A romantic-comedy feature film from Focus Features is set to enchant audiences in theaters this summer. Director Alicia MacDonald's film, starring Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn, and Minnie Driver, is poised for a theatrical release in the U.S. on August 28th, as exclusively revealed by The Hollywood Reporter. Focus holds worldwide rights to the title, which Universal Pictures International previously announced would be released in U.K. theaters on May 22nd.
"Finding Emily" centers around a smitten musician who mistakenly receives the wrong phone number for his perfect woman and teams up with an ambitious psychology student to track her down. The project hails from Working Title Films, the company behind such beloved features as "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Notting Hill," with "Finding Emily" described as being in that same vein of charm and wit.
MacDonald makes her feature directorial debut with a script by Rachel Hirons ("A Guide to Second Date Sex"). Serving as producers are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title and Olivier Kaempfer for Parkville Pictures.
Rice is known for playing Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most recently portraying the character in 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home." Her recent credits include the 2024 musical "Mean Girls" and the series "The Last Thing He Told Me."
Fearn is known for such movies as "Aftersun," "Alien: Romulus," and "Ella McCay." He will be seen later this year opposite Liam Neeson in "4 Kids Walk Into a Bank."
Focus' film slate for the coming year includes Robert Eggers' "Werwulf," Paul Greengrass' "The Uprising," Georgia Oakley's new version of "Sense and Sensibility," Hayley Kiyoko's feature debut "Girls Like Girls," and the documentary "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist."
