{"id":8893,"date":"2025-06-23T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8893\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:24:10","slug":"dakota-johnson-in-michael-angelo-covino-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8893\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Johnson In Michael Angelo Covino Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing her current onscreen love triangle in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\">A24<\/a>\u2018s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/materialists\/\">Materialists<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dakota-johnson\/\">Dakota Johnson<\/a> is upping the ante with her next romantic comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Monday, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/neon\/\">Neon<\/a> released the first trailer for co-writer, director and star <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-angelo-covino\/\">Michael Angelo Covino<\/a>\u2018s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/splitsville\/\">Splitsville<\/a>, which sees him and Johnson as a couple in an open marriage who swings with their two friends going through their own marital issues. Watch it above.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/splitsville-dakota-johnson-adria-arjona-cannes-film-video\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/B0058723-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Angelo Covino, Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin at Deadline Studio at the 78th Cannes Film Festival at Deadline Studio on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/splitsville-review-dakota-johnson-cannes-1236404755\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Splitsville.jpg\" alt=\"'Splitsville' review Cannes\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Ashley (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/adria-arjona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Adria Arjona<\/a>) asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kyle-marvin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Marvin<\/a>) runs to his friends, Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), for support. He\u2019s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-written by Covino and Marvin, Splitsville premieres Aug. 22 in theaters, also starring Nicholas Braun, David Casta\u00f1eda, O-T Fagbenle and Charlie Gillespie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the film\u2019s Cannes premiere last month, where it <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/splitsville-dakota-johnson-cannes-ovation-1236404570\/\">earned an eight-minute ovation<\/a>, Covino explained that they wanted to explore \u201ccharacters who pretend to have more figured out than they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMarvin added, \u201cI think a lot of us and our friends were talking about the dynamics of relationships, and a lot of times we found ourselves lying a little bit about how we felt, or how good we felt in certain things, and I think that sort of started unpacking this idea of what happened if you just felt viscerally and sort of with instant jealousy or not jealousy or whatever those reactions were in just real time and let those play out as opposed to trying to intellectualize them and process them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following her current onscreen love triangle in A24\u2018s Materialists, Dakota Johnson is upping the ante with her next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10042,7703,171,10043,10044,53,10045,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-8893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adria-arjona","9":"tag-dakota-johnson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kyle-marvin","12":"tag-michael-angelo-covino","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-splitsville","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114734554323436253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}