{"id":538942,"date":"2026-01-24T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/538942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:35:10","slug":"charli-xcx-channing-tatum-and-olivia-wilde-movies-premiere-at-the-sundance-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/538942\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx, Channing Tatum and Olivia Wilde movies premiere at the Sundance Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) \u2014 The Sundance Film Festival<\/a> was in full swing<\/a> Friday in Park City, with Channing Tatum<\/a>, Olivia Wilde<\/a> and Charli xcx<\/a> movies premiering back-to-back at the storied Eccles Theatre in the evening. <\/p>\n

First up was \u201cJosephine,\u201d writer-director Beth De Ara\u00fajo\u2019s raw drama about an 8-year-old girl (Mason Reeves) whose life and sense of safety is upended after she witnesses a sexual assault in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park. Tatum and Gemma Chan play the parents who are unsure how to help her navigate these new emotions and fears. The film, which is part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition, is based on De Ara\u00fajo\u2019s own experience of seeing something scarring at that age. <\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t a seat to spare, and over 400 people on the waitlist were unable to get in. Afterward the crowd gave a long standing ovation as the filmmaker and actors came onstage for a Q&A.<\/p>\n

Ara\u00fajo discovered Reeves at a San Francisco farmer\u2019s market, where she told her mother she was casting for someone to play Tatum and Chan\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n

Reeves said one of her favorite parts of the film was a scene in which she and Tatum eat a jelly doughnut. <\/p>\n

\u201cI only ate the outside and fed the jelly part to him,\u201d Reeves said.<\/p>\n

Tatum chimed in: \u201cThat is true.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also praised his young co-star, saying \u201chow good is she?\u201d He watched the film for the first time with the Sundance audience and said he cried \u201cfive, six, seven times.\u201d <\/p>\n

The next film, Gregg Araki\u2019s \u201cI Want Your Sex,\u201d<\/a> brought a distinct change in tone to the Eccles. It\u2019s the story of a college graduate in his early 20s (played by Cooper Hoffman<\/a> ) who gets his first job as a kind of intern\/assistant to a renowned art world provocateur named Erika Tracy (Wilde), who Arkai described as \u201cbold, daring and very controversial,\u201d a cross between Robert Mapplethorpe and Madonna.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story of their affairs and the impact it has on this kid\u2019s life and how it kind of turns his whole world upside down,\u201d Araki told The Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s fun, it\u2019s colorful, it\u2019s sexy. And it\u2019s a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a film that Araki has been working on for over 10 years, as it evolved from a comic \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d with a female intern to what it is now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, all the stuff that was going on, it was literally like, I don\u2019t really want to see a woman getting dragged around by the hair,\u201d Araki said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to seed that kind of patriarchal dynamic, even if it\u2019s consensual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flipping the gender roles and making the young intern a man made the movie more interesting for Araki, \u201cas a filmmaker who has always been heavily influenced by feminist film theory and feminism in general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, he was absorbing news stories about Gen Z and how they don\u2019t have sex or relationships anymore and a new dynamic emerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I knew as an old person, as an old-timer, in terms of socialization, dating, sex, all of this stuff that seemed to be kind of falling away,\u201d Araki said. \u201cAnd so that kind of became a major theme of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things Wilde\u2019s character says are things he has also said in interviews about sex and sexuality. Her character gets into generational debates about it. And ultimately it\u2019s sex positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very important to me to make something sex positive,\u201d Araki said. \u201c\u2018I Want Your Sex\u2019 is like the opposite of \u2018 Babygirl<\/a>,\u2019which I found to be very sex negative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilde said after the premiere that she wished \u201cmore people made movies\u201d like Araki: getting a cool group of people together and making something fun in a noncorporate environment.<\/p>\n

The film also features a supporting turn from Charli xcx, who was a fan of Araki and whose \u201cBrat\u201d album cover<\/a> was partially inspired by the title credits to his film \u201cSmiley Face.\u201d When she heard about this new movie, he said, she asked if she could be in it. He was interested, but told her agent that she needed to do a self-tape \u201clike everyone else\u201d to play the part of Hoffman\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe character is not her. That\u2019s what\u2019s so fun,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s American, she\u2019s super uptight and kind of pill.\u201d<\/p>\n

She filmed her scenes in one day, on a two-day break in the middle of her Brat tour.<\/p>\n

It was a Charli xcx double feature at the Eccles with the world premiere of her self-referential mockumentary \u201cThe Moment,\u201d in which she plays a version of herself grappling with the end of \u201c brat summer,<\/a> \u201d before it hits theaters Jan. 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis movie is about the end of an era, and obviously this is the end of an era for Sundance in Park City,\u201d Charli xcx said. \u201cWe feel really honored to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the premiere she said, \u201cI like to think I\u2019m not as much of a nightmare as Charli in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier Friday the world premiere of William David Caballero\u2019s mixed-media film \u201cTheyDream\u201d immersed viewers in the intimate story of a Puerto Rican family learning to process grief through art. Caballero and cowriter Elaine Del Valle have screened short films at Sundance in the past but were honored to bring a full-length feature to the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cSundance has always been about possibility for me \u2014 about artists being given space to take creative risks and tell personal stories,\u201d Del Valle, who is also a producer on the film, told AP. \u201cBringing our first feature, especially in Sundance\u2019s final year in Utah, carries a different weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Hannah Schoenbaum contributed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

For more coverage of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, visit: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sundance-film-festival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARK CITY, Utah (AP) \u2014 The Sundance Film Festival was in full swing Friday in Park City, with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":538943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238070,70691,114861,238071,171,22016,194921,57,7494,24991,49626,53,202775,124888,235115,124933,61,67,132,68,436,424,238072],"class_list":{"0":"post-538942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-beth-de-arajo","9":"tag-channing-tatum","10":"tag-cooper-hoffman","11":"tag-elaine-del-valle","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fairs-and-festivals","14":"tag-gemma-chan","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-harvey-weinstein","17":"tag-madonna","18":"tag-movie-premieres","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-olivia-wilde","21":"tag-park-city","22":"tag-send-to-apple-news","23":"tag-sundance-film-festival","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-ut-state-wire","29":"tag-utah","30":"tag-william-david-caballero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115948927517782559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}