Margot Robbie is set to star in The Week of Pain, a new film from A24 and Square Peg, with Kristoffer Borgli on board to write and direct. Variety confirmed the news on November 13, and The Hollywood Reporter has also confirmed it. Deadline's report cites sources.
A24 will finance and produce the film. Square Peg's Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster are producing alongside Dilemma Films and LuckyChap, Robbie's own banner. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Variety says that, judging by his earlier work, including Dream Scenario and Sick of Myself, it is safe to assume the film will be another squirmy drama with streaks of cringe-out humor.
The project reunites Borgli with A24 and Square Peg after The Drama, which A24 released in April. Variety describes it as an intimate dramedy about a wedding week derailed by a childhood secret. The film starred Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and THR says it became one of the studio's highest-grossing movies globally. The worldwide gross is given as $134 million by THR and Deadline, and as $135 million by Variety, against a budget that Variety puts at $28 million. Borgli also wrote and directed Dream Scenario for A24 in 2023, starring Nicolas Cage.
According to Deadline, Robbie has admired Borgli's films for quite a while. She began discussing potentially starring in his next project a while ago, and she has recently committed to shoot the film sometime in 2027.
Robbie is also nearly done with production on the Ocean's prequel, in which she stars opposite Bradley Cooper, who is also its director. Variety reports that she revealed at CinemaCon 2026 that the film will follow an "epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix." Per THR, Lauren Ridloff, Jack Holden, Omar Sy, Wagner Moura, Josh Gad, Vicky Krieps, George MacKay and Monica Barbaro are among the cast of the Ocean's prequel.
Robbie's most recent film was Wuthering Heights, a Warner Bros. release that came out on February 13 with Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff to her Cathy. The reports put its worldwide gross at $240 million or more. THR says The Week of Pain will be her first time starring in an A24 film.
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