Together isn’t Alison Brie’s first time starring alongside her real-life husband Dave Franco, but their time collaborating on the new Sundance film from director Michael Shanks might be the most fun they’ve had working, well, together. Brie joined us at the The Vulture Spot in Park City to talk about the genre film (no spoilers here), which explores a longtime couple’s codependency after a move to the countryside tests their relationship, and their bodies.

Congratulations on the movie. How did it come to you and Dave?
Thank you! Dave had a meeting with Michael about another script, and, as with most Zooms that happen in our household, I was in the background, eating a yogurt, listening in, and they started talking about their love of horror and genre movies. Shanks was complimenting Dave on The Rental, which was Dave’s directorial debut and he was like, “I sort of have this genre movie I wrote.” And he suggested sending the script to Dave to read it. As soon as Dave read it, he loved it. He sent it to me, along with a short film called Rebooted that Shanks had written and directed and done all the special effects on. Dave was like, “I think we should star in this together and produce it and hop on board and get it financed and get it made.” And I was like, “let’s do it, babe.”

Do you and Dave get asked to work together often?
It’s usually rom coms, and that’s fine, but we are pretty particular about what we act in together. If we get offers for something where we’re not playing a couple, is that going to be weird or distracting? And we also don’t want to be annoying about it. We’re aware that appearing together could be cloying. But this felt like it made a lot of sense.

The film is about a codependent couple that’s been together for over a decade. We are a slightly less codependent couple that’s been together over a decade, and we felt like that provided a great meta quality that will fuel the storyline of this movie. And it came in handy behind the scenes, because this movie required a lot of physical intimacy. And I don’t mean sexual. I mean, I do. But I also don’t.

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I have updated our photo gallery with 31 HQ images of Alison Brie attending the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025! Ali is there to promote her newest movie, Together, so I’m sure we’ll see her pop up at more events throughout the weekend.

You can see all the images by clicking on the preview links below – enjoy!

More than 6,500 people have signed a petition urging new production incentives in the wake of the Eaton, Hughes and Palisades fires that have devastated Los Angles since Jan. 7.

The #StayInLA petition applauds Governor Newsom’s proposal to increase California’s film/TV tax incentive to $750 million annually, but says more is needed. Specifically, the petition proposes uncapping the tax incentive for productions that shoot in L.A. County for the next three years as part of the overall disaster relief effort. In addition, the petition calls on studios and streamers to pledge at least 10% more production in L.A. over the next three years.

The petition is a collaboration between CA United, a grassroots coalition of over 5,000 engaged California residents; and The Union Solidarity Coalition, founded by writer and directors to respond to the effects of the 2023 WGA strike. Individual supporters named on the website include LeVar Burton, Scott Derrickson, Jason Alexander, Joe Mantegna and Melissa Benoist.

“We were already deeply worried about the livelihoods of Los Angeles area cast and crew, not to mention the countless small businesses suffering from production moving out of state and overseas. The fires have made a desperate situation worse,” the petition reads. “We are terrified that the city we love so much may lose its most vital resource: its people. We need a flood of new work to help our beloved city rebuild itself and ensure LA’s future viability as a place where craftspeople, film workers, and businesses thrive.”

Emphasizing that L.A. production helps a broad range of businesses, including restaurants and retail, the petition also cites figures from the California Production Coalition, stating “the average location shoot adds $670,000 and 1,500 jobs a day. Each dollar spent on incentivizing production to stay in California creates $24.40 in new economic activity across all local businesses, $8.60 in wages and labor income, and $16.14 in increased GDP.”

Source: Variety

Dave Franco and Alison Brie, who’ve been married since 2017, have collaborated plenty in the past. They both appeared in the 2017 comedies The Little Hours and The Disaster Artist, and Franco directed Brie in his movies The Rental and Somebody I Used to Know.

But in their new film, Together, the offscreen couple step up their intimacy onscreen. The new horror film, which will have its world premiere at Sundance on January 26, follows a longtime couple who move to the countryside, where their relationship will be tested in transformative ways.

Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, Together is a wild ride with intense, visceral horror scenes. But even more terrifying is its exploration of the codependency that can develop in a long-term relationship. “It’s easy for us to relate to this main idea that people can lose their identity in a relationship,” says Brie. “When you’ve been with someone for a really long time, sometimes it’s difficult to tell where your personality ends and your partner’s begins.”

For Franco and Brie, the film was a chance to use their offscreen connection and translate it onscreen. Their charisma and chemistry shine through, even as their characters are going through surreal and sometimes harrowing experiences. It was a new test for them as both actors and as a couple. “Nearly every scene in this movie is dealing with heightened emotions and extreme physicality,” Franco tells Vanity Fair. “We knew going in that it would either end in divorce or we’d be more codependent than ever.”

The script follows Tim and Millie, a couple whose relationship has grown strained over the years. When they decide to move to the countryside, leaving all their friends behind, they have a scary encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force that threatens their relationship, and their lives.

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Today is Alison’s birthday! We want to wish Ali an amazing day filled with family and loved ones. Thank you for being an aspiration to your fans from across the globe – we can’t wait to see what’s coming up in the next year!

I hope everyone is having a nice holiday season! I have updated our photo gallery with 212 HQ screencaps of Alison Brie from the music video “Adult Christmas” from 2013. Ali appeared in the music video by Zabruso alongside her BFFs and band, The Girls.

You can see all the images by clicking on the preview links below – enjoy!

Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, André Holland, Alison Brie and Tom Sturridge are leading Alex Vlack’s feature directorial debut, the drama The Revisionist.

The production, written by Vlack, is currently shooting in Louisville, KY.

In The Revisionist, Elise, a successful novelist, does what so many writers do: she manipulates and transforms the people in her life into the characters she needs for her story. As she blurs the line between fiction and reality, her world descends into secrets, lies, and outright betrayal. The project is an exploration of the psychological lengths to which a writer will go to achieve their art.

Source: Deadline