In today’s film news roundup, Evangeline Lilly, Ike Barinholtz and Mike Manning get acting jobs, “Easy Rider” returns and Gravitas buys “Chasing Molly.”CastingsEvangeline Lilly and Ike Barinholtz have joined the independent comedy “Happy Life” with David Stassen (“The Mindy Project”) set to write and direct his debut feature film.Stassen and Barinholtz are also serving as producers alongside Andrew Robinson and Aperture Media Productions.
Highland Film Group has come on board to handle international sales which will begin in Cannes this month.
UTA Independent Film Group is handling the U.S.
sale.Lilly will portray a new mom who suspects her workaholic husband, played by Barinholtz, of having an affair with an Instagram star.
One mistake after another leads her into the arms of a younger man as she struggles to come to terms with her life decisions and be the mother she aspires to be.
Principal photography will commence this summer.
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