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If you’ve spent any part of the last decade rewatching The Holiday every December, queuing up Something’s Gotta Give on a Friday night, or quoting The Parent Trap with your daughters, this is the news you’ve been waiting for. Nancy Meyers — the filmmaker who made kitchens aspirational, love stories intelligent, and rom-coms respectable — is making her long-awaited return.
It has been 11 years since Meyers’ last movie, The Intern, first hit theaters. Now, she’s coming back with a brand new romantic comedy, and the details that have emerged so far suggest it could be one of her most personal films yet.
A Cast Worth Getting Excited About
The still-untitled project has already assembled a lineup that should make any Meyers fan’s heart skip a beat. As reported by Deadline, the cast includes Penélope Cruz, Owen Wilson, Kieran Culkin, Jude Law and Emma Mackey.
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That’s a rich mix of talent — Oscar winners, Emmy favorites, and rising stars — exactly the kind of ensemble Meyers has always been drawn to. Her films have consistently attracted A-list performers, from Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give to Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated to Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway in The Intern.
The road to this particular cast, however, wasn’t entirely smooth. At one point, the movie was supposed to feature performances by the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Michael Fassbender and Adam Driver, but those appearances fell apart over the years.
A Plot That Hits Close to Home
As of February 2026, nothing has been announced officially about the plot for Meyers’ first movie in over a decade. But Variety has reported that this is believed to be a new take on a project the beloved filmmaker was trying to get off the ground back in 2022.
Back then, as reported by Deadline, it was called Paris Paramount and would focus on an “above-the-line filmmaking duo” reuniting after an earlier romance fell apart.
The studio has not shared a name for the movie, but Variety is reporting that this is going to be a version of Paris Paramount, which was previously picked up by Netflix in 2023. However, it is still unknown if Paris Paramount was the movie’s intended title or just a working one.
Warner Bros. hasn’t shared details about whether the script has changed, but the original Paris Paramount concept centered around a young writer-director who falls in love with a producer. The couple produce several successful films together before breaking up, both romantically and professionally. They are later brought back together by a new project, forced to navigate higher stakes and unpredictable stars.
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For longtime fans, that premise carries unmistakable weight. The Hollywood Reporter described the project as “semi-autobiographical.”
The Charles Shyer Connection
That “semi-autobiographical” label is hard to separate from the story of Meyers’ own life and career. She was married to American filmmaker Charles Shyer, who directed The Father of the Bride series and also co-directed with Meyers on The Parent Trap and Baby Boom. They were a real-life filmmaking duo — creative partners and romantic partners whose collaboration shaped some of the most beloved comedies of the ’80s and ’90s.
Shyer died in December 2024. It’s possible Nancy’s next project is inspired by him, and the premise of two filmmakers whose love story and professional partnership intertwined — and then unraveled — carries a deeply personal resonance given that history.
Meyers herself described the idea behind the movie briefly on Instagram in 2023: “The movie is about a group of people making a film and the magic and mystery of what we do.”
That description, simple as it is, speaks volumes about a filmmaker reflecting on her own craft and the relationships forged in the process of making art together. For those of us who have loved Meyers’ work across decades, the idea of her channeling that reflection into a story feels like a gift.
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The Long Road to Production
Getting this film made was not without its hurdles. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix shut down production over budgetary issues: Meyers was said to have asked for a budget of at least $150 million, but the studio balked and wanted to stay under $130 million.
Warner Bros. hasn’t shared details about the budget for the current incarnation of the project. But the fact that the film found a new home — and is now moving forward with a firm release date and a stellar cast — is itself a testament to the enduring power of Meyers’ name and vision.
Mark Your Calendar: Christmas Day 2027
In January 2026, Deadline reported that Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing the film on Christmas Day 2027.
A Christmas release feels especially fitting for Meyers, whose The Holiday has become one of the most enduring holiday-season viewing traditions for an entire generation of women. The idea of a new Meyers film waiting for us under the tree in 2027 — after more than a decade away — is the kind of thing that makes the wait feel like part of the magic.
For those of us who have carried these movies with us through different chapters of our lives — watching The Parent Trap with our kids, finding new meaning in Something’s Gotta Give as we got older, returning to The Holiday every single December like clockwork — Meyers’ return isn’t just another movie announcement. It’s an event. And from everything we know so far, she’s bringing her most personal story yet.
