Channing Tatum, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx premiere movies at Sundance Film Festival

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival was in full swing Friday in Park City, with Channing Tatum, Olivia Wilde and Charli xcx movies premiering back-to-back at the storied Eccles Theatre in the evening.

First up was “Josephine,” writer-director Beth De Araújo’s raw drama about an 8-year-old girl (Mason Reeves) whose life and sense of safety is upended after she witnesses a sexual assault in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Tatum and Gemma Chan play the parents who are unsure how to help her navigate these new emotions and fears. The film, which is part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition, is based on De Araújo’s own experience of seeing something scarring at that age.

There wasn’t a seat to spare, and over 400 people on the waitlist were unable to get in. Afterward the crowd gave a long standing ovation as the filmmaker and actors came onstage for a Q&A.

Araújo discovered Reeves at a San Francisco farmer's market, where she told her mother she was casting for someone to play Tatum and Chan's daughter.

Reeves said one of her favorite parts of the film was a scene in which she and Tatum eat a jelly doughnut.

“I only ate the outside and fed the jelly part to him,” Reeves said.

Tatum chimed in: “That is true.”

He also praised his young co-star, saying “how good is she?” He watched the film for the first time with the Sundance audience and said he cried “five, six, seven times.”

The next film, Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex,” brought a distinct change in tone to the Eccles. It’s the story of a college graduate in his early 20s (played by Cooper Hoffman ) who gets his first job as a kind of intern/assistant to a renowned art world provocateur named Erika Tracy (Wilde), who Arkai described as “bold, daring and very controversial,” a cross between Robert Mapplethorpe and Madonna.

“It’s the story of their affairs and the impact it has on this kid’s life and how it kind of turns his whole world upside down,” Araki told The Associated Press. “It’s fun, it’s colorful, it’s sexy. And it’s a ride.”

It’s a film that Araki has been working on for over 10 years, as it evolved from a comic “Fifty Shades of Grey” with a female intern to what it is now.

“After #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein, all the stuff that was going on, it was literally like, I don’t really want to see a woman getting dragged around by the hair,” Araki said. “I don’t want to seed that kind of patriarchal dynamic, even if it’s consensual.”

Flipping the gender roles and making the young intern a man made the movie more interesting for Araki, “as a filmmaker who has always been heavily influenced by feminist film theory and feminism in general,” he said.

At the same time, he was absorbing news stories about Gen Z and how they don’t have sex or relationships anymore and a new dynamic emerged.

“What I knew as an old person, as an old-timer, in terms of socialization, dating, sex, all of this stuff that seemed to be kind of falling away,” Araki said. “And so that kind of became a major theme of the movie.”

Things Wilde’s character says are things he has also said in interviews about sex and sexuality. Her character gets into generational debates about it. And ultimately it's sex positive.

“It was very important to me to make something sex positive,” Araki said. “‘I Want Your Sex’ is like the opposite of ‘ Babygirl,’which I found to be very sex negative.”

Wilde said after the premiere that she wished “more people made movies” like Araki: getting a cool group of people together and making something fun in a noncorporate environment.

The film also features a supporting turn from Charli xcx, who was a fan of Araki and whose “Brat” album cover was partially inspired by the title credits to his film “Smiley Face.” When she heard about this new movie, he said, she asked if she could be in it. He was interested, but told her agent that she needed to do a self-tape “like everyone else” to play the part of Hoffman’s girlfriend.

“The character is not her. That’s what’s so fun,” he said. “She’s American, she’s super uptight and kind of pill.”

She filmed her scenes in one day, on a two-day break in the middle of her Brat tour.

It was a Charli xcx double feature at the Eccles with the world premiere of her self-referential mockumentary “The Moment,” about a rising pop star, before it hits theaters on Jan. 30.

Earlier Friday the world premiere of William David Caballero's mixed-media film “TheyDream” immersed viewers in the intimate story of a Puerto Rican family learning to process grief through art. Caballero and cowriter Elaine Del Valle have screened short films at Sundance in the past but were honored to bring a full-length feature to the festival.

“Sundance has always been about possibility for me — about artists being given space to take creative risks and tell personal stories,” Del Valle, who is also a producer on the film, told AP. “Bringing our first feature, especially in Sundance's final year in Utah, carries a different weight.”

Associated Press writer Hannah Schoenbaum contributed.

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Charli xcx attends the premiere of "The Moment" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Charli xcx attends the premiere of "The Moment" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Mason Gooding, from left, Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, director Gregg Araki, and Chase Sui Wonders attend the premiere of "I Want Your Sex" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Olivia Wilde attends the premiere of "I Want Your Sex" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Pedestrians pass down Main Street before the start of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Channing Tatum, from left, Mason Reeves, and Gemma Chan attend the premiere of "Josephine" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Cody Glass had two goals and an assist, Lenni Hameenaho scored his first NHL goal and the New Jersey Devils beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 on Friday night to extend their Western Canada winning streak to three.

Nico Hischier and Connor Brown also scored for New Jersey. Jacob Markstrom made 21 saves.

Linus Karlsson, Teddy Blueger, Zeev Buium and Brock Boeser scored for Vancouver, and Kevin Lankinen stopped 19 shots.

New Jersey went 2 for 3 on the power play. The Canucks were 0 for 2 and have gone four games without a power-play goal.

Hameenaho scored on a goalmouth tap-in at 1:41 of the first.

In the second, Hischier and Glass made it 3-0 with goals 40 seconds apart. Six minutes later, Karlsson put the Canucks on the board.

Then with Conor Garland serving a double-minor for high-sticking Hischier, Blueger scored short-handed before Brown replied.

With 1:48 left in the second, Buium pulled the puck out of a crowd and found the net to cut it to 4-3.

In the third, Glass added his second of the night. Boeser scored with 1:12 remaining and Lankinen off for an extra attacker.

Devils: At Seattle on Sunday.

Canucks: Host Pittsburgh on Sunday.

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Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) stops New Jersey Devils' Paul Cotter (47) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) stops New Jersey Devils' Jonas Siegenthaler (71) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

Vancouver Canucks' Filip Hronek (17) skates with the puck as New Jersey Devils' Arseny Gritsyuk (81) slides into the boards during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

New Jersey Devils' Cody Glass (12) scores against Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) as Canucks' Elias Pettersson (25) watches during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

New Jersey Devils' Connor Brown (16) celebrates his goal against the Vancouver Canucks with Timo Meier (28) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)