationship with another New Yorker. Think of an 80s version of Fifty Shades of Grey that didn't evolve from Twilight fan fiction.

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Hollywood is an industry where art and reality can often have blurred lines, but there are few films that have been accused of pushing the boundaries too much, and one of them is 9 ½ Weeks. The 1986 erotic drama starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke and became one of the most controversial films of its time.

Kim Basinger in 9 ½ Weeks | Galactic Films

There were many rumors about the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the two co-stars, and now, decades later, Basinger has finally opened up. So, let’s dive into the story and look at what the actress has to say

9 ½ Weeks director’s controversial methods that pushed Kim Basinger to the edge Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in 9 ½ Weeks | Galactic Films

Adrian Lyne is known for creating erotic thrillers, and this time around, he didn’t just intend to direct 9 ½ Weeks like a movie but orchestrate it like an experience.

Kim Basinger “can’t imagine” what it’s like to work with an intimacy coordinator, despite the practice becoming a new industry norm.

Basinger, whose most recent onscreen role was in the 2017 film “Fifty Shades Darker,” told Variety that she doesn’t understand why intimacy coordinators are used on sets.

“I can’t imagine having somebody come up to me and say, ‘Do you mind if they put their hand here?’” Basinger said. “That’s just another person in the room. Either we work it out or we don’t. I don’t see all of this need for supervised visits.”

She continued, “It’s a very hard thing to shoot a beautiful love scene. You think it’s just lay[ing] down with a bunch of baby oil. It’s not. It can really work your nerves.”

Basinger noted that her own attitude toward sex onscreen is “more European” than “stuffy” American views.

Hollywood is jam-packed with stories of on-set feuds. While some of them are very true (George Clooney still despises David O. Russell), others get exaggerated over time, or simply turn out not to have any basis in reality whatsoever. One famous Hollywood feud that’s turned out to be nothing more than gossip was the rumoured discord between stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke on the set of 9 1/2 Weeks, which was directed by Adrian Lyne.

In a recent, lengthy interview about her career with Variety, Basinger set the record straight, with her saying the rumor is likely due to the fact that neither of them spoke on-set outside of filming. As per Basinger, this was at her request, as it was something she needed in order to get into the character. She says the scene where she meets him for the first time in the grocery store is...

Ben Affleck’s Hollywood career is a fascinating case study in terms of its erratic rise and fall over nearly 3 decades. Since his Oscar-winning debut in Good Will Hunting, Affleck has been a golden property for the industry despite his intermittent stretches of bad moviemaking choices mingling with the good.

Ben Affleck in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) [Credit: Warner Bros.]

The success of Good Will Hunting and Chasing Amy was followed by a drastic downfall due to Gigli and Daredevil. This, in turn, was once again turned into a success with Gone Baby Gone, Argo, The Town, and Gone Girl before Affleck’s career fell into a rut with Batman v Superman and Live by Night.

However, the 2010 film, The Town almost turned one of Affleck’s stretches of success into a bad call for all the actors involved.

Ben Affleck’s The Town was almost an erotic thriller...

Shark action specialist Renny Harlin is back this year with Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart. It now has a distributor in the US, and set for release in 2025.

Filming wrapped on Deep Water, the latest movie from action director Renny Harlin, in February 2024. Almost exactly a year later, it’s been announced that it now has a US distributor: Magenta Light Studios, which put out last year’s excellent horror thriller, Strange Darling. Deep Water is now set for release in US cinemas this year, which potentially means a UK appearance won’t be too far behind.

The disaster thriller sees Harlin return to the realm of sharks, having previously directed the batty cult favourite Deep Blue Sea in 1999. Starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, Deep Water (not to be confused with the saucy Adrian Lyne film of the same title) is about an LA to Shanghai plane journey that goes awry,...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 30, 2025 Marianne Faithfull, Grammy-nominated singer, actress, and muse of Mick Jagger, dies at 78

Marianne Faithfull, the British performer who traveled a bumpy road from fresh-voiced pop star (as well as muse and girlfriend of Rolling Stones‘ frontman Mick Jagger) in the 1960s to homeless heroin addict and ultimately a musical comeback in the late 1970s, died on Thursday in London. She was 78. No cause of death was cited.

