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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Greta Gerwig, nan actress-turned-blockbuster filmmaker who will travel Barbie with Narnia. Latter is nan C.S. Lewis novels adjustment that stars Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and Meryl Streep arsenic nan sound of nan lion Aslan. Netflix releases nan movie successful IMAX theaters connected November 26 and it will beryllium globally released connected Netflix Christmas Day. Gerwig wrote nan script.
Barbie, which grossed northbound of $1.4 cardinal worldwide and garnered 8 Oscar noms including Best Picture, pinch a triumph for Original Song. That movie was half of nan Barbenheimer summertime that really helped bring nan theatrical movie business backmost from Covid on pinch Oppenheimer. She has emerged arsenic 1 of nan brightest hyphenates successful nan game.
Gerwig had been repped by UTA.
She made her directorial debut successful 2017 pinch Lady Bird, getting Oscar noms for Directing and Original Screenplay, and past wrote and directed an adjustment of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women that sewage six Oscar noms including Best Picture and Gerwig for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Gerwig began arsenic an character whose early films included Hanna Takes The Stairs (which she co-wrote) and Nights and Weekends. She co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced that movie and her breakout came other Ben Stiller successful nan Noah Baumbach-directed Greenberg. She later co-wrote and starred successful nan critically acclaimed Frances Ha, getting a Golden Globe nom for Best Actress – Comedy aliases Musical, and Mistress America. Her different capacity activity includes starring successful Pablo Larrain’s Jackie and 20th Century Women for Mike Mills.
Gerwig’s squad remains different intact, repped by Entertainment 360, Narrative and JSSK.
