Tag: Set It Up
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Glen Powell Says ‘Twisters’ Is ‘Definitely Not a Reboot’: ‘It’s a Completely Original Story’
“Anyone But You” star Glen Powell says his upcoming film “Twisters” is “definitely not a reboot.”The upcoming sequel leans more toward an update of the original version with a brand new plot. Powell, who has racked up roles in rom-coms (“Set It Up”) and action films like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Devotion” will lead the…
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Netflix’s ‘Love at First Sight’ Finally Gives Us Deep Feels Again
Netflix doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to high-quality romantic comedies. Most of their original rom-coms range from average to famously bad like He’s All That or the Kissing Booth trilogy, and you’d have to go back to 2018 for some of their best, Set It Up and To All the Boys I’ve…
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‘The People We Hate At The Wedding’ Review: Kristen Bell Headlines A Forgettable Bargain Bin Wedding Comedy
Based on the novel of the same name by Grant Ginder, director Clare Scanlon (“Set It Up”) returns to the world of romantic comedies with the charmless, vaguely holiday-set “The People We Hate at the Wedding”. Adapted by Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, there is little here to recommend in a film that once upon…
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What’s New on Amazon Prime Video in November 2022
Amazon Prime Video has plenty of exciting content coming to subscribers this November. Fresh off of his role in Don’t Worry Darling, fans will get another dose of Harry Styles in the romantic drama My Policeman, where he stars opposite Emma Corrin and David Dawson. Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer will star in the western…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Breakout Glen Powell Made a Cocky Fighter Pilot His Own After Losing Different Role
Glen Powell has been waiting for this moment. And waiting, and waiting. In the summer of 2018, the Texan actor, best known for roles in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!,” Best Picture nominee “Hidden Figures,” and Netflix’s breakout rom-com hit “Set It Up,” was up for a major part in the long-simmering “Top Gun” sequel.…
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Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell to Headline J.D. Dillard War Epic ‘Devotion’
“Lovecraft Country” star Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell (“Set It Up”) will star in historical war epic “Devotion,” from director J.D. Dillard (“Sweetheart”).Set in 1950, as the Cold War looms, Majors and Powell play elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots who form a firm friendship that is tested on the battlefield when one of them is…
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‘The Kissing Booth 2’ Review: Netflix’s Ya Hit Gets a Sweeter, Sloppier Sequel
Netflix’s continued forays into the wide world of romantic comedies — wildly popular with film fans, often overlooked by the studio system — has seen plenty of ups and downs. The streaming giant won acclaim for series like “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and one-offs like “Set It Up,” but its romcom picks…
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‘Desperados’ Review: Here’s the Netflix Rip-Off of ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Girls Trip’
While Hollywood has struggled to marry its affection for bombastic big-budget franchises and its audience’s hunger for the mid-budget romantic comedies that fell out of box-office fashion long ago, Netflix picked up the slack and ran with it. But bulking up its robust library of originals with a litany of rom-com offerings — a good…
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Dakota Johnson Joins Olivia Wilde’s Film ‘Don’t Worry, Darling’
Dakota Johnson is in negotiations to join the starry ensemble of “Don’t Worry, Darling,” a psychological thriller from director Olivia Wilde, sources tell Variety.Johnson will appear alongside the previously announced cast of Florence Pugh, Shia Labeouf and Chris Pine. Wilde has a key supporting role onscreen.Though little is known about the movie’s plot, “Don’t Worry,…
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Glen Powell To Star In ‘Wanna F*** Your Brother’ At STX
Glen Powell has been tapped to star in Wanna F*** Your Brother, co-production with STXfilms and MWM Studios. The Other Woman screenwriter Melissa Stack wrote the script and is directing the film about a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly becomes…