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The 13 most cringeworthy moments in 'Dear Evan Hansen' - from the lack of chemistry between Evan and Zoe to the odd portrayal of mental health

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Beanie Feldstein and her partner of five years, Bonnie-Chance Roberts, wed in late May.</li><li>The pair held a summer-camp-themed wedding on the Cedar Lakes Estate in Hudson Valley.</li></ul><p>Beanie Feldstein and Bonnie-Chance Roberts wed last month at Cedar Lakes Estate in Hudson Valley, New York, with friends and family in attendance.</p><p>Over the weekend of May 19, the pair threw a summer-camp-themed wedding attended by close pals including Kaitlyn Dever, Sarah Paulson, and Ben Platt, who sang a song dedicated to the couple at their reception.</p> <p>Feldstein and Roberts met while making the 2018 film "How to Build a Girl" and Feldstein told <a href="https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/beanie-feldstein-and-bonnie-chance-roberts-wedding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vogue</a>: "From the moment we first kissed, we both knew we would get married and months after that, Bon had announced that when the time came, she wanted to be the one to propose to me." </p><p>The pair spent more than a year apart, though, because of the pandemic, and when they reunited, Bonnie proposed with the couple's friends and families in attendance. </p> <p>But also at the wedding were Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo, who, as Beanie explained to Vogue, are "lifelong family friends."</p><p>You might not think that Levine would have any connection to the Feldsteins, but in fact, the families go way, way back.</p><p>In 2014, Beanie's brother Jonah Hill told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwCbvzt7Tgc">Howard Stern</a> that he and Levine's "dads met in the principal's office in junior high. We were in carpool. We lived at each other's houses."</p><p>When Levine and Prinsloo married in 2014, <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jonah-hill-officiated-pal-adam-levines-wedding-to-behati-prinsloo-2014217/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hill served as the officiant</a>. </p><p>Beanie's late brother Jordan was also a close friend and the longtime manager of Maroon 5.</p><p>Jordan Feldstein founded Career Artist Management, which managed Levine's band, along with Elle King, Miguel, and the B-52s.</p><p>In 2017, Jordan died suddenly at the age of 40 of <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/beanie-feldstein-brother-jordan-feldstein-death-essay-8507733/">pulmonary thromboembolism</a>, devastating his family, friends, and clients.</p><p>Levine spoke out about the loss of his longtime manager in an interview with <a href="https://variety.com/2018/music/features/adam-levine-maroon-5-jordan-feldstein-1203036920/">Variety</a> in 2018. </p><p>Speaking of Jordan's death, he said: "It was a tragedy foisted upon us and far and away one of the saddest moments of our lives, and personally of mine. This is a kid I've known since we were in diapers. He was one of the most important people in my life from a very early age."</p><p>Jordan, he continued,  "will always be something that's missing in my life. I break down; I cry. We built this together, and it will never be complete without him. But at the same time, we know he wants us to keep trucking." </p>

Beanie Feldstein married her longtime partner, Bonnie-Chance Roberts — and Adam Levine, who has a special tie to the Feldsteins, showed up to support

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: This post contains spoilers for the second "The Last of Us" game — and potentially season two.</li><li>Production on the next season of "The Last of Us" began in February.</li></ul><p>In 2023, HBO turned the narrative-driven video game <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-review-2023-1">"The Last of Us"</a> into one of the year's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-behind-the-scenes-details-filming-secrets-2023-3">biggest television hits</a>.</p><p>Starring <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bella-ramsey-fun-facts-2023-3">Bella Ramsey</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pedro-pascal-the-last-of-us-ethan-hawke-interview-2023-4">Pedro Pascal</a>, the show primarily takes place 20 years after a cordyceps fungus evolves to infect humans, generating hordes of aggressive infected. Joel (Pascal), a smuggler whose daughter died during the initial outbreak, is tasked with escorting Ellie (Ramsey), an orphan who's seemingly immune to the fungus, across the country in hopes of developing a cure.</p><p>The show has earned both Pascal and Ramsey nominations at the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/golden-globes-2024-nominees-winners-list-details-2023-12">Golden Globes</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emmy-nominees-winners-list-2023-7">Emmy Awards</a> and turned them into household names. It also featured an award-winning performance from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-nick-offerman-episode-three-megan-mullally-2023-2">Nick Offerman</a>, who stars along with Murray Bartlett in the season's acclaimed third episode "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-last-of-us-changed-bill-frank-story-2023-1">Long, Long Time.