EXCLUSIVE: The emerging writer-director Graham Parkes added six to the distribution of his relational comedy, Pious wishesWith Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke. They are Randall Park (Fresh), Jake Shane (Hacks), Amicita Rao (Adults), Eric Rahill (Paper), Kate Berlant (Would that kill you laughing?), and Kerri Kenney-Silver (The four seasons).
The details of the character are under the wraps. Funded by Highway 10, which produces alongside Buckwild and Pinky Promised, the film sees a volatile couple discover that their emotional state has supernatural consequences on the world around them. They must then decide to fight for their relationship or accept that their powerful link could do more harm than good.
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Currently in production in Portland, however, the producers of the film include Matt Smith and Dan Gedman for Highway 10, Pullman for Buckwild and Kara Durrett for Promised Pinky. Executive producers include Graham Patrick Martin, Cameron Fuller and Sarah Mather.
UTA represents new distribution members, notably Park, Shane, Rao and Berlant. Park is also recommended by artists and Myman Greenspan Fox; Rao by Mosaic and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; And berlant by Rise Management and Felker Toczek Suddleson. Rahill is replaced by WME and Rise Management. Kenney-Silver is taken over by Gersh, the artists first and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
