Jennifer Lawrence Boards Apple Rom-Com 'One Month Mark'
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- Jennifer Lawrence will both star in and produce "One Month Mark" for Apple Original Films, marking her fourth project with the streamer following the just-wrapped "What Happens at Night" (directed by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio), "Causeway," and the documentary "Bread & Roses."
- Sophie Fleur de Bruijn wrote the spec script and will executive produce; the logline reads: "She has never made it past a month in a relationship. He has never gone longer than a month without one."
- Apple Studios will produce, with Chernin Entertainment's David Ready, Brady Fujikawa, and Peter Chernin joining Lawrence and her Excellent Cadaver partner Justine Ciarrocchi as producers.
- De Bruijn lands her second Apple project after "Early Action," a feature whose rights Apple acquired last year and which remains in development with Kevin Walsh producing.
- Both outlets (Variety and Deadline) frame the deal as a packaged rom-com — a hot script with a bankable star attached — rather than a greenlight, leaving distribution and release timing unspecified.
Why it matters: Apple continues deepening its Lawrence relationship with a fourth project, giving the streamer both a Scorsese-anchored drama and now a lighter rom-com counterweight. For de Bruijn, the "Early Action" pickup last year has now converted into a far bigger follow-up with an Oscar winner attached — Apple is doubling down on a writer it identified early.
