The Wagner/Cuban Companies' Magnolia Pictures said Tuesday it has acquired the North American rights to the film Serious Moonlight. The movie, written by the late Adrienne Shelly, marks actress Cheryl Hines's directing debut. The two collaborated on the big-screen comedy Waitress before Shelly, the writer, director and actress, was killed by an intruder in her New York office in 2006. Serious Moonlight, starring Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell and Justin Long, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in the spring. The movie will be released through Magnolia's Ultra Video on Demand program a month before release in theaters in early December. The film is produced by Andy Ostroy, Shelly's husband, and Michael Roiff, who produced Waitress. Cheryl Hines has done a fine job bringing Adrienne Shelly's final script to life, Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said in a statement.

Actress Cheryl Hines says she felt proud, not pressured, in making her feature film directorial debut with a script penned by the late Adrienne Shelly. Shelly was strangled by an intruder at her Manhattan office in 2006, shortly before her hit independent film Waitress, co-starring Hines, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

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