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Metro
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
This horny book adaption's cast guarantees we'll all be obsessed with the film
A fresh casting announcement has absolutely thrilled fans and convinced me that the film in question could end up as one of the most popular and anticipated movies in years. It could also signal the early era of another rom-com giant, à la Richard Curtis, or the coming of a film about love with the power to impact pop culture like When Harry Met Sally or xx. I am, of course, talking about the announcement via Deadline of Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman to play the romantic leads in the movie adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's best-selling novel (and – I cannot stress this enough – actual BookTok sensation) The Love Hypothesis. For those who haven't been wrapped up in the quite astounding way TikTok has revived the publishing industry since lockdown, even garnering its own name for that corner of the social site, The Love Hypothesis was one of the platform's biggest breakout successes following the novel's formal publication in 2021. But what has now shifted this film up a notch in terms of anticipation is how the casting has seemingly leaned into the famous early inspirations of Hazelwood's book. And it's this which makes me confident everyone's obsession is about to go stratospheric. The Love Hypothesis follows PhD student Olive Smith (Reinhart), a rising star in Stanford University's biology department, who ends up in a classic fake dating situation with a hotshot professor, Adam Carlsen (Bateman). Everything kicks off when she does the totally normal thing of panic kissing him at the lab to convince her best friend she has a boyfriend. And he does the totally normal thing of agreeing afterwards to maintain the lie for… reasons. However, The Love Hypothesis actually began in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a piece of Star Wars fan fiction published online by Hazelwood, which was inspired by the 'Reylo' shipping many fans did between the characters of Rey (Daisy Ridley) and antagonist Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). This is a romance that actually almost bore fruit in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – and it's one that now has another fascinating link to The Love Hypothesis, for Bateman in the role of Adam is Rey actress Ridley's husband in real life. Although some were holding out for Driver to take on the role his character inspired, many are tickled pink by this meta casting move – 'I'm cackling' posts are littered across social media – whether it was deliberate or not. 'The concept of playing the love interest in fan fiction about your wife is kind of insane, I think Tom Bateman won in life,' tweeted Alysa, while @rejectedcarebear wrote on Reddit: 'This is actually the best part of the entire movie.' 'They had a chance and they took it for sure haha!' added another fan, while @pertifty shared: 'I love this timeline we are living. I wonder why she didn't want to play Olive if her husband is playing Adam??' (As many then explained, there is such a thing as too on the nose.) The excitement alone that's been drummed up by the casting announcement of two semi well-known actors – Reinhart made her name on Riverdale and Bateman appeared in Da Vinci's Demons as well as Sir Kenneth Branagh's star-studded Murder on the Orient Express – confirms this is a watershed moment for TikTok and cinema. Because now we've gone from mild interest that this adaptation is happening to fully seated for it. And Reinhart is a canny operator, fueling fan excitement with lots of fun posts about the film on – where else – but TikTok. Yes, there have been popular BookTok adaptations previously, such as Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue and Robinne Lee's The Idea of You. Both, co-incidentally, star Nicholas Galitzine and were made for Amazon's streaming service Prime Video. The Love Hypothesis is going a step further, being produced by Amazon MGM Studios. This suggests the company's confidence in the movie's cinematic success but also means its streaming home will likely end up being Prime Video too. Could this company be the next rom-com powerhouse, snapping up the major romance book titles that capture the zeitgeist? @lilireinhart Olive Smith 🩷 #thelovehypothesis ♬ Lover – Taylor Swift And let's not beat around the bush, The Love Hypothesis will be bigger than those previous films anyway because it's hornier – don't let the cartoon humans on the book's front cover fool you, Hazelwood likes a lot of detail in her sex scenes. Many audience members will be pulled in simply by curiosity over how that might look onscreen; let's call it the Fifty Shades of Grey factor. If The Love Hypothesis does well, there's also several other Hazelwood novels ripe for adaption – from Love on the Brain to Problematic Summer Romance and Deep End (for the uninitiated, that one will truly have you blushing). More Trending Hazelwood, a real-life former neuroscience professor has made a name for herself as a 'STEMinist' author thanks to her female characters often being in science and tech fields and academia, drawing upon her own experience. She's also an expert at the genre's tropes of pining and misunderstandings but puts them in modern workplace settings. This could easily be what the next wave of rom-coms looks like if they're inspired or directly drawn from the pen of Hazelwood. We'd be moving on from Richard Curtis's bumbling, British and sweary romances to Hazelwood's quirky, introverted and often American heroines. And I think the world of onscreen rom-coms is more than ready to embrace The Love Hypothesis as the start of its next phase. