{"id":32253,"date":"2025-11-07T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32253\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:07:08","slug":"meryl-streep-sigourney-weaver-to-star-in-useful-idiots-nyc-set-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32253\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep & Sigourney Weaver To Star In ‘Useful Idiots,’ NYC-Set Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMeryl Streep<\/a> and Sigourney Weaver<\/a> are teaming to star in Useful Idiots<\/a>, a New York-set thriller from director Joseph Cedar, Fifth Season<\/a> and Black Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic follows Diane Castle (Streep), a veteran journalist who covers the New York luxury property market. She\u2019s\u00a0disillusioned with writing puff pieces about the wealthy elite and regretful that she might not have lived up to her potential. When a record-breaking sale of a new penthouse hits her desk, Diane\u2019s questions about the buyer\u2019s identity lead to what could be the story of a lifetime. At its center is a mysterious oligarch whose influence stretches across Manhattan and beyond \u2013 protected by a network of fixers, enablers and a brilliant young strategist. Out of her depth, Diane digs deeper into the investigation, her determination to uncover the truth revealing a web of corruption and danger at the highest levels, ensnaring Diane, her family and all those around her.<\/p>\n

\n\tCedar also co-wrote the script with 60 Minutes producer Shachar Bar-On. Fifth Season will finance and produce the pic with Closer Media\u2019s Zhang Xin and Jonathan King (Spotlight,\u00a0Roma),\u00a0Oscar winner Bruce Cohen (Silver Linings Playbook, American Beauty) and William Horberg.\u00a0Graham Taylor, Christopher Slager, and Dan Guando will executive produce for Fifth Season.\u00a0Black Bear \u2014 marking its first U.S. theatrical release today<\/a> with the Sydney Sweeney boxing pic Christy<\/a> \u2014 will introduce the project to international buyers at AFM, and CAA Media Finance will handle the U.S. rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: New Set Photos Of Anne Hathaway In \u2018The Devil Wears Prada 2\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the first major film role for three-time Oscar winner Streep since she played the U.S. president in Adam McKay\u2019s 2021 satire Don\u2019t Look Up. She recurs on Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building and is filming The Devil Wears Prada 2. She is represented by CAA\u00a0and Gendler Kelly & Cunningham.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThree-time Oscar nominee Weaver stars in James Cameron\u2019s Avatar films, including the December release Avatar: Fire and Ash. She also has fronted the Alien franchise and appeared in Ghostbusters films, among dozens of other credits. Repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at last year\u2019s Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tCedar has received two Academy Award nominations for Best International Feature Film (Beaufort, Footnote) and recently directed the HBO miniseries\u00a0Our Boys. He is represented by CAA, Kneller Artists Agency and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver are teaming to star in Useful Idiots, a New York-set thriller from director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19460,19461,19462,9,56,63,65,64,19463,19464],"class_list":["post-32253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-black-bear","tag-fifth-season","tag-meryl-streep","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sigourney-weaver","tag-useful-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}