The outlook for big screen comedies keeps getting brighter, as beloved “Saturday Night Live” alum Kristen Wiig is joining Jonah Hill in his new Warner Bros. feature “Cut Off.”
Wiig has booked the co-lead alongside Hill. They’ll reportedly play wealthy siblings whose parents turn off the money faucet and force their adult kids to support themselves. Hill is directing the project and co-wrote the script with Ezra Woods.
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The studio has carved out a July 17, 2026 release date for the comedy, setting the table for a blockbuster summer romp from Wiig and Hill — the team that gave us the viral “Liza Minelli Tries to Turn Off a Lamp” sketch in her “SNL” days.
News of the film leaked earlier this year when it was reported that “Cut Off” would receive $10 million in California production tax credits, against a budget close to $50 million. Cameras will roll this fall. Hill will produce via his Strong Baby label with Matt Dines and Ali Goodwin. Jesse Ehrman and Zach Hamby are overseeing for Warner Bros.
Wiig is preparing to release the second season of her Apple TV+ comedy “Palm Royale,” on which she serves as executive producer. The show earned her a 12th career Emmy nomination, on top of recent recognition for co-writing the original song ‘Harper and Will Go West” from the Sundance doc “Will & Harper.” Wiig will also be seen as the arch villain in Universal’s hybrid animation family film “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” in September. She is repped by CAA, Relevant, and Karl Austen.
Before “Cut Off,” Hill will deliver another feature he wrote, directed and produced for Apple Studios: “Outcome,” starring Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer. The film follows a sober actor who is blackmailed with incriminating old video footage, seeking to make amends with the people in his life and find the source of the leak.
Strong Baby also produced Benito Skinner’s “Overcompensating” for Amazon and A24, and the acclaimed HBO docuseries “The Mortician.” Hill is repped by WME, LBI, Narrative and Kevin Yorn.
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