Overview
- Paramount Primal announced Tuesday that it acquired Boys for Life, has crews filming now, and scheduled the R-rated comedy for an April 9, 2027 wide theatrical release.
- Tyler Falbo is directing, producing, and co-wrote the script with Max Barrett while Galen Core is attached as a producer.
- Industry reporting says Paramount won the project after a competitive bidding situation that involved A24 and Warner Bros.
- Paramount moved Teyana Taylor’s Get Lite off the April 9 date to August 20, 2027 to make room on the studio schedule.
- The move fits Primal’s stated plan to finance smartly budgeted genre and comedy films and to adapt internet-native talent into theatrical projects while Falbo also develops an FX series he will direct.