There is a lot going on in Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis’ new movie — which is why, over two years after filming Colossal, the actors are still having a tricky time nailing down exactly what it’s about. Hathaway plays Gloria, a hard-partying writer who moves back to her hometown after losing her job and boyfriend (Dan Stevens). She spends her time getting sloshed at childhood friend Oscar’s (Sudeikis) bar. And then shit gets weird when Gloria realizes she has something to do with the gigantic Kaiju monster she sees on the news attacking Seoul, South Korea. Really weird.
With its bizarre premise and unpredictable screenplay (from Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigilando), Colossal is a thrillingly original ride. It’s also a wonky vehicle for discussions about everything from toxic masculinity and sexism to alcoholism and self-destructive demons: a philosophical stoner’s dream.
While the movie itself is, in one obvious way, completely absurd, it never spins out into the stratosphere of ridiculousness, thanks to the thoroughly believable performances from Hathaway and Sudeikis. They are by turns charming and repulsive, brave and vulnerable. So we sat down with the pair to talk about the gospel of Kristen Stewart, what it actually means for a film to be “feminist,” and the unintentionally brilliant ways their new movie reflects what’s going on in the world right now.
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Anne Hathaway continued her promo tour for ‘Colossal,’ attending the film’s premiere in LA on Tuesday (April 4). As with the New York premiere, she donned an all-black ensemble in a Vivienne Westwood Red Label Spring 2014 cropped jumpsuit. Check pictures added in our gallery.
Last night Anne attended the Colossal premiere in New York City. She was looking stunning in a colossal (HA!) Armani dress.
The sci-fi comedy is about the down on her luck Gloria, who moves back to her hometown after losing her job and splitting from her boyfriend in NYC. Upon her return to small town living, she notices a strange connection between herself and a larger-than-life monster terrorizing Seoul, Korea.
The quirky sci-fi is also unique as the first release from crowd-funded, fan-owned studio Legion M.
Colossal arrives in theaters April 7.
Anne is gracing the cover of Elle magazine in its April US issue. In the magazine, on newsstands everywhere March 22, she speaks with Lauren Waterman about her marriage, motherhood, and her evolution as an actor and an artist.
Check the pretty photoshoot made by Terry Tsiolis in our gallery.
The Oscar-winning actor and United Nations global goodwill ambassador Anne Hathaway celebrated International Women’s Day at the United Nations on Wednesday. Hathaway used her speech to thank all the inspiring women of the past, and called on the current generation to ‘find their north’. Women in the US plan to use International Women’s Day to stay off the job and stage demonstrations across the country in an effort to seize on the momentum built from marches held a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration
Deadline is reporting exciting news! According to the website, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway are in negotiations to star in sexy noir Serenity, written and directed by Steven Knight. Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) and Guy Heeley will produce.
The movie has an interesting premise, following a fishing boat captain who experiences a “new reality” when he winds up on a small island in the Caribbean.
Warner Bros and Village Roadshow have released the first image of its upcoming female-driven caper film Ocean’s 8.
In Summer 2018, the tide will turn as (left to right) Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala. Her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew: Lou (Cate Blanchett); Nine Ball (Rihanna); Amita (Mindy Kaling); Constance (Awkwafina); Rose (Helena Bonham Carter); Daphne Kluger (Anne Hathaway); and Tammy (Sarah Paulson).
Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit) is directing from a script he wrote with Olivia Milch. Steven Soderbergh and Jon Kilik produce. Michael Tadross, Susan Ekins, Bullock, Diana Alvarez and Bruce Berman exec produce and Milch co-produces.
Ocean’s 8 will be released in the U.S. on June 8, 2018.
MGM‘s upcoming gender swapped remake of Frank Oz’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels appears to have found a pair of stars. Deadline reports that Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway is in talks to join Pitch Perfect franchise star Rebel Wilson in the project, titled Nasty Women. They’ll play variations on the roles originally played by Michael Caine and Steve Martin in the 1988 original.
Scripted by Jac Schaeffer, Nasty Women is based on the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels script written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, and Paul Henning. Dirty Rotten Scoundrel was, in turn, based on Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning’s 1964 script, Bedtime Story. Directed by Ralph Levy, Bedtime Story features Marlon Brando and David Niven in the respective Wilson/Martin and Hathaway/Caine roles.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars Martin as a low class con artist who makes a bet with a high class confidence man (Caine) to see who can swindle an heiress out of $50,000 (and sex) first. It later was adapted into a successful stage musical in 2005. The new version will update the story by putting the focus on two lady cons attempting to get money from a rich tech prodigy.
Anne Hathaway is a down-on-her-luck woman who discovers she can manifest a Godzilla type monster halfway around the world, and wreak all kinds of havoc. Yeah, that’s the promise of Colossal, which is screening in Sundance and had its first trailer released today.
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is a hard partying New York scene girl who is thrust into crisis when her boyfriend, Tim (Dan Stevens), grows sick of her antics and kicks her out of their apartment. With no other options, she moves back to her hometown and quickly regresses, drinking every night until last call and accepting a job at a bar owned by her childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). One day she wakes up and blurrily finds out that Seoul was terrorized by a giant creature the night before. Eventually, Gloria begins to suspect her own drunken actions are bizarrely connected to the monster rampaging in South Korea.
Colossal will open on theaters next April 7th.
