Entertainment
‘Gentle Monster’ Teaser: Lea Seydoux in Marie Kreutzer Drama
Marie Kreutzer is back. The Austrian writer/director is following her irreverent Empress Elisabeth biopic “Corsage” with one of the darkest films on the 2026 fall calendar. “Gentle Monster” is a family drama about abusers hiding in plain sight and how the people around them cope after learning horrifying information about people they love. The subject matter ensures that the film is a difficult viewing experience, but the pedigree of artists behind it could make it one of the most vital works of the season.
An official synopsis of “Gentle Monster” reads: “When a police raid shatters her life, concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) must protect her son and confront how little she knows her husband after he is accused of an unspeakable crime in this tense thriller about trust and survival.”
“Gentle Monster” premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where critics praised Seydoux’s performance and Kreutzer’s unflinching approach to studying the ugly nuances of child sex abuse.
“Among other things, this tough and unflinching social drama is a study in how painful it can be for a rhetorical question — like ‘Would I lie to you, baby?,’ for example — to sour into the stomach-churning stuff of an urgent mystery,” IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote in his Cannes review. “For the terms of a relationship to change faster than the facts of the matter are able to keep up with, let alone the feelings that might attend to them. ‘There is no “off button” for pedophilia,’ someone explains to Lucy at one point. There isn’t an ‘off button’ for love either.”
In addition to Seydoux, “Gentle Monster” stars Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve. Kreutzer reteams with several of her “Corsage” collaborators for the film, including director of photography Judith Kaufmann, editor Ulrike Kofler, and composer Camille.
“Gentle Monster” will next screen as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screening is billed as the film’s Canadian Premiere, suggesting that a Telluride bow could also be in play before its Netflix release.
“Gentle Monster” opens in select theaters on Friday, October 30 before streaming on Netflix on November 18. Watch the film’s first teaser below.
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Entertainment
QVC Host Who Had Viral Freudian Slip Delivers Wig to Jimmy Fallon
After going viral for a Freudian slip on live television last week, QVC host Toni Brattin stopped by “The Tonight Show” to make good on a promise to host Jimmy Fallon. But, she also made another lewd joke.
For those who missed it, Brattin was doing a segment selling wigs on QVC, when she accidentally said “blow job” instead of “blowout.” The former, of course, is a sexual reference, while the latter is a real hairstyle. Following the incident, Brattin appeared on TMZ, and happily called out Jimmy Fallon’s monologue joke about her, while promising to deliver him his own wig.
So, on Monday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” she did just that. But first, Fallon had some questions about how she even messed up in the first place.
“Did you just think you were off screen?” he wondered. “What did you think in that moment?”
“I was kind of frozen, and I was trying to decide, do I go to the left? Do I go to the right? I just went down!” she said.
Naturally, the double entendre prompted even more laughter from Fallon, who warned Brattin that “you’re in trouble again!” But he quickly played along; when Brattin placed his new wig on his head, Fallon joked “I’m blown away.”
To properly kick off the show, Fallon and Brattin then turned around to finish their final lines, just as Brattin did on QVC.
You can watch the full exchange from “The Tonight Show” in the video above.
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movies
‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Trailer: Ella Beatty Wields A Mean Axe
Netflix has released the first trailer for the latest chapter in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan‘s anthology series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.
The haunting 56-second clip begins with a theater curtain opening to reveal a nearly empty stage with just a piano and the C key playing repeatedly by itself. The scene then shifts to an ominous voiceover: “Lizzie Borden had an axe. Gave her mother 40 whacks.” We don’t see Lizzie but we hear the repeated wielding of an axe aimed at what is assumed to be her mother. The clip ends with a stunned-looking blood-covered Lizzie and another voiceover saying “When Lizzie saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.”
