Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn’s ‘Finding Emily’ Sets Summer Ablaze—But What Dark Secrets Hide Behind This Sunshine Rom-Com?
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Is it just me, or does the cosmos seem to be aligning for some serious romantic misadventures this summer? Focus Features is dropping a brand new rom-com titled Finding Emily on August 28 in the U.S., and honestly, it’s got all the glittery vibes of a modern-day love story mixed with a touch of cosmic serendipity. Picture this: a lovesick musician chasing a wrong number like it’s the secret code to his heart, aided by an ambitious psychology student—yes, it’s a bit like dating apps had a celestial baby with Shakespearean comedy! Directed by Alicia MacDonald in her feature debut and starring the magnetic Angourie Rice (bet you remember her from Spider-Man: No Way Home), Spike Fearn, and Minnie Driver, this flick promises all the charm of Working Title Films’ classics like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill. Given Mercury’s mischievous transit right now, it’s practically written in the stars that this romantic quest will be filled with delightful confusion and unexpected twists—just the way we love it. Curious yet?
A romantic-comedy feature from Focus Features is set to find its way to theaters this summer.
Director Alicia MacDonald’s film that stars Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn and Minnie Driver is set for theatrical release in the U.S. on Aug. 28, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Focus holds worldwide rights to the title that Universal Pictures International previously announced it would release in U.K. theaters on May 22.
Finding Emily centers on a smitten musician who receives the wrong number for his perfect woman and teams up with an ambitious psychology student to locate her. The project hails from Working Title Films, the company known for such features as Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill, with Finding Emily described as being in that vein.
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MacDonald marks her feature directorial debut from a script by Rachel Hirons (A Guide to Second Date Sex). Serving as producers are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title and Olivier Kaempfer for Parkville Pictures.
Rice is known for playing Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most recently portraying the character in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. More recent credits include the 2024 musical Mean Girls and the series The Last Thing He Told Me.
Fearn is known for such movies as Aftersun, Alien: Romulus and Ella McCay. He be seen later this year opposite Liam Neeson in 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank.
Focus’ film slate for the coming year includes Robert Eggers’ Werwulf, Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising, Georgia Oakley’s new version of Sense and Sensibility, Hayley Kiyoko’s feature debut Girls Like Girls and the documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.
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