</a>"</p><p>A second season of the HBO hit is on the way, and it's set to adapt at least part of the game "The Last of Us Part II." Here's everything we know about the new season.</p><h2 id="a590ae1f-4b61-480f-887b-30eea75b0c06"><strong>'The Last of Us' season 2 will premiere in 2025 and won't cover all of the video game sequel</strong></h2><p>A <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/X6yoTKa58Qw?si=G-1eS4_fsqLNNGNl&amp;t=86">sizzle reel</a> released in November confirmed that season two would be released in 2025, and CEO Casey Bloys <a target="_blank" href="https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/hbo-0/last-us/hbo-releases-new-images-season-two-original-drama-series-last-us">confirmed</a> at the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront presentation in May that the series would air on HBO and stream on Max.</p><p>Production began in <a target="_blank" href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/screenwriters/craig-mazin-last-of-us-season-2-writers-room-1235816800/">February</a> in <a target="_blank" href="https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/last-of-us-season-2-vancouver">Vancouver</a>.</p><div type="image" title="maria, tommy, joel, and allie walking on a snow covered road in the last of us, wiht a sign to the right that reads welcome to jackson" height="960" width="1280" msid="106879718" hostid="261"></div><p>While "TLOU" season one covered the events of the 2013 game, the second season will not cover all of its 2020 sequel.</p><p>Series co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, who also created the game series, told GQ in March 2023 that the events of the second game will take place over "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-last-of-us-finale-ending-explained-interview">more than one season</a>."</p><h2 id="00574d3a-1c70-483c-8406-aa643173cc92"><strong>There will likely be a time jump from the end of 'The Last of Us' season 1</strong></h2><p>In an interview with Josh Horowitz on the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6CmLgAwiKo">"Happy Sad Confused" podcast</a> in February 2023, Ramsey said that while they were playing a 14-year-old Ellie in the first season of "The Last of Us," Ellie would be closer to their own age in season two.</p><p>"I'll be 20, probably by the time we shoot that, and I'll be playing 19," Ramsey said. "So yeah, I will be closer to my age."</p><div type="image" title="bella ramsey as ellie in the last of us, standing in front of a chain link, heavy fence in episode three" height="653" width="871" msid="106879719" hostid="261"></div><p>Showrunner Craig Mazin also spoke about the possibility of a time jump with <a target="_blank" href="https://collider.com/the-last-of-us-season-1-craig-mazin-interview/">Collider</a>, and said that there won't be any recasting as a result.</p><p>"Obviously, the time jump is important, to some extent," Mazin said. "It reflects the changing nature of Ellie's relationship with Joel, as she gets older."</p><h2 id="c874fc79-d890-402a-a7be-1f5363d916ac"><strong>Expect to see a few new major characters</strong></h2><div type="image" title="side by side of Kaitlyn Dever and Abby in &quot;The Last of Us&quot; video game." height="600" width="1200" msid="106879720" hostid="261"></div><p>In January, HBO announced three major season two castings.</p><p>Kaitlyn Dever will play Abby, who is the second protagonist of "The Last of Us Part II" and a playable character in the game. She's a member of the Fireflies, and is driven by her desire for revenge.</p><p>Isabela Merced has been cast as Dina, Ellie's love interest and eventual traveling companion who she gets to know in the Jackson settlement.</p><p>And Young Mazino, a breakout star of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/beef-cast-netflix-ali-wong-steven-yeun-david-choe-2023-4">Netflix limited series "Beef,"</a> will play Jesse, Dina's ex and a community leader in Jackson.</p><div type="image" title="left: actor young mazino, in a black coat, silver turtleneck, and with one earring in his left ear; right: jesse in the last of us two, a young man with dirty clothes and a cut on his cheek" height="1500" width="2000" msid="106879722" hostid="261"></div><p>In March, <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/StreamOnMax/status/1763595799479414805?s=20">Max announced</a> four new additions to the cast. Danny Ramirez will play Manny, Ariela Barer will play Mel, Tati Gabrielle will play Nora, and Spencer Lord will play Owen. The four characters are friends of Abby's from the Seattle settlement. Catherine O'Hara of "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cool-things-to-know-about-schitts-creek-fun-facts">Schitt's Creek</a>" is also <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/StreamOnMax/status/1753478399341813884?s=20">set to appear</a> in the new season in an undisclosed guest role.