EXCLUSIVE: Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple is set to lead Intimacy Party, a high-concept ensemble rom-com marking the feature directorial debut of Courtney Hoffman.

Written by Hoffman and Paul Kruse, Intimacy Party follows Cleo Kauffman, a woman determined to save her relationship by recreating the intimacy party where she first met her fiancé, only to discover she fell for the wrong guest.

Others in the cast include Richa Moorjani (Fargo), Meredith Hagner (Search Party), Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones), Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians), Brandon Kyle Goodman (Big Mouth), Miles Gutierrez-Riley (Agatha All Along) and Patrick Renna (The Sandlot).

Hoffman, whose directorial work includes American Horror Stories and the upcoming Kaitlyn Dever-led feature The Sisters of Scott County, wrote Intimacy Party from personal experience.

“Before I fell in love with my best friend, I was trying everything to save a relationship that no longer worked,” she said. “That crossroads ultimately became Intimacy Party. It’s deeply personal, but I hope it’s also universal — a celebration of what can happen when we let go of control and allow ourselves to be truly seen.”

Currently in production in Los Angeles with a California tax incentive, the film is produced by Delirio Films’ Christopher Leggett and Rafael Marmor, alongside Jesse Schiller and Hoffman. Amanda Massetti and Bri Hennessey of Pasta & Tacos Productions are exec producers.

Delirio’s Leggett commented, “From the first read, it was clear Hoffman was a filmmaker with a singular point of view. We’re thrilled to help launch her feature directing career with this extraordinary cast and creative team. I have no doubt she’ll become one of the most distinctive new voices in filmmaking.”

Calling Intimacy Party “wildly entertaining and emotionally honest, with characters who are messy, complicated and deeply human,” Pasta & Tacos co-founder Massetti said, “[Hoffman] has a singular ability to find humor in vulnerability while exploring bigger questions about love, identity and the stories we tell ourselves.”

Co-founder Hennessey added, “It’s exactly the kind of bold, character-driven storytelling we created P&T to champion, and we’re thrilled to help bring Courtney’s vision to audiences.”

A four-time Emmy nominee who scored three noms for her role as Keeley Jones in Apple’s Ted Lasso, Temple can currently be seen reprising in Season 4. Recent projects include Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and the animated feature Swapped, which this year became Netflix’s eighth most popular film of all time. Most recently, Temple wrapped on Apple’s upcoming limited series The Husbands, adapted from the New York Times bestselling novel by Holly Gramazio. She is repped by UTA, Maison 2, B-Side Management and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.

Hoffman made her directorial debut with the Western short The Good Time Girls, starring Laura Dern, and continues her focus on female-led genre and action storytelling with The Sisters of Scott County, a ’70s-set trucker film starring Kaitlyn Dever. She directed American Horror Stories‘ Season 3 finale for FX and, as a writer, has developed and sold original projects to HBO Max, Paramount, Sony, Peacock, FX and Freeform. Prior to her career as a filmmaker, Hoffman was a lauded costume designer with credits including Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. She is repped by Daniel Cohen at Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hannah Mulderink at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Moorjani is repped by UTA, Anonymous and Hayes Robbins at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Hagner by UTA, Sushkin/Karshan Management and Felker McGinnis & Ryan; Huisman by UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Conway van Gelder Grant and Peikoff Mahan Law Office; Pang by Buchwald, Matt Sheldon at Stride Management and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Goodman by WME, Julia Bodner and Kate Tressel at Envisionary Management and Ashley Briskman at Yorn Levine Barnes; Gutierrez-Riley by CESD Talent, Samantha Stoller at Brillstein and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austin; and Renna by John Griffin of Griffin Talent.

Warner Bros. Pictures is in negotiations for the feature film rights to Allen Levi’s breakout novel “Theo of Golden,” with Hanks eyeing to star.

The book’s official logline reads: One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person’s story. And so portrait by portrait, person by person, secrets are revealed, regrets are shared, and ordinary lives are profoundly altered.

Gil Netter, Hanks, and Gary Goetzman are producing. Allen Levi is executive producing.

Jesse Ehrman and Sheila Walcott are overseeing the project for Warner Bros. Pictures. The team credits literary affairs executive Ian Dalyrmple for flagging the project to the studio.

“Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi was published by Simon & Schuster October 2025.

Domestically, the book is a smash hit. The #1 New York Times bestseller, which has been on the list for over nine consecutive months, has sold over 3.5 million copies and is the highest selling print book in America in 2026. Globally, the book has been published in 43 languages and is a #1 bestseller in territorries like the UK, Italy and the Netherlands.

Levi is repped by WME.

Next up, Hanks will next play a hitting coach for the New York Mets in “The Comebacker,” which starts production in the fall. He is repped by CAA.

Deadline first reported the news.

David Krumholtz is clarifying where he stands in his career after announcing he was taking an “indefinite break” from acting.

The Supergirl and Oppenheimer actor took to social media to explain what led to the decision.

“Firstly, I am very well. And I feel very loved,” he shared in an Instagram post. “Secondly, I never used the word ‘retiring’ or ‘quitting.’ Instead, I said that I decided to put my career on hold.”

He continued, “I don’t expect anyone to understand, but the outpouring of support for my decision has been deeply heartwarming. I am wildly grateful, as more than one of my biggest dreams have come true as a result of being an actor. Grateful to all who support and believe in me.”

Krumholtz said he is in a moment “where the weight of those dreams and ambitions has become surprisingly oppressive,” adding, “That’s a me problem, not a Hollywood as a whole problem. There are no rules that guarantee success, but I know this: an amazing career in this business consists of a small handful of triumphs, but not without a mountain of disappointments. I love my mountain of disappointments, I do, but I’m human and my mountain is starting to sting more than it used to.”

“Need time to figure that out, let it heal,” he added. “My mental health is vital to my family. My career has run the gamut. I’m in disbelief. But I find myself at a crossroads between the inherent self involvement being a professional actor requires, and a burning desire to give more of myself to others in need, in whatever way I can. And so, for the time being, I’m pursuing that goal. There’s still more work to come. Stuff to be seen. And as always, I really hope you enjoy what I’ve put out there. Just,… gimme a sec.”

Krumholtz previously took to Threads to say he was “frustrated, fed up, [and] fried,” posting that he had decided to put his acting career on hold.

“I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years,” Krumholtz said in a now-deleted post on Threads. “Specifically, the fear was that I’d go broke and not be able to handle being out of the game. But I sent the definitive email.”

Read Krumholtz’s Instagram post below.