{"id":623809,"date":"2026-09-13T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623809\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:34:10","slug":"jeff-daniels-leading-the-reception-about-chaotic-scottish-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623809\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Daniels Leading &#8216;The Reception&#8217; About Chaotic Scottish Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy winner and five-time Golden Globe nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeff-daniels\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-daniels\" data-tag=\"jeff-daniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Daniels<\/a> has been set to lead comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-reception\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-reception\" data-tag=\"the-reception\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Reception<\/a>, about a chaotic Scottish wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrudie Styler is directing for her and Celine Rattray\u2019s banner Maven Screen Media and Piers Tempest\u2019s Tempo Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/beta-cinema\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beta-cinema\" data-tag=\"beta-cinema\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beta Cinema<\/a> is launching international sales at this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tiff\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tiff\" data-tag=\"tiff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIFF<\/a> market. CAA Media Finance is representing North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPre-production is underway, with filming set to begin next month and additional high-end cast being finalized now. The movie will shoot in a castle near the famous Loch Ness, just outside Inverness in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe synopsis reads: \u201cSet at a grand Scottish estate, a wedding party proceeds despite the unfortunate absence of the bride and groom. Felix has abandoned Victoria at the altar, leaving their parents, family and friends to navigate a lavish but increasingly chaotic reception. What begins as an attempt to keep up appearances spirals into a day of calamity, hilarity, and unexpected connections, as the in-laws, staff, and guests confront their own relationships amidst the fallout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrudie Styler (Up Against It) directs and produces the feature with Maven Screen Media business partner Celine Rattray (Unicorns) producing alongside Piers Tempest (The Wife). Recent features for Maven include Scarlett Johansson\u2019s directorial debut of Eleanor the Great which premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tScreen veteran Daniels, known for hit movies and series including Gettysburg, The Newsroom and Dumb and Dumber, has movies 2034 and Starman upcoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Reception is the fifth directing project from Styler. Her most recent project Up Against it is premiering this week at TIFF. Previous directing projects include The Sweatbox, a documentary commissioned by Disney which she co-directed; her directorial debut Freak Show, which was nominated for three awards at Berlin in 2017 and Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples, which earned Italy\u2019s Globo d\u2019Oro for best documentary in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy winner and five-time Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels has been set to lead comedy The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[221626,93,61,60,216776,270,264982,1745,257355,1041],"class_list":["post-623809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-beta-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-daniels","tag-movies","tag-the-reception","tag-tiff","tag-tiff-market","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}