</p><p>HBO also announced in May that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-wright-n-word-censor-dubbed-ride-with-the-devil-2024-1">Jeffrey Wright</a> ("American Fiction") would reprise his role from the games and play Isaac, the leader of the Washington Liberation Front, in season two. Per <a target="_blank" href="https://ew.com/the-last-of-us-jeffrey-wright-confirmed-as-isaac-season-2-8653447">Entertainment Weekly</a>, HBO describes Isaac as "the quietly powerful leader of a large militia group who sought liberty but instead has become mired in an endless war against a surprisingly resourceful enemy."</p><p>Another major character in the sequel game is Lev, a transgender teen who escapes a cult.</p><p>In February 2023, Ian Alexander, who voiced and performed the character through motion capture, told Business Insider they would <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-ian-alexander-lev-season-two-interview-2023-2">love to reprise their role on the live-action series</a>.</p><div type="image" title="Ian Alexander played Lev (right) in &quot;The Last of Us Part II.&quot;" height="600" width="1200" msid="106879724" hostid="261"></div><p>At the time, Alexander hadn't had any conversations about the role.</p><p>HBO hasn't announced casting for the character and it's not yet known if Lev will appear in season two. After the game's initial release in 2020, the game's developer Naughty Dog received some <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.inverse.com/gaming/last-of-us-2-deadname-lev-controversy-explained"><u>backlash for its handling</u></a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/last-us-part-ii-brings-queer-stories-pandemic-ravaged-dystopia-n1233073"><u>of Lev's story</u></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.inverse.com/gaming/last-of-us-2-deadname-lev-controversy-explained"><u>.</u></a></p><h2 id="d2a0d5bb-2ae1-4a19-9065-fa069ab3c8b5">F<strong>ans are concerned Joel could die in season 2</strong></h2><div type="image" title="joel cracling ellie, clad in a hospital gown, in the season one finale of the last of us" height="1280" width="1707" msid="106879725" hostid="261"></div><p>"The Last of Us Part II" video game is controversial among fans because Joel is unexpectedly and brutally murdered by Abby toward the start of the sequel when his past catches up with him.</p><p>In addition to playing as Ellie, gamers are forced to play as Joel's killer leading up to and after his death in the sequel. As a result, some players <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/6/21314543/the-last-of-us-2-harassment-neil-druckmann-laura-bailey-naughty-dog-abby-death-threats-ps4"><u>harassed and threatened the developers, Druckmann,</u></a> and <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/the-last-of-us-part-ii-director-on-fan-hate-thats-their-reaction-and-you-dont-fight-that-2699046"><u>voice actors</u></a> for its story.</p><h2 id="03dafa74-3374-4ae9-a87e-918d4ea9baca"><strong>Will Joel die in 'The Last of Us' season two? It's likely</strong></h2><p>Joel's fate is the question on every fan's mind, since it's the major jumping-off point of the sequel game. Even Pascal has admitted his character's death is a possibility in season two.</p><div type="image" title="Pedro Pascal as Joel on season one of &quot;The Last of Us.&quot;" height="1280" width="1707" msid="106879726" hostid="261"></div><p>"It wouldn't make sense to follow the first game so faithfully only to stray severely from the path," Pascal told <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a43518988/pedro-pascal-the-last-of-us-interview-2023/?utm_campaign=likeshopme&amp;utm_content=www.instagram.com%2Fp%2FCq5SRIztQFt%2F&amp;utm_medium=instagram&amp;utm_source=dash+hudson">Esquire in April 2023</a>.</p><p>"If that does take place in the show, I don't know that I'm emotionally ready for it," he added.</p><p>However, Mazin <a target="_blank" href="https://ew.com/tv/the-last-of-us-season-2-bella-ramsey-time-jump/">told Entertainment Weekly</a> that fans can expect some changes from the sequel game in season two, saying, "It's going to be different, and it will be its own thing. It won't be exactly like the game."</p><p>Maybe that means there's a chance Joel could live, or at least make it to the end of season two, due to Pascal's immense popularity.</p><p>Since the second game became controversial, it's likely the show may flesh out Abby's character more before killing Joel off, if the show decides to go that route. But it would be difficult to envision season two straying from Joel's death since it's the key motivation for Ellie's path in the sequel game.</p><h2 id="ddbd21fc-1224-46d5-8482-485eee5aed33"><strong>There will be more infected</strong></h2><div type="image" title="TLOU infected zombie" height="1280" width="1707" msid="106879727" hostid="261"></div><p>In the game, players are constantly outmaneuvering and killing a large number of the people who have been infected and taken over by the cordyceps virus. Though the infected showed up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-bloater-adam-basil-actor-sex-icon-2023-2">in a few key scenes</a>, they weren't a main fixture of season one, which placed a large emphasis on character relationships and world-building.</p><p>"It's quite possible that there will be a lot more infected later. And perhaps different kinds," Mazin <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-last-of-us-season-2-more-infected-2023-3">said during a press conference</a> for the finale in 2023.