{"id":102751,"date":"2025-08-28T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102751\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:57:13","slug":"lilly-singh-sex-ed-comedy-doin-it-gets-international-sales-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/102751\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh Sex-Ed Comedy &#8216;Doin&#8217; It&#8217; Gets International Sales Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tiff-market\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tiff-market\" data-tag=\"tiff-market\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIFF market<\/a>, Capture has acquired international sales rights on sex-ed comedy Doin\u2019 It, produced and co-written by its star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lilly-singh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lilly-singh\" data-tag=\"lilly-singh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lilly Singh<\/a> (The Muppets Mayhem).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe comedy follows Maya (Singh), a 30-year-old software engineer from a conservative Indian family who moonlights as a high school substitute teacher while working on a teen-focused app. When she\u2019s unexpectedly assigned to teach sex education \u2014 despite never having had sex herself \u2014 chaos and comedy ensue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe comedy marks actress, comedian, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/05\/a-little-late-with-lilly-singh-to-end-on-nbc-netflix-kenya-barris-1234751161\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former late-night host<\/a> and YouTuber Singh\u2019s first leading film role and is set for theatrical release in the United States on September 19 via Aura Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pic is produced by Anthony Bregman (In The Heights), Erica Matlin (The Half of It), Singh, Polly Auritt (The Kingdom) and Anita Verma-Lallian, under Likely Story, Unicorn Island Productions and Camelback Productions. It is directed by Sara Zandieh (A Simple Wedding) and co-written by Singh, Neel Patel and Zandieh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast also includes Sonia Dhillon-Tully (Wedding Season), Sabrina Jalees (I Used to Be Funny), Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live), Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto), Mary Holland (Ghosts), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect franchise) and Trevor Salter (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCapture\u2019s VP International Sales Asia Muci said: \u201cDoin\u2019 It is the kind of smart, culturally-resonant comedy that plays universally. Lilly Singh\u2019s fearless humor and relatable storytelling make this a film with huge potential to connect with audiences around the world. We\u2019re thrilled to bring such a vibrant, crowd-pleasing movie to the international market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to handling Doin\u2019 It\u2019s international sales at this year\u2019s TIFF, Capture\u2019s slate also includes recently announced shark thriller Above &amp; Below starring Antonio Banderas, action-adventure Dark Jungle and crime thriller Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the TIFF market, Capture has acquired international sales rights on sex-ed comedy Doin\u2019 It, produced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,74415,134,74416,344,74417],"class_list":{"0":"post-102751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-doin-it","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lilly-singh","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-tiff-market"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}