{"id":436799,"date":"2026-01-25T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:58:09","slug":"olivia-wildes-the-invite-gets-standing-o-at-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436799\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde’s ‘The Invite’ Gets Standing O at Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere\u2019s been a sting of standing ovations, which don\u2019t happen often at Sundance<\/a>, the fourth of which from our count was tonight\u2019s world premiere of Olivia Wilde\u2019s sexual comedy The Invite at the Eccles Theatre. And at a time when comedies are rare on the big screen, here\u2019s one that triggered back-to-back shared laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tPic follows two couples who live in the same apartment complex; Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz\u2019s progressive, sexually open couple, and Seth Rogen and Wilde\u2019s married in misery twosome. The two couples get together for wine, cheese and dessert \u2014 with a lot of laughs and something that speaks to middle age. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a seven hour movie you would have liked,\u201d said Wilde who workshopped the screenplay with scribes Rashida Jones and Wil McCormack. The pic is an English language remake of the Cesc Gay Spanish film The People Upstairs. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe just dug into it with generosity and poured a spirit into with personal ideas,\u201d said Wilde,\u201dThe cast brought this creative energy every day.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWilde told the crowed Eccles that the movie, which essentially takes place in one apartment, was shot in order, which was \u201csuch a luxury; we just kept generating ideas as we went.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSimilar to how Charli XCX is doing double duty at Sundance (she had Gregg Araki\u2019s I Want Your Sex and The Moment last night at the Eccles), so is Wilde who after starring I Want Your Sex is a double threat here as a star and director on The Invite. <\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious standing ovations here at this year\u2019s Sundance was Josephine, Wicker and Fing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been a sting of standing ovations, which don\u2019t happen often at Sundance, the fourth of which from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,100407,99889,227891],"class_list":["post-436799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-sundance","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-the-inivte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}