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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Lowe is nan latest to autumn successful emotion pinch nan Stephen Merchant directed and starring, and Cameron Diaz headlining romanticist drama astatine Amazon MGM Studios.
The West Wing Primetime Emmy nominee joins a booming lineup that includes Jake Lacy, Josh Segarra, Sherry Cola, Judith Light, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Fabrizio Guido, Lisa Gilroy, and Dustin Ybarra.
Merchant co-wrote nan book pinch John Butler which follows a workaholic Brit who is employed astatine an upscale New York edifice (Merchant). He needs a woman for appearances. In comes a struggling stand-up comedienne who is hopeless for wellness security (Diaz). Their clone matrimony starts arsenic a transaction – but ends successful an unexpected romance. As we first told you, nan movie is produced by Lee Eisenberg, Merchant, and Point Grey Pictures’ Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, and Josh Fagen. Natalie Sandy will executive produce.
Lowe counts 2 Emmy noms, six Golden Globes, and 4 Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning two. His canon includes St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, and The Outsiders, arsenic good arsenic Parks and Recreation. He besides starred successful Behind nan Candelabra, Austin Powers, and Tommy Boy. His 2 memoirs, Stories I Only Tell My Friends and Love Life, were both New York Times Best Sellers. Lowe turned his first memoir into a touring show called Stories I Only Tell My Friends: Live! Most recently, Rob Lowe successful and produced Fox’s 9-1-1 Texas-set spinoff, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and presently hosts and produces nan #1 crippled show connected television, Fox’s The Floor. His Netflix comedy Unstable, from Victor Fresco and starring alongside his son, John Owen Lowe, was inspired by their societal media narration wherever John Owen often hilariously trolled his dad. Next up, Lowe will prima successful Bleecker Street’s The Third Parent alongside Crispin Glover. The character is repped by WME, Brillstein, and Latham & Watkins.
