Jordan Peele-produced sports horror movie, ‘Him,’ gets a trailer
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The new trailer for the Jordan Peele-produced sports horror film Him leaves it all on the field.
Marlon Wayans stars as a championship quarterback who offers to train a rising football star played by Tyriq Withers. But as we see in the teaser, his means of achieving success may have sinister consequences.
“If you want to transcend the game, you have to dig deep,” Wayans’ character says in the trailer. “Your mind and your body have to be in sync. Talent is how hard you’re willing to work. No days off. No sleep. We grind. I’m never good enough … that’s how great people think.”
He continues, “So you’re gonna have to ask yourself: what am I willing to sacrifice?”
The film, directed by Justin Tipping, also stars Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, Akeem Hayes and Tierra Whack. It hits theaters Sept. 19.
Joy Behar returns to the stage in her new play, My First Ex-Husband.
Written by Behar over the span of 12 years, the new show features a rotating cast of actresses playing women who tell stories about the people they used to be married to. While fictional, the play is based on interviews Behar conducted with women in her life. It opens off-Broadway on Thursday, and The View co-host says it’s great to finally be producing something she spent so much time writing.
“I had to find people who were willing to talk about their first marriage,” Behar said. “Everything is anonymous, obviously, and the names are changed. The places are changed, the dates, all sorts of things. No one will recognize who they are. So, that took a while.”
Performing alongside Behar is one of her best friends of over 40 years, actress Susie Essman.
“People say to me, ‘How come you never had a fight with each other?’ We never fought. We never had a problem. And I’ve had girlfriends that have ghosted me or I’ve ghosted them over the years, you know. But not her,” Behar said.
She says she loves performing her own comedy for the instant feedback of laughter.
“With the drama, you don’t know if they’re crying. You don’t even know if they’re moved or touched. You can’t tell,” Behar said. “I like to have that immediate response. It might be my own insecurities, I don’t know. But that’s what it is. So, I like comedy.”
While My First Ex-Husband is funny, Behar says it has its serious moments.
“I was surprised at how funny it was, frankly,” Behar said. “Because it is poignant. I mean, a divorce is not a happy occasion. And yet, when you talk about what happened in retrospect and with distance, it’s funny.”
Disney has released the teaser trailer for Freakier Friday, its sequel to the 2003 live-action comedy film Freaky Friday.
The film, which arrives in theaters on Aug. 8, stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, who reprise their roles as Anna and Tess Coleman.
The duo switch bodies again in this new film, now decades after the first go-around, but there’s a new multigenerational twist. Lohan’s Anna now has a daughter of her own, along with a soon-to-be stepdaughter.
As they navigate the challenges of merging two families together, the teaser trailer also reveals that this time around there’s a four-way body swap between Anna, Tess, Anna’s daughter and Anna’s stepdaughter.
“Oh, that’s interesting. Your lifelines, it’s like they’ve intersected before. You’ve walked in each other’s path,” a character played by Vanessa Bayer tells Anna and Tess in the trailer. “You learned a lesson. A lesson that may serve you again.”
Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao are all reprising their roles from the first film.
Joining them are new cast members Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Sophia Hammons and Julia Butters.
The first Freaky Friday film was based on the 1972 Mary Rodgers novel of the same name.
Nisha Ganatra directs Freakier Friday, from a script written by Jordan Weiss.
Anora was the big winner at the 97th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
The independent, Neon-distributed film, directed by Sean Baker, took home the biggest award of the evening with best picture. It also won best actress, best director, best editing and best original screenplay.
After the ceremony, Baker and the film’s star, Mikey Madison, spoke to press backstage about how surreal it was for the film to have won five Oscars.
“I never thought anything like this would happen in my life,” Madison said. “I love making movies and I’ve dreamed of being an actress that would be able to be in a film like Anora my entire career as an actress. It’s a huge honor, one that I think will soak in later down the line, hopefully.”
The film follows a young sex worker from Brooklyn who marries the son of a Russian oligarch after a whirlwind romance. While speaking to press after his four Oscar wins, Baker said he thinks sex work should be decriminalized.
“It’s our oldest profession, yet it has an incredible, unfair stigma applied to it,” Baker said. “What I’ve been trying to do with my films is sort of chip away at that very unfair stigma. Personally, I think it should be decriminalized, and I guess through my work, through hopefully humanizing my characters that are usually seen as perhaps caricatures in most film and television, it will help do that.”
