EXCLUSIVE: Christina Milian (Step Up: High Water) and Steven Strait (The Expanse) will topline the thriller Body Language from MarVista Entertainment, which has wrapped manufacturing. Others set for the movie directed by Cory Miller, which marks Milian’s first as a producer, embrace Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Gregg Wayans (Kidding) and Robert Belushi (Ballers).

Written by Miller and Belushi, Body Language facilities on Mariana (Milian), who serves as Director of Personnel for a serious safety agency. Mariana excels at studying folks, a ability that’s put to the check one night time when her fiancé’s enigmatic faculty buddy, Dylan (Strait), visits to prepare dinner a celebratory engagement dinner.

Milian is joined as a producer on Body Language by Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring), in addition to Neon Kite’s Lisa Wight and Jay Glazer, Belushi, and Mandy June Turpin. Carmen Milian is exec producing alongside Larry Grimaldi, Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew for MarVista Entertainment. 

“I am so excited to be producing my first film and starring in it as well,” mentioned Milian. “It is a thriller, something I haven’t done before. I really resonated with this story because it is absolutely something that can happen in real life which, to me, makes it even scarier.”

“What excites me about the film is that it’s the kind of grounded thriller that’s terrifying because of its plausibility. This could happen to anyone, anywhere,” mentioned Miller. “It’s been such a joy to work with Chad and Carey Hayes to develop this story and then see the incredible cast bring this to life.”

Added MarVista’s EVP of Creative, Pillemer: “Audiences are clamoring for complex thrillers led by strong female characters. This project grabbed us on a myriad of levels: it’s a shocking and contemporary take on a classic genre many of us grew up with; it stars Christina Milian in an amazing role that’s both vulnerable and bad ass; and lastly, it offered the chance to create something super tangled and fun. Not to mention, we jumped at the chance to work with the genius Hayes Brothers, our visionary director Cory, and our producer and star Christina.”

Milian is an actress and singer-songwriter whose latest movie credit embrace Resort to Love and Falling Inn Love. She can at the moment be seen starring within the collection Step Up: High Water, which moved to Starz for its third season debuting in October. Additional TV credit embrace The Oath and Grandfathered.

Strait beforehand starred as James Holden within the fashionable sci-fi collection The Expanse, which aired for six seasons. The actor is in any other case finest recognized for starring alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko and extra within the Starz collection Magic City from creator Mitch Glazer. Additional credit embrace ABC’s Revenge and such movies as Sleeping with the Fishes, City Island, Stop-Loss and 10,000 BC. 

MarVista Entertainment, a Fox Entertainment Company, was based in 2003. Recent initiatives embrace the romantic comedy Daughter of the Bride, starring Marcia Gay Harden, Halston Sage, Andrew Richardson and Aidan Quinn; Prime Video’s Christmas is Canceled, starring Hayley Orrantia, Dermot Mulroney and Janel Parrish; the indie Stay Awake with Chrissy Metz; the IFC launch Hunter Hunter, starring Devon Sawa, Nick Stahl and Camille Sullivan; and the Hallmark Channel authentic drama collection The Way Home, which is able to premiere in 2023.

Miller is repped by Neon Kite, APA and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Milian by Neon Kite, Milian Management, UTA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Strait by Gersh and Circle of Confusion; Gonzalez by Innovative Artists, Principal Entertainment LA and Granderson Des Rochers; Wayans by The Rosenzweig Group and The Kohner Agency; and Belushi by Innovative Artists and Black Box Management and Meyers & Downs.