Universal Buys Romantic Comedy Pitch From Hallie Meyers-Shyer; Amy Pascal To Produce

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired a pitch for an untitled romantic comedy from Home Again filmmaker Hallie Meyers-Shyer, for which she’ll write and direct.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but we hear that the project will be a modern spin on the romantic comedy genre. Amy Pascal will produce through her Universal-based Pascal Pictures banner.

Meyers-Shyer is the daughter of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer and starred in their movies Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, The Parent Trap, What Women Want, I Love Trouble and The Affair of the Necklace. She made her screenwriting and directorial debut with the Reese Witherspoon 2017 comedy Home Again. She is repped by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman L.L.P.

Universal SVP of Production Sara Scott and Director of Development Lexi Barta will oversee production for the studio.

Pascal had a great day today with news breaking that Sony and Disney/Marvel hammered out a co-finance agreement for a third Spider-Man: Homecoming movie which she will produce through her Pascal Pictures with Marvel boss Kevin Feige.  Together, Spider-Man: Homecoming and this past summer’s Far From Home amassed $2 billion at the global B.O with the latter sequel being Sony’s top grossing pic ever with $1.13B WW. Pascal also produced this year’s Oscar and Golden Globe winning animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which made over $375M WW.

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