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How Leighton Meester, Adam Brody’s Date Nights Led Her to Star in Social-Stalking Comedy ‘Basic’ Leighton Meester has long held much more than a basic understanding of the comedy movie Basic, thanks to outings with husband Adam Brody. Meester and Ashley Park star in writer-director Chelsea Devantez’s feature directorial debut that premiered Monday at SXSW. Taylor John Smith, Nelson Franklin, Kandy Muse, Ashley Nicole Black, Amber Ruffin and Jon Gabrus round out the cast for Basic, which is seeking distribution. During an onstage conversation about the movie that followed its screening, Devantez explained that the project originated as a three-minute short film of the same name that was accepted into SXSW in 2020. Because the event was canceled that year amid the COVID pandemic, the short never actually screened in a theater, but the festival posted it online, leading to hundreds of messages from impressed viewers.

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It’s Time for a Chalamet Break What should Timothée Chalamet have done differently? That’s the question du jour for some Oscar viewers after Michael B. Jordan walked away with the best actor Oscar for his remarkable dual role in Sinners. At 30, Chalamet is still young, but his tour de force work in Marty Supreme seemed designed to draw in voters, and the movie netted enough overall nominations to make prognosticators wonder if his undeniable charisma would make him the second youngest best actor winner of all time, behind Sunday’s best actor presenter Adrien Brody. In the end, Chalamet may well do a bit of Monday-morning quarterbacking to wonder how things could have gone his way.

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Why 1983’s Apocalypse Film ‘Testament’ Feels Timelier Than Ever: “The Terror Now Is That We Will Attack” Hollywood tends to turn the end of the world into spectacle. But not in Testament — a 1983 apocalypse drama that imagines nuclear catastrophe not through explosions, but through absence. There are no mushroom clouds nor is there a shouty military response. Rather, it depicts the slow unraveling of a family and a community in Northern California. On the season premiere of It Happened in Hollywood, director Lynne Littman and star Jane Alexander, nominated for an Oscar for her performance, revisit the film’s enduring impact, offering a deeply personal look at a project that still feels unsettlingly urgent. The film now joins the Criterion Collection in a new digital restoration supervised by Littman.

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Keanu Reeves Sets Out on Apology Tour Amid Blackmail Scare in Trailer for Jonah Hill’s ‘Outcome’ Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill concoct an unusual strategy for dealing with a blackmail threat in the trailer for the dark comedy film Outcome. Hill directed, co-wrote and stars in the movie that Apple TV releases April 10. Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood Jr., Welker White, Kaia Gerber and Ivy Wolk round out the cast. Outcome centers on Reef Hawk (Reeves), a recently sober movie star who agrees to apologize to those he has wronged. Reef hopes that this will help him discover the identity of the blackmailer who is threatening to release an unflattering video of the actor.

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