Regina Hall To Star In Malcolm D. Lee’s ‘Girl Trip’ With Will Packer ProducingPosted by Wilson Morales
May 13, 2016
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Regina Hall, who recently starred in Barbershop: The Next Cut, directed by Malcolm D. Lee, will be working with him again on his next film, Girl Trip. Hall also appeared in Lee’s The Best Man and Best Man Wedding.
Will Packer, via his Will Packer Productions banner, will be producing the comedy. Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver, the same screenwriters of Lee’s Barbershop: The Next Cut, will be working on the film as well. James Lopez, head of motion pictures for Will Packer Productions, will executive produce the new, untitled Girl Trip project.
Universal Pictures will release the film on released on Friday, August 11, 2017.
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Hall will next be seen opposite Morris Chestnut in the Screen Gems thriller When The Bough Breaks, which hits theaters on Sept. 16. Barbershop: The Next Cut.
Under Universal Pictures, Lee has directed The Best Man, Undercover Brother, and The Best Man Holiday for the studio. Barbershop: The Next Cut was distributed by Warner Bros.
Earlier today it was announced that Packer will be producing Adrian Lyne’s Silence With Halle Berry And Michael Douglas. Other upcoming projects include ABC’s new comedy series Uncle Buck, which debuts this summer, plus the HISTORY channel’s Roots remake, and a remake of Jacob’s Ladder, as well as David E. Talbert’s holiday dramedy Almost Christmas, which will be in theaters later this year.
Lee is repped by Resolution Agency’s Adam Kanter and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano’s Gordon Bobb. Packer is repped by UTA and Matt Johnson of Ziffren Brittenham.
