2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Idea of You

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He already has a history with Park City having premiered 2014’s They Came Together (which he wrote) and The Big Sick which panned out to be a huge crowdpleaser in 2017. After a no-show this year, Michael Showalter‘s The Idea of You might actually be enroute to Sundance. Production began in October of 2022 on the Amazon Studios book-to-screen adaptation of the Robinne Lee novel. Anne Hathaway toplines the May-December type romance.

Gist: This centers on Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat. There, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.

Production Co./Producers: Eric Hayes, Robinne Lee, Jordana Mollick, Jeff Morrone, Michael Showalter, Welle Entertainment’s Cathy Schulman, I’ll Have Another’s Gabrielle Union, Somewhere Pictures’ Anne Hathaway.

Prediction: Premieres.

U.S. Distributor: Amazon Studios.

2023 American Film Festival Wroclaw

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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