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Warning: This review contains spoilers. If it didn't, I can think of no way to review it at all, short of summarizing the first three minutes and then telling you some very strange stuff happens. My advice: If you plan to see the film (which I do not recommend), hold the review until afterward.

Whenever I hear about aliens who abduct human subjects and carry them off in spaceships and conduct weird experiments on them and shove scientific probes where the sun don't shine, I ask myself this question: Why do these alien visitations always seem to be aimed at just those kinds of people who are most likely to believe in them? Why do the aliens always pick people who summer at Roswell, N.M., instead of choosing someone like Stephen Hawking , Howard Stern or Dick Cheney?

"The Forgotten" is not a good movie, but at least it supplies a credible victim. Julianne Moore plays Telly Paretta, a mother who for 14 months has mourned her 9-year-old son, Sam. He died in a plane crash along with nine other kids. Her psychiatrist ( Gary Sinise ) wonders if perhaps she is ... enhancing ... her memories of Sam. She tries to limit her daily visits to photo albums and home videos, and then, one horrifying day, she finds that all her photos and videos of Sam have vanished!

She blames her husband ( Anthony Edwards ), but then she gets the bad news: She never had a son. She had a miscarriage. All of her memories of Sam have been fabricated in some kind of post-traumatic-syndrome scenario. The shrink and her husband agree: no Sam. In desperation, she turns to a neighbor ( Dominic West ), whose daughter also died in the same crash. He tells her he never had a daughter.

How can this be? She remembers Sam so clearly. So do we, because the director, Joseph Ruben , supplies repeated reruns of her memories, or home movies, I'm not sure which, and there's Sam smiling at the camera and playing in the park and looking defiantly pre-traumatic.

But how, and why, would her husband, and her shrink, and her neighbor, and her other neighbor, and even the New York Times, completely forget about Sam and the crash and all those little kids? The most likely hypothesis is that Telly is crazy and everybody else is right. But who would make a movie about a mother discovering her beloved child was imaginary? That would be too sad, too tragic, and, for that matter, too thought-provoking and artistically challenging, and might even make a good movie.

So we determine that Telly is not crazy. Therefore, she had a son, and she is the only person whose memory of Sam has not been erased. The whole world is arrayed against her. Even the federal government is her enemy. She's trailed by agents for the National Security Agency, who are sinister but astonishingly incompetent. A local cop ( Alfre Woodard ) wonders why the feds are involved: "They don't chase missing children." Being a woman, she of course intuitively believes Telly while all of the logical males diagnose her as a hysteric. She is a great help to Telly until she is suddenly pulled off the case, so to speak.

I will not spoil details of the last act, except to say that it is preposterous, and undoes a good deal of sympathy which Moore's performance has built up in the earlier scenes. There comes a point at which even the most patient moviegoer wearies of chases in which frantic female book editors outrun trained male agents. In which there is a large empty warehouse/hangar space for a dramatic confrontation. In which the Talking Killer Syndrome, by which the villain explains his misdeeds, is not a flaw but is desperately necessary if the plot is ever to be explained at all.

I will content myself with the very final scenes. You know, the ones in the playground. How are they possible? What repairs were necessary to the fabric of the physical world and remembered events? Who keeps track of this stuff? How come such stupid experiments are carried out by beings so superbly intelligent as to be able to conduct them? The movie begins with a premise: A mother remembers her lost son, and everyone she trusts tells her she only imagines she had a son. That's a great story idea. But it's all downhill from there. "The Forgotten" is best left.

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Forgotten Love explained & the true story behind the book

Forgotten Love has represented one of the most exciting movies released on Netflix in the second half of 2023. Based on a famous Polish book, the film tells the fascinating story of Rafal Wilczur, a brilliant surgeon who loses his memory and starts a second life, reuniting by chance with his daughter. The plot is pretty complicated, and the ending leaves many questions unanswered. Also, viewers have been curious to know if there was a true story behind it, and the book is factually inspired by two real cases mentioned by the author. Everything will be explained in this article.

You can watch the official trailer for Forgotten Love here on Youtube .

Forgotten Love plot & ending explained: who tried to kill Rafal?

The plot of Forgotten Love follows the life of Dr. Rafal Wilczur, a brilliant surgeon living in Poland with his wife and his little daughter. Rafal is a passionate doctor who provides help also for poor people who don’t have insurance. However, his wife shows signs of depression at home, and one day, she leaves with her daughter. Rafal tries to find her, but he gets attacked by a group of bandits. We see an enigmatic scene: while Rafal gets beaten, his colleague, Dr. Jerzy Dobraniecki, arrives; he watches Rafal lose consciousness and leaves without helping him. From that, we understand he wanted him out of the game so he could become the Chief Surgeon in the clinic.

As Forgotten Love has explained, according to the newspaper, Rafal is believed dead, although his body was never found. His wife will start a new life elsewhere, and his daughter will grow up. Years later, we discover that Rafal is still alive: he completely loses his memory and doesn’t remember who he is. But he can still use all his exceptional medical skills and help people out of his natural passion. We slowly discover that Marysia is his daughter: she grew up believing her father committed suicide, but at the ending of Forgotten Love , she understands that Rafal is her biological father.

The interesting part of the plot in Forgotten Love is that Rafal still doesn’t remember what happened to him years before, but that doesn’t exclude that one day he will. This scares Dr. Dobraniecki: if Rafal regains his memory, he can accuse him of complicity or failure to assist, causing a scandal (he’s a renowned doctor). That’s why Dobraniecki asks his lover, Zoska, to call him immediately if he shows signs he’s regaining memory. Also, at the trial, Dobraniecki proposes to take Rafal under his custody and treat his memory: he’s probably more interested in preventing him from ever regaining his memory again so his reputation will be safe.

The plot and the ending of Forgotten Love have explained the story of a character who reunites with his destiny: Marysia will officially recognize Rafal as her father, and society will identify him as Dr. Rafal Wilczur, reconnecting with his true story. At the ending of Forgotten Love, Rafal will marry Zoska, and Marysia gets married to Count Leszek Czynski.

Will Rafal Wilczur ever regain his memory? Forgotten Love is based on the book Znachor ( The Quack ) by Polish author Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz: in that book, Rafal Wilczur doesn’t manage to get his memory back. However, the novel was so successful in Poland that the writer decided to work on a sequel. The following novel is titled Professor Wilczur , and yes, in that book, Rafal Wilczur regains his memory and tries to get back to his former job in the clinic .

Is there a true story behind the book?

The events depicted by Forgotten Love are so fascinating that people wonder if there is a true story inspiring the book and the movie. The author of the book, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, had the chance to explain it: the character of Rafal Wilczur is fictional, born from his fantasy, but two real-life events inspired him for this story .

