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<\/a>Austin Stowell (\u201cBattle of the Sexes,\u201d \u201cBridge of Spies,\u201d \u201cWhiplash\u201d) will star opposite Lucy Hale in romantic comedy \u201cThe Hating Game,\u201d based on the runaway hit novel by Sally Thorne.<\/p>\n<\/a>Austin Stowell (\u201cBattle of the Sexes,\u201d \u201cBridge of Spies,\u201d \u201cWhiplash\u201d) will star opposite Lucy Hale in romantic comedy \u201cThe Hating Game,\u201d based on the runaway hit novel by Sally Thorne.<\/p>\n
Presented at the American Film Market by David Garrett\u2019s Mister Smith Entertainment, which is executive producing and handles world sales, \u201cThe Hating Game\u201d will commence principal photography on Nov. 21 in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n
Peter Hutchings (\u201cThen Came You\u201d) will direct from Christina Mengert\u2019s script. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures are producing alongside Convergent Media\u2019s Santosh Govindaraju and Dan Reardon. Convergent Media is fully finacing the picture.<\/p>\n
Stowell starred opposite Hayley Bennett in \u201cSwallow,\u201d a Variety Critics Pick, with Dominic Cooper and Gemma Chan in \u201cStratton,\u201d and in Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cAmazing Stories\u201d anthology TV series.<\/p>\n
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\nHeadlining \u201cFantasy Island\u201d with Hale and playing one of Yossarian\u2019s fellow conscripts in George Clooney\u2019s admired miniseries \u201cCatch 22,\u201d Stowell\u2019s feature film credits also take in \u201c12 Strong,\u201d \u201cColossal,\u201d and \u201cDolphin Tale 1 & 2.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hating Game\u201d has already run up substantial first wave pre-sales closing Germany and Austria (Square One), CIS (Volga) and Spain (Twelve Oaks Pictures), among major territories, as well as Benelux (Paraiso), Poland (Monolith) and Taiwan (Vie Vision).<\/p>\n
Mister Smith has also closed the Baltic states with ACME, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Romania with Pro-Rom, and former-Yugoslavia with Blitz.<\/p>\n
Femeway has taken Greece, United King Israel, Nos- Lusomundo Portugal, and Jaguar the Middle East.<\/p>\n
A 2018 USA Today bestseller published in more than 20 countries, Thorne\u2019s book ranks No. 7 in Oprah Magazine\u2019s 20 Best Romance Novels of All-Time. It turns on the kind-hearted accommodating Lucy Hutton (Hale) and her cold but infuriatingly efficient nemesis Joshua Templeton (Stowell).<\/p>\n
Entrenched in a ruthless never-ending game of one-upmanship in which Lucy can\u2019t let Joshua beat her at anything, the rivalry becomes impossibly complicated by Lucy\u2019s growing attraction to him, the film\u2019s synopsis runs.<\/p>\n
The script is \u201cwitty, charming and sexy \u2013 everything you would want in a rom com \u2013 together with two great leads who have a built-in chemistry, having already starred together in \u2018Fantasy Island,\u2019\u201d said Garrett.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hating Game\u201d also taps into a contemporary COVID-19 fueled craving for what Garrett calls \u201clight\u201d releases. \u201cGood escapist fare is the order of the day: People want to get out of their houses and go and have a fun evening out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to be shooting such a fun movie in New York right now!\u201d concurred Claude Dal Farra. \u201cTo work with these two wonderful and talented young actors and bring some lightness in these difficult times is such an honor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Stowell\u2019s star turn marks news on a Mister Smith AFM slate distinguished by the fact that all its films are either screening \u2013 Constantin\u2019s courted star duo of \u201cTides\u201d and \u201cWrong Turn\u201d \u2013 or in post production like \u201cLakewood,\u201d starring Naomi Watts, directed by Philip Noyce \u2013 or set to shoot shortly: Both \u201cThe Hating Game,\u201d and redemption drama \u201cTo Leslie,\u201d starring Andrea Riseborough and Allison Janney, which also goes into production on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made a very conscious decision to just focus on films that are either finished or in post-production or really shooting, and in relatively contained environments,\u201d said Garrett.<\/p>\n
Hutchings directed the well-liked \u201cThen Came You,\u201d a teen drama-comedy starring Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, and Nina Dobrev. As a screenwriter, he has collaborated with BCDF Pictures on several blockbuster book adaptations, including the upcoming \u201cThe Language of Flowers,\u201d which spent 69 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and stars Kiersey Clemons and Nick Robinson, and, prior to that, \u201cCan You Keep a Secret?\u201d starring Alexandra Daddario.<\/p>\n
Stowell is represented by CAA and Morris, Yorn, Barnes, Levine, Krintzman, Rubenstein, and Kohner & Gellman.<\/p>\n
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