EXCLUSIVE: Ariana Greenblatt (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) is set to star in Egg Baby, a romantic comedy from director Natalia Anderson and XYZ Films that Amazon MGM Studios has picked up for release worldwide on Prime Video.
Written by Sawyer Perry, Egg Baby follows a rebellious artist and a golden-boy quarterback who are forced to co-parent an egg for health class, only to find that raising “Yolk-o” might crack open something real between them.
XYZ Films will produce with Allison Friedman (The Mortuary Collection, The Fix), in association with BuzzFeed Studios.
Coming off the Lionsgate threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, where she joined legacy cast Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher, Greenblatt is also known for her work in projects like Barbie, Fear Street: Prom Queen and Borderlands. Most recently, she signed on to star alongside Grace Van Patten in Hanna Gray Organschi’s debut feature Rubber Hut, as we first reported. Upcoming, she’ll also be seen starring opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the independent drama Somedays. She is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA, and Jackoway Austen.
Natalia Anderson is an executive producer and director whose credits include Maggie (Hulu), Nobody Wants This (Netflix), Will Trent (ABC), Welcome to Flatch (FBC), Single Parents (ABC), and Life in Pieces (CBS), where she began her directing career. She has also worked with Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions on Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2, and co-created Hulu’s Resident Advisors starring Jamie Chung and Ryan Hanson. She is repped by WME, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Recent titles from XYZ Films include Havoc (starring Tom Hardy and Forest Whitaker), the SXSW Audience Award winner Over Your Dead Body, TIFF action hit The Furious, Hallow Road (starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys), and Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful.
