BothWill FerrellandReese Witherspoonhave been keeping plenty busy in recent years with a slew of various feature and series projects. Now they’re coming together to collaborate on a new wedding comedy for Amazon Studios that’s appropriately calledYou’re Cordially Invited. The feature project is currently in production and, per areport from Deadline, has officially added four more acclaimed actors to its cast roster including Celia Weston, Jimmy Tatro, Leanne Morgan, and Keyla Monterroso Meija.
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You’re Cordially Invitedis set to be alight-hearted comedy featurefor Amazon’s streaming platform, and is being helmed by Nicholas Stoller. Serving as both director and writer, he’s previously worked on a number of animated films likeStorks(2016),Smallfoot(2018), andDC League of Super-Pets(2022). He also was executive producer on series likeThe Grinder(2015),The Carmichael Show(2015), andPanhandle(2022). Starring in this new feature includes Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show), Will Ferrell (Barbie), Meredith Hagner (Brightburn), Geraldine Viswanathan (Drive-Away Dolls), and now has brought on Celia Weston (Adam), Jimmy Tatro (The Afterparty), newcomer Leanne Morgan, and Keyla Monterroso Meija (The Estate).
While details on the plot are still brief and character names have yet to be revealed, we do know that the premises sets off with a woman (Witherspoon) who is planning her sister’s (Meredith Hagner) perfect wedding, and all the while a father (Ferrell) of a young bride-to-be (Viswanathan) accidentally discovers that the worst, and most awkward mistake has happened. It turns out they are both double-booked for the same destination wedding spot on a remote island off the coast of Georgia. Despite the mishap they decide to share the resort venue for both weddings and thus chaos inevitably and hilariously ensues.
Given that the project is in early stages there is no preliminary release date announced yet. However, it will debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video whenever that date approaches.
Amazon Is Ramping Up Its Original Content Output
With so many recent successful feature and series projects at Amazon Studios and many more still in the pipeline, it’s relatively safe to say that the streaming platform is starting to go toe-to-toe with the other big fish in the pond, namely Netflix. Even Apple TV+ is shaping up to be competition as well. The number of original content projects Amazon undertook shot up astronomically in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, then scaled back substantially the following year.
However, the pendulum then swung strongly back in the other direction in 2022, with several dozen new feature projects flowing through, many of them with very sizable budgets and filled with abundant A-list talent. This isn’t even including the avalanche of acclaimed original series that have been popping up more and more. Most recently we’ve gotten psychological horror mini-seriesSwarm, the final season ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tolkien-influenced fantasy prequelThe Rings of Power, Rachel Weisz’sDead Ringers, Christoph Waltz’s newest villain role inThe Consultant, popular new adult animated seriesInvincible, and the first season of new spy action seriesCitadel.
