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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Opens in U.S. Theaters

Early reviews praise Zoey Deutch yet criticize the film’s uneven tone and leave its box-office prospects unclear.

Overview

  • The David WainKen Marino comedy opens wide on Friday, July 10, 2026, via Sony Pictures Classics after a Sundance premiere earlier this year.
  • Critics have largely described the film as tonally uneven and inconsistent in its humor while repeatedly singling out Zoey Deutch as the performance that grounds the story.
  • The movie leans on a large ensemble of cameos — including Jon Hamm and John Slattery — and a broad Hollywood-satire premise that literalizes a couple’s “celebrity sex pass.”
  • Wain and Marino said they produced the first draft in a disciplined seven-day, 12-hour-per-day sprint, a method they used to jump-start the project and credit with generating the film’s loose, absurdist shape.
  • Industry observers say the crowded early-July release and Sony Pictures Classics’ modest art-house positioning could limit visibility, making opening weekend and marketing execution key to the film’s commercial fate.