{"id":354643,"date":"2025-12-17T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:16:08","slug":"weapons-star-amy-madigan-joins-jason-segel-in-apples-sponsor-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354643\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weapons&#8217; Star Amy Madigan Joins Jason Segel In Apple&#8217;s &#8216;Sponsor&#8217; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weapons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weapons\" data-tag=\"weapons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amy-madigan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amy-madigan\" data-tag=\"amy-madigan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Madigan<\/a> has found another psychological thriller to sink her teeth into, as sources tell deadline the <a data-id=\"1236640935\" data-type=\"pmc_list\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/lists\/golden-globes-nominations-2026-movies-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Globe nominee<\/a> is set to join the Apple Original Films thriller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sponsor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sponsor<\/a>,\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jason-segel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-segel\" data-tag=\"jason-segel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Segel<\/a> set to star and James Ponsoldt directing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tApple Studios will also produce the feature that is set to be shot in California. John C. Reilly is also on board to join the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film hails from an original idea co-written by Segel and Ponsoldt, who also serve as executive producers on Apple\u2019s Emmy-nominated comedy\u00a0Shrinking, which returns for its third season in January. The pair previously collaborated on the 2015 feature\u00a0The End of the Tour, which Ponsoldt directed and in which Segel starred as writer David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSponsor\u00a0follows Peter (Segel), who makes a big mistake when he gets behind the wheel after partying too hard. A terrible accident leaves him with a choice: prison or a recovery program. Convinced he doesn\u2019t have a drinking problem, he begrudgingly shows up to his first meeting and searches for a sponsor. In walks the no-nonsense, charismatic yet enigmatic Jerry (Reilly). Peter is convinced Jerry is the answer to his prayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHailing from Apple Studios and produced by Platinum Dunes, the pic will be produced by Segel and Ponsoldt as well as Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Alex Ginno who will produce for Platinum Dunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMadigan is coming off the best reviews of her career for her scene-stealing role in the box office hit Weapons. She can currently be seen in Max Walker-Silverman\u2019s film Rebuilding alongside Josh O\u2019Connor and Meghann Fahy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe is repped by Anonymous Content and Paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Weapons star Amy Madigan has found another psychological thriller to sink her teeth into, as sources tell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[59250,236,88,27130,174668,3439],"class_list":{"0":"post-354643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amy-madigan","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jason-segel","12":"tag-sponsor","13":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}