{"id":797845,"date":"2026-10-10T07:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T07:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T07:08:17","slug":"honeymoon-funeral-acquired-by-black-bear-for-north-american-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797845\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeymoon \/ Funeral Acquired By Black Bear For North American Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/black-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-bear\" data-tag=\"black-bear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Bear<\/a> has acquired domestic rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/honeymoon-funeral-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_honeymoon-funeral-2\" data-tag=\"honeymoon-funeral-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Honeymoon \/ Funeral<\/a>, an MRC rom-com starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rebecca-ferguson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rebecca-ferguson\" data-tag=\"rebecca-ferguson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Ferguson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/greta-lee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_greta-lee\" data-tag=\"greta-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greta Lee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/carrie-coon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carrie-coon\" data-tag=\"carrie-coon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Coon<\/a> that wrapped production in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSources said the project is one of a handful to have been successfully shopped at the newly created TIFF market, alongside Josh Giuliano\u2019s horror flick River and the Michelle Yeoh starrer The Surgeon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by two-time Emmy nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nahnatchka-khan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nahnatchka-khan\" data-tag=\"nahnatchka-khan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nahnatchka Khan<\/a>, Honeymoon \/ Funeral follows two women (Ferguson and Lee) who meet on a flight from LA to London \u2013 one en route to her honeymoon by herself after being left at the altar by her girlfriend, the other headed home for her mother\u2019s funeral \u2013 and wind up spending the week together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKhan and Jennifer Carreras produced for Fierce Baby, alongside Emmy nominee Julia Bicknell, who penned the script. MRC financed and oversaw production, with FilmNation Entertainment acting as worldwide sales agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKatie Anderson, Black Bear\u2019s EVP of Acquisitions, called Honeymoon \/ Funeral \u201can original and hilarious story that is deeply human, anchored by the performances of Rebecca, Greta, and Carrie, three of the best actresses working today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnderson added, \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to partner with our friends at MRC and FilmNation to share this world that Nahnatchka and Julia have created with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNext up for domestic release via Black Bear is Wicker, starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, and Peter Dinklage, on October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Bear has acquired domestic rights to Honeymoon \/ Funeral, an MRC rom-com starring Rebecca Ferguson, Greta Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[25570,32320,6491,96,55431,262361,262362,95433,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-black-bear","tag-carrie-coon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-greta-lee","tag-honeymoon-funeral","tag-nahnatchka-khan","tag-rebecca-ferguson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}