Hulu on Thursday confirmed Deadline’s scoop during last month’s Toronto Film Festival that it has acquired Nutcrackers, the TIFF opening-night family holiday comedy from David Gordon Green that stars Ben Stiller. It has also set a November 29, 2024 release date on Hulu, with the pic also set to stream internationally on Disney+.
The reported eight-figure deal marked the first major sale at the festival, where it got a warm reception from audiences at its world premiere screening. It repped Stiller’s first starring role in a feature film in seven years.
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Stiller plays a strait-laced and work-obsessed city slicker who is thrust into being a caregiver for his rambunctious, orphaned nephews on their family farm. Linda Cardellini, Edi Patterson, Tim Heidecker and Toby Huss also star, as do newcomers and real-life siblings Homer, Ulysses, Atlas and Arlo Janson as the nephews.
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The film was shot on the brothers’ Ohio farm. Green, longtime family friends with their mother from film school, created the film based on their lives. Leland Douglas penned the screenplay.
UTA Independent Film Group reps worldwide sales rights to the pic, which was financed by Rivulet Films. Rob Paris and Mike Witherill produced alongside Nate Meyer from Rough House Pictures, which developed the script with Douglas.
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