{"id":"1792879651756-culture-show_open","slug":"elden-ring-movie-breaks-a24-budget-records","title":"Elden Ring movie breaks A24 budget records","summary":"Emily Osment did request an intimacy coordinator for \"Young Sheldon\" due to discomfort over the age gap with Montana Jordan, who was 18 while she was 30 during initial filming; the show added one for subsequent episodes.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T22:07:31.756Z","channel":{"id":"culture","name":"Oncast Music","language":"en"},"show":"On Repeat","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Emily Osment did request an intimacy coordinator for \"Young Sheldon\" due to discomfort over the age gap with Montana Jordan, who was 18 while she was 30 during initial filming; the show added one for subsequent episodes.\nSource: [variety.com](https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/young-sheldon-emily-osment-requested-intimacy-coordinator-1236930355/) NAMES: Emily Osment = actress who played M (https://x.com/Variety/status/2114102128671367625)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Emily Osment did request an intimacy coordinator for \"Young Sheldon\" due to discomfort over the age gap with Montana Jordan, who was 18 while she was 30 during initial filming; the show added one for subsequent episodes.","sourceName":"[variety.com](https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/young-sheldon-emily-osment-requested-intimacy-coordinator-1236930355/) NAMES: Emily Osment = actress who played M","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/Variety/status/2114102128671367625","claim":"Emily Osment has revealed she requested an intimacy coordinator while filming \"Young Sheldon\" because of her \"uncomfortable\" age gap with co-star Montana Jordan: “That made me uncomfortable. He was a baby! A baby with a mullet. So I spoke to Tim Marx, and obviously they were http","author":"@Variety"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/Variety/status/2114102128671367625","name":"[variety.com](https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/young-sheldon-emily-osment-requested-intimacy-coordinator-1236930355/) NAMES: Emily Osment = actress who played M","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"@Variety"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792879651756-culture-show_open-elden-ring-movie-breaks-a24-budget-records","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/culture","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792879651756-culture-show_open-elden-ring-movie-breaks-a24-budget-records","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792879651756-culture-show_open-elden-ring-movie-breaks-a24-budget-records and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Laura","text":"On Repeat is live, and the music world is already arguing at full volume."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"Emily Osment just told Variety she needed an intimacy coordinator on Young Sheldon because her co-star Montana Jordan was... and I quote... \"a baby with a mullet.\""},{"host":"Laura","text":"He was eighteen when they started filming. She was thirty."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"She says the age gap made her uncomfortable, so she went to the showrunner and they brought in someone to handle it."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Honestly? That's a pro move. She saw the situation, flagged it, and got it fixed."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"And the description of him is flawless. A baby with a mullet. That's Georgie Cooper in five words."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Now for the film news that's either genius or a disaster waiting to happen."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"IGN reports Alex Garland's Elden Ring movie is carrying a budget of almost two hundred million dollars."},{"host":"Laura","text":"If that's right, it makes it A24's most expensive movie ever. By a lot."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"A24 is the studio that built its entire brand on twenty-million-dollar weird little masterpieces. Now they're swinging for two hundred mill on a video game adaptation."},{"host":"Laura","text":"And Alex Garland is brilliant, but his movies are slow, philosophical, and deliberately confusing. Elden Ring is... also deliberately confusing, actually."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"The game's lore is a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. Maybe he's the perfect guy for it."},{"host":"Laura","text":"Or maybe A24 just wrote the biggest check in its history to watch a two-hundred-million-dollar movie about a guy who never speaks and a tree that's on fire."},{"host":"Claudette","text":"You say that like it's a bad thing. I'd watch that."}]}