Nancy Meyer’s year-long journey to get her next movie project off the ground is at an end.
After at least two years of on-and-off negotiations, the untitled project has finally secured not only Warner Bros. Pictures as its official home but also a luminous cast and a release date.
Penélope Cruz, Kieran Culkin, Jude Law, Emma Mackey and Owen Wilson will star in the comedy that Meyers, the filmmaker behind Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday, wrote and will direct.
Like many of her other movies, this one is also getting a winter holiday berth. Warner Bros. has set an opening date of Dec. 25, 2027.
Meyers gained a following for her glossy, affluent aspirational, A-list-starring romantic comedies in the 2000s after becoming one of the town’s big-name screenwriters thanks to movies such as Private Benjamin and Father of the Bride. She hasn’t made a movie since 2015’s The Intern, which starred Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, but began trying to get a new feature up and going in the early 2020s.
Initially, Meyers found a home in Netflix, but in early 2023, the streamer shut it down over budgetary concerns. Meyers is said to have asked for a budget of at least $150 million, but the studio did not want to go over $130 million. It was a steep price tag for a genre that is usually in the midbudget range and one that could have made it the most expensive romantic comedy of all time.
At the time, Cruz, Wilson, Michael Fassbender, and Scarlett Johansson were circling roles in the feature, which was titled Paris Paramount, although it was unclear if that was the actual title, a working title or a code name.
Then, the project centered on a young writer-director who falls in love with a producer. The pair make several successful films before breaking up, both romantically and professionally. They are forced back together when a new, great project arises, and they find themselves having to deal with high stakes and volatile stars. It was semi-autobiographical.
It is unclear how much the script has changed or what the new budget is. Warners, which began talking about picking up the project very soon after it was let go, is keeping the logline to the current version under wraps and insiders say that previous versions were not quite correct.
Cruz is coming off the buzzy Sundance Film Festival debut of The Invite, Olivia Wilde’s relationship comedy that also starred Seth Rogen, Ed Norton, and Wilde and that was at the center of the biggest sale at this year’s festival. A24 won the distribution rights in a bidding war. She next stars in the upcoming Warners release The Bride!, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Culkin was one of the stars of HBO’s acclaimed drama series Succession and won an Oscar, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe for his performance in A Real Pain Jesse Eisneberg’s cousin dramedy A Real Pain.
Law recently starred in Netflix thriller show Black Rabbit as well as Star Wars series Skeleton Crew, and appeared in the ensemble of Ron Howard’s 2025 drama, Eden.
Mackey starred in James L. Brooks’s Ella McCay, which opened in December. Her upcoming projects include A24’s film Peaked, directed by and starring Molly Gordon, and Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming Narnia adaptation for Netflix.
Wilson in recent years gained a comic book following for playing the enigmatic Mobius in the Loki series and last year starred in Apple TV’s uplifting Stick.
Cruz is repped by CAA, Untitled, Kuranda while Culkin is repped by WME and Brookside Artist Management.
Law is repped by CAA, Julian Belfrage Associates, Jackoway Austen, and Pippa Beng. Mackey is repped by CAA, Johnson Shapiro, and Ziffren Brittenham. Wilson is repped by UTA and Hirsch Wallerstein.