Category: On August 26, 2015, Zac Efron’s EDM movie We Are Your Friends was released and quickly tanked at the box office, suffering the fourth worst opening weekend in history for a film screening at over 2000 cinemas.
Exactly one year later, Hollywood’s latest attempt at getting under the skin of dance music culture will drop, and it looks just as bad. On August 26, Netflix will release XOXO, a new movie that follows six strangers whose lives collide at music festival of the same name, which looks to be a thinly-veiled version of Electric Daisy Carnival.
The plot reads like an early version of the We Are Your Friends: at the centre of the action is Ethan, “a young DJ who gets a last minute slot to perform after his tracks go viral online days before the festival”. Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland plays a young raver, and one of the characters has a Flume poster on the wall, which the filmmakers’ way of signalling that they are a Serious Electronic Music Fan.
But XOXO does have one big redeeming quality – BBC Radio 1 legend Pete Tong acted as the film’s Music Supervisor, with tunes from Galantis, Flume, Hayden James, Skrillex and Jai Wolf picked out for the soundtrack.
We’ll officially reserve judgement until the movie drops on Netflix on August 26 – watch the the trailer below.
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