{"id":948242,"date":"2026-07-20T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:19:20","slug":"rebel-wilsons-the-deb-gets-first-trailer-digital-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948242\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson’s ‘The Deb’ Gets First Trailer, Digital Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s been a long and legally-winding road<\/a> to release for Rebel Wilson<\/a>\u2018s directorial debut, but we now have the first trailer for The Deb<\/a>. Have a look above.<\/p>\n

\n\tSunrise Films<\/a> on Monday set an August 25 U.S. digital-release date for the musical comedy, which will debut in a day earlier in the UK via Vertigo Releasing<\/a>. That news comes after the film\u2019s original date was moved<\/a> from April 9 amid a volcanic legal fight involving Wilson, the movie\u2019s producers and star Charlottle MacInnes, who sued the rookie helmer for defamation<\/a>. More on that below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deb follows Taylah Simpkins (Natalie Abbott), a lovable farm girl and high school outcast in small-town Australia who is convinced that the upcoming Debutante Ball \u2014 \u201cthe Deb\u201d \u2014 is her one shot at reinventing herself. When her sharp-tongued city cousin Maeve (MacInnes) is exiled to Taylah\u2019s drought-stricken town of Dunburn, she\u2019s got one opinion about the ball: It\u2019s a \u201cheteronormative shit-show.\u201d As the two cousins collide and reluctantly conspire, they discover that the path to the spotlight runs straight through the messy truth of who they really are.<\/p>\n

\n\tStevie Jean, Tara Morice, Steph Tisdell and Shane Jacobson also star, with Wilson in a supporting role that includes a scene where her character admonishes Taylah, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re taking away valuable oxygen from my cigarette.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeg Washington penned the original songs in The Deb, which premiered as the closing-night pic of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. Days after that debut screening, Wilson sued the movie\u2019s British producers<\/a> \u2014 spouses Amanda Ghost<\/a> and Gregor Cameron, along with Vince Holden \u2014 in Los Angeles, alleging that Ghost sexually harassed MacInnes and later colluded with the actress to cover up what took place. Wilson also accused the producer trio of intimidation and embezzling funds from the film. A judge dismissed those claims<\/a> early this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut that was only part of The Deb\u2018s journey in the courts. MacInnes sued Wilson for defamation, claiming that the Pitch Perfect star damaged her reputation by alleging that she was sexually harassed by Ghost and then colluded with Ghost to cover it up.\u00a0That suit remains in litigation.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, The Deb finally is opening in digital release next month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long and legally-winding road to release for Rebel Wilson\u2018s directorial debut, but we now have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[111425,78818,171,53,483,381790,78819,67,132,68,381791],"class_list":["post-948242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amanda-ghost","tag-charlotte-macinnes","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-rebel-wilson","tag-sunrise-films","tag-the-deb","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vertigo-releasing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116954396507238917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}