LIGHTS CAMERA BILLE

The pop powerhouse is taking her latest tour from the stage to the screen with James Cameron.

- SUZY EXPOSITO

JAMES CAMERON KNOWS A STRONG FEMALE lead when he sees one. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker spent decades making high-octane movies powered by the electric, resistant spirit of womenwhether it was stone-cold Sigourney Weaver in 1986's Aliens, Kate Winslet's gutsy teen debutante in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, or Zoe Saldaña's cerulean warrior princess in the Avatar series. For his latest project, Cameron set his sights on a new, nonfictional kind of heroine: a ballsy androgyne pop star in basketball shorts.

Coming May 8 to theaters nationwide, Billie Eilish's concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), which she codirected with Cameron, sees her commanding the stage in Manchester, England, while on her latest run of shows in 2025. In the teaser trailer, confetti flies and neon shocks of light cut through Eilish's silhouette as she leaps and bounds mischievously across the stage-a Marvel character in the flesh, shot entirely in 3D. Frenzied cries of girls rip across the airwaves as she leans back and unfurls an impish grin to the crowd, eliciting an even louder burst of screams.