Jennifer Lopez is a Goldwyn girl… of sorts.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to the 45-year-old Puerto Rican singer-actress and American Idol judge’s latest film Lila and Eve.
The Charles Stone III-directed drama, which co-stars Viola Davis, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Davis plays a grief stricken mother who, in the aftermath of her son’s drive by shooting murder, bonds with a woman (Lopez) who lost her daughter. Fed up with the futility of the justice system, they become vigilantes who go on a killing spree, working through the chain of drug dealers who killed the young man.
Shea Whigham, Julius Tennon, Chris Chalk and Andre Royo also star.
The film will be released later this year.