Renate Reinsve Goes from One Line to Leading Lady of ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Joachim Trier is having a good day. The excitement is almost pouring through the phone.

Neon’s racked up a few bests this weekend with a cume of $135,042 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768.

Marta Balaga Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young woman figuring out life and love, might have brought Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes, but the two actually started their collaboration in 2011 on “Oslo, August 31st” – Reinsve’s very first film. “I was an extra with one line,” she said during an online discussion with the director, accompanying a surprise screening of their film at Rotterdam Film Festival. “The Worst Person in the World” was recently shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.

Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert is heading back to IMAX after a one-day, single-show screening last Sunday — the 52nd anniversary of the band’s iconic 1969 concert. The show and live Q&A with Jackson beamed directly to theaters had its share of sellouts with audio and visuals about as close as possible to actually joining the band on the roof of their Apple Corps headquarters at 3 Savile Row. Disney and IMAX presenting it again Feb. 9 at 75 to 80 IMAX locations, then on 200 screens starting Feb. 11 through the weekend. (The concert is also included in its entirety in Jackson’s six-part doc series The Beatles: Get Back, which hit Disney+ last fall. Click video above to play exclusive clip.

The Worst Person in the World. The , now in theaters, kicks off with Julie (Renate Reinsve) diving headfirst into a quarter-life crisis. A student in Oslo, Norway, she switches from surgery to psychology to photography, changing up her hair color with every shift. We are told via voice over—the film is divided up into “chapters” that telegraph the stages of her growth—that Julie was once a hard-working, straight-A type, but that the macro issues of the world (The news! The environment!) and the micro-distractions of cell phones and social media have set her somewhat adrift.

Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” is finally gracing America’s theaters and not only will moviegoers be able to catch the best movie of 2021, as well as BAFTA Best Actress nominee Renate Reinsve, but the movie’s secret weapon, Anders Danielsen Lie’s heartbreaking performance. Amazingly, Danielsen Lie is a celebrated actor who somehow manages a side career as a practicing medical doctor.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFollowers of Lindsay Lohan can go to the Super Bowl to get a new workout.Lohan is at the center of a new Super Bowl commercial from Planet Fitness, which is running an ad in the Big Game for the first time in its corporate history. The spot, crafted with Publicis Worldwide, is slated to air during the third quarter of NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl LVI.  The commercials also features William Shatner, Dennis Rodman, Buzzy Cohen and Danny Trejo in a short vignette that tells viewers how much better Lohan’s life is now that she works out regularly.“We really tried to have fun with it and find someone who could really own the stage at the Super Bowl for us,” says Jeremy Tucker, the company’s chief marketing officer.

“It’s a tough thing; making movies. And to talk to people who appreciate them means a lot.” Director Joachim Trier has an undeniably infectious energy, housing a clear love for the history of cinema and storytelling art in general.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of films shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s taken them off guard. “The Worst Person in The World” competed at Cannes where it was acquired by Neon for domestic rights and earned its star Renate Reinsve a best actress award. The critically lauded romantic drama rounds out Trier’s Oslo Trilogy, which began with “Reprise” in 2006 and continued with “Oslo, August 31st” in 2011.

Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic Dune leads the 2022 British Academy Film Awards nominations with 11. The movie adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic, starring Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac, topped the nominations when they were announced in London on Thursday.

With all of the buzz surrounding the Sundance Film Festival last month and with the Berlin International Film Festival poised to begin later this month, it’s easy to miss some of the smaller films released on the regular schedule. While January failed to offer many must-see titles, February looks to offer more with films such as likely Oscar nominee “The Worst Person in the World” sharing release dates with the anticipated return of Johnny Knoxville and the gang in “Jackass Forever.” Later in the month will see another attempt to adapt a video game into a series building film, Channing Tatum’s directing debut, and the return of indie favorite Josephine Decker.

party. Played by the beguiling Renate Reinsve, Julie is the picture of cool glamour, her hair tied back in a casually elegant ponytail. It almost looks like the end to something.

Arsenal legend Ian Wright has lambasted Manchester United for their treatment of Donny van de Beek, declaring he hopes he can find form at Everton.

“It’s a tough thing; making movies. And to talk to people who appreciate them means a lot.” Director Joachim Trier has an undeniably infectious energy, housing a clear love for the history of cinema and storytelling art in general.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentHere, Variety talks with Fernando León de Aranoa, director of the Javier Bardem-starring “The Good Boss” (“El Buen Patron”), Spain’s Oscar entry, which is a big box office hit on home turf and has scored more Spanish Academy Goya nominations than any other film in history.What does it mean to you to be shortlisted for the best international feature Oscar?I feel a mix of joy and responsibility. It means following the steps of some of the greatest Spanish filmmakers who have done it before, being among a group of brilliant directors from all over the world and having the opportunity of showing “The Good Boss” to a wider audience.What’s been the most challenging aspect of your campaign thus far?To make our film visible amidst the strong contenders.

Has any Broadway production in recent (or even not so recent) memory arrived with as much emotional baggage – or carried it as lightly – as the visually and sonically ravishing MJ? The Michael Jackson musical, as unlikely as such a prospect might have seemed a year ago, now appears poised to take Manhattan with the same hurricane force that the real Jackson funneled when he moonwalked into television history on Motown 25.

NEW YORK -- Last fall, film director Joachim Trier and the actors Renata Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie gathered at a restaurant in midtown New York to talk about why people seem to keep crying during their movie.If their film, “The Worst Person in the World,” was a weepy melodrama, such responses could be expected. But while “The Worst Person in the World" has moments of grief and loss, it’s principally about an uncertain, meandering journey of self-discovery for a young woman (Reinsve) in early adulthood.

Frank Rizzo Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration between Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera, those passions fly free, revealing the operatic heart of “Intimate Apparel” in a new opera adaptation of this story of a 35-year-old Black seamstress aching for love in 1905 New York.The tight construction of the play, with its spare two-hander scenes and focus on the lives of ordinary and overlooked people, makes it a natural as a stripped-down chamber opera.