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter, and actress Marianne Faithfull,” read a statement from her publicist. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”

Faithfull emerged in the Swinging ’60s, plucked from obscurity by the Stones manager at 16 and in 1964 recorded “As Tears Go By,” becoming an overnight sensation with the Jagger-Keith Richards tune...

Not all Stephen King fans might be aware of the backstory to Stand by Me, the adaptation of his novella The Body, which was part of his 1982 collection Different Seasons. Perhaps some casual movie fans might not even know this film was based on his story. Many of Stephen King’s books have been adapted for the screen, and while he liked most of them, Stand by Me stood out as one of the author’s favorites alongside Shawshank Redemption. King has repeatedly spoken about the emotional impact in several interviews, stating that it was very much a personal story. In fact, it was so deeply personal that when he saw the finished film, he was overwhelmed with emotion and needed a few minutes to gather his thoughts.

Stand by Me was released in 1986, received enthusiastic reviews from critics and audiences alike, and became a commercial success. It's considered to...

When Demi Moore took to the stage to accept her rightful Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for "The Substance," the 62-year-old announced that it was the first time she'd ever received an industry honor of this caliber despite having been working for over 45 years. "30 years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress," she said, "and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have." She continued, "I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it."

She added, "Maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do and as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script...

Sure, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson might be steaming it up now with Babygirl, but if you’re looking for a little throwback that’s part psychological, part erotic thriller, look no further than Paramount+, as Fatal Attraction is now streaming. The year was 1987, Michael Douglas was a silver fox and Glenn Close’s shoulder pads exuded enough sensuality to cause a car crash. It was then that filmmaker Adrian Lyne decided the world needed a little more raw eroticism and picked up James Dearden’s feature-length adaptation of his 1980 short, Diversion. What came to follow is one of the most intensely acted, sexually charged, psychological thrillers in cinematic history. Intrigued? You should be.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. It hit theaters December 20.

In Venice, Kidman won the Best Actress prize for playing Romy, a high-powered CEO whose life is controlled by structure, tight scheduling and an all-too-keen awareness of how she’s perceived at the heights of a male-dominated field. The one thing she cannot control is her sexual urges that haven’t been fulfilled after 19 years of marriage to her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas).

Romy, trapped in her suppressed desires, is quickly undone after she meets Samuel (Dickinson), an intern at her company who transgresses professional boundaries. This dynamic inadvertently fosters a dominant/submissive power play, providing Romy with an unexpected outlet to explore and indulge her kinks.

Through deliciously playful provocations,...

Ana de Armas managed to steal everyone’s heart with her onscreen charm and endearing roles in films, landing a spot among the most sought-after leading ladies in Hollywood. She achieved global fame for her appearances in Blade Runner 2049 and No Time to Die, and she continues to prove her versatility by engaging in various projects across genres.

Ana de Armas in Deep Water / Credits: Hulu

With this in mind, the actress found herself playing an evil seductress opposite Ben Affleck in Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water. Her character was so unlike her previous roles, and this caused a sense of distress in the star thinking she might lose her fans.

Ana de Armas feared her role in Deep Water would cost her career

After the highly successful outing of Daniel Craig’s No Time to Die in 2021, where Ana de Armas played Paloma, the 36-year-old star ventured a...

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Halina Reijn's Babygirl represents an erotic thriller that explores the balance of power and sexuality as a professional high-ranking CEO, portrayed by Nicole Kidman, engages in a forbidden affair with a younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. The director has said that some of her inspiration for the film was the psychosexual thrillers of the '80s and '90s from directors like Paul Verhoeven and Adrian Lyne.

