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Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan co-star in this film about a tormented pop star, which doubles as a feature-length promotion for The Weeknd's new album.
After all, if you believe Hurry Up Tomorrow, the new drama co-written by and starring Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, being a world-famous music superstar really, really sucks.
Depending on who you ask, Abel Tesfaye — better known by his stage name ... it’s a full-length feature film. While I firmly believe moviegoing audiences should be less averse to slow pacing ...
The movie, which is now in theaters, follows Tesfaye while on tour ... truly special, better than others; this was the truth Abel wanted to believe. Jungian psychoanalysis points to four steps ...
The Weeknd, who is transitioning his stage name to his given name, Abel Tesfaye, is a proud Canadian of Ethiopian descent. Born in Toronto into an Ethiopian home, Tesfaye says both identities “keep me ...
If I told you that Hurry Up Tomorrow, the latest onscreen vanity project co-written by and starring Abel Tesfaye ... would you believe me? As far as first images go, it's a pretty apt summation ...
LAS VEGAS − Abel Tesfaye, the musician known as The Weeknd, is a certified smash. Tesfaye, the movie star, is more of an unknown commodity. Audiences get to see both at work in the ...
“Hurry Up Tomorrow” is likely as bleak a film as you’ll see this year. In it, multi-platinum and Grammy-winning musician The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stars as a fictional version of himself, spinning a ...
In conversation with IndieWire, writer/director Trey Edward Shults breaks down the fact, fiction, and psychological meaning of the dark mythology he and Abel Tesfaye created for their film.