EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has received a heated auction amongst 4 different studios and streamers for a Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston comedy automobile. The untitled physique swap comedy was pitched final week by Max Barbakow, who will write and direct the movie. LuckyChap Entertainment, the manufacturing label of Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, will produce alongside Roberts and her Red Om Films banner, Aniston’s Echo Films, and Barbakow. He is finest recognized for guiding Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg-Cristin Milioti 2020 comedy received by Neon and Hulu at Sundance for a then-festival report sum. The comedy relies on his unique pitch.
The urge for food for a two-hander star automobile comes after the shock field workplace success of Ticket to Paradise, the comedy that re-teamed Roberts with George Clooney. For Amazon’s Jennifer Salke and Head of Movies Julie Rapaport, this indicators an uptick in Amazon stepping as much as bolster its movie slate.
Amazon was within the bidding for the Sundance sizzling title Fair Play, and received the auction for Red Shirt, a Simon Kinberg pitch that Channing Tatum will star in for director David Leitch , and earlier than that the Nick Stoller-helmed marriage ceremony comedy to star Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell.
CAA dealt with the auction, and it’s additional proof that star packages that may be quick tracked and slotted into launch schedules is one of the best ways to get high greenback. By the time the Roberts and Aniston comedy will get made, I’m instructed that every actress will hit a payday excessive water mark, counting wage and backend buyout.
Roberts is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein; Aniston is CAA, Lighthouse Management, and Hansen Jacobson; Barbakow is CAA, Range Media Partners, and Jim Gilio and Jonathan Sauer at Sloan, Offer; and LuckyChap is CAA, Entertainment 360, and lawyer Jeff Bernstein.
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