It's fitting then that after a trip to see Babygirl, moviegoers should revisit Lyne's 2002 erotic thriller, Unfaithful. While the director is known more for his Oscar-nominated hits Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal, Unfaithful's simplicity, as it explores a woman's need for the excitement that she seems to be missing, is its biggest strength.

I’ve been seeing variations on the question above on comment boards and social media, and the answer is inevitably a resounding “No. Fucking. Way.” But let’s be clear about what the question really is, since it’s actually two questions at once. The fundamental thing that’s being asked is: Could “Babygirl,” an enthralling high-kink corporate drama, in which Nicole Kidman plays a girlboss who secretly yearns to be dominated and debased, and plays this all out with one of her young male interns…could a male director have gotten away with making that movie today? The answer everyone seems to agree on, with an underlying note of look-how-far-we’ve-come cultural pride, is no. I don’t necessarily disagree — though actually, in a way, I sort of do.

“Babygirl,” written and directed by the volcanically talented Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn, is a gripping movie about a woman who...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Venice Film Festival. A24 releases “Babygirl” in theaters December 25.

The worst thing your partner could possibly say to you after sex, after you’ve said “I love you,” is the dreaded “love you.” No “I.” And that’s not the most demoralizing response Romy (Nicole Kidman) has for an amorous confession by her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) in “Babygirl,” writer/director Halina Reijn’s provocative erotic dramedy that begins and ends with an orgasm. One of them is faked, but in between, this perversely funny and absorbing new film explores the pleasure gap between men and women, and how our inability to talk about sex limits our ability to just do it.

And there’s lots of sex here, with Kidman going raw inside and out for one of her top performances in a career built on risk-taking. That’s...

Movies have been absolutely peerless when it comes to giving the world a chance to gaze at desirable females. What the seventh art has been notoriously bad at is exploring the concept of female desire, in all of its complexities and clandestine, dark-corner complications. This is where Babygirl comes in. An exploration of a charged sexual relationship between a female CEO and her young, male intern that ends up finding freedom in sub-dom dynamics, this drama from Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijns leans heavily into the power structures inherent in such December-May affairs.

Glen Powell seems to be at the height of his Hollywood career. It all started last December when he became a hit star after featuring in the sensational rom-com Anyone But You alongside Sydney Sweeney.

He followed that star power with his next romantic thriller, Hit Man, which he co-wrote and produced. The movie has now earned him his first Golden Globes nomination.

Glen Powell in Hit Man | Credits: Netflix

After Hit Man, the actor went ahead to star in Twisters, a reboot of the 1970s tornado adventure flick, which garnered not only great box office numbers but also met with critical acclaim.

Now, Powell is one of the top leading actors in Hollywood and has a string of upcoming films in his pipeline along with Homewreckers. In this article, we will discuss all that we need to know about the movie.

Glen Powell’s Homewreckers: Release date, cast, plot,...

Glen Powell's new erotic thriller has now found a studio following an intense bidding war that went into the seven figures. After smaller roles in projects like The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014), Powell has become a major movie star. Due largely to the success of Top Gun: Maverick (2022) in which he plays Hangman, Powell has now headlined movies like Anyone But You (2023), Hit Man (2023), and Twisters (2024), and his time as a leading man in Hollywood is set to continue with a number of exciting projects.

THR now reports that Homewreckers, Powell's next project, has landed at Legendary after an enthusiastic bidding war between studios. In addition to the story for the film itself, the package includes an unpublished three-chapter story from Neil M. Paik. Homewreckers, which is described as an "erotic thriller with a sci-fi twist," is reported to have sold to Legendary for a seven-figure sum,...

In a big milestone for Hollywood, Glen Powell has signed a large studio deal for “Homewreckers,” an erotic sci-fi thriller that has swiftly become one of the most anticipated film packages of 2024.

Legendary Studios won a bidding war against major studios such as Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony, and Warner Bros. According to reports, the studio paid a seven-figure payment for the tale rights, followed by another seven-figure deal for screenwriter Neil M. Paik to create and produce the script.

