EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American and UK rights to the indie drama Midday Black Midnight Blue, starring 2x Emmy winner Merritt Wever (Godless), slating it for a day-and…
— an “action” comedy starring 93-year-old Academy Award nominee June Squibb, which has wrapped production.
The first feature from writer-director Josh Margolin centers on 90-year-old grandmother Thelma Post , who gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson and sets out on a uniquely treacherous quest to reclaim what was taken from her. Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg and Malcolm McDowell round out the cast.
Zoë Worth, a longtime collaborator of Margolin’s, and producing partner Chris Kaye started developingafter reading an early draft in their writer’s group, Rock & Roll Universe. The film will be their first produced together. Invention Studios’ Nicholas Weinstock and Benjamin Simpson are producing alongside Worth and Kaye, as well as Viviana Vezzani and Karl Spoerri of Zurich Avenue, which is fully financing the film.
Peña is repped by Innovative Artists, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Byer by WME, Artists First and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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