NEON International announced today that it will kick off foreign sales on The Housewife, from first-time feature filmmaker Ben Shirinian, at the European Film Market in Berlin this month. The film, which will star Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive,The Impossible), Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One, X-Men series), Emmy Award^®-winner Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos,” “The White Lotus”), and Norman Reedus (“The Walking Dead” franchise) is currently in pre-production, with principal photography set to begin in June 2024. Robbie Brenner (Academy Award^® Nominated Barbie, Dallas Buyers Club), Kevin McKeon (Call Jane), and Lee Broda (May December) are producing alongside Executive Producer Alyssa Hill who also penned the script. CAA Media Finance is representing the domestic sales rights on the title.

Based on a true story from 1964, The Housewife follows a determined young New York Times journalist (Sheridan) as he tracks down a potential Nazi officer living secretly in Queens. But when he befriends the suspect’s elegant and charming wife (Watts), the implications of his investigation become much more unsettling. 

Watts recently wrapped production on Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, and is currently starring as ‘Babe Paley’ in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” Film credits include Penguin Bloom, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), St. Vincent, among many others and on television, she recently starred in Netflix’sThe Watcher.