EXCLUSIVE: Ol Parker will direct Jennnifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein within the Netflix romcom, Workplace Romance.
We hear the manufacturing shall be taking pictures in New Jersey this March.
Deadline instructed you first that Lopez was set to proceed her mass-appealing film streak with the streamer on this irreverent comedy mission that 2x Ted Lasso Emmy successful Goldstein co-wrote with Joe Kelly.
Producers are Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Image Firm; Goldstein, Joe Kelly; and Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Movies. EP is Courtney Baxter for Nuyorican Movies.
Parker directed such Common hits as Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more which grossed near $400M, in addition to the studio’s Juilia Roberts and George Clooney romcom, Ticket to Paradise, which at near $170M WW repped a comeback for the style submit Covid, in addition to older moviegoers. Parker wrote the $240M grossing Finest Marigold Lodge franchise for Searchlight Photos. The filmmaker is repped by CAA, Knight Corridor Company and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein.
Lopez is incomes rave evaluations for her flip within the Amazon MGM Studios film, Unstoppable, which is 73% contemporary on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lopez’s high two films on Netflix, The Mom and Atlas, notched 136.4 million world views and 73 million world views, respectively. The Mom is amongst Netflix’s 10 most-watched films of all time and was Netflix’s most-watched film of 2023. Atlas additionally hit the highest 10 in 93 nations.
Nuyorican Productions has a multiyear first-look deal at Netflix spanning function movies, TV collection and unscripted content material, with an emphasis on initiatives that assist various feminine actors, writers and filmmakers.
