Margot Robbie will star in The Week of Pain, the next film written and directed by the Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, for A24. Deadline reported the project on Friday 13 November, and Variety and IndieWire confirmed it the same day. A24 will finance and produce, and Robbie has committed to shoot the film in 2027, according to Deadline.
Square Peg, the production company run by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen, is producing with Borgli’s Dilemma Films and Robbie’s LuckyChap. The plot is under wraps, as it has been on every Borgli project with Square Peg.
The package reunites the team behind The Drama, A24’s April release, which grossed almost five times its reported budget and earned most of its money outside North America. Robbie brings a worldwide hit of her own.
Key facts
- Film: The Week of Pain, Borgli’s fifth feature, which he wrote and will direct
- Star: Margot Robbie
- Finance: A24, which also produces
- Producers: Square Peg (Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen), Dilemma Films, LuckyChap
- Shoot: planned for 2027; no plot, budget or release date announced
What The Drama earned
The Week of Pain is Borgli’s third film with both A24 and Square Peg, after Dream Scenario in 2023 and The Drama this year. The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, opened in North America on 3 April with $14.4m and has grossed an estimated $134.7m worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo: $48.1m in North America and $86.6m elsewhere. That puts 64% of its takings outside North America, in a year when worldwide box office reached $29.7bn by the end of October. Against the $28m budget Variety reports, the film has grossed about 4.8 times its production cost, before marketing and before cinemas take their share.
Dream Scenario, a satire starring Nicolas Cage, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned Cage a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a comedy or musical. Before it, Borgli made the energy-drink mockumentary DRIB and Sick of Myself, a portrait of narcissism.
Square Peg and A24 have become regular partners. According to Variety, their shared titles include Death of a Unicorn and all four features Aster has directed, from Hereditary to Eddington. Dilemma Films is the banner Borgli runs with the producer Tyler Campellone, and the pair produced The Drama through it. LuckyChap, Robbie’s label, gives her a producing stake as well as the lead.
Robbie’s next two
A three-time Oscar nominee, Robbie arrives from Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation for Warner Bros., in which she played Cathy opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. Deadline puts its worldwide gross at $240m and Variety at $241m. In Australia, Robbie’s home market, it lifted February’s Valentine’s weekend to the strongest since 2016, in a year when Australian box office passed A$1bn.
Her next release is the Ocean’s prequel that Bradley Cooper directs and co-stars in, which Deadline says is winding down production. Robbie told CinemaCon this year that it follows “an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix”, and IndieWire gives its release date as 25 June 2027.
Our reading
A24 is pairing an actor coming off a $240m hit with a director whose last film grossed almost five times its reported budget. The more telling figure is where The Drama made its money: nearly two dollars in every three came from outside North America, for an original comedy with no franchise or source material behind it. A star with Robbie’s reach abroad strengthens that case. What A24 has not said is what the film will cost or when it will open.
Sources
- Deadline, Margot Robbie & Kristoffer Borgli team on The Week of Pain from A24 and Square Peg, 13 November 2026
- Variety, Margot Robbie to star in A24’s The Week of Pain from The Drama director Kristoffer Borgli, 13 November 2026
- IndieWire, Margot Robbie teaming with Kristoffer Borgli for The Week of Pain at A24, 13 November 2026
- Box Office Mojo, The Drama (2026), title summary (domestic, international, worldwide, domestic opening)
- Variety, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson’s The Drama gets April release date from A24 (2025): Dilemma Films producers, Square Peg and A24 shared titles, Dream Scenario