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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is successful precocious negotiations to onshore worldwide distribution authorities to Hello & Paris, nan rom-com group to merge Oscar victor Javier Bardem and two-time nominee Kate Hudson.
Filming is owed to statesman later this period connected nan movie, which is loosely inspired by Deborah McKinlay’s novel That Part Was True. Two-time Best Picture nominee Finola Dwyer (Brooklyn) is producing alongside Fifth Season.
Elizabeth Chomko (What They Had) will constitute and nonstop nan project, which is Hudson’s first movie since her Oscar information earlier this twelvemonth for her domiciled other Hugh Jackman successful Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue.
Described arsenic being “in nan vein of Sleepless successful Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, and You’ve Got Mail“, nan film’s synopsis reads: “After a prickly first brushwood successful Paris, a fiercely independent scenery designer and a crisis-ridden bestselling novelist statesman a sparky, transatlantic speech complete books and recipes—only to observe that nan 1 point harder than being unsocial mightiness beryllium choosing not to be”.
Not clear astatine this shape whether there’s a theatrical constituent to nan deal. Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary-backed income patient 193 was aboard for world income but Amazon has taken nan task disconnected nan table.
Chomko is champion known for Sundance drama What They Had, starring Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon. Four-time Oscar nominee Bardem is champion known for melodramatic roles but his deed romanticist comedy-dramas include Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Eat Pray Love. Hudson has had plentifulness of occurrence successful nan rom-com genre including connected films specified arsenic How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and Bride Wars.