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. 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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jamie xx's ‘In Colour' Was Released 10 Years Ago Today: Read Our 2015 Review
Ten years ago today, on May 29, 2015, Jamie xx released his debut solo album, In Colour. The 11-song project reached No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, generating hits including 'Gosh,' 'I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)' and 'Loud Places' and becoming a beloved LP of the era. More from Billboard Jamie xx Is Releasing His New Album Today — It Will Be the Last Time He Listens to It Zak Starkey Rubbishes Reports He Retired from The Who, Insists He Was 'Fired' Lorde Makes Surprise Appearance at Aotearoa Music Awards Billboard also celebrated the album upon its release, publishing a glowing review that identified the British producer's ability to create a collage of '90s U.K. rave culture that simultaneously acknowledged the rich history of this era while also sounding entirely fresh. 'Jamie xx is 26 years old, which means he was barely out of diapers during the heyday of '90s U.K. rave culture, which provides the heart, soul and inspiration for his jaw-dropping solo debut, In Colour,' wrote Billboard contributor Garrett Kamps. The review continues to say that 'The xx member (real name: Jamie Smith) reportedly combed through videos from the era on YouTube, experiencing it in a way that generations before him could not: all at once, chopped up, voyeuristically and set to the best music. This, conveniently, describes the rush of hearing In Colour, an ambitious collage of dance music's most artistically exciting decade, assembled with maximum TLC by a visionary who inherited its legacy. 'Pockmarked by bits of dialogue from the era's radio shows and documentaries,' Kamps continues, 'the record leaves no doubt as to its source material, and Jamie xx is among other U.K. electronic-dance acts, such as Disclosure and Four Tet, that are tapping the genre's past to forge its future. But no one has nailed it quite like this.' Read the complete 2015 review here. Speaking with Billboard last year upon the release of In Colour's long-awaited follow-up, In Waves, the artist said his country's esteemed history with electronic music, combined with some good old fashioned homesickness, inspired the album's tone. 'When I was making Colour, I was on tour [with The xx], and had been for seven or eight years nonstop,' he said. 'I was really homesick, and I was dreaming up ideas about the U.K. and music in the U.K. and the dance scene there and everything that has happened since the '80s in dance music in the U.K., which is a lot. It was sort of my fantasy version of U.K. dance music history. Because I was missing home, it made me feel more like I was at home, I guess.' He also reflected on the differences within himself as he made two connected projects nine years apart, saying that while listening to In Colour while making In Waves, 'I remember being really surprised by a lot of decisions I had made as a younger person, and remembering who the hell I was when I made those decisions. 'I guess I was drunk quite a lot of the time, having a lot of fun in my mid-20s,' he continued with a laugh while reflecting on the production process for In Colour. 'It's very painstaking, all these decisions you feel are so important. Then listening to them 10 years later or five years later, you can't believe you made any of the decisions. And you think they're wrong, or I would have made completely different decisions now, but I guess that's a part of it.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Time Out
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
All Tate Modern exhibitions will be free for loads of Londoners this weekend
