Lionsgate has made a big addition to its 2025 slate with “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the feature film debut of pop superstar The Weeknd that will hit theaters on May 16 and will co-star Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan.
Directed by “It Comes at Night” filmmaker Trey Edward Shults, the film is set in the eerie, psychedelic world of The Weeknd’s “After Hours” and “Dawn FM” and serves as a trilogy capper to the stories the musician created through the songs, music videos and short films attached to those albums. The release of “Hurry Up Tomorrow” will coincide with the release of the new album of the same name and the start of a supporting tour.
In addition to starring in the film, The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, will produce through his Manic Phase label alongside Reza Fahim, the late Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss. Executive producers are Ortega, Shults, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby and Harrison Huffman.
“Hurry Up Tomorrow” will hit theaters on a relatively light pre-Memorial Day weekend, as the only other wide release set for theaters on May 16 is Warner Bros./New Line’s “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” a revival of the 2000s horror series.
As The Weeknd, Tesfaye reached new heights in 2020 with the release of “After Hours” and his standout synthpop single “Blinding Lights. ” The song’s music video appears in a series of clips that kick off the story that ends with “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” with Tesfaye betting on a hallucinating psychotic guy who speeds through the streets of Las Vegas and then trips while laughing. with blood running down his face.
Tesfaye used “After Hours” and “Dawn FM” to broaden his artistic horizons, collaborating with Universal Studios to create a pair of mazes for Halloween Horror Nights based on photographs from those albums. Beyond the series, he won 4 Grammy Awards and also earned an Oscar nomination for his song “Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey” in 2015, as well as a trio of Emmy nominations for his time on the Super Bowl in half of the show in 2021.
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