The film is based on Paik’s unpublished three-chapter novella. Powell is expected to star in and produce the project. According to sources, the film would be inspired by well-known sexual thriller directors like Adrian Lyne and modern sci-fi innovators like Alex Garland. This combination provides a distinctive viewing experience.

This acquisition wraps up a successful year for Powell, who is cementing his status as a rising star in Hollywood. His...

Legendary has come out on top of a bidding war for Homewreckers, the erotic thriller with a sci-fi twist that has Glen Powell attached to star and produce.

The package includes an unpublished three-chapter story by Neil M. Paik, who will also write the script.

The deal marks the last major acquisition of the year, occurring just a day or two before Hollywood closes its doors for the holidays. And it’s a doozy, right out of Santa’s workshop. According to sources, the deal involves a seven-figure outright purchase price for the rights to the story as well a seven-figure arrangement for Paik to write the screenplay. He would also serve as a producer.

Legendary, known for its Godzilla x Kong movies as well as the Enola Holmes franchise, beat out Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony and Warner Bros. in chasing Homewreckers. The package hit the town last week, with...

Glen Powell is one hot commodity.

The 36-year-old actor is attached to star and produce Homewreckers, an erotic thriller with a sci-fi twist, and several studios and companies are in a bidding war for the rights, via THR.

Legendary, Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony and Warner Bros. are among the companies making offers for the project, according to the report.

Keep reading to find out more…

The unpublished three-chapter story is by Neil M. Paik, who will also write the script.

Details are being kept under wraps, but sources say that the source material recalls Adrian Lyne, who made 9½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction, and Alex Garland, of Ex Machina and Civil War.

Glen had a big year with Anyone But You, Hit Man, and Twisters, among his latest projects. Find out where he landed on IMDb’s 2024 list!

It’s shaping up to be the last big bidding war of 2024. And it features Glen Powell.

The actor is attached to star and produce Homewreckers, an erotic thriller with a sci-fi twist. It’s a short story package that has several studios and companies hot and bothered.

Legendary, Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony and Warner Bros. are among the companies making offers and in the mix for the project, which was unveiled to the town early in the week.

The unpublished three-chapter story is by Neil M. Paik, who will also write the script. Details are being kept between the sheets, but sources say that the tones are Adrian Lyne, who made steamy thriller 9½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction, and Alex Garland, whose movies such as Ex Machina and Civil War tap into modern anxieties.

This year, hot new projects hitting the Hollywood market in the post-Thanksgiving period has been on the bare side,...

Nicole Kidman was going about her morning routine, focusing on getting her daughter off to school on Monday, when another, surprisingly, routine moment happened — she learned, for the 17th time, that she’d been nominated for a Golden Globe for acting.

This year, the nod is for her performance in Babygirl, the A24 sexual thriller that has Kidman as a high-powered CEO who risks her career and family when she begins an affair with a much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. Her vulnerable performance has already been awarded at this year’s Venice Film Festival and by the National Board of Review.

“To be still relevant in this world and this industry, working on the films that I love, feels wonderful,” Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter just after the Globes nomination was announced. “And to be in such an unusual film that still hasn’t been released [Babygirl is...

Well, that could have been a real train “Crash.” David Cronenberg recently revealed he was offered the directing gig on “Flashdance.”

Cronenberg (“The Shrouds”) said during the Marrakech Film Festival that he turned down directing the 1983 feature, which starred Jennifer Beals as a welder with dreams of becoming a ballerina. “Flashdance” was directed by Adrian Lyne.

Master of body horror Cronenberg may seem like an odd pick to direct the quasi sports film-slash-love story. Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t seem to think so.

“You might be amazed [that producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct,” Croneberg said via Variety. “Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it, and finally I had to say no.”

He added, “I said to them, ‘I will destroy your movie if I direct it!’”