How did you celebrate your 25th birthday? If I recall correctly, mine involved half a dozen pints, a couple of shots, a drunk Maccies on the night bus home and a monumental hangover the next day. But the Tate Modern is a hell of a lot more sophisticated that I was at 25, and its quarter-century celebration this weekend knocks my little pub gathering out the park. Featuring four days of free workshops, talks, participatory performances, live music and late night DJ sets, the massive weekender starts tomorrow, and the gallery has just announced yet more cool stuff happening across the weekend. Alongside already-announced DJ line-ups curated by some amazing London crews and collectives the gallery has revealed two huge headliners for its two late openings over the weekend. Friday's late opening spotlights south London's vibrant creative communities, and will feature a headline set from Romy. The xx member turned solo artist will be taking to the decks for a 2-hour DJ set from 10pm-midnight, with earlier sets curated by the likes of Peckham listening bar Jumbi and British Caribbean festival Radiate. Saturday night's festivities will see the gallery taken over by yet more cutting-edge artists and collectives, including a rare London set by Afrobeats station Cultur FM in the Tanks, featuring a headline set from BBC Radio 1 DJ Jaguar. Other DJs throughout the evening have been curated by South Asian creative collective Daytimers, female-fronted Peckham station Afro-Caribbean LGBTQ+party Queer Bruk and artist and DJ Crystallmess. The gallery will also be hosting a full day of activities beforehand, including live tarot readings as part of Meschac Gaba's Museum of Contemporary African Art exhibition and site-specific participatory installation Measuring the Universe. And best of all? Tate Modern has announced that all of its paid exhibitions will be free throughout the four-day celebration for members of the Tate Collective, its free-to-join scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds. If you, like Tate Modern, are lucky enough to be in your early twenties, you can sign up here to nab free entry to Leigh Bowery! and . If not, there's no better time to sign up for a Tate membership, with the gallery offering Lifetime Memberships for a limited time only, allowing art lovers to enjoy the gallery's fantastic programme of temporary exhibitions free of charge for the next 25 years. Planning on joining the festivities? Many of the events across the four-day celebration are drop-in, but you will need to secure free tickets for some of the more popular ones. Be sure to check out the full programme to the four-day party on the Tate's website and reserve some tickets ahead of your visit. Catch us raving it up in the Turbine Hall!
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ma:nyo Expands U.S. Presence with Ulta Expansion and Launch in Target
Bringing K-Beauty Skincare to More Shelves Nationwide NEW YORK, NY / / March 25, 2025 / Korean skincare powerhouse ma:nyo expands its retail footprint in the U.S. with its latest launch in Target and significant growth across new Ulta Beauty locations. Recognized as the #1 best-selling cleansing brand in Korea's largest beauty retailer, Olive Young, ma:nyo continues to strengthen its global presence, delivering innovative K-Beauty skincare solutions to a devoted and growing customer base. ma:nyo is expanding its presence within Ulta Beauty, growing from 650 locations to 1,392 stores in just over six months. This growth underscores the brand's continued commitment to making high-quality, premium Korean skincare more accessible to the US consumer. The brand is also launching in all 1,778 Target stores, securing a coveted spot in the retailer's "Fan Favorites" section-where globally renowned skincare brands take center stage as iconic skincare picks for everyone. The expansion marks a significant milestone as ma:nyo stands alongside some of the most recognized names in the beauty industry, strengthening its status as a go-to brand for high-performance skincare. A pioneer in K-beauty, ma:nyo's transformative skincare delivers effective, result-driven beauty solutions that are formulated with clean, high-quality ingredients to nurture the skin. Every product is designed to impart visible results while supporting the skin's natural balance. "We are thrilled to expand our presence in US retail doors," says xx. "The overwhelming response to our cleansing oils and skincare innovations since launch less than a year ago proves consumers are eager for high-performance, science-backed Korean beauty solutions. Fostering these retail partnerships is key to getting ma:nyo into the hands of skincare enthusiasts across the US." For media inquiries, please contact Kathy Pape | kathy@ or Linsey Tilbor Rubin | ltilbor@ ma:nyo, short for "Manyo Factory," is a leading Korean skincare brand known for its innovative and results-driven formulas. Founded with a commitment to harnessing the power of natural ingredients and advanced science, ma:nyo creates gentle yet effective products designed to nourish and restore skin health. Best known for its cult-favorite Pure Cleansing Oil; ma:nyo has earned a loyal global following for its commitment to transparency, clean ingredients, and cruelty-free practices. With a growing presence in the U.S., including availability at all Ulta Beauty and Target, ma:nyo continues to bring the best of K-Beauty skincare to consumers worldwide. Contact Details Pape PR Katharine Pape +1 917-515-6165 kathy@ Company Website SOURCE: ma:nyo View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire
