Brie Larson & Lynette Howell Taylor Join Two Films for Netflix

Deadline reports that Brie Larson and producer Lynette Howell Taylor have made a two-picture worldwide rights deal at Netflix.

Netflix has acquired Unicorn Store, Larson's directing debut, and Lady Business, her next star vehicle that she will also likely direct. Unicorn Store will premiere on Netflix April 5.

Lady Business is based on a Fast Company article by John Paul Titlow, and tells the true story of two young female entrepreneurs, Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer, who had to invent a third male company founder in order to be taken seriously in the business world.

Unicorn Store is based on a script by Samantha McIntyre, and centers on a woman who moves back in with her parents, and receives an invitation to a store that will test her ideas of what it really means to grow up.

"It's not an easy time in the world right now so I hope that, in the old tradition of films being a form of escapism and a way to dream, this film can do that," Larson said of Unicorn Store.

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