NEWS: Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer, The Amazing Spiderman) will direct Day Drinker, a genre-bending supernatural thriller centered on the bond between an enigmatic stranger and a bartender mourning the loss of her lover. Set in coastal France, Portugal, and Spain, Day Drinker is an epic tale of love, friendship, and revenge. The film is an original story written by Zach Dean (The Tomorrow War, Deadfall), who will also produce alongside Lit Entertainment Group’s Adam Kolbrenner (The Tomorrow War, Free Guy, Prisoners). 30WEST is financing and will executive produce the film.
Webb began his career as a music video director and made his feature film debut with (500) Days of Summer, which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. He went on to direct The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 each of which grossed more than $700 million worldwide.
He has also helmed indie titles such as Gifted for Fox Searchlight and directed on several television and streaming series including Netflix’s The Society, Why Women Kill for Paramount+, The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the upcoming Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem starring Mandy Patinkin for Hulu. Webb is directing the upcoming Snow-White remake for Disney, which is currently in production.
Webb is repped by CAA and Dean is repped by CAA, Lit Entertainment Group and attorney Andrew Hurwitz.
30WEST
30WEST has helped assemble and finance many of the last half-decade’s most memorable films, including the forthcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro (Apple), The Contractor, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Kiefer Sutherland (Showtime, Paramount+, STX), and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness with Woody Harrelson. Previous projects include award-winning theatrical features The Mauritanian, starring Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tahar Rahim (STX); Late Night, starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson (Amazon); and I, Tonya starring Margot Robbie (NEON). The company also maintains a reputation as one of the industry’s leading suppliers of premium non-fiction, including streaming break-outs Tiger King and FYRE, Academy Award-nominated documentary FLEE, and the forthcoming untitled Wildcat documentary feature, which the company sold in a record-breaking deal to Amazon Studios.
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