Casting is important. I feel like I’ve seen dozens of interviews with directors who humbly suggest that once you hire the right actors and let them do their thing, brilliance follows. It’s rare these days to see a truly rotten pairing of performer and role,

The "Opus" ending has a twist that makes audiences reconsider how they view Moretti, John Malkovich's mysterious pop star turned cult leader.

Malkovich tells Consequence that "I've done all kinds of unlikely things, but that was really a singular experience." How John Malkovich Manipulates the Music in Opus

Marking his official musical debut as a vocalist, John Malkovich performs all three tracks in tone with the film's mysterious Alfred Moretti. Produced and written by Nile Rodgers and The Dream, the project displays pure creativity and utter decay of a pop star in rebirth.

In the new horror movie “Opus,” we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the ’90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as “Thriller,” “Hotel California” and “Nebraska.”

The iconic actor and writer-director Mark Anthony Green discuss the thriller and who inspired Malkovich's maleficent Moretti, a man who puts the cult in pop culture.

The famously intense actor is a bad fit for the role of a dance-pop megastar in Mark Anthony Green's debut film.

Only Ariel seems to think any of this weird stuff is suspicious. To everyone else it's just show business. Artists are oddballs and that comes with the territory. What are obsessive fans if not cultists,