{"id":381957,"date":"2026-04-16T05:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:13:07","slug":"michael-b-jordan-and-adria-arjona-flirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381957\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan and Adria Arjona Flirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael B. Jordan<\/a>\u2018s new take on The Thomas Crown Affair<\/a> kicked off Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>\u2018 CinemaCon<\/a> presentation on a high note.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo announce that Jon Batiste will score the film, the Grammy-winning musician took the stage in Las Vegas to perform a piano version of The Windmills of Your Mind, the Academy Award-winning song from the 1968 film of the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer<\/a> kicked off with Jordan and co-star Adria Arjona<\/a> engaging in flirty banter and teasing Jordan\u2019s character as a notorious art thief. \u201cTell me something: Does this billionaire thing really work?\u201d she asks him. Arjona later offers her assessment of his character: \u201cI think you\u2019re fractured, definitely have commitment issues. No serious relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, he asks her, \u201cAre you hustling me, Ms. Bennett?\u201d Jordan then tells Kenneth Branagh<\/a>\u2018s character, \u201cYou think it\u2019s yours because you bought it, but it\u2019s not.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter screening the footage, Jordan explained why the project was important to him. \u201cI\u2019ve been daydreaming of making this movie for years,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw the \u201999 Thomas Crown Affair when I was around 9 years old. It was a guy that was smart, sophisticated and always three steps ahead.\u201d The Oscar-winning Sinners star added that he also loved later seeing the first Steve McQueen version: \u201cMcQueen brought this effortless cool, this rebellious edge. He didn\u2019t just steal. He made a statement.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tArjona then joined him on stage, with Jordan praising her as an \u201cincredible scene partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJordan directs and stars in the feature reimagining that follows Norman Jewison\u2018s 1968 original starring McQueen and Faye Dunaway. Arjona, Branagh, Lily Gladstone<\/a>, Danai Gurira, Pilou Asb\u00e6k and Aiysha Hart round out the cast for the new project that hits theaters March 5, 2027. Taylor Russell was previously set to star opposite Jordan in the film before exiting the movie amid creative differences<\/a>, leading Arjona to join the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original\u00a0Thomas Crown Affair\u00a0landed two Oscar nominations and tells the story of an insurance investigator working to track down the perpetrator of a bank heist. It was remade in 1999, with the updated version starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.<\/p>\n

\n\tDrew Pearce (The Fall Guy) wrote the script for the new movie after Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson penned a previous draft. Producers include Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo for Outlier Society and Charles Roven for Atlas Entertainment. Patrick McCormick and Toberoff Productions\u2019 Marc Toberoff also produce. Alan Trustman, who wrote the original film, serves as an executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Jordan teased his take<\/a> on The Thomas Crown Affair in a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cIt\u2019s a big movie,\u201d the star said at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s international. It\u2019s sexy. It\u2019s a lot of fun. A lot of twists and turns. It\u2019s going to have some things that I think audiences won\u2019t be expecting that might be a nice treat for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCinemaCon is the annual event for exhibitors and Hollywood studios that runs this year from April 13-16. It is the official convention of Cinema United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan\u2018s new take on The Thomas Crown Affair kicked off Amazon MGM Studios\u2018 CinemaCon presentation on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71442,14926,173642,197133,156,98518,110609,60957,409,111,139,69,198568,2983],"class_list":{"0":"post-381957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adria-arjona","9":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","10":"tag-cinemacon","11":"tag-cinemacon-2026","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kenneth-branagh","14":"tag-lily-gladstone","15":"tag-michael-b-jordan","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-the-thomas-crown-affair","21":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}