If next year's release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy didn't tell you that British rom-coms were back, we have another new one coming our way from Focus Features and Working Title.
Angourie Rice – who you might know from the MCU Spider-Man trilogy or the Mean Girls reboot – is teaming up with Alien: Romulus star Spike Fearn for Manchester-set rom-com CC: Emily.
Directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, the movie follows a lovesick musician (Fearn) who is given the wrong number for his dream girl.
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He then teams up with a driven psychology student (Rice) to find her, sparking a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way. Perhaps we're wrong, but we have a feeling the musician's dream girl might be someone else...
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The filmmakers have described CC: Emily as a "love-letter to Manchester", and the rom-com has now started filming mainly on location in and around Manchester.
It marks Alicia MacDonald's feature directorial debut, having worked on TV shows including Pure, Flack and The Outlaws.
CC: Emily is produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title and Olivier Kaempfer for Parkville Pictures. Focus has worldwide rights on the movie, while Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution.
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As well as being on the big screen currently in Alien: Romulus, Fearn has recently wrapped production on Ella McCay alongside Emma Mackey, Jack Lowden, Ayo Edebiri, Jamie Lee Curtis and Woody Harrelson.
Earlier this year, Rice spoke to Digital Spy about how the Mean Girls reboot was more of a "reimagining" than a remake.
"We're not taking anything away from the versions of Mean Girls that already exist. It's an addition," she explained. "I also think that the main thing is that we all signed on to do this because we love Mean Girls so much."
CC: Emily does not yet have a release date.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