Around 1936, the writer visited Radotki, a small village in east-central Poland. There, he met a mysterious man called Różycki: he worked in a water mill, but his knowledge of medicine and herbalism allowed him to receive patients from the village. It is said that many people preferred to be treated by him instead of real doctors. Różycki became the main inspiration for Rafal Wilczur and his novel Znachor – The Quack.

Another source was an article that the Polish newspaper ABC published one year before: the piece of news was about a doctor, Dr. Ferdynand Dolani, who regularly graduated in medicine in Brussels. However, he moved to Poland and concealed his medical degree, practicing as a quack. He believed in the ethical duty of helping others, and since most people were losing faith in real doctors, he preferred to act as a quack.

So the movie Forgotten Love , and the book it’s based on, is not a true story, but the author who wrote it got his inspiration from two real stories he discovered in those years.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Forgotten Battle’ on Netflix, A Dutch War Film With Some Personal Points Of View

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The Forgotten Battle (Netflix), a Dutch Second World War drama from director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. (he directed that prequel to The Thing a few years back), looks at the 1944 Battle of the Scheldt from three different perspectives: The German occupation, the Dutch resistance, and the Allied soldiers. With a budget of around $16 million, The Forgotten Battle is one of the most expensive Dutch films ever made.

THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: It’s September 1944, three months after the Allied invasion of Normandy. Germany has been forced to withdraw to the east, and Antwerp, with its port facilities vital to Allied resupply, has already been liberated. Problem is, the Nazis still control the River Scheldt, Antwerp’s deep water route to the North Sea, and they’re dug in hard on Walcheren Island, at the Western mouth of the river. All of Zeeland is banking on liberation any day, and German forces are shifty and tense in the region. Teuntje (Susan Radder) works in the mayor’s office, where the Netherlands’ grudging appeasement of the Germans seems to finally be at an end. But it’s not that simple, as the Wehrmacht reinforce their presence in preparation of fighting a delaying action. The forces of Commandant Oberst Berghof (Justus von Dohnanyi) also begin rounding up local boys as agitators, including Teunt’s brother Dirk (Ronald Kalter).

Meanwhile, out on the Russian front, Marinus Van Stavern (Gijs Blom) is a Dutch member of the Wehrmacht infantry. Wounded, he’s recovering in a field hospital when he meets an embittered second lieutenant (he lost his legs), who spits out a quote from Goebbels. “If you tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough, eventually people will come to believe it.” And before he knows it, Van Stavern is transferred to a desk job in Zeeland as Berghof’s personal secretary. At the same time, across the Channel in Dorset, RAF paratrooper Will Sinclair (Jamie Flatters) is the pilot of a towed glider alongside his First Officer, Turner (Tom Felton of Harry Potter fame). When they join a massive Operation Market Garden reconnaissance squadron, their bird is promptly struck by German 88mm cannon fire and they ditch in the flooded estuary of the River Scheldt.

While it’s clear that these individuals and their respective points of view will converge, it’s a thrill to watch The Forgotten Battle get around to finally making it happen. As Teuntje is recruited by the Dutch resistance for a daring mission, Van Stavern is transferred to a defensive emplacement on Walcheren Island, and Sinclair makes it to the Canadian Army lines, where he joins them in brutal assault over the muddy causeways on the heavily-fortified Wehrmacht positions. The war journey is never in a straight line for anyone, no matter their side.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of? It’s always interesting to view the events of the Second World War from beyond Hollywood’s perspective. The 2017 Norwegian film The 12th Man dramatizes the escape of resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud from the Nazis’ clutches after an operation gone wrong. Black Book , meanwhile, was Paul Verhoven’s 2006 war drama starring Carice “Melisandre of Asshai” van Houten that also became one of the Netherlands’ most successful films ever. 2008’s Max Manus: Man of War , meanwhile, starred Aksel Hennie as the titular hero of Norway’s fight against German occupation.

Performance Worth Watching: Jamie Flatters brings a cocksure and square-jawed confidence to his early scenes as a glider operations pilot in the RAF’s No. 644 Squadron. But as Will Sinclair is shot down, and he slogs his way through enemy territory to the Canadian lines before joining the Canucks’ infantry assault, his natural bravado curdles into jaded resolve.

Memorable Dialogue: “Liberation. That was a misunderstanding. The Germans are back.” Dr. Visser (Jan Bijvoet) makes this observation to Teuntje gravely, as columns of Wehrmacht infantry that days before were trudging out of Zeeland are marching back in. “The Allies never crossed our border.”

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Our Take: Draped in an overcast pallor that emulates cloud cover over the European peninsula as much as it does the dour, dangerous business of war and occupation, The Forgotten Battle does its best to portray big picture scope even as it dials in on the three individual stories at its core. Whether it’s Teuntje arguing with her hothead brother Dirk over the relative merit of the larger resistance movement versus preservation of family, life, and limb, or the varying states of willingness to get in the fight represented by the members of Will’s stick who get stuck playing cat and mouse with German patrols in the Dutch muck, or Van Stavern’s drastic shift in personal philosophy as he bears more and more witness to a German Army left with only sadism and blind allegiance to der Fuhrer , the strings Forgotten Battle pulls on are never less than taut, twisty, and fraying. It’s as the legless lieutenant tells Van Stavern. “There is no such thing as good.” And then he puts a Luger in his mouth.

Credit van Heijningen, Jr., too, with staging some gripping war action. His camera assumes the point of view of the paratroopers in the payload of Sinclair and Turner’s glider, then pans upward through the glass of the pilots’ cabin to take in the massive scope of the squadron as it flies over the English Channel. Elsewhere in Forgotten , as the Canadian troops march into the teeth of the German emplacements, tracers lance overhead as troops leap desperately into the craters of previous artillery barrages. It offers more than a measure of the extreme effort expended in human beings and materiel for what often amounts to utter futility.

Our Call: STREAM IT. The Forgotten Battle approaches the scope of a war epic in look and feel while keeping its focus on the disparate trio of individuals at its core, fated to meet in war.

Will you stream or skip the Dutch war film #TheForgottenBattle on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) October 16, 2021

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Netflix Film Forgotten / ??? ? tells the story of a man who has lost his memory from the last 19 days. His brother is determined to seek the truth of his kidnapping. The film is directed by Hang-Jun Jang and stars Kang Ha-neul and Kim Mu-yeol.

In the opening of Forgotten / ??? ? , you are immediately introduced to Jin-seok (Kang Ha-neul) who, straight after what seems a terrifying flashback, is woken up at the back of a car with his happy family as they venture to their new house. Jin-seok proceeds to narrate for a few minutes describing his brother Yoo-seok (Kim Mu-yeol) and his deep admiration for him. You could argue that his soppy anecdote about his brother’s life and their inseparable relationship is a little overkill but, as the South Korean mystery movie progresses, you begin to realise that everything has a purpose.

The Netflix film has constructed itself solely around major twists and surprises. After his brother’s kidnapping and his odd return from abduction, you begin to realise that Forgotten / ??? ? is setting up the viewer to be tricked. Whilst the movie does not cheat with the plot turns, you can almost sense it fancies its own story slightly too much.

