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EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) is group to lead Mother’s Helper, an seductive thriller written and to beryllium directed for MRC by Bridget Moloney.
Milo Callaghan (The Rainmaker) and Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) will besides star.
Mother’s Helper centers connected a female (Woodley) struggling to equilibrium work, kids, and matrimony who hires a handsome young man to thief retired astatine home.
Marking Moloney’s characteristic directorial debut, nan task reflects MRC’s long-standing history of supporting first-time filmmakers, from Chloe Domont (Fair Play) and Jake Johnson (Self Reliance) to Academy Award victor Cord Jefferson (American Fiction).
MRC is nan workplace financing nan movie pinch Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett producing and Rachel Rubin co-producing for Ryder Picture Company, whose upcoming slate includes I Love Boosters (Neon), Office Romance (Netflix), and The Death of Robin Hood and Onslaught pinch A24.
An Emmy and Golden Globe nominee champion known for roles successful Big Little Lies and nan Divergent films, Woodley’s caller credits see Killer Heat, Three Women, Dumb Money and Ferrari. Upcoming, she’ll beryllium seen starring successful Hulu’s constricted bid Count My Lies, other Lindsay Lohan, arsenic good arsenic Netflix’s Unabomber, from MRC and 2.0 Entertainment. She is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners.
Callaghan stars alongside John Slattery successful USA’s The Rainmaker, pinch further credits including Rivals, Dune: Prophecy, and Video Nasty. He is repped by Hamilton Hodell, WME, and Granderson Des Rochers.
An Emmy victor champion known for his collaboration pinch Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino connected a brace of Prime Video bid — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and nan much caller Étoile — Kirby is besides known for roles successful titles for illustration The Last Thing He Told Me, Dr. Death, and No Man of God. He is repped by Gersh.
Coming disconnected nan merchandise of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, MRC’s upcoming slate includes The Only Living Pickpocket successful New York, The Gallerist, A Place successful Hell, The Best is Yet To Come, Unabomber, and Eloise.
Moloney is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
