Sony Footage Classics has acquired worldwide rights to the Sundance comedy “Gail Daughtry and the Superstar Intercourse Move,” the corporate introduced Friday.
Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, John Slattery and Ben Wang star within the David Wain function. The script was written by Ken Marino and Wain.
The comedy premiered to rave critiques on the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant. The deal marks the studio’s fourth acquisition out of this 12 months’s competition.
The official synopsis reads: “Small city hairdresser Gail Daughtry is engaged to her devoted highschool sweetheart, Tom. Her life takes a flip when a visit to a e book signing results in Tom assembly – and sleeping – along with his “movie star cross.” Reeling from the betrayal, Gail impulsively joins her pal Otto on a visit to Los Angeles, the place a psychic convinces Gail that the one technique to save her marriage is to “even the scales” together with her personal movie star cross: Jon Hamm. Thus begins an epic journey by way of Tinseltown as Gail and Otto be part of forces with a expertise company assistant, a paparazzo, and actor John Slattery, all within the seek for Hamm. Alongside the way in which, they collide with celebrities and are hunted by a gaggle of Italian assassins as they get ever nearer to discovering the elusive star.”
In his assessment of the movie, TheWrap’s Matt Donato wrote: “It’s nuttier than a Snickers bar, tapping right into a lighthearted model of humor that doesn’t exist in Hollywood proper now. Nothing about ‘Gail Daughtry and the Superstar Intercourse Move’ ought to work, and but, it’s a breath of contemporary air in a stale style that wants goofballs like Wain and Marino to tug us all the way down to their corny but belly-laughing degree.”
The movie is produced by Anthony Bregman, Peter Cron, Ken Marino, David Wain, Crystine Zhang, and Charles Zhong. Govt producers embrace Robert Herjavec, Chechen Dong, Tom Griffin, Amanda Chang, Adrian Politowski, Jamie Canniffe, Franny Baldwin, Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, and John Slattery.
“I feel we’re all hungry to have extra motion pictures in theaters which are designed to supply laughter and pleasure, at the start — and I can’t await audiences to expertise this very first chapter within the GDU (Gail Daughtry Universe)!” Wain mentioned in an announcement.
“To have our movie embraced by Sony Footage Classics, an organization that has championed visionary filmmakers for many years, is extremely particular. I’m deeply grateful for his or her ardour and assist and excited to work collectively on this,” producer Zhang added.
“’Gail Daughtry and the Superstar Intercourse Move’ is essentially the most hilarious comedy we’ve seen in ages with probably the most unbelievable and shocking indie casts any movie may ask for. In a time when audiences have to smile, David Wain has delivered an leisure that can have audiences’ cheeks hurting from all their laughs,” Sony Footage Classics added.
The deal was brokered between Sony Footage Classics and WME Impartial on behalf of the filmmakers.
Deadline first reported the information.
