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Universal has offered a first look astatine One Night Only, their caller romanticist drama starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, from Anyone But You’s Will Gluck.
Previously, nan film’s charismatic logline has been kept nether wraps. But astatine CinemaCon successful Las Vegas this afternoon, we learned that what was rumored astir nan movie is existent — that it’s group successful a world wherever premarital activity is allowed only 1 nighttime a year, and follows a brace who meet connected that night.
Before unveiling a trailer, nan workplace played a sizzle of its past iconic rom-coms, noting, “Once upon a time, group fell successful emotion connected nan large screen.”
Now, nan sizzle observed, “Fewer romanticist comedies than ever before. If we don’t enactment now, emotion will time off theaters forever.”
Thankfully, this summer, there’s still dream successful nan shape of One Night Only.
The trailer opens pinch a young man (Turner) and female (Barbaro) flirting successful a pizzeria, talking astir nan champion portion of sex. Turner says it’s “the after, 2 group lying location sharing a secret.”
We trim to 10 hours earlier and perceive Barbaro discussing really difficult uncovering emotion is, peculiarly successful a world pinch strangely circumstantial rules erstwhile it comes to sexuality. Her sanction is Allie, and she wants to “find thing real.”
Has she, successful Turner’s Owen? We’ll find out.
Gluck directed One Night Only from his ain book — a rewrite of an original from Travis Braun, which topped nan 2024 Black List. Pic marks his return to nan rom-com genre aft titles specified arsenic Easy A, Friends pinch Benefits, and Anyone But You, nan past of which became an outsized theatrical deed astatine $220M worldwide.
The movie is slated to unfastened August 7 against titles including Searchlight’s Super Troopers 3, Mubi’s Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma from Jane Schoenbrun, and Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man. Also starring Molly Ringwald, LeVar Burton, Maya Hawke, Julia Fox, and Este Haim, it’s produced by Gluck and Jacqueline Monetta via their Olive Bridge Entertainment.
