While creating one of the most erotic scenes of the year, Halina Reijn found out that truth is often sexier than fiction. The Babygirl writer and director explained how she came up with the scene in which Harris Dickinson‘s Samuel sends a glass of milk to his boss Romy (Nicole Kidman) at a bar and…

In the A24 erotic workplace thriller Babygirl, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson use a few moves that would make human resources blush. Writer and director Halina Reijn recently explained that the presence of intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot allowed them to achieve “way more risky” sex scenes in…

Robert Eggers Nosferatu from Focus Features sank its teeth into the Christmas box office. With James Mangold's A Complete Unknown – Searchlight Pictures' top-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney in 2019 – they ushered in a heady post-Covid moment for indie films at no. 3 and 5 at the domestic box…

SUNDAY AM EARLY WRITETHRU after Sunday AM Update: Lion and land critter continued to go at like an episode of Mutual Omaha’s Wild Kingdom this weekend with each studio screaming that they’re No. 1. If you look at the standard 3-day weekend, it’s Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with $38M while Disney’s Muf…

A splash of auteurish openings on Christmas Day, with Focus Features’ Nosferatu, Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, A24’s naughty Babygirl and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside, is poised to send the holiday week’s box office to a potential $280 million tally. That puts it on par with last year’s holiday…

With just a few weeks left in 2024, notable films continue to land with Nickel Boys and The Last Showgirl officially jumping into awards season — the former already a two-time winner at the first stop, the Gotham Awards. A few big indie stories are yet to be told, with Babygirl and A Complete Unknown…

Even after 40 years in the business, Nicole Kidman doesn't take awards for granted, and she readily admits that her new film Babygirl isn't typical Oscar bait. Directed by Halina Reijn and released in the US on Christmas Day, it stars Kidman as Romy Mathis, the high-powered CEO of a computerized delivery…

Critics be damned, John Waters is not afraid to drop a cinematic hot take. The legendary cult filmmaker and ‘King of Filth’ defended critically-panned DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux as a “well directed” followup and praised Lady Gaga‘s performance while ranking his favorite films of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman says she was smitten the moment filmmaker and writer Halina Reijn revealed the name of a movie she was writing. “I love the title. So, I was like, ‘Oh! I’d like to be a Babygirl!'” The Oscar-winner says that when she read the script, she was “completely sort of hypnotized” by…

Reflecting on her wide-ranging oeuvre — which will include the forthcoming Babygirl — Nicole Kidman said it seems harder to make and greenlight projects nowadays, especially if they’re not big tentpole draws. “Everything's hard now,” she told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “Actually everything. I…

Although Nicole Kidman is no stranger to a sexually provocative role, 25 years after starring in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, her latest film offered an under-explored onscreen dynamic. During a recent Q&A about her new film Babygirl, premiering Christmas Day in theaters, the Oscar winner opened…

Nicole Kidman’s Romy has been a “good girl” — so says Harris Dickinson’s character Samuel in the official trailer for Babygirl, the buzzy Halina Reijn erotic thriller about a high-powered executive who engages in an illicit romance with her intern. The tantalizing trailer teases the cat-and-mouse…