{"id":55246,"date":"2025-08-08T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55246\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:48:07","slug":"kristen-wiig-to-star-with-jonah-hill-in-sibling-comedy-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55246\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Wiig to Star With Jonah Hill in Sibling Comedy &#8216;Cut Off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe outlook for big screen comedies keeps getting brighter, as beloved \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kristen-wiig\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kristen-wiig\" data-tag=\"kristen-wiig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Wiig<\/a> is joining <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jonah-hill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jonah-hill\" data-tag=\"jonah-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Hill<\/a> in his new <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/warner-bros-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros-2\" data-tag=\"warner-bros-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros<\/a>. feature \u201cCut Off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWiig has booked the co-lead alongside Hill. They\u2019ll reportedly play wealthy siblings whose parents turn off the money faucet and force their adult kids to support themselves. Hill is directing the project and co-wrote the script with Ezra Woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe studio has carved out a July 17, 2026 release date for the comedy, setting the table for a blockbuster summer romp from Wiig and Hill \u2014 the team that gave us the viral \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nVvxOwxuk_w&amp;t=11s&amp;ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive\" target=\"_blank\">Liza Minelli Tries to Turn Off a Lamp<\/a>\u201d sketch in her \u201cSNL\u201d days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNews of the film leaked earlier this year when it was reported that \u201cCut Off\u201d would receive $10 million in California production tax credits, against a budget close to $50 million. Cameras will roll this fall.  Hill will produce via his Strong Baby label with Matt Dines and Ali Goodwin. Jesse Ehrman and Zach Hamby are overseeing for Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWiig is preparing to release the second season of her Apple TV+ comedy \u201cPalm Royale,\u201d on which she serves as executive producer. The show earned her a 12th career Emmy nomination, on top of recent recognition for co-writing the original song \u2018Harper and Will Go West\u201d from the Sundance doc \u201cWill &amp; Harper.\u201d Wiig will also be seen as the arch villain in Universal\u2019s hybrid animation family film \u201cGabby\u2019s Dollhouse: The Movie\u201d in September. She is repped by CAA, Relevant, and Karl Austen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore \u201cCut Off,\u201d Hill will deliver another feature he wrote, directed and produced for Apple Studios: \u201cOutcome,\u201d starring Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer. The film follows a sober actor who is blackmailed with incriminating old video footage, seeking to make amends with the people in his life and find the source of the leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStrong Baby also produced Benito Skinner\u2019s \u201cOvercompensating\u201d for Amazon and A24, and the acclaimed HBO docuseries\u00a0\u201cThe Mortician.\u201d Hill is repped by WME, LBI,\u00a0Narrative\u00a0and Kevin Yorn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outlook for big screen comedies keeps getting brighter, as beloved \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Kristen Wiig is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,27948,36880,337,4432],"class_list":{"0":"post-55246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jonah-hill","12":"tag-kristen-wiig","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}