</p><p>On HBO's <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-9-look-for-the-light/id1660320068?i=1000603849713">"The Last of Us" podcast</a>, Mazin added that season two will likely further explore the idea of the Cordyceps hive mind and how they can be a major threat together.</p><p>"I think this next season, the interconnectivity of them, and the risk of stepping on the wrong thing, that stuff is going to be brought forward more for sure," Mazin said.</p><h2 id="4e1ba23d-5669-4247-8288-d53753d9f3eb">Joel has a little more hair</h2><p id="4e1ba23d-5669-4247-8288-d53753d9f3eb">HBO released teaser images for season two during Warner Bros. Discovery's Upfront presentation in May. It's just two images for now, but they give us an updated look at Joel and Ellie in the new season.</p><div type="image" title="pedro pascal in the last of us season two as joel. he has a mustache and short beard, and longer hair that goes further down his neck" height="1080" width="1440" msid="110157321" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="bella ramsey as ellie in the last of us season two, wearing a winter coat, a hat, and intently holding a gun" height="1080" width="1440" msid="110157322" hostid="261"></div><p id="4e1ba23d-5669-4247-8288-d53753d9f3eb">For his part, Joel has longer hair than we saw him with previously. Meanwhile, Ellie's bundled up in winter clothing and holding a gun.</p>

Everything we know about 'The Last of Us' season 2

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12635663" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="julia-roberts" source="Orion">Julia Roberts</keyword> told Variety that the rom-com "<keyword id="13654019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ticket-to-paradise" source="Orion">Ticket to Paradise</keyword>" is "probably going to be terrible."</li><li>She stars in the upcoming <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> with <keyword id="12291843" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-clooney" source="Orion">George Clooney</keyword>.</li></ul><p>Julia Roberts says that her upcoming romantic comedy with George Clooney, "Ticket to Paradise," is "probably going to be terrible."</p><p>"Christ. I knew this would come up," Roberts said of the movie during an interview <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/markets-festivals/julia-roberts-interview-cannes-1235275527/">with Variety's Ramin Setoodeh</a> at the Cannes film festival. "Watch, the real acting happens now. Ready?"</p><p>According to Setoodeh, she then put on a big smile. "George, isn't he great!?"</p><p>The movie, which opens in theaters in October, marks Roberts' first time starring opposite Clooney since the 2016 movie "Money Monster." They also famously costarred in the "Ocean's Eleven" franchise.</p><div type="image" title="julia roberts george clooney" height="682" width="1024" msid="91799357" hostid="261"></div>"It is a romantic comedy," Roberts went on. "He plays my ex-husband. I think it's so funny and George is so funny and George and I together, it's probably going to be terrible because there's too much potential for it to be great, it'll just implode on it itself."<p>"I think that should be the commercial for the movie: 'It's probably going to be terrible.'" Roberts added. "I'm so glad my publicist is on a plane right now."</p><p>In "Ticket to Paradise," Roberts and Clooney play a divorced couple who have to reluctantly team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter (played by Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married to a local.</p>

Julia Roberts says her upcoming rom-com with George Clooney is 'probably going to be terrible': 'I'm so glad my publicist is on a plane right now'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12635663" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="julia-roberts" source="Orion">Julia Roberts</keyword> said she hasn't gotten any rom-com scripts that match up to the quality of "Notting Hill."</li><li>Roberts said becoming a mother has also changed how she accepts films roles. </li></ul><p>Julia Roberts said she took a 20-year break from the romantic comedy genre because the scripts she was offered did not match the quality of those from the 1990s.</p><p>Roberts — who is best known for starring in a string of classic rom-coms from the 1990s such as "Notting Hill" and "My Best Friend's Wedding" — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/18/magazine/julia-roberts-interview.html">told the New York Times</a> in an interview published Monday that people often misconstrue the amount of time that's gone by since her last rom-com outing as evidence that she no longer wants to star in them.</p><p>"Here's the thing: If I'd thought something was good enough, I would have done it," Roberts told the Times. "If I had read something that I thought was that 'Notting Hill' level of writing or 'My Best Friend's Wedding' level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didn't exist until this <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed."