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EXCLUSIVE: Trudy Blue, starring Dakota Johnson and directed by Angus MacLane, is kicking off sales at the American Film Market. Penned by Evan Twohy, Trudy Blue is a grounded sci-fi action movie set in the near future, about an outlawed android maid who wakes up in a landfill 2,000 miles from home and must embark on a journey through a now foreign world to get back to where she belongs. Saks Picture Company’s Alex Saks is producing alongside TeaTime Pictures’ Johnson, Ro Donnelly, and Samantha Racanelli. 193, a Legendary company, will handle international sales, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic rights. Johnson recently starred in the $100M plus global grossing Materialists opposite Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal from A24. She also starred in the Cannes premiere Splitsville from filmmaker Michael Angelo Covino in which she also produced. Other notable films include Universal’s billion-dollar Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, The Lost Daughter, Suspiria, Our Friend, The Social Network, Black Mass and The Peanut Butter Falcon among others. Through her production company, TeaTime Pictures, Johnson has produced and starred in Daddio, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Am I OK? She will next be seen starring alongside Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett in Michael Showalter’s Verity, adapted from the bestselling Colleen Hoover novel. A Pixar veteran, MacLane co-directed the smash hit Finding Dory, which grossed over a $1B at the global box office. He also both wrote and directed Lightyear, starring Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, and Taika Waititi. MacLane served on Pixar’s senior creative team for global hits including Toy Story 4, Luca, Turning Red, Incredibles 2, Coco, and others, and he served in the animation department for Kung Fu Panda 4, Toy Story 3, Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo. Saks Picture Company has recently produced Sony’s No Hard Feelings, written and directed by Gene Stupnitsky, starring Jennifer Lawrence; Sony’s very profitable It Ends With Us, which grossed over $350M, based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel of the same name, directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively; and Netflix’s Kinda Pregnant, directed by Tyler Spindel and starring Amy Schumer. Twohy previously wrote and directed Bubble and Squeak, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. He is currently developing projects with Laika, Esmail Corp, and MGM. In addition to Trudy Blue, at this year’s AFM, 193 is representing Reenactment, starring Benicio del Toro, from director Grant Singer. The film is co-produced and financed by Black Label Media and 193. Since its launch in early 2025, 193 has already represented sales rights to several other high-profile titles. These include four films from this year’s Cannes market: dark comedy The Toxic Avenger, starring Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood; Die My Love, Cannes’ largest sale of 2025 at $24M, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; historical drama Scandalous!, Colman Domingo’s directorial debut, starring Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson; and action film The Surgeon, starring Michelle Yeoh, written and directed by physician and acclaimed filmmaker Roshan Sethi. 193 also recently represented sales for Moulin, a French-language film directed by Academy Award, BAFTA, and Grand Prix du Jury winner Laszlo Nemes. Johnson is represented by CAA, Untitled, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. MacLane is represented by WME and Entertainment 360. Twohy is represented by CAA, Untitled, and Ziffren Brittenham.
