Ferguson & Lee Confirmed for MRC Rom-Com 'Honeymoon / Funeral' — SkimNews
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- Rebecca Ferguson and Greta Lee are confirmed to star in MRC's romantic-comedy Honeymoon / Funeral, directed by Nahnatchka Khan and written by Julia Bicknell, about two women who meet on an LA-to-London flight—one heading to her solo honeymoon after being left at the altar by her girlfriend, the other to her mother's funeral—and spend a week together.
- FilmNation is launching international sales ahead of the TIFF market; the project has been filming in London in recent weeks.
- Ferguson currently leads and executive-produces Apple TV's Silo and is set to reprise Lady Jessica in Denis Villenueve's Dune: Part Three, while her recent credits include Netflix's Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man and Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite.
- Lee earned Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and Independent Spirit nominations for Best Actress for Celine Song's Past Lives and recently appeared in Netflix's The Last House and Late Fame and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 5.
- Both Ferguson and Lee appeared together in Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite on Netflix, marking this as their second collaboration.
- MRC is coming off the recent releases Wuthering Heights and All of You, with a TV slate that includes Poker Face, Ozark, House of Cards, Terminal List, and Ted.
Why it matters: MRC is betting on a Khan-directed rom-com to follow its recent theatrical slate of *Wuthering Heights* and *All of You*, reuniting Ferguson and Lee after their *A House of Dynamite* pairing. The TIFF market timing gives FilmNation a high-profile launchpad to lock international buyers before the fall festival cycle peaks.
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