Adam Blevins

Published Jul 20, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

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Best known for her role in the Pitch Perfect movies, Rebel Wilson has carved out a name for herself as one of the most well-known actresses working in Hollywood today. It’s been heavily speculated in recent years that a fourth *Pitch Perfect *movie will get the green light at Universal, but it’s not been officially confirmed yet, despite multiple key cast members expressing their desire to return. Setting the stage for Wilson’s budding stardom the year before the first Pitch Perfect movie was Bridesmaids, the Paul Feig-directed comedy feature that’s currently streaming on Starz. More recently, Wilson has found success starring in films like Jojo Rabbit with other stars like Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell. The film came two years after Waititi’s most famous movie, Thor: Ragnarök, and it shined a bright light on Wilson’s unforgettably comedic performance.

After acting in big-time feature films for the better part of the last 25 years, Wilson is set to take the next step in her career by moving behind the camera. Wilson will make her feature directorial debut on the new musical comedy film, The Deb, starring Natalie Abbott and Charlotte MacInnes. The official trailer for The Deb was released at the end of 2025, but today, Collider is thrilled to partner with Sunrise Films and Vertigo Releasing to announce that the movie will be available on digital platforms in the United States on August 25. The Deb will also drop on VOD one day earlier on August 24 in the U.K. courtesy of Vertigo Releasing. We’re also happy to debut an exclusive new poster from the film, which can be found below.

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

Vertigo has released an official synopsis for The Deb to go along with the launch of the key art, which reads as follows: “The Deb follows Taylah Simpkins, a loveable farm girl and high school outcast who is convinced that the upcoming Debutante Ball — ‘the Deb’ — is her one shot at reinventing herself. When her sharp-tongued city cousin Maeve is exiled to Taylah’s drought-stricken town of Dunburn, the two cousins collide and reluctantly conspire. They discover that the path to the spotlight runs straight through the messy truth of who they really are.” The story for The Deb came from Meg Washington, and it was Hannah Reilly who wrote the screenplay, with Wilson also making script contributions.

Check out the official key art for The Deb above and stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the film and coverage of Wilson’s future projects.

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