</p><p>The upcoming Ol Parker film Roberts is referring to is "<keyword id="13654019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ticket-to-paradise" source="Orion">Ticket to Paradise</keyword>," which sees the 54-year-old actor star opposite her longtime collaborator <keyword id="12291843" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-clooney" source="Orion">George Clooney</keyword>. Later during the interview, Roberts said that she almost didn't star in the film because she thought it would only work well if she starred opposite Clooney. This was before Clooney was offered the role.</p><p>"Lo and behold, George felt it only worked with me. Somehow we were both able to do it, and off we went," Roberts said.</p><div type="image" title="julia roberts george clooney" height="2537" width="3811" msid="90942153" hostid="261"></div><p>Elsewhere during the interview with the Times, Roberts, who has been married to cinematographer Danny Moder since 2002, discussed how her life as a mother has changed the way she navigates Hollywood and her career as an actor.</p><p>"I also had three kids in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more because then it's not only 'Is this material good?' It's also the math equation of my husband's work schedule and the kids' school schedule and summer vacation," she said.</p><p>"It's not just, 'Oh, I think I want to do this'. I have a sense of great pride in being home with my family and considering myself a homemaker."</p><p>"Ticket to Paradise" is currently slated for a September 16 release. The film also stars Kaitlyn Dever and Billie Lourd.</p>

Julia Roberts says she took a 20-year break from rom-coms because she didn't receive any 'good' scripts

Los Angeles, Jul 15 () "Star Wars" star Kelly Marie Tran has boarded Hulu's upcoming anthology series "Monsterland". <p>Tran joins previously announced cast members Kaitlyn Dever, Taylor Schilling and Mike Colter, reported Variety. </p><p>The horror series is based on the short stories from Nathan Ballingrud's collection, "North American Lake Monsters". </p><p>It follows "broken people driven to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives, ultimately showing there is a thin line between man and monster". </p><p>Tran will play Lauren in an episode titled 'Iron River, MI'. </p><p>Her character has just returned to her small hometown of Iron River, Michigan to be married. Lauren managed to build a new life after her best friend, Elena, went missing when they were 16. </p><p>Mary Laws serves as the creator and writer on the eight-episode series. </p>She is also attached as the executive producer on the project along with Under the Shadow's Lucan Toh and Babak Anvari and Annapurna's Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle. RDS RDS

Kelly Marie Tran to star in horror anthology series 'Monsterland'

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p><p class="caption">(L-R) Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in "Booksmart."</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Olivia Wilde's feature directing debut, "Booksmart" (out Friday), is a hilarious high-school comedy that will resonate with you.</li><li>It is generation-defining and an instant classic.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>A high-school movie is done right when the moments and characters in the story are so authentic and genuine that the young people watching feel as if their lives were somehow put on film.</p><p>From "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and the John Hughes classics like "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," to more recent titles like "Mean Girls," "Superbad," and "Lady Bird," what makes all these stand the test of time is that along with laughing at the absurdity of high school, there's a truth to the material that stays with you.</p><p>And "Booksmart" (in theaters Friday) will soon enter that pantheon of essential high-school movies.</p><p>Olivia Wilde's feature directing debut captures today's over-stressed, hyper-aware high schoolers unlike anyone yet, and delivers a work that is filled with as much sincerity as constant laughs.</p><p>In the movie, we follow two overachievers - seniors Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) - on the day before graduation. As most of the students are counting down the hours until the school year is over, especially the seniors, Amy and Molly are still laser focused. Molly even wants to talk to the principal (who is as much over the school year as the kids are) about how to transition her senior class presidency to the incoming president.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Needless to say, Amy and Molly are not liked by most of their classmates. That becomes even more evident when Molly overhears people talking about her in the bathroom. Molly thinks she has the ultimate comeback: that all their goofing off in high school got them nowhere while she is off to Yale in the fall. But she's wrong.</p><p>Turns out one of the people she confronts is also going to Yale and another has a job at Google. In fact, every member of her graduating class who Molly thought was beneath her is going to an esteemed college. Molly is completely gobsmacked, and even Amy's sweet tunes on an autoharp can't sooth her.