Without giving away any spoilers, which I’ve begun to realise is pretty difficult for this film, Jin-seok starts discovering suspicious events and the behaviour of his brother starts to irk him. By the time the movie reaches the second act, the kidnapping becomes irrelevant in the grand scheme of the plot. The film’s odd jumpy moments will take you by surprise, and it manages to tease you to question the character’s surroundings. As an audience, you fully appreciate you are being led down a specific path and it is pretty difficult to swerve yourself away from it.

If the weird, odd, smiley brother does not make you question the story, the small room upstairs in the house will. Apparently, no one is allowed to enter the room because the previous owner has not collected their things yet, and in film-like fashion, the door to the room is locked. Other unusual events occur which lead to a revealing third act. Forgotten / ??? ? is complex, eerie and directs you through the eyes of Jin-seok only. There is no way you can figure it out immediately.

The mystery film is not exactly perfect despite an interesting concept. It fails to flow between each major event. At one point, you fear that the movie is turning into some boring action “cat and mouse” stuff, but it manages to pick up the mystery again to compel you with plot reveals that were unknown before. By the time you reach the hour mark, you just want to know what is going on. The odd aura surrounding the brother loses its appeal as it has been dragged on for too long. Due to the overexplained nature of the plot, you do begin to lose care for Jin-seok. Ten minutes could have easily been cut off.

Forgotten / ??? ? boasts some solid performances. Kang Ha-heul maintains a character that is anxious but at the same time holds such admiration for his brother that you sense his doubt beginning to betray his trust. Kim Mu-yeol has a slightly different performance to maintain, one that keeps his character at bay without intruding too much on the story to allow the audience to naturally reach the conclusions themselves. Without these performances, the film may have lacked a little punch with its disjointed flow between acts.

The Netflix film could have benefitted from a faster pace and more freaky jumpy moments to keep you engaged in the mystery. Instead, the movie succumbs itself to the cleverness of the twist rather than focus on the strength of the characters. If you know the twists are solid, you do not need to spend so long celebrating them. Overall, director Hang-Jung Hang has made a decent one-time mystery thriller that unfortunately will be easy to forget. The plot twists are dramatic on paper but do not feel impactful once you come across them.

With all its efforts, Netflix film Forgotten / ??? ? will definitely surprise you. I highly doubt you will figure out the true nature of the situation, making you slightly surprised by the outcome. Whilst it is worth watching, you will not find the South Korean mystery movie memorable.

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The forgotten battle - movie review.

Ever heard of World War II’s Battle of the Schelde? No? How about the battle of the Walcheren Causeway? Probably not, right?

Though both of these battles were preemptive components of the much larger Operation Market Garden to come later, the fact that virtually no one – save for the hardest of military buffs – has even heard of these two decisive battles is very much the point of Matthijs van Heijningen ’s new film called The Forgotten Battle .

But even more important than these battles themselves were the people – the nameless individuals – who became unlikely components of the Allies’ efforts during Word War II. And that is where van Heijningen places his focus: on the everyday people who were responsible for turning the course of the war. And that’s what makes The Forgotten Battle so thoroughly engrossing. Rather than from a mile high view squinting down on hulking machinery, gunfire, and death, we experience war from the eyes of those who were directly affected by it. Those on both sides who were soldiers and citizens. In other words, war gets personal in The Forgotten Battle as we’re dropped into the middle of hell on Earth.

van Heijningen centers his narrative on three individuals whose story’s play out simultaneously. Similar to the three-fold, time-bending narrative on display in Nolan ’s Dunkirk – albeit without the time-bending part, we swap back and forth between the adventures of a young Dutch woman, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch soldier who reluctantly sides with the Germans.

We meet a young Dutch woman, Teuntje (Dutch actress, Susan Radder ), the daughter of a local doctor who provides aid to Nazi soldiers. She works for the office of the local town’s mayor and does her best to keep a low profile under her town’s Axis-occupied rule. Things take a turn for the worse, however, when her teenage brother Dirk (Dutch actor, Ronald Kalter ) accidentally kills three Nazi soldiers. Teuntje’s subsequent struggle to convince the Germans to show mercy on her brother, eventually reveals Dirk’s clandestine involvement with the underground resistance.

Joining the fight near Antwerp, Holland is Will ( Jamie Flatters , TV’s Liar ), a British glider pilot hungry for a mission, any mission. He gets his wish when flung into action behind German lines alongside the Canadian forces who have come to free a small Dutch town near the occupied Walcheren Causeway.

As expected, the lives of these three individuals and their respective points of view eventually converge in a single time and place, but it is their journeys that make for such an enjoyable experience. Even though their choices and journeys differed, they all three ended up in the same place with the same goal: freedom.

Featuring three languages: Dutch, German, and English (with subtitles), the production of The Forgotten Battle played out on a massive scale. In fact, it boasts the second largest budget of any Dutch film, trailing only Black Book, another war film. And the money was well spent as every set piece and every detail is immaculately rendered with grit and grime dotting every scene. As a result, the film’s production quality rivals anything Hollywood puts out. And strap in for one of the most intense battle scenes in quite some time, as we’re along for the ride when a glider being towed behind enemy lines gets ripped to shreds right before our eyes. Brutal stuff. You can let go of the arm rest now. It is only a movie.

Matching the same level of its production quality is the emotional heft the story carries. van Heijningen does a masterful job of capturing the ultra-wide scope of war, even as he drills down to the individual emotions and stories of it three main characters. That’s a very difficult thing to pull off, but his The Forgotten Battle is sure to satisfy history buffs as well as fans of well-crafted personal journeys. There’s plenty of good stuff for everyone – from a fascinating perspective of the underground resistance, to the harrowing plight of glider pilots, to the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by wartime citizens, The Forgotten Battle will be a tough one to shake. It’s that good.

Grab your weapon and fall in. We’re going to war. The Forgotten Battle is now playing on Netflix.

MPAA Rating: Unrated. Runtime: 124 mins Director : Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Writer: Paula van der Oest Cast: Gijs Blom; Jamie Flatters; Susan Radder Genre : War Tagline: Three young people in the middle of a war. Their choices differ, their goal is the same: freedom. Memorable Movie Quote: "We're not giving ourselves up. If we do that, we're as good as dead. I'd rather drown." Distributor: Netflix Official Site: https://www.netflix.com/title/81166791/ Release Date: October 15, 2021 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Synopsis : 1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.

