Sundance Breakout ‘Together,’ Body Horror Film With Dave Franco and Alison Brie, Sells to Neon

Together,” a frightfulness film with Dave Franco and Alison Brie, has sold to Neon after premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Celebration. Neon plans to discharge the motion picture in theaters on Aug. 1 in the midst of the canine days of summer.

The include, from first-time writer-director Michael Shanks, was one of the uncommon Sundance movies to start a offering war. A24 was moreover in the running at other point, with other studios kicking the tires. It’s not clear what the last cost tag is, but sources said the offering was well over $10 million at one point. Another source said the last cost come to $17 million, which makes it one of the wealthiest bargains in Sundance history.

Together” takes after a codependent couple who move to the inaccessible farmland to gotten to be indeed closer. And they do, on a nightmarish physical level, much appreciated to a extraordinary drive. Putting a meta turn on the body frightfulness film, Franco and Brie are hitched in genuine life.

Sunday night’s debut at the Eccles Center was met with shouts, chuckles and squirms of inconvenience amid the film’s more sickening minutes. There was too bounty of praise at the conclusion for Shanks, Franco and Brie, with moviegoers debating in the stopping parcel almost which scene cracked them out the most

This isn’t the to begin with time Franco and Brie have shared the screen. They’ve acted together in “The Small Hours,” “The Catastrophe Artist,” “Horse Girl” and “The Rental.” Brie co-wrote the script for “Horse Girl,” whereas Franco made his directorial make a big appearance with “The Rental.” The couple final joined up for 2023’s “Somebody I Utilized to Know,” which was the to begin with film they penned together, with Brie featuring and Franco coordinating the sentimental comedy.

Brie as of late showed up in Peacock’s constrained arrangement “Apples Never Fall,” featuring nearby Annette Bening, Sam Neill and Jake Fancy. She is set to show up in Amazon MGM’s “Masters of the Universe,” a long-gestating adjustment of the prevalent kids TV show.

Franco was as of late in A24’s “Love Lies Bleeding” with Kristen Stewart, which debuted at Sundance in 2024. He too shows up in “Bubble & Squeak,” an off-beat comedy that showed up in the 2025 version of Sundance, co-starring nearby Sarah Goldberg and Matt Berry.

Franco and Brie delivered “Together” nearby Picturestart, Tango, 1.21 and Princess Pictures. Tango, Picturestart and 30West financed the film. WME spoken to the producers in the deal.