Jennifer Lopez’s romantic comedy Second Act from STX is moving out of the crowded Thanksgiving Eve frame of Wednesday Nov.
21 to Dec.
14.This puts the Peter Segal-directed film in a pre-Christmas weekend as counterprogramming to Universal’s fantasy pic Mortal Engines and Sony’s fanboy animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.We hear Second Act is moving due to some incredible test screenings.
Universal’s TIFF winner Green Book, the Viggo Mortensen-Mahershala Ali drama about pianist Don Shirley and his Italian-American chauffeur, landed on Second Act‘s old date of Nov.
21 recently, looking to make a play for women and older audiences.Second Act is a comedy along the lines of Working Girl and Maid In Manhattan.
Lopez plays Maya, a 40-year-old woman struggling with unfulfilled dreams.
Until, that is, she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts,
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