The extremely anticipated musical drama movie, Kiss of the Spider Girl, starring Jennifer Lopez, is lastly headed to theaters worldwide on October 10, 2025. Moviegoers will get the prospect to look at what critics name Lopez’s most breathtaking efficiency as Ingrid Luna/ The Spider Girl, a basic display actress. It’s going to additionally star Diego Luna as Valentin Arregui and Tonatiuh as Luis Molina. Premiering first on the Sundance Movie Pageant in January, Kiss of the Spider Girl is directed by Invoice Condon, who has a historical past of writing and directing acclaimed musical movies comparable to Dreamgirls, Chicago, Gods and Monsters, plus extra.
In keeping with Deadline, the movie was dubbed the “largest film at this yr’s Sundance Movie Pageant,” and its North American rights had been acquired by Roadside Sights, Lionsgate, and LD Leisure. It is primarily based on the stage musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb. Argentine author Manuel Puig wrote the unique novel in 1976, which depicts the each day conversations between two Argentine jail cellmates, Luis and Valentin, as their bond deepens. Luis, a homosexual hairdresser, vividly particulars movies starring his favourite basic actress, Ingrid Luna (Lopez), together with the function of The Spider Girl. She seals the destiny of her prey with a lethal kiss.
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Kiss of the Spider Girl sits at a exceptional 82% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which incorporates raving opinions about Lopez, Condon’s “smarts and technique,” and Tonatiuh’s means to convey depth and soul into his Luis Molina character. One critic, Aisha Harris of NPR, wrote, “Luna and Lopez are nice, however that is Tonatiuh’s film — he takes a job that would simply be a caricature of queer flamboyance and pathos, and grounds it with depth and soul.” One other, Jourdain Searles of The Movie Stage, wrote, “Lopez has all the time been underrated as an actress, however Condon unleashes her absolutely within the movie — she graces the display like a Golden Hollywood starlet.”
Even Deadline‘s movie critic, Pete Hammond, beamed about Lopez lastly getting an opportunity to grace the large display in previous Hollywood type. “Jennifer Lopez, who has the entire package deal — singing, dancing, performing — she has by no means gotten the chance to indicate on display on this manner…followers of the interval and the movies emulated right here will see favorable comparisons with Columbia musical icon Rita Hayworth… Marilyn Monroe…”
Jennifer Lopez Has Been Ready for ‘Kiss of the Spider Girl’ Position Her Complete Life
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Lopez acquired her begin in leisure as a dancer. Day-one supporters keep in mind her dancing on In Residing Coloration, the place she was all the time the down-to-earth “Jenny from the Block.” It did not take lengthy for the business to comprehend that the multi-talented actress was the total package deal. In 1997, she starred because the beloved Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez within the biographical musical drama Selena. All through her decades-long profession, Lopez has thrived in varied movie genres, comparable to romance, crime thriller, horror, comedy, and extra. Nonetheless, Ingrid Luna in Kiss of the Spider Girl is the function she’s been ready for. Throughout an interview with Selection, the singer stated:
“I have been ready my entire life to have the ability to do an actual massive MGM Hollywood musical, and I lastly acquired to do it. It was extra [than I hoped]. Me and Diego had been on set, and we’re dancing round, and we’re singing and taking a look at one another, and it is like we do not wish to do the rest however musicals.”
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Kiss of the Spider Girl
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January 26, 2025
- Runtime
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128 minutes
- Director
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Invoice Condon
- Writers
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Invoice Condon, Manuel Puig
- Producers
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Barry Josephson, Ben Affleck, Benny Medina, Diego Luna, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Halloran, Matt Damon, Sam Weisman, Greg Yolen, Michael Joe, Tom Kirdahy, Pamela Thur, Dani Bernfeld
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Tonatiuh Elizarraraz
Luis Molina
