20th Century Studios has unveiled the new trailer and poster for Ella McCay, the upcoming comedy from Oscar and Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer James L. Brooks (As Good as It Gets, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Simpsons).
The original film will be released in theaters nationwide on December 12, 2025, and features an all-star ensemble, including Emma Mackey (Barbie), Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear).
The cast also includes Spike Fearn (Alien Romulus), Julie Kavner (The Simpsons), Rebecca Hall (Christine), Becky Ann Baker (Girls), and Joey Brooks (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty), with Albert Brooks (Broadcast News) and Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).
In this new trailer, audiences get a closer look at the upcoming comedy in which Emma Mackey plays Ella McCay, an idealistic young woman who juggles her family and work life in a story about the people you love and how to survive them.
James L. Brooks states, “My goal for this movie was to pay tribute, as best I could, to the golden age of movie comedy, the 1940s and 50s, when each of the Hepburns reigned. (Very strangely, it ended up feeling timely.)
“The challenge all along was to maintain the same zany spirit of that era, while still taking seriously the inevitable jolts, pains, and pitfalls of being human. I was lucky enough to have a dream cast who delivered this story about Ella and her family with an energy and spirit way past what I’d imagined.”
Ella McCay is produced by James L. Brooks, p.g.a., Richard Sakai, p.g.a., Julie Ansell, p.g.a., and Jennifer Brooks, executive produced by Colby Pines, Seth William Meier, and Amy Brooks, and features original music by Hans Zimmer.
Principal photography for Ella McCay began in Rhode Island in February 2024, and filming wrapped in May of that year. Additional filming for the movie took place earlier this year.