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story tells the story of how one young woman changed what the world believed a killer could be… all it took was an axe. The installment follows Ella Beatty‘s Lizzie, the series’ first female “monster,” alongside Vicky Krieps as Bridget Sullivan, Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden, and Charlie Hunnam as Andrew Borden.
Per the official logline: When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge. The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world—they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous, and gloriously free.
The cast also includes Billie Lourd, Joey Pollari, Sarah Paulson and Jessica Barden.
The Lizzie Borden Story is created and written by Brennan and executive produced by Murphy, Brennan, Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Louise Shore, Nissa Diederich, Todd Kubrak, Carl Franklin and Tanase Popa. Winkler and Sarah Adina Smith direct.
It’s set to premiere September 17 on Netflix. Check out the trailer above.
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Entertainment
Free Seminar Teaches Documentarians When and How to Opt Out of AI
Audiences need to be able to trust the footage they’re seeing when they’re watching the news or a documentary. But increasingly, popular video editing software includes AI functionality that you as a filmmaker may not know is there, let alone how you turn it off.
An upcoming seminar will address those concerns and help educate journalists and documentarians about when to opt out of AI and exactly how to do so. Field of Vision and Freedom of the Press Foundation are launching the sixth installment of their Digital Security Clinic, a free, online series of courses aimed at helping documentary filmmaking professionals and journalists with their digital footprint, IndieWire can reveal exclusively.
The clinics have over five years helped support over 500 filmmaking teams to date, and some of the early interest in this edition of the seminar is already surpassing last year’s edition.
This year’s Digital Security Clinic features most notably a new session titled “When and How to Opt Out of AI,” set for September 10, a session that Field of Vision co-creator Charlotte Cook told IndieWire was a much-requested topic from users of the site. She sounded the alarm on tools that may use AI in subtle ways, whether for things like auto correct or how they’re integrated into search engines, so it’s important for filmmakers to know exactly what their process is, prove that they have authored something, and do so for audiences who need their own trust in the media.
“Filmmakers have to be able to protect the imagery, what they’re working with, the footage, and be able to stand behind it knowing that there’s no influence that they don’t know about,” Cook said.
The trainers from Freedom of the Press as part of the session will step attendees through how to turn off certain AI features within editing tools and apps, where can they upload footage to protect it from AI crawling, how to tell whether things have been enhanced or edited, and more.
“It’s how to have a risk assessment as you evaluate AI tools and how things integrate,” Cook said. “It will even look at things like transcription services, how to protect your intellectual property and make sure that it is your intellectual property. One of the challenges we’re finding is, where is ownership in some of these tools? Some of them are changing user policies and making sure we’re protecting across the board that intellectual property.”
That’s just one session of five being offered over the next month however. Other sessions will highlight digital security, being able to communicate securely when traveling across borders or in sensitive areas, how to determine safe storage and encryption methods for your footage, and how to minimize your digital footprint including removing private material from your personal social media accounts.
Field of Vision offers a variety of resources and guides on these topics at https://www.digitalsecurity.film/. See the full schedule from the Digital Security Clinic below:
Getting Started With Digital Security, Thursday, August 13th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using risk assessment to strategize your approach to digital security, protecting your accounts from hacking and phishing attacks, securing your phones and laptops against digital and physical threats
Communicating Securely, Thursday, August 20th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to select the “right” tool for communicating with your sources, maximizing safety through app settings, building a communications plan for sensitive contacts
Protecting Your Footage, Thursday, August 27th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to determine safe storage for footage, strategies for using encryption to protect your footage, considerations for crossing borders while protecting sensitive documents and footage
Minimizing Your Digital Footprint, Thursday, September 3rd, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Auditing your digital footprint, removing sensitive information, identifying how personal data is collected in the first place, taking steps to prevent browsing data from ending up in unexpected places
When and How to Opt Out of AI, Thursday, September 10th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to evaluate AI tools and integrations, transcription services, and protecting your intellectual property
Sign-ups for group training sessions are now open at bit.ly/digitalsecurity2026.
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