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Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer To Star In New Holiday Comedy

March 24, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee
Jessica Chastain

Variety reports that Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) is set to direct a new holiday comedy for Universal Pictures which will star Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer. Universal won the rights to an untitled pitch, beating Fox and Paramount. It will be produced by Chastain’s Freckle Films, while Chastain also wrote the treatment with Kelly Carmichael and Peter Chiarelli.

The film follows two women fighting the weather to get home for Christmas. Maven Pictures will also produce, along with Carmichael, Celine Rattray, and Trudie Styler. Exec VP of production Erik Baiers and creative executive Mika Pryce will oversee the project for Universal.

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