Charli XCX's Bold New 'Moment'!

Pop provocateur Charli XCX is gearing up for a bold creative leap: The Moment, an A24-backed film born from her own imagination and slated for release in 2026. Charli isn’t just starring – she is producing under her own production company, Studio365, and the cast is loaded. Joining her are Alexander Skarsgård, Rachel Sennott, Kate Berlant, Rosanna Arquette, Kylie Jenner, Rish Shah, Isaac Cole Powell, Jamie Demetriou, Shygirl, and A.G. Cook, who is scoring the film. The film is directed and co-written by Aidan Zamiri, with Bertie Brandes collaborating as co-writer on the script. 

Charli has emphasized that The Moment is a work of fiction, not a documentary or concert film, though it channels the real emotions and pressures she’s experienced throughout her music career. "It’s fiction,” she’s said, “but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.” The film hints at something self-aware, meta, and maybe even a little brutal; Charli describes her character as a “hell version” of herself. 

The story follows a rising pop star on the brink of her first headlining tour, grappling with fame and the relentless machinery that fuels it. The film appears poised to lean into a narrative grounded in tension, contradiction, and vulnerability; not just the glamour of the spotlight, but the reality behind it –the doubts, fears, and the existential costs of being perpetually "on". The Moment seems intent on owning its contradictions: success and failure, public image and private self, art and commerce. 

Moreover, Charli’s decision to conceive, produce, and star in a film based on her own idea shows how younger creatives are carving out spaces of authorship. It’s one thing to release music; it’s another to demand control of how your image, story, and voice are translated into a medium like cinema. Recently, Charli took to TikTok to respond to early reactions on Letterboxd.

The teaser embraces a high-gloss, slightly disorienting aesthetic – neon-bright, strobe effects, and remix samples, including a reimagined version of Charli and Icona Pop’s “I Love It". It’s already sparking conversation for how it visually fuses her music persona with cinematic spectacle. (Trigger warning for flashing)

The Moment isn’t just another pop-star movie; it’s part of a wave in which artists like Charli XCX are insisting on messy, self-reflexive stories – rejecting polished narratives in favor of something more raw, fractured, and undeniably real.