Seth Rogen Talks The Invite, Tangles and The Studio Season 2
Seth Rogen has been talking about his latest film work, and a Disney+ revival, in an interview with Variety. The conversation was recorded for the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia.
Rogen stars in The Invite, an A24 dinner-party film directed by Olivia Wilde. He plays Joe, a husband whose shaky marriage is put under strain during one evening with upstairs neighbours. Those neighbours are played by Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. The film is now streaming on HBO Max.
The other project he discussed is Tangles, a hand-drawn, black-and-white animated feature. It is adapted from Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir about her mother's Alzheimer's disease, a memoir told through comic-style drawings. Leah Nelson directed it, and Rogen's company, Point Grey Pictures, produced it. The voice cast includes Rogen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston and Samira Wiley.
Rogen and his team spent 10 years on Tangles, according to Variety. That is a long road for any film, and longer than most animated features take to reach cinemas. The film opened in theatres in 2026 with an awards-qualifying run, a short limited release that lets a film compete for awards. Independent Film Company and Sapan Studio are handling that release, and a wider expansion is planned for early 2027.
The podcast also touched on a revival of Darkwing Duck on Disney+ and on Season 2 of The Studio. Those threads came up during the conversation.
For anyone who has only seen the finished films, the timeline is the surprising part. A film that reaches a small audience this year can wait well over a year for a wider public, and the people behind it spend much of that time on the slow work of getting it made and seen.
