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Black Bear and Artists Equity person collaborated connected nan melodramatic feature A Woman successful nan Sun, starring Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek alongside rising prima Mia Threapleton.
A Woman successful nan Sun follows a period successful nan life of Claire Keating, a bartender connected Nantucket and portion of nan island’s dwindling mediate class. When her mother gets sick and her girl moves home, Claire’s world cracks open. Both vulnerable and tough, Claire must reckon pinch her past and return ownership of her future. This multi-generational communicative explores nan beauty, agony, and hilarity of loving different group deeply.
The movie is written and directed by WGA Award nominee Julia Cox, nan breakout writer of Black Bear’s two-time Academy Award nominee Nyad. Black Bear and Artists Equity are co-financing, pinch Black Bear to administer nan movie successful North America and nan UK, arsenic good arsenic successful Canada via Elevation Pictures.
“As soon arsenic I met Julia, I knew she was destined to beryllium an unthinkable director, and moving pinch her intimately on Nyad only strengthened my belief successful her arsenic an creator and leader,” said Black Bear CEO Teddy Schwarzman. “With A Woman successful nan Sun, she has created that cleanable conveyance to modulation from acclaimed writer to world-caliber director. The communicative is some singular and universal, and Julia will nary uncertainty seizure unforgettably rich | performances from Renée, Sissy, and Mia. Black Bear is honored to backmost this powerful movie alongside our bully friends astatine Artists Equity, and we can’t hold to stock it pinch audiences soon.”
Producing nan movie are Zellweger and Carmella Casinelli for Big Picture Co., and Kim Roth, with Greg Gertmenian co-producing. Production is slated to statesman successful September 2026. Black Bear will present nan task to world buyers astatine Cannes.
“Championing promising filmmakers for illustration Julia has been cardinal to Big Picture Co’s ngo since time one, and we’re thrilled to beryllium portion of this very typical task and nan squad who will thief recognize Julia’s vision. The book is simply a storytelling treasure, and Julia’s instincts group her isolated arsenic an emerging filmmaker. We can’t hold to get started,” said Zellweger.
Cox some wrote and executive produced Nyad, nan Black Bear movie starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, who some earned Oscar nominations for their performances. Cox also wrote and executive produced the upcoming film Love of Your Life, directed by Oscar nominee Rachel Morrison and starring Margaret Qualley, Gabriel Basso, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Catherine Keener.
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“Julia has proven herself arsenic a writer, and I’m certain A Woman successful nan Sun will show nan movie world she’s arsenic talented successful nan director’s chair,” said Ben Affleck, CEO of Artists Equity. “This is simply a moving, gripping exploration of a analyzable family move pinch thing lurking beneath nan surface. And down nan scenes, we’ve sewage a tremendous partner successful Black Bear. For us, this is astir uncovering meaningful ways to put successful filmmakers astatine each shape of their journey, and projects for illustration this are precisely nan benignant of activity we want to beryllium a portion of. We’re looking guardant to bringing this movie to life.”
Zellweger has won 2 Academy Awards for her roles in Judy and Cold Mountain, connected apical of nominations for nan beloved Bridget Jones’s Diary and Chicago. Other titles successful her divers assemblage of activity include Jerry Maguire, Nurse Betty, Me, Myself & Irene, and Cinderella Man.
Spacek has been nominated for six Academy Awards, each for Best Actress successful a Leading Role. She won nan prize for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn successful nan 1980 hit Coal Minor’s Daughter. Her different nominations were for In nan Bedroom, Crimes of nan Heart, The River, Missing, and her breakout titular domiciled successful nan Stephen King adaptation Carrie. Spacek has besides been nominated for 3 Emmys, for Big Love, Last Call, and The Good Old Boys. Recently, Spacek starred successful Lynne Ramsey’s Cannes favorite Die My Love.
Threapleton is presently shooting an untitled characteristic movie written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and is besides known for her roles successful Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, and Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos. On nan mini screen, she most precocious starred successful nan BAFTA-winning drama I AM RUTH and has appeared successful Apple TV’s The Buccaneers and Starz’s Dangerous Liaisons.
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Cox is represented by CAA, Project D Media, Aloft Strateic Communications, and Ziffren Brittenham. Zellwegger is represented by CAA and Imprint PR. Spacek is represented by UTA and MGMT Entertainment. Threapleton is repped by CAA and Markham, Froggatt and Irwin.
