At one point or another, we’ve all been forced to work a job that we hated. It’s simply a rite of passage that typically strikes at our first gig in the workforce. Or maybe it was the entry-level position that we picked up to launch a fresh start in a new career. After all, no matter how big our dreams are and how achievable they may feel, the bills still need to be paid, and the fridge still needs to be stocked. This summer, Dave Franco (Together) andO’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton) will find themselves locked in the worst job of their lives when Macon Blair’s (The Toxic Avenger) Idiots arrives in cinemas. Today, as part of Collider’s Exclusive Preview event, we’ve got a brand-new look at the comedy that will make you feel much, much better about your nine-to-five.
Mark (Franco) and Davis (Jackson) aren’t just down on their luck; they’ve completely run out of it at the top of Idiots. The pair of screwups might mean well, but nothing they’ve touched has ever turned to gold, with most things simply falling to pieces instead. But, for once, it seems like things might be on the up-and-up for the duo when they land a new job that sees them in charge of ushering a spoiled teenager (Mason Thames) to a rehab facility. While it may seem like a point A to point B journey, the mission is anything but, and it will throw Mark and Davis into the wildest and most dangerous few days of their lives.
Our sneak peek of Idiots showcases a handful of the absolutely stacked cast that Blair has assembled for his latest dark comedy. With an orange electrical cord wrapped around his hands and wrists, Thames’ Sheridan Kimberley is escorted out of a building by Mark (Franco) and Irinia, played by Kiernan Shipka, who is giving full Natasha Lyonne vibes in our new image. The troubled teen scowls at the camera as he makes his way towards captivity, while a white powdery substance completely covers his body from head to toe.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Who Else Is Behind ‘Idiots’?
Filling out the rest of the talented ensemble behind Idiots is three-time Emmy Award nominee Nicholas Braun (Succession) and four-time Emmy recipient Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), with helmer Blair (The Florida Project) and four-time Grammy Award-winner Killer Mike (The Lowdown) joining the supporting lineup. In addition to starring, Franco also joins the team as a producer alongside Blair, Brandon James, Jeremy Saulnier, Nathan Klingher, Alex Orr, and Ford Corbett.
Check out our new look at Idiots above and see it in cinemas on August 28. Stay tuned for more to come from Collider’s Exclusive Preview event.
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Release Date
August 28, 2026
Runtime
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100 minutes
Director
Macon Blair
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Writers
Macon Blair
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Producers
Alex Orr, Dave Franco, Jeremy Saulnier, Mark Fasano, Brandon James, Nathan Klingher, Ford Corbett, Macon Blair
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