Gravitas Ventures is launching a brand new theatrical launch label, and the primary title on its docket is Katie Aselton’s third function. Deadline studies that Gravitas Premiere has acquired Aselton’s “Mack & Rita,” and is planning a theatrical launch for the Diane Keaton-starrer within the U.S. and Canada August 12.
Penned by “Brooklyn 9-9” alums Madeline Walter and Paul Welsh, “Mack & Rita” follows Mackenzie Martin (Elizabeth Lail, “You”), who “is uninterested in doing all of the issues she has to do to maintain up and get forward in her 30s. Since she was slightly woman, Mack’s deepest want has been to be identical to her Grammie: comfy in her personal pores and skin, nice at saying ‘no,’ and largely unburdened by what others consider her — to not point out love for a very good chunky sweater and being in mattress by 8:00 p.m.! Whereas at her greatest buddy’s bachelorette in Palm Springs, Mack stumbles right into a sound tub regression pod and emerges a 70-year-old lady,” the supply teases. “Now remodeled as ‘Aunt Rita’ (Keaton), Mack thinks she’s going to lastly discover self-acceptance, however shortly learns the fact of skipping to outdated age isn’t fairly what she imagined.”
The movie’s supporting solid consists of Taylour Paige (“Zola”) and Loretta Devine (“Ready to Exhale”).
Nolan Gallagher, Gravitas Ventures’ Founder and CEO, described “Mack & Rita” as “an excitingly contemporary and insightful comedy that must be skilled on the large display screen.”
A four-time Oscar nominee, Keaton took house the prize for “Annie Corridor.” “Poms” and “E book Membership” are amongst her latest credit.
Aselton beforehand helmed 2012’s “Black Rock” and 2010’s “The Freebie.” She additionally acted in each. Her different on-screen credit embody “The Morning Present,” “Bombshell,” and “Informal.”
