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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alison Brie and Dave Franco's Together accused of idea theft
Alison Brie, Dave Franco, WME, and director/screenwriter Dave Shanks have all been named in a new lawsuit accusing them of stealing the idea for their forthcoming wide release Together. The film was a hit at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and it was there that the producers of the 2023 film Better Half first felt that their film had been copied, they claim. In the lawsuit, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the producers of Better Half allege that after Patrick Phelan wrote the script in 2019, the film's casting director reached out to the WME agent representing Franco and Brie in 2020. The entire script was attached, the lawsuit says, and there was a $20,000 offer for them to take the lead roles. Obviously, Franco and Brie did not make the project, which continued production and quietly premiered in 2023. But when Together debuted this past winter, the producers felt that the two films had too many similarities for it to be pure coincidence. (There will be discussion of plot elements of Together in the rest of this paragraph, so consider this a spoiler warning.) Per the suit, both movies center on a couple that becomes 'physically fused together as a metaphor for codependency.' Both movies reference Plato's Symposium as a plot device, both characters try solutions from 'medical intervention to chainsaws,' both films have a scene where the main characters become attached at the genitals, and both films 'end in the same way, with the couple pulling out a vinyl record of the Spice Girls album—Spiceworld—in the scene where they accept their fate,' according to the suit. The suit goes on to run through similar themes and character motivations that the two films allegedly share. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for WME characterized the suit as 'frivolous and without merit.' The lawsuit concludes with a demand for a jury trial. More from A.V. Club What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas in a chaotic The Studio Alison Brie and Dave Franco's Together accused of idea theft Rosamund Pike says she was asked to undress for Die Another Day audition
Geek Feed
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Feed
Alison Brie and Dave Franco are Jumping Into Body Horror with Trailer for TOGETHER
We know that Dave Franco and Alison Brie are married, and though Franco has been working a lot behind-the-scenes lately, he's going back in front of the camera with Brie in this upcoming body horror flick called Together . Check this out: You think the trailer is creepy, check out the official description: Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh. So far this looks to be the first feature from writer/director Michael Shanks who has worked on The Wizards of Aus and The Slot . I'll admit, I'm only used to Alison Brie doing weird artsy movies with director Jeff Baena ( Horse Girl, The Little Hours ),but I'm happy to see her doing some more artsy stuff with Franco no less. It probably means it's going to get ridiculously physical—what more would you expect from a body horror film? Though Brie and Franco had made their name in comedy, the two have been known to do the occasional artsy project, and Together looks to fall in that wheelhouse. I don't know what to expect, but I love them both as actors, and this one is sure to make you uneasy in all the ways a cinephile would want. Together is set to hit cinemas on July 30.
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Critic's Picks: 10 top movies to see at Sydney Film Festival in 2025
Calling all cinephiles: the Sydney Film Festival just launched a huge program for 2025, and a galaxy of engrossing screen stories is set to take over cinemas across the city. Running from June 4–15, the regal State Theatre once again serves as the glittering centrepiece of the action, and this year also sees the addition of the iconic Sydney Opera House as a screening venue. In 2025, the Festival will present 201 films from 70 countries – including 17 world premieres, 6 international premieres, and 137 Australian premieres, bringing together hundreds of new international and local stories. This year's festival will open with the Australian-made Together. The debut feature of Michael Shanks, it brings the gross-out body horror The Substance stans love to shriek at, as a co-dependent couple played by real-life lovers Alison Brie and Dave Franco get a bit too close for comfort. With 201 films from 70 countries in store, the program also includes retrospective sidebars on persecuted Iranian New Wave filmmaker Jafar Panahi, American game-changer Elaine May and acclaimed Indian documentarian Nishtha Jain, there's tonnes on offer. But where to begin? We've got you covered – read on for our critic's picks. Here are our top ten top picks for the 72nd Sydney Film Festival: Dangerous Animals After decades of America cutting our lunch with wave after wave of killer shark movies, the home team bites back. The Loved Ones director Sean Byrne 's Dangerous Animals, drifting in direct from the Cannes Film Festival, casts Suicide Squad actor Jai Courtney as a Gold Coast-based tour guide by day and hark-obsesses secret serial killer by night. He sets his nefarious sights on Yellowstone lead Hassie Harrison 's imperilled surfer in this snappy scream-a-thon. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) Blue Moon Ethan Hawke has chalked up a bunch of beautiful films with director Richard Linklater since appearing opposite Julie Delpy in dreamy romance Before Sunrise an astonishing 40 years ago. Hawke's far from heartthrob territory in their latest collaboration, bittersweet biopic Blue Moon. Debuting at Berlinale, this stagey film traces the tragic decline of once-great lyricist Lorenz Hart as he's set adrift from his former writing partner, composer Richard Rodgers (Andrew 'hot priest' Scott), on the night Oklahoma! Debuts. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) Lesbian Space Princess Mighty Adelaide filmmaking duo Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs ' fun and sweary animated debut feature took out the queer Teddy Award at this year's Berlinale. With big Adventure Time vibes, it follows the woe-to-go intergalactic adventures of Princess Saira (Shabana Azeez). She's just been brutally dumped by her bounty-hunter girlfriend Kiki (Bernie Van Tiel) but sets out to rescue her from kidnapping straight white maliens, as voiced by Mark Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane (aka Aunty Donna). (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) Sorry, Baby A big buzzy bundle of joy when it premiered at Sundance, Sorry, Baby is Billions star Eva Victor 's debut feature as writer and director. She also stars as Agnes, a small-town English lit college professor. When Mickey 17 lead Naomi Ackie 's Lydie comes to visit, it becomes clear that a painful memory hovers in the air between them. Told in a wistful, non-linear style, this is less a film about that past trauma and more about what comes after, as the embrace of friendship and resilience leads to healing. