Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Gallerist, an absurdist comedy directed by Cathy Yan and starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega, with a theatrical release set for 4 December 2026 (Deadline).

The film world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2026 at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah (Deadline), landing in the Premieres section. It arrived at the festival just days after the Oscar nominations were announced, placing it in the corridor where late-January premieres compete for attention against the awards-season news cycle (Variety). Variety also noted it as one of the biggest Sundance 2026 titles from a woman director (Variety).

Set against the excess of Art Basel Miami, the film follows an ambitious gallery owner played by Portman. Ortega co-stars alongside a sprawling ensemble: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis, Daniel Brühl, Charli XCX, and Catherine Zeta-Jones — the latter reuniting Ortega with her Wednesday co-star. James Pedersen wrote the screenplay (Deadline).

MRC produced the film, a U.S.A.–France co-production (Deadline; Deadline). The producer roster runs deep: Ash Sarohia, Sophie Mas, Portman herself, Jonathan King, Tom McCarthy, Rae Baron, and Zola Elgart Glassman (Deadline).

For Yan, The Gallerist is a return to the festival circuit where her career began. Her debut feature, Dead Pigs, won the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at Sundance in 2018. She went on to direct the 2020 DC spinoff Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and an episode of HBO's Succession, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Deadline).

The 4 December slot places The Gallerist in the early-December corridor — a window where awards-minded releases and commercial crowd-pleasers jockey for position ahead of the holiday stretch. "Domestic" in box-office terms means the United States and Canada; U.S. distribution rights, as acquired here by Roadside Attractions and Vertical, cover that territory.

The deal gives two specialist distributors known for shepherding festival acquisitions into the theatrical market a film with name talent and a Sundance pedigree heading into the year's most competitive release corridor.