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EXCLUSIVE: Roxy Sophie Sorkin will make her characteristic directorial debut pinch Hot Year, an indie coming-of-age revenge thriller she besides wrote, starring Kathryn Newton, Storm Reid, Dove Cameron, J. Smith Cameron, and Owen Painter. Production is group to statesman successful Oklahoma this May.
“Hot Year is an exploration into sadistic honesty and boiling, seething, grotesque womanhood,” described
Sorkin. “It’s a movie I wish I had held beloved erstwhile I was 18. It’s a forehead buss and a spit successful nan face. Be
prepared to deterioration fairy wings and bring Fireball.”
Set against nan eerie backdrop of a mini Pacific Northwest municipality during a relentless heatwave, Hot Year
follows 2 puerility champion friends whose enslaved is pushed to nan brink aft a revenge scheme against an ex-boyfriend spirals into a convulsive incident they can’t return back. Over nan people of 1 feverish night, nan brace must navigate nan consequences of their actions arsenic buried trauma, loyalty, and personality collide.
Wagner Entertainment’s Jordan Wagner and Killer Films’ Christine Vachon will nutrient alongside Evan
Silverberg and Dylan Conklin for Entertainment 360 and Ilya Stewart for Hype Studios. Ryan Hamilton will executive nutrient for Wagner Entertainment, pinch Amanda Larney serving arsenic co-producer and George Bicknell arsenic subordinate producer. Newton will exec produce.
“Roxy has a really chopped and breathtaking sound arsenic a filmmaker,” said Wagner. “It’s a bold script, emotional, but besides nosy and unpredictable successful a measurement that feels fresh. Hot Year taps into thing very existent astir relationship and personality astatine that age, and I deliberation audiences are going to really link pinch it. We couldn’t person asked for a amended formed to bring this to life, and I’m really looking guardant to seeing Roxy
bring this world to nan surface alongside an unthinkable group of artists.”
Aleksandr Fomin will executive nutrient connected behalf of Hype Studios, pinch Pavel Burian executive producing for Mosaic Films. Talia Bella and Randy Wayne of Rebellium Films will service arsenic co-producers and are handling accumulation services successful Oklahoma.
“Roxy is precisely nan benignant of filmmaker we’re ever drawn to,” said Vachon. “She has a existent constituent of position and isn’t acrophobic to return risks pinch reside aliases character. Hot Year lives successful a abstraction that feels some circumstantial and unsettling, which is very breathtaking to us. We had specified a awesome acquisition moving pinch Jordan and Wagner Entertainment connected Pretty Babies, and I look guardant to continuing that collaboration connected Hot Year.”
The movie marks Sorkin’s characteristic directing debut aft directing respective shorts that person screened astatine Sundance, Tribeca, and Beyond Fest. Sorkin is repped by Entertainment 360, UTA, and Ziffren.
Newton tin presently beryllium seen starring other Samara Weaving successful Searchlight’s thriller, Ready
or Not 2, which is successful theaters now. She antecedently starred successful Universal Pictures’ scary feature, Abigail,
and is good known for starring other Paul Rudd successful Marvel’s Ant-Man and other Reese Witherspoon
in HBO’s Golden Globe Award-winning series, Big Little Lies. Next, she stars successful nan Basquiat biopic, Samo
Lives, and Lionsgate’s Devil’s Mouth. Newton is repped by Entertainment 360, WME, and Hansen,
Jacobson Teller.
Reid precocious earned her first Emmy grant for outstanding impermanent Actress In A play bid for her activity arsenic Riley successful nan deed HBO Max bid The Last of Us. Next up, Reid will prima successful nan Netflix drama Roommates, penned by SNL alums Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O’Sullivan and produced by Adam Sandler for Happy Madison. The movie is releasing connected nan streamer connected April 17th, 2026. Reid is besides group to prima successful Teyana Taylor’s directorial debut, Get Lite astatine Paramount, slated for a 2027 release. Reid is repped by CAA, The Lede Company, and Granderson Des Rochers.
Most recently, Dove starred successful nan tv bid 56 Days, an erotic, psychological thriller based on
the deed caller of nan aforesaid name. Executive produced by James Wan and Atomic Monster for Prime Video, the
series quickly deed #1 globally upon its merchandise and remained 1 of nan streamer’s apical titles for numerous
weeks pursuing nan release.
J. Smith-Cameron is is champion known to audiences worldwide for her capacity arsenic Gerri Kellman connected HBO’s deed play bid Succession, for which she was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics Choice Award, successful summation to winning 2 SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble successful a Drama Series. She will will adjacent beryllium seen arsenic a typical impermanent prima connected CBS’s Elsbeth connected April 2, 2026. She precocious joined nan formed of FX’s upcoming play bid Seven Sisters arsenic nan matriarch of nan Bosco Family, other Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti. J. Smith-Cameron is represented by Principal Entertainment LA, Gersh and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Painter tin beryllium seen adjacent successful nan FX and Ryan Murphy bid The Shards. He is repped by Gersh, Industry
Entertainment and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
