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Prime Video has unveiled the cast members for its upcoming British original romantic-comedy. Bridgerton star Simone Ashley and After actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the lead actors. It is based on Prime Video’s Australian original film Five Blind Dates, written by Shaung Hu and Nathan Ramos-Park. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming film: Simone Ashley set to star in Prime Video's upcoming original rom-com Picture This (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Who are the showrunners for Picture This?The upcoming…

Easily, two of the fastest-rising stars right now are Paul Mescal and Ayo Edebiri. Between the actor leading the highly anticipated Gladiator 2, and the actress going into Season 3 of The Bear, a show she’s won so many awards for, that point has become abundantly clear over the last year. Now, it seems like the two might be starring in a rom-com together, and the internet is convinced it will be for an adaptation of one of Emily Henry’s books after seeing how the author interacted with the actors’ viral St. Patrick’s Day…

Anne Hathaway, known for her slice of life romantic movies had been involved with serious and pathbreaking stories lately. Fans were eagerly waiting her return in light-hearted love stories for quite some time. The actor has finally made her comeback with Michael Showalter's rom-com The Idea of You. The movie is being hailed by critics after its premiere at SXSW for its feel-good moments and sparkling chemistry between Anne and actor Nicholas Galitzine. The initial first reviews of the film has got it a stellar response…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGeraldine Viswanathan is a minute or two late for our interview – she completely lost her car. When the 28-year-old star of Cat Person and Ethan Coen’s new film Drive-Away Dolls does appear on our video call, she’s sat in the front seat, laughing, holding her phone camera at a sort of Dutch angle to her face. “I’m in LA so it’s very, you know… A car is a second home,” she says, with a…

The curse of auburn-haired American women heading to Ireland for terrible magic-themed romcoms continues, 14 years after Amy Adams took an unfortunate vacation in the detestable Leap Year (a film that even her co-star Matthew Goode generously referred to as “turgid” within weeks of its release). There’s less at stake here – Adams was a two-time Oscar nominee leading her first romantic comedy – but we’re left in a similarly unremarkable place, a persuasive tourism ad masquerading as a real movie.That might have sounded…

Who can resist falling love with Anne Hathaway? Surely not even young rockstars. Anne Hathaway and Nicolas Galitzine in The Idea of You. The first trailer for Prime Video's upcoming romantic comedy The Idea of You is out. It stars Anne Hathaway (41) with Nicolas Galitzine (29). Anne plays an art manager who falls for Nicolas' gentle rockstar. They meet at Coachella and it is love at first sight. He follows her to her workplace, clearly smitten but she is apprehensive about their age difference. But the fire in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAmazon Prime Video has released the trailer for its new romcom The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 Harry Styles-inspired novel of the same name.The movie stars Anne Hathaway as Solène a 40-year-old single mother who begins a love affair with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine) – the lead vocalist of the world’s hottest boy band – after…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAmazon Prime Video has released the trailer for its new rom-com The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 Harry Styles-inspired novel of the same name.The movie stars Anne Hathaway as Solène a 40-year-old single mother who begins a love affair with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine) – the lead vocalist of the world’s hottest boy band –…

Sydney Sweeney has admitted she wouldn’t be surprised if Anyone But You gets a sequel.The 2023 romantic comedy, starring Sweeney alongside Glen Powell, recently hit a notable box office milestone by surpassing $200 million globally.It stands as the highest-grossing rom-com in years, sparking suggestions that a sequel could be planned.While nothing has been officially announced, Sweeney hinted that there is a “high chance” during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.“Maybe like, a high nine chance,” she…

We've in a bit of a soundtrack renaissance as of the last year, between the resurgence of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" from Stranger Things, Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder on the Dancefloor" from Saltburn (complete with that infamous Barry Keoghan naked dance scene) and most recently Natasha Bedingfield’s "Unwritten," which played a prominent role in Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s rom-com, Anyone but You. That mid-2000s bop, which was pulled off Bedingfield's 2004 debut album of the same name, has been utilized in…