Image via Ariela Ortiz-Barrantes / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Jenna Ortega at the Venice International Film Festival, 2024.
The first trailer for The Gallerist is out, and it is the strangest set-up of the year. Natalie Portman plays a gallery owner with a dead body on her hands. Jenna Ortega plays her assistant. Instead of calling the police, they turn the body into the star of the show.
Roadside Attractions and Vertical released the trailer on November 5. The film opens in theatres across the US on December 4, 2026.
What the trailer shows
Portman plays Polina Polinski, a gallery owner who is broke, newly divorced, and running out of time. Her big show at Art Basel Miami is her last shot at staying in the art world.
Then an art critic, played by Zach Galifianakis, dies by accident in the gallery. Polina and her assistant Kiki, played by Ortega, decide not to report it. They pass the body off as a piece of contemporary art, and the crowds love it.
The trailer plays it as a dark joke, not a thriller. The gallery fills up, the critics praise the work, and the two women have to keep the act going while the police and the art world close in.
Who is in it
Cathy Yan directs, from a script she wrote with James Pedersen. Yan made Birds of Prey in 2020, and this is her first feature since then. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
The cast is stacked. Portman also produces, and Ortega is an executive producer. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Brühl, Charli XCX and Catherine Zeta-Jones all co-star.
| Role | Actor |
|---|---|
| Polina Polinski | Natalie Portman |
| Kiki | Jenna Ortega |
| The art critic | Zach Galifianakis |
| Stella Burgess | Da'Vine Joy Randolph |
| Tom | Sterling K. Brown |
| Marianne Gorman | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| Also starring | Daniel Brühl, Charli XCX |
When does it come out?
The Gallerist opens in US theatres on Friday, December 4, 2026. Roadside Attractions and Vertical are releasing it. The film runs 88 minutes.
No streaming date has been announced yet. For now, theatres are the only place to see it.
Ortega has had a big run of horror and dark comedy, from Scream to Wednesday. This one lets her play the joke straight, as the assistant who keeps the whole scheme from falling apart. Portman, meanwhile, gets to play a woman who has lost nearly everything and decides to bluff her way back.
FAQs
When does The Gallerist come out? It opens in US theatres on Friday, December 4, 2026.
What is The Gallerist about? A broke gallery owner, played by Natalie Portman, and her assistant, played by Jenna Ortega, pass off an accidental death as a work of art at Art Basel Miami.
Who directed The Gallerist? Cathy Yan, who also co-wrote it with James Pedersen. She directed Birds of Prey in 2020.
Who stars in The Gallerist? Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega lead the cast, with Zach Galifianakis, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Brühl, Charli XCX and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Where can I watch The Gallerist trailer? The official trailer is on YouTube and on the film's distributor pages. The film itself is in theatres from December 4, with no streaming date announced yet.
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