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Stars Collective Acquires “Thelma” Rights for “Grandma, Please”

8/18/2026

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Stars Collective bought Mandarin remake rights to Sundance hit “Thelma” and will produce the senior-targeted film “Grandma, Please.”
Writer Peter Luo will script “Grandma, Please” and produce it with co-CEO Nancy Xu and producer Wayne Wei Jiang.
The plot follows an 80-year-old grandmother duped by an AI-cloned voice of her late husband, who tracks the fraudster and befriends a basketball captain in a care home.

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Story summary

Stars Collective bought Mandarin remake rights to Sundance hit “Thelma” and will produce the senior-targeted film “Grandma, Please.”
Writer Peter Luo will script “Grandma, Please” and produce it with co-CEO Nancy Xu and producer Wayne Wei Jiang.
The plot follows an 80-year-old grandmother duped by an AI-cloned voice of her late husband, who tracks the fraudster and befriends a basketball captain in a care home.