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In THE FORGOTTEN, Telly (Julianne Moore) mourns her son Sam, who died along with five other children on a plane to summer camp fourteen months before. Her therapist, Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise), that she still spends time every day going through Sam's dresser drawer, watching him in home movies on video, looking at him in photographs. Dr. Munce tells her that it's just "memory, doing its job." While Telly's memory is failing her when it comes to everyday issues, she thinks of Sam every minute. Dr. Munce tells her that "sometimes the mind needs help in letting a thing go." But Telly does not want help. Then, her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) tells her something shocking. There never was a Sam. Telly has been mentally ill, suffering from "paramnesia" since her miscarriage. Jim and Dr. Munce have been trying to lead her gradually back to reality. All external evidence of Sam has disappeared and no one remembers him. Who should Telly believe? She trusts her husband and doctor. But somehow she believes what she remembers, even though it seems to make no sense.

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The Forgotten does a pretty good job of creating the atmosphere early on, keeping us as unbalanced and unsure of what to believe as Telly is. But then the plot goes off in a direction that is so nutty, even by movie standards, that it is just plain silly, leaving so many holes that it knocks us out of that nice creepy atmosphere and into oh-come-off-it-land. It feels like the screenwriters had no idea where to go and so just randomly spun the wheel of movie genres to pick an ending. They should have spun again.

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In theaters : September 24, 2004
On DVD or streaming : January 18, 2005
Cast : Anthony Edwards , Gary Sinise , Julianne Moore
Director : Joseph Ruben
Inclusion Information : Female actors
Studio : Columbia Tristar
Genre : Thriller
Run time : 90 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : intense thematic material, some violence and brief language
Last updated : March 16, 2023

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Forgotten Cillian Murphy film soars up Netflix charts – despite terrible reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score

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Published : 12:13, 26 Apr 2024
Updated : 15:39, 26 Apr 2024
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A NAIL-BITING thriller starring Cillian Murphy has recently climbed up the Netflix charts after going under the radar.

The Oppenheimer sensation plays a CIA agent, Leonard Miller, in the movie Anna.

A Cillian Murphy movie is climbing up the charts

The film , which also stars Helen Mirren and Luke Evans , sees Sasha Luss in the titular role as a former KGB agent turned model Anna Poliatova.

Anna is forced to return to her assassin roots and avenge her former employer in exchange for her freedom.

The Cillian thriller has proved popular on Netflix , becoming the fourth most-watched film globally on the streaming platform.

The synopsis for the 2019 film reads: "Beneath a woman's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the most feared assassins on the planet.”

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At the time of its release, Anna didn't perform well with critics and received a score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently, the film still has the same ratings on the review site.

Luc Besson, the creator of the action thriller Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson and Taken featuring Liam Neeson directed the movie.

For UK viewers Anna is also available to rent or buy via Prime Video and Apple TV+.

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Following his Oscar win at the 2024 Academy Awards, Cillian has signed on for the upcoming film adaptation of the bestselling book Blood Runs Coal by author Mark A. Bradley.

With many fans asking if the 47-year-old will be returning as Tommy Shelby in a much-anticipated Peaky Blinders film, show boss Steven Knight confirmed that Cillain is ready for action.

Speaking to the BirminghamWorld Steven said "He definitely is returning for it," before announcing that filming will begin "in September just down the road in Digbeth".

Helen Mirren and Luke Evans also star in Anna

The Irish star was also previously being strongly tipped to take the lead role of James Bond .

However, now the bookies are putting the actor as the frontrunner to play the new Bond villain.

Anna is available on Netflix globally, except in the UK and Ireland, where it can be rented or bought via Prime Video and Apple TV+.

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Forgotten Cillian Murphy film soars up Netflix charts – despite terrible reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score

Mamie Serah Mboob
Published : 7:13 ET, Apr 26 2024
Updated : 11:09 ET, Apr 26 2024
Published : Invalid Date,

A NAIL-BITING thriller starring Cillian Murphy has recently climbed up the Netflix charts after going under the radar.

The Oppenheimer sensation plays a CIA agent, Leonard Miller, in the movie Anna.

The film, which also stars Helen Mirren and Luke Evans , sees Sasha Luss in the titular role as a former KGB agent turned model Anna Poliatova.

Anna is forced to return to her assassin roots and avenge her former employer in exchange for her freedom.

The Cillian thriller has proved popular on Netflix, becoming the fourth most-watched film globally on the streaming platform.

The synopsis for the 2019 film reads: "Beneath a woman's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the most feared assassins on the planet.”

At the time of its release, Anna didn't perform well with critics and received a score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently, the film still has the same ratings on the review site.

Luc Besson, the creator of the action thriller Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson and Taken featuring Liam Neeson directed the movie.

For UK viewers Anna is also available to rent or buy via Prime Video and Apple TV+.

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Following his Oscar win at the 2024 Academy Awards, Cillian has signed on for the upcoming film adaptation of the bestselling book Blood Runs Coal by author Mark A. Bradley.

With many fans asking if the 47-year-old will be returning as Tommy Shelby in a much-anticipated Peaky Blinders film, show boss Steven Knight confirmed that Cillain is ready for action.

Speaking to the BirminghamWorld Steven said "He definitely is returning for it," before announcing that filming will begin "in September just down the road in Digbeth".

The Irish star was also previously being strongly tipped to take the lead role of James Bond.

However, now the bookies are putting the actor as the frontrunner to play the new Bond villain.

Anna is available on Netflix globally, except in the UK and Ireland, where it can be rented or bought via Prime Video and Apple TV+.

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Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver Reviews

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This space opera sequel doesn’t quite capture the worldbuilding magic of its predecessor.

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Put this in the time capsule as the simplest example of the streaming era’s hubris. The first Rebel Moon movie was so decidedly not an actual movie that it didn’t irk me. I am now irked. I hath been irked. I’m in a remarkable state of irk.

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Simply put, its space opera is utter nonsense. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Apr 25, 2024

Is this a work of imagination that no studio would touch because it wasn’t attached to some exploitable IP?... Whatever the answer... the one thing we can say that The Scargiver is is a bad movie.

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Seven Samurai, one of this film’s unequivocal inspirations, had three hours to endear us to the seven village defenders... Rebel Moon had four hours, and I still can’t confidently name three of the warriors.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 24, 2024

Zach Snyder's wheat loving sci-fi epic (I prefer spice) has concluded. If you put the two films together you get over four hours of the most generic and bland characters, more slow motion than you can stomach, and callbacks to better IPs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 23, 2024

The second hour kicks in and Snyder gets down to doing what he does best. The glacial pacing of the first 60 minutes gives way to an action-packed second half that’s full of exciting set pieces and cool combat in spite of its obvious PG-13 edit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2024

Zack Snyder is the Golden Corral of directors. The food might not taste very good, but like a buffet, you get everything.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2024

Although it has arguably better visuals and pacing than the first film, the story, character development, and depth deteriorate even further, preventing the sequel from even eclipsing its predecessor, which was already a notoriously low bar.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 23, 2024

The film is egregiously long for what it is: simply Seven Samurai dipped in a thin glaze of rebels-vs-empire interstellar intrigue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2024

Turn away from your screens. Go for a walk. Start your own wheat-threshing collective. Anything but suffer through this.

