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Olivia Wilde Sex Comedy ’The Invite’ Lands Distribution at A24

Olivia Wilde Sex Comedy ’The Invite’ Lands Distribution at A24

After a good old-fashioned Sundance bidding war, Olivia Wilde’s latest movie The Invite has landed at A24. This highly competitive eight-figure deal reteams Wilde with Megan Ellison and Annapurna, who produced Booksmart. The sex comedy, a remake of the Spanish language movie Sentimental, stars Seth Rogen, Ed Norton, Penelope Cruz and Wilde. It centers on a couple (Wilde and Rogen) whose relationship is on the brink of collapse and have an ill-timed dinner party with their enigmatic neighbors (Norton and Cruz), whose relationship seems to have the passion and open communication that the former’s is sorely missing. The audience at the Friday night premiere at the Eccles gave the film a standing ovation, while the critics praised the movie, Wilde’s third directorial effort following Booksmart (2019) and Don’t Worry Darling (2022). Reads The Hollywood Reporter Sundance review, “When it’s cooking, which is most of the run time, this is a smart, sophisticated and incisively acted adult entertainment that savages the crumbling institution of marriage, dangles the promise of sexual rescue and then brings the walls crashing …