Archive · 24 Aug 2026
Mike Birbiglia Directs Focus Features Comedy Old Friends New Friends
Mike Birbiglia is making a new comedy movie called Old Friends New Friends.
Focus Features has agreed to make the film.
Birbiglia will direct it and wrote the script.
The story is about college friends who go to an old friend’s wedding.
They discover that the friend has made a new life with different friends.
This makes the group think about how they have changed.
Lucas Hedges, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Geraldine Viswanathan and Dylan Gelula will act in the movie.
Filming may begin in the fall.
Focus Features has greenlit Old Friends New Friends, Mike Birbiglia’s first feature in a decade.
Birbiglia will direct from his own script and produce with Jacob Jaffke and Joe Hartwick.
Lucas Hedges, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Geraldine Viswanathan and Dylan Gelula are set to star.
The comedy follows college friends attending an old friend’s wedding at a summer camp.
Birbiglia is eyeing a fall production start after canceling select stand-up dates with John Mulaney.
- Who
- Mike Birbiglia will direct and write the film, with Lucas Hedges, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Geraldine Viswanathan and Dylan Gelula starring.
- What
- Focus Features has greenlit Old Friends New Friends, a comedy about college friends confronting changes in their relationships.
- When
- Birbiglia is eyeing a fall production start; no specific year or date is stated.
- Where
- The story takes place at a summer camp, where the friends attend an old friend’s wedding.
- Why
- The film’s premise explores what the friends have lost, who they have become and whether growing up means growing apart.
- Film
- Old Friends New Friends
- Distributor
- Focus Features
- Director and writer
- Mike Birbiglia
- Production start
- A fall start is being considered.
- Cast
- Lucas Hedges, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Geraldine Viswanathan and Dylan Gelula
- Producers
- Mike Birbiglia, Jacob Jaffke and Joe Hartwick
- Birbiglia’s previous features
- Sleepwalk with Me (2012) and Don’t Think Twice (2016)