Robert Eggers likes to go in cold. “In theory, I don’t care for this,” the soft-spoken 41-year-old filmmaker says, glancing around the hotel room he’s sitting in. “If I see a trailer for a movie made by a director I’m a fan of, or someone tells me about an obscure …
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Lily-Rose Depp‘s Ellen Hutter shrieks as an undead hand clutches her neck in the new Nosferatu trailer, setting the creepy tone for the Robert Eggers’ horror film, which arrives on Christmas Day. “Does evil come from within us or from beyond?” she asks. The film from The Lighthouse and The …
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The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, and Blackpink‘s Jennie have shared a new song, “One of the Girls,” which was recorded for an upcoming episode of The Idol. The track marks Jennie’s first non-Blackpink song since her 2018 effort “Solo.” On the HBO series, Jennie plays Dyann, a backup dancer for Depp’s …
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We come not to praise The Idol, but to bury it. That is assuming Sunday’s fifth episode is the last gasp for the widely scorned HBO series. The show’s creative team claims a five-episode season was the plan all along, scathing criticism be damned; HBO has not come out and …
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After The Idol’s much-buzzed-about premiere at Cannes in May, Sam Levinson predicted that he and co-creator Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye were about to have the “show of the summer” on their hands. The series about the self-described “sleaziest love story” in Hollywood starring a global superstar alongside Lily-Rose Depp was …
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The Weeknd has dropped a new single, “Popular,” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti. The upbeat pop number teases his forthcoming soundtrack LP, The Idol Vol. 1, out June 30. A video for the song showcases the cast of HBO series The Idol, including Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye, …
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Fresh off The Idol’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival — where the reviews were not-so-great, and the ovation only five minutes long — HBO has shared a new trailer for the upcoming series starring Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye, and helmed by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. The …
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Memo to showrunners: When in doubt about your lead character, just cut to her masturbating while choking herself. It’s a little past the halfway mark of the first episode of The Idol — the HBO series about the pressure chamber of pop stardom from the minds of Abel “The Weeknd” …
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Lily-Rose Depp and Sam Levinson defended The Idol at a Cannes press conference following its premiere, pushing back against a recent Rolling Stone report that contained numerous troubling claims about the show’s content and production environment. Back in March, Rolling Stone published an extensive report about the HBO limited series, …
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The controversial pop star drama series The Idol has an official release date. On Monday, HBO dropped a new trailer for the series and confirmed a June 4 premiere date. The series will first debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The show, co-created by San Levinson and the …
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