A pair of Oscar-winning actresses – Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry – will team up in the new action-thriller Maude v Maude.

Warner Bros. emerged victorious for the project after an ‘intense multi-studio bidding war’ for the project, according to Deadline. 

Jolie, 47, and Berry, 53 – who made headlines for clapping back at a troll earlier this month – are both set to star and produce the project.

Roseanne Liang (Shadow in the Cloud) is directing from a screenplay by Scott Mosier (Free Birds), who will both executive produce.

No plot details have been released by the project has been described as a, ‘Bond vs. Bourne type of global action thriller,’ with locations to be announced at a later date.

Oscar-winners: A pair of Oscar-winning actresses – Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry – will team up in the new action-thriller Maude v Maude

Headlines: Jolie, 47, and Berry, 53 – who made headlines for clapping back at a troll earlier this month – are both set to star and produce the project

This will mark the first time that Jolie, who won an Oscar in 2000 for Girl Interrupted, and Berry, who won her Oscar in 2002 for Monster’s Ball, will team up on screen.

Both are well-versed in the action genre, with Jolie starring in two Tomb Raider movies, Mr. and Mrs. Smith with her ex-husband Brad Pitt and Salt.

Berry is no stranger to action either, starring as a Bond girl in 2002’s Die Another Day, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and several of the X-Men movies.

The project first hit the market last weekend and attracted several suitors, though Warner Bros. ended up winning it, the latest star-driven package landed by new studio co-heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy.

While lately streaming services have been winning high-profile projects like this, Warner Bros. reportedly put in an, ‘impressive eight-figure bid you haven’t been seeing from studios as often these days,’ according to the report. 

Berry will produce alongside her producing partner Holly Jeter through their HalleHolly company, which was formed in January 2022 to produce films in various genres for women of color both in front of and behind the camera.

Berry is currently filming Never Let Go for Lionsgate, with Jeter executive producing and Alexandre Aja directing. 

Maude v Maude will also be produced by Jeff Kirschenbaum and Joe Roth, who will produce through RK Films.

First time: This will mark the first time that Jolie, who won an Oscar in 2000 for Girl Interrupted, and Berry, who won her Oscar in 2002 for Monster’s Ball, will team up on screen

Producer: Berry will produce alongside her producing partner Holly Jeter through their HalleHolly company, which was formed in January 2022 to produce films in various genres for women of color both in front of and behind the camera

Jolie is currently in post-production on her latest directorial effort, Without Blood, which stars Demian Bichir and Salma Hayek, which Jolie also wrote the screenplay adaptation for, based on the book by Alessandro Baricco.

While she hasn’t been seen on the big screen since 2021’s Eternals, she has a number of projects in pre-production, including Maleficent 3 and Maria, playing legendary opera singer Maria Callas.

She is also attached to star in Every Note Played with Christoph Waltz and is returning as Tigress in the animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 4.

Berry most recently starred in 2022’s Moonfall and her own directorial debut, 2020’s Bruised, which she also starred in. 

She currently has The Mothership in post-production, playing a mother whose husband mysteriously disappeared one year earlier.

When she discovers an extraterrestrial object under their home, her family embarks on an epic adventure to find her husband and the truth.

She also has Our Man From Jersey in post-production, starring alongside Mark Wahlberg, J.K. Simmons and Jessica De Gouw.

Mosier first broke into Hollywood as a producer on Kevin Smith’s early films like Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy before writing Free Birds and episodes of Ultimate Spider-Man. 

Director: Jolie is currently in post-production on her latest directorial effort, Without Blood, which stars Demian Bichir and Salma Hayek, which Jolie also wrote the screenplay adaptation for, based on the book by Alessandro Baricco

In post: She currently has The Mothership in post-production, playing a mother whose husband mysteriously disappeared one year earlier