{"id":121834,"date":"2025-11-08T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/121834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:00:07","slug":"toni-collette-milly-alcock-to-star-in-hot-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/121834\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Collette & Milly Alcock to star in Hot Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline<\/a> reports that Toni Collette and Milly Alcock are set to team up for Hot Mother, a survival thriller that will shoot in Australia next year. The pair will play a mother and daughter who \u201cvisit a remote wellness spa for the weekend in an attempt to reconnect. But their time together quickly turns into a physical and psychological fight for survival when they get trapped in a sauna where no one can hear their cries for help.\u201c<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since I last made use of a sauna, but\u2026 new fear unlocked. Writer-director Lucy Knox will make her feature debut with Hot Mother, which is based on her 2020 short film of the same name. The project will be produced by Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish for Carver Films and Alex Coco for Rapt Films.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish said, \u201cAs producers with a strong track record of launching Australian filmmakers, we\u2019ve been aware of Lucy\u2019s exceptional talent as a writer-director for many years. She\u2019s beyond ready to bring Hot Mother to life for audiences worldwide, with its thrilling screenplay and incredible cast.\u201c<\/p>\n

Alex Coco added, \u201cLucy is a filmmaker\u2019s filmmaker, exactly the directors that I\u2019m most committed to working with. With our two lead actresses, this film will play wide globally, and introduce a new and fresh voice to the directing game.\u201c<\/p>\n

Stephen Kelliher of Bankside Films, who will be handling worldwide sales and co-repping North America with CAA Media Finance, said, \u201cWe were sold on Hot Mother from the title alone but discovering Lucy Knox\u2019s incredible short and reading the screenplay solidified our immense passion for this story. With character and mother-daughter relationships at its heart, the film will thrill audiences with its edge-of-your-seat take on a survival story.\u201c<\/p>\n

Collette was recently seen starring in Wayward<\/a>, a Netflix mystery thriller series. She will not be seen starring alongside Kate Winslet in Goodbye June, a \u201ctouching, yet humorous\u201d drama that follows a fractured group of siblings who come together under sudden and trying circumstances. Winslet is making her directorial debut with the film.<\/p>\n

As for Alcock, she made her DCU debut as Kara Zor-El in James Gunn\u2019s Superman and will take center stage in Supergirl<\/a>, which will hit theaters on June 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline reports that Toni Collette and Milly Alcock are set to team up for Hot Mother, a survival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,77280,12851,736,41649],"class_list":{"0":"post-121834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-milly-alcock","13":"tag-survival","14":"tag-thriller","15":"tag-toni-collette"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}