A romantic-comedy feature from Focus Features is set to find its way to theaters this summer.
Director Alicia MacDonald’s film that stars Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn and Minnie Driver is set for theatrical release in the U.S. on Aug. 28, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Focus holds worldwide rights to the title that Universal Pictures International previously announced it would release in U.K. theaters on May 22.
Finding Emily centers on a smitten musician who receives the wrong number for his perfect woman and teams up with an ambitious psychology student to locate her. The project hails from Working Title Films, the company known for such features as Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill, with Finding Emily described as being in that vein.
MacDonald marks her feature directorial debut from 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. More 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 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.