Luminate Film & TV continuously monitors entertainment industry news to track when projects move from development into official production. When a studio or production company greenlights a film, financing is locked, key talent is attached and the project receives official approval to move forward.
The following films have been greenlit for production:
Title: A WOMAN IN THE SUN
Genre: Drama
Studio/Production Company: Black Bear (Financier), Artists Equity (Financier), Big Picture Co.
Distributor: Black Bear
Start Date: 10-05-2026
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Director: Julia Cox
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Sissy Spacek, and Mia Threapleton
Logline: While working as a bartender on Nantucket, part of the island’s dwindling middle class, Claire Keating’s world cracks open when her mother gets sick and her daughter moves home. She is then forced to reckon with her past and take ownership of her future.
Title: IN LOVE
Genre: Drama
Studio/Production Company: Sight Unseen Pictures, Depth Of Field Productions, Smokehouse Pictures, Anton
Approximate Start Date: October 2026
Location: New Jersey, United States; Switzerland
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Annette Bening and George Clooney
Logline: Adaptation of Amy Bloom’s memoir about her husband’s medically assisted suicide.
Title: MARGOT & RUDI
Genre: Drama
Studio/Production Company: Good Chaos, Elysian Films Ltd., Sympathetic Ink
Approximate Start Date: October 2026
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Naomi Watts, Alexandr Trush, Richard E. Grant, Harriet Walter, and Demian Bichir
Logline: Margot Fonteyn, 42, is sensing her ballet career is over. Rudolf Nureyev, 23, is a rebellious Soviet defector, magnetic, explosive, and unstoppable. Together, they ignite the stage and become icons of the Swinging Sixties. Fonteyn is reborn by Nureyev’s wild energy, but their bond is complicated by her marriage and his affair with another dancer. To preserve what they have, they will risk everything for one defining ballet because the only place they can truly be together is on stage. Based on true events.
Title: THE HOUSEMAID’S SECRET
Genre: Thriller
Studio/Production Company: Lionsgate, Pretty Dangerous Pictures, Hidden Pictures, Honey Trap
Distributor: Lionsgate
Approximate Start Date: October 2026
Location: New Jersey, United States; New York, United States
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Michele Morrone, Kirsten Dunst, Paul Anthony Kelly, Brittany Snow, and Stephen Kalyn
Logline: Millie returns, taking a job keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own. Sequel to the 2025 film, “The Housemaid.” Based on the second novel in Freida McFadden’s trilogy.