Cronenberg instead went on to direct “Videodrome” and “The Dead Zone,” which...

It's easy to imagine David Cronenberg's Flashdance. The story of an 18-year-old exotic dancer with a welding nozzle grafted to her arm who competes for entry into a secret society attempting to force evolution through erotic "flash dances" wasn't meant for this world. Still, we could spend all day...

Reflecting on his trailblazing career, Canadian icon David Cronenberg felt particular pride for the one project that got away – or, more to the point, that he pushed away with full force: “Flashdance.”

“You might be amazed [that producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct,” Croneberg said at the Marrakech Film Festival on Sunday. “Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it, and finally I had to say no – I said to them, ‘I will destroy your movie if I direct it!’”

David Cronenberg attends the opening ceremony and screening of “The Order” during the 21st Marrakech Film Festival on Nov. 29 in Marrakech, Morocco.

While “Flashdance” honors eventually went to Adrian Lyne – resulting in 1983’s third top grossing film – Cronenberg instead delivered the one-two punch of “The Dead Zone” and “Videodrome” that same year. In doing so, he cemented a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film Forum

The Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

A 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late.

Roxy Cinema

Friday brings Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work on 35mm, while City Dudes returns on Saturday; Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful shows on a print Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial continues.

Museum of the Moving Image

The Frank Oz series has its final weekend.

Metrograph

Three… Extremes, F for Fake, Practical Magic, Man on Wire, A Terra-Cotta Warrior, and Ozu’s Good Morning show on 35mm; Story By Lillian Lee and Absconded Art begin while The World Is a Stage, My Crazy Uncle (or Aunt), Insomnia, and Crush the Strong, Help the Weak continue.

The early 1990s were a good time for the now-moribund genre of the erotic thriller. Mainstream Hollywood was pushing the limits of what audiences wanted to see in terms of sex and nudity, and multiple movies tapped into that sexual zeitgeist. Films like "Poison Ivy" (with Drew Barrymore) and "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" (with Rebecca De Mornay) warned that one's babysitters might be there to take over the family with their sexual wiles, while "The Last Seduction," "Jade," "Sliver," and "Color of Night" tinged standard thrillers with a sexual element. Madonna starred in "Body of Evidence," a movie about a woman who accidentally sexed her partner to death. A lot of the genre's popularity was kicked by the assertive sexuality on display in Adrian Lyne's 1987 ultra-hit "Fatal Attraction." 

The biggest hits of the day were probably Lyne's "Indecent Proposal" and Paul Verhoeven's "Basic Instinct," with the former making $266 million,...

Paris-based Moon a Deal Films has boarded Talal Selhami’s upcoming feature, “The Shelter,” set to pitch at this year’s Atlas Workshops, part of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival.

Moon a Deal will be the film’s development co-producer, joining Moroccan lead producer La Prod. Both companies were founded and are led by Moroccan indie superproducer Lamia Chraibi, who will produce alongside La Prod’s Sophia Menni.

The feature project will tell the story of Leila, an exiled Syrian refugee war survivor who must care for Georges, a former diplomat nearing the end of his life. Being brought so close to the prospect of death awakens ghosts from Leila’s past that the woman must address.

“The Shelter” has already received development backing from the Red Sea Fund and writing support from Morrocan film agency, the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, and will be hoping to score one of the cash...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

An Adrian Lyne retrospective features Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, Lolita, and Foxes on 35mm, while Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work plays on a print Saturday.

Bam

A Shelley Duvall retrospective is underway.

Museum of Modern Art

A celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial begins.

Museum of the Moving Image

A Lana Wilson retrospective begins while the Frank Oz series continues.

Film Forum

As an Ealing Studios retrospective continues, The General screens on Sunday.

Metrograph

The Beaver Trilogy, The Machinist, and The Last Metro show on 35mm; a Crystal Mosell and Derrick B. Harden retrospective begins while The World Is a Stage, My Crazy Uncle (or Aunt), Insomnia, and Crush the Strong, Help the Weak continue.