Rebel Moon was an overlong mess, but it had its moments. This sequel, however, isn’t a mess -- it’s a wreck.

Snyder is an effective but totally superficial iconoclast; an architect of moments that should be exciting but are incapable of capturing or producing emotions no matter how much he follows the recipe. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 23, 2024

With a terrible pace, disappointing writing and action sequences that overstay its welcome, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver drops the ball on what could’ve an engaging space opera.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 22, 2024

It is ugly, it is repetitive, it is severely lacking in stand-up-and-cheer moments.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2024

Between its lengthy title, and its mumbo-jumbo terminology that carries little meaning, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is the kind of sci-fi movie you'd glimpse in a satire about Hollywood.

It’s a peculiar thing to see a man who steals so liberally run out of ideas.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2024

We have already said it but it must be repeated: Snyder uses and abuses slow motion. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2024

Is Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire A Box Office Success? Explaining What Its $61M Opening Means

Mixed reviews didn't stop audiences from flocking to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, making it a hit after a strong opening weekend.
Despite critical reception, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire surpassed expectations with a solid $45.2 million domestic opening.
A hefty production budget and tough competition make it a challenge for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire to turn a profit at the box office.

Although Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire received mixed reviews from critics, it’s been met with a much better response from audiences – but is it a box office hit? Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire brings the Spengler family from Ghostbusters: Afterlife back to New York City to reunite with the O.G. Ghostbusters cast. There, they team up to defend the city from another spectral invasion, this time from a frosty ancient ghost who wants to plunge the world into a new ice age. By including both the nostalgia-baiting original cast and the popular new cast, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire went after the widest audience possible.

When the reviews for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire came out and it earned a “rotten” score on Rotten Tomatoes, it seemed like the movie might be dead on arrival. It would come and go and be quickly forgotten about. However, after an impressive opening weekend that exceeded expectations, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire might be a box office hit after all. It still has a long way to go to turn a profit, so it’ll depend on word of mouth to give it the legs it needs, but this movie’s box office run is off to a promising start.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire's Opening Box Office Is A Pretty Good Start

In the days leading up to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ’s release date, it was tracking for a disappointing opening weekend. But when it hit theaters, an unexpected last-minute surge of ticket sales propelled the film to a pretty strong opening at the box office . Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has opened to $45.2 million , which is slightly higher than Ghostbusters: Afterlife ’s opening and slightly lower than that of the female-led 2016 Ghostbusters reboot. This is on the higher end of expectations and in line with Afterlife ’s reception, so it’s a solid start – especially for a horror comedy movie (albeit not a spectacular one).

Why Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire's Box Office Opening Was Good Despite Bad Reviews

On Rotten Tomatoes, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has a dismal rating of 42%, indicating that the majority of reviews were negative. A negative critical reception doesn’t always mean bad news for a movie’s box office, but it can certainly have an impact. Anyone who’s looking to watch a new movie will likely check out the reviews to make sure it’s a safe bet, and a “rotten” score of 42% doesn’t exactly sound like a safe bet. Still, in spite of those negative reviews, crowds have still turned up to watch Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire .

There are plenty of reasons why audiences would want to watch Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire after seeing all the negative reviews. Ghostbusters is a popular, long-running franchise that was a huge part of a lot of moviegoers’ childhoods , and this one isn’t just capitalizing on a recognizable brand name; it has prominent supporting roles for O.G. legends like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson. Any diehard Ghostbusters fan would jump at the chance to see Murray back in character as Peter Venkman, even if the top-ranking critics on Rotten Tomatoes have advised against it.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was well-received, so its sequel was highly anticipated. On top of that, there wasn’t a lot of competition in this past weekend . Anyone who wanted to see Dune: Part Two or Kung Fu Panda 4 has likely seen them already, since they’ve been out for a couple of weeks. The two other biggest releases of the weekend, Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil , are both straightforward horror movies targeting an older demographic. For families who wanted to go to the movies last weekend, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was pretty much their only option.

Why Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire May Not Be A Box Office Success

Although it’s gotten off to a solid start with an impressive opening weekend, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire isn’t out of the woods yet – it could still end up being a box office disappointment. The movie carries a hefty production budget of $100 million (via Variety ), so it has a long way to go before it’s in the black. The general rule of thumb is that a movie has to gross 2.5 times its production budget in order to turn a profit at the box office. This would mean Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has to get to around $250 million to be profitable .

This is a lot more than its predecessor Ghostbusters: Afterlife ’s total worldwide gross of $204 million. It would require Frozen Empire to have some serious legs at the box office in the next few weeks, and that might be tough, because it hasn’t been particularly well-received. Not only has it been slated by critics with a “rotten” rating on Rotten Tomatoes; it’s also earned a lukewarm CinemaScore of B+ from audiences leaving the theater. Both of these ratings are lower than Ghostbusters: Afterlife , whose positive reception gave it pretty impressive legs at the box office.

And not only that; starting on March 29, it’ll face stiff competition from the arrival of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire . Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire doesn’t necessarily deliver the laughs that audiences expect from a Ghostbusters movie, but Godzilla x Kong will definitely deliver the widespread carnage that audiences expect from monster movies (even if the film itself isn’t that great), so it could be considered a safer bet. So, getting to the point of profitability seems like a tall order for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire .

At this point, the best that Frozen Empire can hope for is to match Ghostbusters: Afterlife ’s box office run, which won’t be enough to turn a profit. Even that seems unlikely, because underwhelmed audiences are unlikely to recommend it to their friends, meaning it’ll struggle to have any legs at the box office. Afterlife ’s box office run was hurt by bad timing, as it arrived right at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic when casual audiences were still reluctant to return to movie theaters, but it still brought in an impressive haul.

What Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire's Box Office Means For Another Ghostbusters Movie

Whether or not Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire will lead to another Ghostbusters sequel depends on how much it makes at the box office. There’s clearly still some love for this franchise, but it’s never been a bona fide blockbuster series and there’s an undeniable ceiling, since a Ghostbusters film has never broken the $300 million barrier at the box office. If Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire somehow gets to a bigger number than it’s expected to, a sequel would still need more restraint in the budgetary department or Sony will get involved for yet another creative overhaul.

Source: Variety

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire continues the story of a new generation of ghost hunters composed of Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Podcast (Logan Kim), who received help from the original team in the previous movie. Paul Rudd returns as Gary Grooberson and franchise co-creator Ivan Reitman returns to write and produce.

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Jodie comer's 28 years later role is a reminder to watch her forgotten 2023 thriller.

Jodie Comer joining 28 Years Later is an exciting development for the franchise, but is also a natural next step for the star after a previous role.

Jodie Comer set to star in legacy sequel 28 Years Later, continues themes of survivalism and societal collapse.
Comer's role expected to be standout among all-star trio of actors, first venture into zombie horror.
The End We Start From compliments 28 movies thematically, showcasing Comer's capability to lead horror franchise.

