Concourse Media Acquires Worldwide Sales Rights to Yara Martinez’s Comedy “Good Egg”

Yara Martinez will be eggin’ on audiences across the globe…

Concourse Media has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 42-year-old Puerto Rican actress’ comedy Good Egg ahead of its premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival this week.

Yara Martinez, Good EggThe film follows a warmhearted schoolteacher, played by Martinez, who inadvertently gets plunged into a dangerous scheme by her suspicious IVF egg donor, played by Andrea Londo. As the adventure ensues, she and her husband, played by Joel Johnstone, must evade criminal captors.

The film was written and directed by Nicole Gomez Fisher and produced by Fisher alongside Dorottya Mathe and Martinez.

The film also stars Priscilla Lopez, Joseph Melendez, and Sharinna Allan, alongside Johnstone, Nick Creegan, Haas Manning and Nicholas Cirillo.

Concourse Media will be presenting the film to select domestic distributors during this week’s Bentonville festival and will launch international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Good Egg is an entertaining and heartfelt film that puts an amusing spin on the complexities of fertility treatment, which millions of families in the US and abroad go through,” said Concourse Media CEO Matthew Shreder. “There’s a large audience out there who will relate to and enjoy this film which we are excited to share with distributors.”

Martinez’s previous credits include Jane the Virgin, Bull and The Tick.

Lana Parrilla to Star in the Indie Drama “Scrap”

Lana Parrilla is scrapping her plans…

The 44-year-old half-Puerto Rican actress and Once Upon a Time alum will star alongside Anthony Rapp and writer-director Vivian Kerr in Scrap, an indie drama from producer Rachel Stander and her A Season of Rain banner.

Lana Parrilla

Beth DoverKhleo ThomasBrad Schmidt and Julianna Layne have also joined the cast of the film, which is now shooting.

Kerr plays Beth, who has recently been laid off and struggles to maintain the appearance of a successful middle-class lifestyle as she bounces around Los Angeles. Hoping to land a new job and change her situation before her estranged older brother Ben (Rapp) finds out, Beth must confront her own pride before she can reconnect with him and provide for her young daughter Birdy (Layne).

Parrilla, whose most recent credits include Paramount+’s Why Woman Kill, will play Ben’s wife, a successful attorney who is secretly struggling with IVF and re-evaluating her own conflicted relationship with motherhood. Dover plays the principal at Birdy’s school. Schmidt plays Beth’s troubled ex, and Thomas is her potential love interest.

Kerr’s screenplay was a finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Screenplay Competition; it later became a short film that starred Kerr and Rapp.

The adaptation is the directorial debut for Kerr.