Amy Adams-vehicle Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams, has landed a Dec. 6, 2024, launch in cinemas in the course of the coronary heart of awards season. The Searchlight Photos and Annapurna movie was initially supposed to debut on Hulu, however will now get a theatrical launch.
The venture is from Marielle Heller, the actress-turned-filmmaker whose helming credit embrace 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Woman and Melissa McCarthy art-forgery dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?, additionally from Searchlight.
Nightbitch is an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2001 satirical novel a few lady who finds herself in a mind-bending and energy-sapping routine of elevating a toddler in a suburban residence whereas her husband is on prolonged enterprise journeys. However her new domesticity takes a surreal flip when she slowly realizes that she could also be reworking right into a protecting canine.
Heller and her frequent collaborator Anne Carey (Diary of a Teenage Woman and Can You Ever Forgive Me?) are producing alongside Sue Naegle, Christina Oh and Stacy O’Neil, who’s Adams’ companion on the Bond Group firm). Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Photos initially developed the venture.
“Rachel Yoder‘s guide took my breath away,” stated Heller in a press release when Nightbitch was introduced in 2022. “I haven’t felt this manner a few guide since I learn The Diary of a Teenage Woman a few years in the past. Rachel darkly hilarious story of motherhood and rage made me really feel seen. And adapting it with Amy Adams in thoughts has been the factor that has stored me going by way of the pandemic.”
Heller final directed the 2019 Mister Rogers drama, A Stunning Day within the Neighborhood, which earned Tom Hanks an Oscar nomination.