Jodie Comer is confirmed to appear in Danny Boyle's upcoming legacy sequel 28 Years Later , but the movie has a surprising connection to a previous project in the actress' resume. Although 28 Years Later has been in the works for nearly two decades, it is expected that the movie will continue to explore the franchise's established themes of survivalism, the human experience, and societal collapse. Thanks to these concerns, the 28 movies have connections to other films and stories that extend far beyond the typical zombie genre.

Although 28 Years Later 's story is unclear, it seems Jodie Comer will play a prominent role in the story. Cast alongside the likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes, the 31-year-old Liverpudlian completes an all-star trio of actors more prominent than any seen in previous 28 movies. Although she has had some high-profile movie roles – notably Free Guy and The Last Duel – 28 Years Later will mark Jodie Comer's first foray into zombie horror. However, even though she is new to the genre, one of the actress's previous projects makes for an interesting 28 Years Later companion piece.

Jodie Comer's The End We Start From Is A Perfect Accompaniment To 28 Years Later

The two movies have very similar stories.

Released in 2023, The End We Start From is an acclaimed environmental survival thriller that pairs very well with the 28 movies. Made on a budget of just £9 million, the independent British movie features the likes of Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Mark Strong in prominent roles, while primarily focusing on Comer's unnamed " Woman ". The setup, which sees Comer's character trying to survive biblical flooding in southern England, explores a more ecological message than 28 Days Later . However, despite being completely devoid of zombies, Jodie Comer's The End We Start From is actually a great precursor to her 28 Years Later role .

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Comer's character's story has clear similarities to the journeys seen in both 28 Days and 28 Weeks later. Just as in the successful zombie horrors, the unnamed woman must face off against external threats, undertake an arduous journey north, and ultimately overcome the oppressive regime she finds when she finally makes contact with other survivors. Although the danger she faces is often explicitly human, rather than infected, the story beats are very similar to what was seen in 28 Days Later , making the movie an interesting alternate take on the 2002 movie's story.

The End We Start From Has Thematic 28 Years Later Connections

Both films explore the same questions.

It's not just narrative similarities that make The End We Start From and the 28 movies interesting companion pieces. Because of their similar settings, the stories also explore very similar themes of human experience , the importance of family, and what happens when societal safety-nets are taken away. For instance, the remote island commune in The End We Start From plays a similar role as the soldiers in 28 Days Later – albeit less brutally – allowing the film to reflect on how the destruction of the individual can create isolationist tendencies that fail to respect liberty and autonomy.

Perhaps the most interesting thematic link concerns family. In The End We Start From , the woman is determined to protect her new baby while worrying about the best way to set up a secure family unit with her husband, R. This explores the same ideas as Jim's pseudo-family unit with Selena, Frank, and Hannah, as well as Tammy and Andy's determination to find their mother in 28 Weeks Later . Although using an apocalyptic setting to explore the extreme limits of human connection is nothing new, there's no doubt that The End We Start From and the two 28 films do so in a very similar way.

The End We Start From Proves Jodie Comer Can Handle 28 Years Later

She's already succeeded in a similar setting.

While The End We Start From 's story and themes have clear parallels to 28 Days and Weeks Later , where the movie might be most interesting for the horror franchise's fans is in providing an insight into how Jodie Comer might lead the series' next installment . Her portrayal of the unnamed woman at the center of the 2023 thriller's story was universally praised, with the Rotten Tomatoes consensus highlighting " Jodie Comer's gripping performance in the central role ". Combined with her previous work in projects like Killing Eve and The Last Duel , this just provides further evidence for how capable Comer is of leading 28 Years Later .

In each of the previous 28 movies, the most important elements have been the characters. While the innovation of running zombies was scary and shots of abandoned London remain iconic, it was Jim's empathy as a main character and the supporting presence of Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, and Christopher Eccleston that made the original 28 Days Later so compelling. The End We Start From not only suggests that Jodie Comer can do the same for 28 Years Later , but also provides a big clue as to what her performance might look like.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

28 Years Later

Idris Elba's Knuckles Series Gets Debut Rotten Tomatoes Score

The debut Rotten Tomatoes score for Knuckles has been revealed.

The Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy spinoff Knuckles has hit the ground running with its debut score at Rotten Tomatoes. Going by its early reviews ahead of its official release on April 26, Knuckles has garnered a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% .

For the most part, the early reviews are giving praise to Knuckles . While Adrian Ruiz of But Why Tho? said the series isn't mandatory to watch ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 , it's a fun watch that is worth the investment. As the critic stated, "Knuckles isn’t a must watch to prepare for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 . However, for fans of Idris Elba’s Knuckles and a feel-good TV series, it’s definitely worth your time."

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" Knuckles embraces the silliness of the Sonic universe, and as a result, the creative team behind the spinoff can unleash its wildest ideas, turning the series into a wacky road trip that perfectly balances the fun and the feels," We Got This Covered critic Marco Vito Oddo also said in a review. Tessa Smith of Mama's Geeky noted, "This series is a ton of fun, delivering some hearty laughs, as well as some truly emotional moments."

Meanwhile, there are some more negative reviews, SuperHeroHype critic Luke Y. Thompson said Adam Pally's Wade Whipple "comes across as what he is — a grown man trying to channel a five year-old." Pramit Chatterjee of Digital Mafia Talkies opined, "Something about the way every single scene [in Knuckles ] is stretched via improvisational acting to the point that its core themes are diluted makes it seem like there wasn’t enough material in the script to fuel six episodes.

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Set in between Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 , Knuckles "will follow Knuckles (Idris Elba) on a hilarious and action-packed journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Wade (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior."

The Sonic the Hedgehog Movies Get a Spinoff

Sonic the Hedgehog movie trilogy director Jeff Fowler directed the pilot for Knuckles , and the series was created by John Whittington and showrunner Toby Ascher. Series star Idris Elba serves as an executive producer on the project with Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, John Whittington, and Toru Nakahara. Other cast members include Cary Elwes , Edi Patterson, Adam Pally, Stockard Channing, Julian Barratt, Rory McCann, Scott Mescudi, Tika Sumpter, Ben Schwartz, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, and Ellie Taylor.

Knuckles will drop on Paramount+ on April 26, 2024.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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‘Challengers’ Heats Up: How Zendaya’s Star Power and a Sexy Love Triangle Could Give Gen Z Its Next Movie Obsession

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On June 20, 2022, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor sat at the edge of a motel bed on either side of Zendaya , kissing, licking and biting her neck. As Art and Patrick, their respective “ Challengers ” characters, they were desperate for more of Tashi, played by Zendaya, and desperate to mask their desperation.

Zendaya’s mind was elsewhere. “The only reason I really remember is because Beyoncé came out with ‘Break My Soul’ that day,” she said. “I was having a great day, like, ‘Y’all. Beyoncé’s single just dropped.’ That’s what I was focused on, to be honest.”

