"The bodily mutations in The Substance left you wanting more? Well, has Australian writer-director Michael Shanks got a movie for you. Dave Franco and Alison Brie are terrific playing a codependent couple going through a troubled patch while moving to a small town where the woods hide ghastly secrets."

Neon acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film for $17 million, the first major sale at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, scheduling it for a theatrical release in the United States on August 1, 2025.

There is only one Michael Shanks. Who is this damned pretender?!

A troubled patch? Of what, grass?

Saw the trailer for this with The Monkey yesterday. My guess is that everything in the woods is actually one being fused together or gets fused together at some point.

When I saw the early screening of The Monkey, this was not attached. So I watched it again, because I did like The Monkey, and this trailer was a fantastic tease. Really hyped for this one and I do not need to see anything more from it.

This premiered at Sundance and started a bidding war. Neon won out. Currently, 100% on RT.

Neon is making good movies lately. Hopefully this is a good one, sounds interesting.

Duplicate thread:

https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk...-herriman.html

Stupid search function kept saying 'no matches'...

This site considers "together" too common of a word to search for.

Yah, I usually go to Google Search and type in "dvdtalk (name of movie + director or actor)" to search for threads.

Ha. That’s what I do. “ “ dvdtalk forum. Usually works.

Threads merged.

Threads together, Goldberg74! Threads TOGETHER.

I really want to see this trailer but I'll skip it because I want to go into this one as blind as possible.

Seems appropriate

Variety: Alison Brie and Dave Franco Face Copyright Suit Over $17 Million Sundance Hit ‘Together’: ‘A Blatant Rip-Off’

Alison Brie and Dave Franco have been hit with a copyright infringement suit over “Together,” their independent horror film that sold for a reported $17 million after a bidding war at Sundance.

The suit filed on Tuesday alleges that the film is a “blatant rip-off” of “Better Half,” a 2023 independent film.

The producers of “Better Half,” Jess Jacklin and Charles Beale, heard about “Together” the day before it screened at Sundance, and decided to view it to assess the similarities.

“As the audience laughed and cheered, Jacklin and Beale sat in stunned silence, their worst nightmare unfolding,” the suit states. “Scene after scene confirmed that Defendants did not simply take ‘stock ideas’ or ‘scenes a faire’ but stole virtually every unique aspect of ‘Better Half’’s copyrightable expression.”

The lawsuit alleges that the defendants engaged in an “intentional scheme” to copy their film, and that Brie and Franco rejected the initial offer “because they wanted to produce the film themselves and have WME package the project with one of the agency’s own writers.”

According to the suit, the casting director on “Better Half” emailed a script and synopsis to Franco and Brie’s agents at WME in August 2020, along with an offer for the couple to star. Franco’s agent quickly responded that, “Dave is going to pass, but thank you for thinking of him.”

Oops! I'd imagine that will be very easy to parse out, if any of those communications are documented.

Just like they were for the Oscsr nominated writers of The Holdovers and Anora?

Yeah these lawsuits always make it sound like an open and shut case that are so easily provable and then…nothing.

Director/Writer Michael Shanks has responded to the lawsuit/allegations:

https://deadline.com/2025/06/togethe...ts-1236437365/

Lukas Moodysson is pissed!

I saw the trailer again a few days ago when I saw 28 Years Later. I don't know what to make of it, but I will try to check it out.