Dimitry Loiseau Marano will be working with Marisa Tomei and Christopher Walken in Dimension's comedy. Laura Marano, the star of Disney Channel?s Austin & Ally, has joined the cast of The War with Grandpa, a Dimension Films comedy that stars Robert De Niro and Marisa Tomei. Marano will play the boy?s big sister, a teenage daughter who is trying to rebel from under her watchful mother (Tomei). Phillip Glasser, Marvin Peart and Rosa Morris-Peart are producing the comedy, which is targeting an April 21, 2017 release.