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The release of “Challengers” has been packed with so many contradictions, it’s no wonder no one knows what’s happening in the movie business anymore. This R-rated arthouse movie is being released wide domestically in theaters by a streamer (Amazon) that inherited the project in an $8.5 billion acquisition of a traditional studio (MGM).

Wait, there’s more: “Challengers,” directed by Luca Guadagnino , was supposed to be a fall awards movie — but saw its release date snuffed out by the actors strike. (If Zendaya can’t walk the carpet at the Venice Film Festival, which “Challengers” was meant to open, then what’s the point?) And somehow, “Challengers” has been showered with the global rollout usually reserved for Marvel movies, with splashy premieres in Sydney, London, Rome, Paris and L.A.

“Challengers” introduces Tashi Duncan as a teenage tennis prodigy who is lusted after by the showy Patrick Zweig and his shy best friend Art Donaldson, lesser players than Tashi but still talented. As she’s about to enroll at Stanford, Tashi hooks up with Patrick; she later marries Art. When Patrick reenters the couple’s lives 13 years later, Tashi must reckon with the choices she’s made. So must the guys.

“Challengers” presents the rarest, most satisfying species of love triangle: “Luca felt it was very important that, in any love triangle, all the corners touch,” says first-time screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, “and I quickly realized he meant it literally.” Guadagnino encouraged Kuritzkes to write the steamy scene where Patrick and Art start out kissing Tashi but somehow end up in a makeout session of their own.

In the same way the release of “Challengers” has been so scattered, so have the interviews for this story. The three actors on our cover — Zendaya, O’Connor and Faist — assembled for a photo shoot in London in June 2023. Prior to the film’s original Venice release, it was the only time Faist was available while starring in “Brokeback Mountain” on the West End. We speak to Guadagnino more recently over Zoom in Rome, where he’s dressed like the world’s classiest film professor in a white cashmere cardigan. “It’s beautiful to kiss people!” he says about the most talked-about scene in his movie. “That’s what I want to say. People, kiss! Do not make war.”

There’s more to the kissing than pacifism. O’Connor, who gets on a Zoom with us from a nondescript Philadelphia location while doing press this month, says he doesn’t know how to label the sexuality of the boys of “Challengers,” which has been the subject of constant chatter online. “I think they’re everything,” he says. “I think it’s Platonic and non-Platonic. I think they’re obsessed with each other. I think it’s stronger than love — we need each other in order to feel complete.”

Tennis is notably absent from the pantheon of sports movies. That’s not for lack of trying: Kirsten Dunst took a swing with 2004’s “Wimbledon,” which made a modest profit before being forgotten, while in 2017, Shia LaBeouf’s “Borg vs McEnroe” failed to break even at the box office. Ditto “Battle of the Sexes,” starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King. Even “King Richard,” which earned Will Smith an Oscar in 2022, only managed to gross $15 million because of its simultaneous streaming release during COVID.

But “Challengers” has what its predecessors lack: the more-than-sports appeal that’s kept films like “Rocky” and “Love & Basketball” on replay for decades.

It’s a good line, one she likely would have used to campaign for her first Oscar nomination last year. But then all hell broke loose.

The week after our interview, Amazon MGM Studios pulled “Challengers” from its coveted competition spot at Venice. “Of course we were bummed,” says Faist, 32, from London in early April. “But I’m glad the movie has been getting its time in the sun.” A breakout star after playing Riff in Steven Spielberg’s 2021 “West Side Story” remake, he’s still endearingly new to the press game. “It’s been a joy to see people respond to the film,” he adds before sheepishly clarifying that he has yet to see it with an audience.

O’Connor, 33, says that he’d invited family members to see the film in Venice. “There was a little bit of feeling stunted, but I agreed with everything about the strike,” says the actor, who won an Emmy for playing Prince Charles in “The Crown.” “There was no other option. I mean, the only other option would have been” — he breaks into a laugh — “to release it without doing press. Which would have been fine.”

Not that its stars lack a talent for doing press: Zendaya’s tennis-themed outfits have broken the internet time and again. But the delay represents an awkward test. Spring isn’t usually when ambitious, potentially awards-contending movies come out. And “Challengers” is playing catch-up at a sensitive time for its lead actress. Shortly after playing Chani in “Dune: Part Two,” Zendaya is getting her first shot at leading-lady status. If “Challengers” succeeds, she will cement herself as one of the most powerful movie stars of her generation, rivaled only by her “Dune” co-star Timothée Chalamet. Much is riding on the power of her serve.

“I’ve been playing 16-year-olds since I was 16,” Zendaya said, having launched her career on Disney Channel before moving on to projects such as HBO’s “Euphoria” and the most recent “Spider-Man” franchise, both centering on high schoolers. “So it was nice to play a character that was not a child anymore. It was also interesting playing parts of my life that I haven’t experienced yet: I’ve not gotten married. I’ve not had a child. Those milestones, I don’t necessarily have a direct reference point for. That was different to feel. Ultimately, it felt like the right time for a character like this.”

This moment certainly represents a crossroads in Zendaya’s career. “Euphoria,” the juggernaut series that won her two Emmys for playing the drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, is in limbo as the network retools its third season; according to sources, Zendaya — who serves as an executive producer — asked for major script changes from writer-director Sam Levinson. She has tactfully sidestepped most conversations about the show during her “Challengers” press tour and declined a follow-up interview for this story.

But at the movie’s L.A. premiere this month, when asked by Variety whether a third season of “Euphoria” will ever get made, she tosses up her hands. “I don’t know,” she says. “I am not in charge. If it’s right for the characters and everything turns out the way it should, of course.” But Zendaya, who isn’t the final decisionmaker on the show, leaves “Euphoria” fans with little hope: “It’s beyond me,” she says.

“Challengers” landing at Amazon at all was a fluke that speaks to the roller-coaster ride of making films right now. In early 2022, Kevin Ulrich, then chairman of the board of MGM, was on his way to lunch in Manhattan’s SoHo when he got a call from a friend, Christina Bazdekis, the UTA agent. She wanted to know if he’d be willing to stop by and meet Guadagnino, who was at a photo studio in the neighborhood.

Ulrich had never met the director, but they hit it off right away. Guadagnino showed Ulrich a 10-minute reel of the independently financed “Bones and All,” a movie starring Chalamet as a cannibal, which was finished but didn’t have distribution, and told him he was in the midst of developing a sexy tennis story starring Zendaya.

Ulrich wanted in. He called Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy — then the heads of MGM and now running Warner Bros. — and over the next 24 hours, they negotiated a two-picture deal, picking up both movies while the FCC still had yet to approve Amazon’s $8.5 billion acquisition of the studio. When that sale closed, the streaming giant inherited the titles, and Zendaya landed a $10 million paycheck as “Challengers” star and producer. “Bones and All” opened in theaters in 2022, grossing an underwhelming $15 million.