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) The Mastermind Josh O'Connor cut a roguish dash as a nattily suited tomb raider in Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher 's luminous La Chimera. He's up to no good again as an art thief in The Mastermind, a '70s Massachusetts-set heist flick with a difference from Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt. Also starring Licorice Pizza lead Alana Haim – aka one-third of the eponymous pop trio Haim – it's set to debut in competition at Cannes and also features First Cow actor John Magaro. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) On Swift Horses If Aussie star Jacob Elordi got you thirsty with his appearance in Saltburn, slurp up another chance to see him in queerly beloved mode in this sweeping 1950s Kansas-set drama from director Daniel Minahan. Adapted from the novel by Shannon Pufahi, On Swift Horses casts Elordi as Julius, a poker player who's just back from the war and put up by his brother Lee (Will Poulter). Only, Lee's fiancé Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has the hots for them both, and Julius has his own secret passions. It's bound to get emotionally messy. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) All That's Left of You If you've been distraught over the atrocities live-streaming out of Gaza daily and increasing settler violence bubbling up in the West Bank, as detailed in powerful Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, you might find succour in this Sundance debuting drama from Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis. Taking us from the 1948 Nakba until almost now, we follow the fate of one family as their world is turned upside down, and how hope remains even in the face of desolation. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) (You may also wish to check out Areeb Zuaiter's documentary Yalla Parkour.) Death of an Undertaker You might know him best as Oly's flighty big bro Bowie on Bump, or as one of the tortured soldiers in the Elordi-led war drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North, but Sydneysider Christian Byers steps up to his debut directorial feature at this year's SFF. An ambitious experimental film shot over eight years in a real Leichhardt funeral parlour with non-professional actors, it also features Byers as a part-time attendant grappling with mortality and possibly coming apart at the seams in this eerily absurdist undertaking. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) Deaf One of the most devastatingly beautiful films bowing at this year's Berlinale, where it won the Panorama Audience Award, writer/director Eva Libertad 's debut feature (a big theme this year) expands on her lauded short of the same name. Both star her remarkable real-life sister Miriam Garloa as Ángela, a sculptor and deaf woman expecting a baby with hearing partner Héctor (Álvaro Cervantes). But after a traumatic birth, their loving relationship is stretched to its limits by their wildly diverging experiences as new parents. (Find screening details and book tickets over here.) Chain Reactions Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe delivers wicked deep dives on everything from how zombie movies reflect our rotten society to the mythological fear-mining of Ridley Scott's Alien via the liminal nightmares of David Lynch. His latest sacrificial offering, Chain Reactions, examines the eviscerating impact of Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre through the bleeding eyes of horror icons, including best-selling author Stephen King and Australia's very own occult oracle, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. over here.) The 72nd for info and bookings.
Geek Tyrant
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Nightmare-Fueled Trailer For The Horro Film TOGETHER Starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco — GeekTyrant
Neon has released another trailer for the twisted and wild body-horror film Together , which stars Alison Brie and Dave Franco. This new trailer offers our best look yet at the story and the nightmarish terror that it involves. There's no doubt that this movie is going to deliver cring-worthy insanity. Just some of the visuals and scens teased in the trailer are enough to get you going. The film centers on a couple's move to the countryside, which triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form. The movie comes from writer and director Michael Shanks, and it's explained that he 'approaches horror with a devilish exuberance that relishes in creating wildly expressive nightmarish moments.' Together 'pulls off an impressive progression of body horror freak-outs as it follows a dysfunctional couple's big move away from the city to a more isolated existence. As they lose contact with home, friends, and their sense of self beyond their troubled dynamic.' The story 'grounds their emotional turmoil within its extreme take on the horrors of codependent relationships. With this couple, things will have to get worse — like a lot worse — before they get better.' Together was a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it sparked a big bidding war. Neon reportedly spent over $17 million on the movie making it one of the biggest deals in the history of Sundance. The movie is set to hit theaters on August 1st.
Gizmodo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Together Trailer Looks Terrifying and It's Not Even Trying
When the summer of 2025 ends, audiences will have seen a lot of fun, scary horror movies. But there's a good chance that nothing will come close to what Dave Franco and Alison Brie have stirred up with their new horror movie, Together. The first full trailer for the film is here and while it looks creepy and intriguing, it barely even scratches the surface of the stomach-churning nature of the film. To be fair, we haven't seen the film yet. We really want to. But at CinemaCon in April, Neon showed a longer, grosser version of the trailer you're about to see. It's probably too gross for general audiences, hence this more PG version, but it's exciting knowing that version exists, and seeing the ways this teases at it. Written and directed by Michael Shanks, Together premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was quickly scooped up by Neon. The plot, according to the company, is described as follows: 'Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Franco and Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. Abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other, with tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.' That last bit is the key thing here. 'Their flesh.' The movie is called 'Together,' after all, and as you can briefly see in the trailer with the lips, the hair, the eyes, and ultimately the saw, these characters, well, start to almost fuse together. As for why that happens or how far it goes, we don't know. We haven't seen it yet. But, with the film coming July 30, we'll see it soon. What did you think of the trailer for Together?
