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Streaming audiences can soon watch Zendaya and Robert Pattinson navigate the fallout from oversharing in The Drama.

HBO Max announced Tuesday that writer-director Kristoffer Borgli‘s black comedy hits the streaming service on July 31. The next day, the movie makes its linear debut on HBO.

Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim and Hailey Gates round out the cast for the film that A24 released theatrically on April 3.

The Drama centers on Emma Harwood (Zendaya), who works at a publishing house, and British museum director Charlie Thompson (Pattinson). The happily engaged couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink after an unexpected revelation amid their wedding week.

Borgli (Dream Scenario) helmed the film from his own script. Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone serve as producers.

The Drama stirred debate on social media over its cryptic marketing campaign that did not directly divulge the main focus of the film. It surpassed $130 million at the global box office in its theatrical run.

In his review of The Drama for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Richard Lawson wrote that “the film is merely a differently dressed rehash of very familiar material. It’s a deceptively simple dramedy of cold feet, of pre-wedding jitters, only given the stain of higher-minded, more piercing social inquiry. What Emma specifically discloses ultimately doesn’t matter.” 

The review went on to praise Pattinson’s “natural, appealing performance” and noted that the “actors have a fluid sense of the film’s comic timing.”

Zendaya and Pattinson can both be seen later this year in The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three.

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