He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Miles Teller recently found himself making headlines for selling his stake in a liquor company, but more pertinently, for an infamous profile that soured him on film promotions. Teller had just broken out as the star of Damien Chazelle‘s Whiplash back when the profile was published, and was looking to take his career to the next level by doing what every young actor in Hollywood was advised by their teams to do at the time: star in a superhero movie. But Teller’s sole experience in the genre was the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot, inarguably the biggest superhero fiasco in decades. He’s done well for himself since then, despite Fantastic Four tanking and his relationship with Chazelle going south. He was the second lead in one of the decade’s most memorable blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick, and has proven time and again that he can be a crowd-puller.
Just last year, he appeared alongside Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner in the fantasy dramedy Eternity, which quietly grossed more than $30 million at the box office, earned excellent reviews, and has become a fixture on the Apple TV viewership charts in recent months. Teller is no stranger to success on Apple, having headlined one of the streamer’s most successful original movies with Anya Taylor-Joy. The genre-bending hit, which combined elements of sci-fi, conspiracy thriller, romance, and horror, recently hit a massive milestone on the Apple TV charts.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
We’re talking, of course, about The Gorge. Directed by Scott Derrickson, the movie appeared, on the surface, to be one of those pandemic-era productions shot entirely on soundstages with a small crew, but it has been performing like a full-blown tent pole on streaming. According to FlixPatrol, The Gorge has spent 450 days on the domestic Apple TV chart, trailing only hits such as Greyhound and The Family Plan, which were released years earlier. The Gorge now holds a 62% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Mixing multiple genres, The Gorge makes for a surprisingly endearing romance until its action-thriller obligations steer proceedings back onto a more predictable path.” Taylor-Joy will hope to continue this momentum with her upcoming Apple TV series Lucky, due out on July 15. Teller, on the other hand, recently starred in the blockbuster biopic Michael, and will next be seen in the awards season favorite Paper Tiger. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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