</p><p>Convinced she and Amy did high school all wrong, Molly decides they have to make it all up in one night by going to the big year-end house party. What transpires is a hilarious night of self-discovery.</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong></em>: <em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-hader-talks-about-that-dark-season-finale-of-barry-2019-5">Bill Hader on the dark season finale of "Barry" and why he thinks everyone needs to lay off "Game of Thrones"</a></em></p><p>If that all sounded similar to the last dozen high-school movies you've watched, you're right; it's not like you have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to this genre. But that's also the huge challenge. Because the structure of the movies are often similar, you have to really be strong in the details to stand out.</p><p>And with "Booksmart," here's where it thrives:</p><ul><li>The strong supporting characters.</li><li>The originality of the "last night out" story arc - from Amy's parents allowing her to sleep over at Molly's because they think the two are gay lovers, to the FOMO through social <keyword id="6354777" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Media">media</keyword> as they plead with people to send them the address to the party.</li><li>A stop-motion animation sequence that occurs when the girls take drugs, but really is a commentary on how society perceives beauty.</li></ul><p>The movie doesn't just have its pulse on what today's youth are going through, it goes a step further: it is defining a generation.</p><p>Wilde's clear vision makes the movie so entertaining you are sad to see it end. Beanie Feldstein follows up her great supporting role in "Lady Bird" with a strong lead performance here. Billie Lourd is a scene stealer in the role of party girl Gigi. And the talents of the all-female screenwriters made up of Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, and Katie Silberman - who perfectly capture high-school life - give the movie its soul.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-arya-kills-night-king-battle-of-winterfell-season-8-episode-3-2019-5">16 clues that foreshadowed Arya's big moment at the battle of Winterfell in 'Game of Thrones'</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

'Booksmart' is more than just the must-see movie of the summer: it's generation-defining

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Not even a cast full of famous faces such as Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Emma Thompson, <span class="itemprop">Rosemarie DeWitt,</span> and Ansel Elgort can save d<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">irector Jason Reitman's new movie, "Men, Women &amp; Children."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">It's a movie full of big, relevant ideas that all fail to make any impact due to the film's lack of subtlety. By employing an omniscient, overbearing narration style, Reitman breaks a cardinal rule of writing: he's telling rather than showing. Instead of understanding how these characters feel through their actions, I know how they feel because an important-sounding British woman tells me so.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The film pretentiously opens in outer space, as a Woody Allen-esque jazz number croons and the dulcet tones of Emma Thompson, the film's narrator, lecture the audience on the </span><em style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Voyager</em><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> space program. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">This all-knowing entity</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> describes how satellites that amplified human sounds were sent into space to give any potential extraterrestrials a sample of life on earth. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">After this unnecessary history lesson, we home in on a morose man (Adam Sandler) as he goes to his son's room to use his computer to masturbate. When he discovers his son's Internet history is full of pornography, the narrator tells us Sandler feels sad that the old-school ritual of finding your dad's stack of porn magazines seems to have been lost in this technological age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Sandler is just one poor sap in this ensemble piece, but this scene encapsulates all you need to know about the film: these characters are not believable people, just conduits for spreading a Luddite mentality. <span>The movie wishes to shame those embracing the internet age by exaggerating the dangers and showcasing how disconnected we are as people because of it.</span></span></p>
