Originally appeared on E! Online
The dead of winter is the perfect time to take a vacation, even if you’re doing so from the comfort of your couch.
Luckily, the adaptation of Emily Henry’s best-selling novel “The People We Meet on Vacation” will do just that — and provide viewers with a friends-to-lovers tale for the ages. The film, which debuts on Netflix January 9, stars Emily Bader and Tom Blyth as BFFs Poppy and Alex, who jet-set around the world together on an annual summer trip. However, jet lag and differing travel styles can’t match the ultimate bit of turbulence their friendship encounters: catching feelings.
And as fans await the adaptation — not to mention the many other Henry works being primed for the screen —Netflix’s “People We Meet on Vacation” already has the author’s ultimate seal of approval.
“I was lucky enough to get to do some set visits, so I got to see it in real life and knew that it worked,” she told E! earlier this year. “But getting to actually see a cut of the movie, they’ve changed the characters in my head, which I think is the sign of a really great movie.”
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And just in time for Valentine’s Day, Emerald Fennell is delivering her much talked about adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 tragic love story “Wuthering Heights.” On Feb. 13, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s take on the ill-fated Catherine and Heathcliff comes to life, with the moody, Charli XCX-infused trailer teasing what to expect as the filmmaker brings brat summer to the Yorkshire Moors.
“Wuthering Heights” may have been crossed off many high school summer reading lists, but there’s one English class epic that, quite literally, stands above the rest. And none other than Christopher Nolan is bringing it to the big screen. The “Oppenheimer” director’s take on Homer’s “The Odyssey” is set to make a splash this summer, with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson among the film’s vast ensemble cast.
Though Damon’s BFF Ben Affleck is not among the stars dialing back the clock to the days after the Trojan War, he did weigh in on Damon’s jaw-dropping transformation — at the behest of everyone he ran into while promoting The Accountant 2.
As Affleck admitted on “New Heights” in April, “I was like, ‘The one time he got in shape!'”
Still, he praised his longtime pal for putting in the work to get into character as Odysseus. “It looks good!” The Town star emphasized. “It ain’t easy when you touch 50. You boys will see!”
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