IFC Center

A 4K restoration of The Fall plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads,...

If you were missing Adrian Lyne-style erotic thrillers — or even thought that such erotic thrillers were no longer possible — watch the second trailer for “Babygirl,” director Halina Reijn’s scorcher starring an uninhibited Nicole Kidman as a CEO having an affair with a younger man (Harris Dickinson) who also happens to be in her employ.

But that power dynamic may not be exactly what it seems. Dickinson’s character, a late 20-something intern, is also into domination and submission dynamics in his relationships, and indeed appears to swiftly take the control of their sexual connection. Is this guy a threat?

Reijn’s film takes on issues of power and control in relationships in the fearless way viewers haven’t been accustomed to seeing in some time. “Babygirl” was a sensation at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, with many critics and journalists in attendance hailing it as the legendary actress’s...

Paul Teal, who recurred as the closeted actor Josh Avery on the seventh season of The CW drama One Tree Hill, has died. He was 35.

Teal died Friday after a battle with cancer, according to his reps. “His exceptional talent and kind spirit touched the hearts of everyone who had the privilege of knowing him,” the Stw Talent Agency announced. “The void he leaves behind will be deeply felt.”

“Paul, you were my soulmate, my soon-to-be-husband, my rock, and my future,” his fiancée, Emilia Torello, wrote on Instagram. “You filled my lungs with laughter, my stomach with butterflies, and my heart with love. You were taken too soon, in a battle that you fought bravely without fail.”

She continued, “While a part of me died with you, I promise to fight to find joy in life as hard as you fought to live every single day.”

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Mick Jackson's "The Bodyguard" is one of the lousiest blockbusters ever made. It's no secret why the film, which grossed a stunning $411 million globally ($924 million in 2024 dollars) on a $25 million budget, caught on with audiences: Kevin Costner playing the Steve McQueen-esque guardian of Whitney Houston, who belts out her biggest hit ever at the end of the movie ("I Will Always Love You"), was just a crazy zeitgeisty combination of superstars in 1992. Even though the B+ Cinemascore indicates it didn't hit the sweetest of spots with moviegoers, the hook and that song proved irresistible.

So what if the R-rated action-romance played like the chastest Adrian Lyne movie ever made, or the 17-year-old screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan was a by-the-numbers bore? Did it matter that Costner and Houston had absolutely zero chemistry, or that critics generally abhorred the film?...

In 2011, French thesps Omar Sy and Anne Le Ny co-starred in the comedy hit “Untouchable.” Now, the two are reunited in the domestic thriller “Out of Control,” with “Lupin” star Sy in one of the leading roles next to Elodie Bouchez, José Garcia and Vanessa Paradis, while Le Ny serves as director and Axella Cachman’s co-writer.

“There was a real bond and warmth between us then, which was easy to revive 13 years later,” says Le Ny, who shared the screen time with Matt Damon in “Stillwater” and earned her first writing/helming kudos for her breakthrough movie “Those Who Remain” (2008).

Her seventh pic as helmer, “Out of Control (“Dis moi juste que tu m’aimes”) world premieres at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival official competition on Nov. 16, is being produced by Move Movie’s Bruno Levy, in co-production with Sy’s production company Korokoro, France 2 Cinéma and La Compagnie Cinématographique & Panache Productions,...

Hulu – the American streaming service started back in 2008. While its main focus was on TV content owned by NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company, the service has recently delved into churning out Original movie content. While Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are still known as the actual beasts for Movie Originals, Hulu original Films are slowly crawling up to form in line. While the streaming service has mostly looked towards non-fictional storytelling, the list will only consist of the major films they have produced. If you are searching for the Best movies to watch on Hulu, this will be a safe place. Please note that this is an ever-updating list so there will be changes made to it on a regular basis. Here are some of the Best Hulu Original Films ranked from Worst to Best:

22. The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Based on the book “Chasing the Scream:...