But “Challengers” is a more mainstream movie — sex and tennis probably appeal to a wider audience than cannibalism. Three years ago, producer Amy Pascal “flipped” when she and her producing partner, Rachel O’Connor, read Kuritzkes’ script. “We loved that it felt like a modern love story about three authentic characters who want the things we all want,” Pascal says in an email.

Kuritzkes was inspired to write a tennis movie while watching the infamous 2018 U.S. Open match between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, in which Williams was penalized for receiving coaching from the sidelines, an accusation she denied.

It was Kuritzkes’ first time hearing of that rule, and it instantly struck him as a cinematic conceit. “You’re all alone on the court. There’s only one other person who cares as much about what happens to you in this match as you do, and you can’t talk to them. I started to think, ‘What if you really had to talk about something important that went beyond tennis? Something going on with you personally?”

In “Challengers,” sex, lies and betrayal happen both on and off the court. “Tennis, by its nature, is a very erotic sport,” Kuritzkes explains. “It’s about being at a distance from somebody. Trying not to touch them, trying to just miss them, trying to make them think the ball is gonna go one place, and then go another place. There’s a deep intimacy in that, and a lot of repression. The point is no contact. To me, that’s almost like a Victorian romance. It’s very sexy. And you usually play tennis against somebody of the same gender, so tennis, by its nature, then becomes almost homoerotic.”

And there was only one actress that Pascal had in mind for the woman in this love triangle, and she knew how to slip her the script. “I’d worked with Amy on numerous ‘Spider-Men,’” Zendaya said. “She’d seen me grow up.” The search for a director did not last long either, she said. “The person that stood out to all of us was Luca Guadagnino.”

Guadagnino suggested that O’Connor play the cocky Patrick, a departure for the actor, who has been seen in more than a handful of British period dramas. For the role of Art, Guadagnino considered both Faist and his “West Side Story” co-star David Alvarez. Faist, who was living with family in Ohio at the time, wasn’t sure he was interested.

“My agent called and said, ‘There’s a really good script. You should take a look.’ I never read anything,” he admits. “I’m always telling my agents to leave me alone, is the truth of the matter, but I could tell in her voice that she really meant it. So I read it, and she was right. They asked if I could come to London to do a test screen with Z. I thought, ‘Why not? If I don’t get the job, I got a trip out of it.’”

Faist thought he had bombed the audition, but Guadagnino loved his interpretation of the character. “Luca’s two concerns, really, were that I was blond and that I didn’t have a hair on my body,” Faist says.

Guadagnino reveals that Faist was initially put off by the idea of manscaping. “I said, ‘Why?’ The day after, he was shaved! Athletes of that level need to be aerodynamic.”

For most of his career-making movies, including on “Call Me by Your Name,” Guadagnino rehearses with his casts as if they’re preparing for a stage play. For “Challengers,” the three actors spent six weeks in Boston, each day consumed with two hours of weightlifting and two hours of tennis followed by deep dives into the script.

“Anytime I wasn’t at work, I was watching something,” Zendaya said about the prep process. “I’m seeing these little kids on Instagram — like, 10 — absolutely professional. Like, ‘Wow, I’m terrible!’ I was obviously very intimidated by the fact that I was stepping into something I really didn’t understand.”

O’Connor isn’t someone who’d normally find himself at an Equinox. “I find gyms incredibly tedious,” he confesses. “I get bored very quickly. I always catch myself in the mirror, and I’m like, ‘You look so pathetic. You look rubbish holding your weights. And out of your depth.’ So I just never really lasted.” But he’s so built in “Challengers,” he felt proud to wear a sleeveless shirt in the final tennis match in the film.

The competition and camaraderie motivated him to get in shape. “There’s a piece of equipment that measures how strong your abdominals are,” O’Connor says. “And Zendaya had the best abs of the three of us by a long way. I remember me and Mike laughing, but we were also furious and desperately trying to improve our strength.”

As his actors were getting jacked, Guadagnino was busy tempting them with homemade pasta. “I tried to corrupt them all with food. I succeeded a few times with Josh. Zendaya, she ate a little bit,” he says. With Faist, though, “I never succeeded.”

Patrick’s other essential look was one he shared with Tashi. Twice, he throws on a shirt he likely picked up off her dorm room floor that said in capital letters: “I TOLD YA.” Though Tashi wears it before him in an argument with Art, even she wasn’t the first: The tee is a near replica of one John F. Kennedy Jr. was photographed wearing in the ’90s, itself appearing to reference the “I TOLD YOU SO” buttons collectors have held on to since the 1961 inauguration of his late father.

Tashi is indeed cursed with Kennedy-esque bad luck. “Tashi probably would have went on to be the greatest female tennis player,” Zendaya said, musing on the injury that sidelines her character and forces her to transition into coaching her husband. “She had all the makings and the mental fortitude, which makes it even more devastating, because we’ll never know what the world would have been like with her.”

Overlapping with the crushing weight of young fame are Tashi’s experiences as a Black woman in the tennis world. There’s the racism and sexism she rubs up against while moving through the larger institutions of the sport, and there’s also the position she finds herself in as a shepherd of both Art and Patrick’s careers; besides the big kissing scene, the most talked-about moment in “Challengers” is when Tashi spits in Patrick’s face the words, “I’m taking such good care of my little white boys.”

“It’s very clear to her that she’s coming into a place of privilege and access that she clearly didn’t grow up with, so she enjoys fucking with them about it,” Zendaya said. “All of her background is riding on her shoulders. It’s clear that she’s had to fight her way in, and is dealing with it on the daily, what it means to be a Black girl in that space. Tennis means more to her than it does to them; it’s not just something she decided to do because ‘I had the luxury of getting tennis lessons as a kid.’ This is it for her. This is what’s going to take care of herself and her family and the future. There’s so much riding on it.”

Kuritzkes knew where his characters came from as soon as he started writing: “Tashi was always a Black woman. Patrick was always a very well-to-do Jewish guy, and Art was always a somewhat well-to-do WASP.” Along with the inspiration he took from watching that Williams-Osaka match, he says, “It just kind of felt ridiculous to create a love triangle set in the tennis world with three American players and not have one of them be a Black woman. Because that is the story of American women’s tennis, if you look at all of the big superstars from the past decade.”

When asked how it felt to play a Black woman in a highly interracial relationship, Zendaya stumbled. “It’s more exclusive to Tashi,” she said. “I don’t know if I necessarily personally connected. “But I do know,” she continued, finding her footing, “being the kind of woman that she is, it would be difficult to be reduced and never called anything else but his wife. She’s his coach, and she’s constantly reminding people of that.”

This reminded Zendaya of one of the lyrics of her idol. “In the words of Beyoncé, don’t get it twisted, right? That’s true of a lot of women in power. Especially Black women in power.”

Marc Malkin contributed to this story.

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