<p>This perfectly valid criticism gets overshadowed by all the melodramatic excess, as Reitman can't help but shoehorn in other important, controversial topics no matter how tenuous their relationship to technology dependence. For example, there's an entire subplot surrounding a young woman with an eating disorder, and this is tied to the narrative through the pro-anorexia Tumblrs she visits. The film also<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> deals with eating disorders, stage parents and the idea of celebrity, overprotective parents, bullying, teenage pregnancy, and suicide, but the film's two-hour runtime allows for only the broadest of strokes. There's even a way of dealing with 9/11 that made me cringe with how lazily it was thrown in.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although Sandler might be commended for taking on a more ambitious role than usual, he sleepwalks through most of the film. It's not his fault, though, as this is how his character is written. Other stars like DeWitt, Garner, and Simmons are wasted in boring roles, and there are brief hints of life when the film spends time with Judy Greer and "Breaking Bad's" Dean Norris, who actually give decent performances in spite of everything that surrounds them. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The two youngest characters in the film, played by Kaitlyn Dever and Ansel Elgort, are the most interesting, as their relationship is the only thing that comes off as genuine. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Reitman is best known for his unique style of comedy that deal with serious issues, like "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Juno-Single-Disc-Edition-Ellen-Page/dp/B000YABYLA">Juno</a>" with teen pregnancy or unemployment in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Up-Air-George-Clooney/dp/B00337KM2S">Up In The Air</a>." Something has been lost in his transition to full blown drama, as this and its critically-panned predecessor "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Day-Kate-Winslet/dp/B00K0CB1G0">Labor Day</a>" just don't work. Here's hoping his next directorial effort sees Reitman returning to the more darkly comedic territory he knows best. </span></p>

Not Even An All-Star Cast Can Save Jason Reitman's 'Men, Women & Children'

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p><p class="caption">"Booksmart."</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>"Booksmart" (currently playing in theaters) is a critical darling and the must-see movie of the summer.</li><li>But before it became the feature directing debut of actress Olivia Wilde, it was a 2009 selection of The Black List and went through two different versions of story development before finding its way to Annapurna Pictures and female-focused company, Gloria Sanchez Productions.</li><li>Gloria Sanchez head Jessica Elbaum and screenwriter Katie Silberman talked to Business Insider about getting "Booksmart" to the screen.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>"Booksmart" came into the entertainment world with this description in the <a href="https://blcklst.com/2009-black-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2009 edition of The Black List</a>, an annual list that gets passed around Hollywood of the best screenplays not yet produced:</p><p>Ten years (two more screenwriters, a relentless producer, and an ambitious actress making her feature directing debut) later, the movie, now with a one-word title instead of two, has critics gushing and is one of the most anticipated movies of the summer.</p><p>How in the world did we get here?</p><p>Let's pick things up around 2014. At that point, the Halpern and Haskins (producers/writers on "Black-ish" and "The Mayor") script had made the rounds but not gotten anywhere. Then Susanna Fogel (director of "The Spy Who Dumped Me") came on the give it a pass. She made one of the characters gay and tweaked the plot from overachieving high-school girls trying to get boyfriends by prom, to overachievers realizing their two crushes are single and seeking them out at an after-prom party.</p><p>Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures saw potential and bought it. The company then teamed with Jessica Elbaum of Gloria Sanchez productions, the female-focused production shingle of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions, to make it.</p><p>"It was something that I was instantly attracted to and something that I wish I had as a kid," Elbaum told Business Insider of why she signed on. "It was reminiscent of 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' and I had not made one of those yet so I was like, 'Yes, sign me up!'"</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p><p class="caption">Olivia Wilde on the set of "Booksmart."</p></div><p></p></div></div>And Elbaum thought she had the perfect director for it: her friend, Olivia Wilde.</p><p>Wilde is known best as an actress with a filmography that ranges from "The O.C." to "TRON: Legacy," but recently she has been putting her focus into producing and directing shorts and music videos as well.</p><p>"We were driving one day and I told her that I had the perfect project for her," Elbaum recalled telling Wilde. "I sent her the script and literally two days later she said she loved it."</p><p>Wilde came in and pitched for the directing job. But she didn't stroll in thinking she had it locked up because of her Hollywood pedigree. She showed up with a full outline of how she wanted to do the movie with visual aids that included one sequence that would be in stop-motion animation, in which she wanted the two leads to become Barbie dolls.</p><p>Wilde got the job.</p><p>Next, Elbaum connected Wilde with screenwriter Katie Silberman, who had recently wrapped on what would become the romantic comedy sensation for Netflix, "Set It Up."