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- Cameron Diaz will star with Stephen Merchant in a new rom-com.
- Merchant is aboard to direct.
- Amazon MGM Studios is backing the movie.
Since she returned to screens with last year’s Netflix action comedy effort ‘Back in Action’, Cameron Diaz has been filling her schedule with projects.
Deadline reports that She’s now aboard a new romantic comedy to co-star (and be co-written/directed by) Stephen Merchant.
The movie is without an announced title at this point, but it does have a studio home, as Amazon MGM has picked up the rights to Merchant’s script, which he wrote with ‘The Outlaws’ collaborator John Butler.
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What’s the story of Stephen Merchant’s new movie?
In a plotline that honestly sounds like it could have come out in the 1990s or mid-2000s, the new movie sees Merchant as a workaholic Brit employed at an upscale New York hotel who needs a wife for appearances.
He strikes a deal with a struggling stand-up comic (Diaz) who is desperate for health insurance.
Their fake marriage starts as a transaction – but ends in a hilariously unexpected romance.
Producers for this one also include Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (via their Point Grey company) and Lee Eisenberg.
When will the new romantic comedy be on screens?
Amazon MGM Studios has yet to announce a date for this one, nor whether it’ll be in theaters or head straight to Prime Video’s streaming territory.
List of Cameron Diaz Movies:
- 'The Mask' (1994)
- 'She's the One' (1996)
- 'My Best Friend's Wedding' (1997)
- 'There's Something About Mary' (1998)
- 'Being John Malkovich' (1999)
- 'Any Given Sunday' (1999)
- 'Charlie's Angels' (2000)
- 'Shrek' (2001)
- 'Vanilla Sky' (2001)
- 'Gangs of New York' (2002)
- 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' (2003)
- 'Shrek 2' (2004)
- 'In Her Shoes' (2005)
- 'The Holiday' (2006)
- 'Shrek the Third' (2007)
- 'What Happens in Vegas' (2008)
- 'The Box' (2009)
- 'Shrek Forever After' (2010)
- 'Knight and Day' (2010)
- 'The Green Hornet' (2011)
- 'Bad Teacher' (2011)
- 'The Counselor' (2013)
- 'The Other Woman' (2014)
- 'Sex Tape' (2014)
- 'Annie' (2014)
- 'Back in Action' (2025)