</p><p>"What we wanted to do was update the story to 2019, because so much had changed for young women," Silberman told Business Insider. "We really clicked when we realized we wanted to do the same thing."</p><p>And that "same thing" was telling a high-school story that would pay homage to the classics in the genre, but also resonate with young people today.</p><p>Then Silberman pitched Wilde the idea that would make "Booksmart" stand out:</p><p style="padding-left: 40px;">What if the two friends realized that they did high school all wrong? What if they realized that everyone they thought just partied and wasted their high-school years were going to Ivy League schools just like them?</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p><p class="caption">(L-R) Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Denver in "Booksmart."</p></div><p></p></div></div>They scrapped the prom plot and the story now revolved around the two friends, Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), embarking on a night out to find the end-of-school-year party.</p><p>The film was shot last summer in 26 days around Los Angeles with four weeks of night shoots. That wasn't an ideal situation for any filmmaker, let alone someone making her first feature. But Silberman, who was also a producer on the movie, said it was Wilde's focus that kept everyone on task.</p><p>"You need someone at the helm who has a fundamentally strong idea of what the story is," she said. "Olivia not only understood it so well but was really brilliant at making sure we knew it too and conveying it to us."</p><p>That was a necessary element because - from casting through shooting - Silberman was constantly tweaking the script to fit the actors' strengths. Wilde was less focused on choosing actors who would fit what was on the page and instead selected those who wowed her.</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong></em>: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/booksmart-is-must-see-movie-of-the-summer-and-generation-defining-2019-5"><em>"Booksmart" is more than just the must-see movie of the summer: it's generation defining</em></a></p><p>"She would come back from a casting session and say, 'We don't have anyone like this yet, but we have this incredible actor and we have to put them in the movie,'" Silberman recalled. "So we would either create new characters or adjust what was on the page to make it fit that person."</p><p>There were also whole new sequences made from scratch that needed to be fit into the story, like Wilde's idea for a stop-motion sequence.</p><p>In the movie when Molly and Amy accidentally take drugs for the first time, Wilde wanted their hallucination to be specific. And for two feminists, nothing would freak them out more than being turned into Barbie dolls. So Silberman crafted the scene in the middle of the movie, and gave it a little kick at the end.</p><p>"Their version of the drug nightmare would be being stuck in the body of a Barbie doll, which represents everything they think is wrong with society, and then one of them actually likes it," Silberman said.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Annapurna Pictures</span></p><p class="caption">(L-R) Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde on the set of "Booksmart."</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>It was the ambition of Wilde that thrilled both Silberman and Elbaum.</p><p>"As a producer, you hear about shooting, say, an underwater shot, [and] all you think is it's going to add time and money - and the stop-motion sequence is typically something that would be the first thing on the chopping block - but she pulled it off," Elbaum said. "She made the movie feel bigger than what it should have been, that's not easy."</p><p>The movie had its world premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival this year and was an instant hit. Critics are almost universally in love with it and it has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.</p><p>"We wanted young women to see themselves, especially if they have felt they haven't been given that before," said Silberman, who is currently developing another female buddy movie with Wilde. "But I think it's really rewarding that men are responding to it as well as women. Older people as well as high schoolers. Because it's meant as much to be nostalgic as it is modern."</p><p>But Elbaum added that the changing tide in Hollywood has helped women-led stories like "Booksmart." Back in 2009 (when "Booksmart" was "Book Smart"), it would have been difficult to get the movie released in a significant way.</p><p>"What I have set out to do is work with women in front and behind the camera, and tell stories that are by women but for everybody," Elbaum said. "What has changed is not what I'm trying to do, it's just that everyone is really into it now." </p><p><em>"Booksmart" is currently playing in theaters.</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/it-chapter-two-trailer-stephen-king-details-missed-pennywise-clown-2019-5">Everything you missed in the trailer for 'It: Chapter Two'</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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