As Cannes nears its end, some major contenders have already found homes, while many more buzzy titles with Palme d’Or aspirations are awaiting buyers. This year’s market hasn’t been weighed down by the writers or actors strikes in the same way as last year, meaning companies like A24, Neon, Apple, and more have jumped in on exciting packages of possibly future contenders.
Below we’re tracking everything that gets bought throughout the festival and beyond.
Films Acquired During the Festival “Night Call”
Section: Completed Film
Director: Michiel Blanchart
Buyer: Magnet Releasing
Date Acquired: May 23
Cast: Jonathan Feltre, Jonas Bloquet, Romain Duris
Buzz: Magnolia’s genre arm picked up this thriller that screened at the market and is the story of a locksmith on the run from a mob boss after he opens a lock allowing someone to steal the mobster’s bag of cash. Magnet plans to...
Below we’re tracking everything that gets bought throughout the festival and beyond.
Films Acquired During the Festival “Night Call”
Section: Completed Film
Director: Michiel Blanchart
Buyer: Magnet Releasing
Date Acquired: May 23
Cast: Jonathan Feltre, Jonas Bloquet, Romain Duris
Buzz: Magnolia’s genre arm picked up this thriller that screened at the market and is the story of a locksmith on the run from a mob boss after he opens a lock allowing someone to steal the mobster’s bag of cash. Magnet plans to...
- 5/23/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights to writer-director Julien Colonna’s The Kingdom after the film’s world premiere this week in the Cannes festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
Metrograph is planning a theatrical release at a date yet to be announced.
The film, Colonna’s narrative feature debut, centres on a teenager (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who reconnects with her local mob boss father on the island of Corsica and goes on the run from other mobsters and the police.
Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon produced for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Goodfellas is handling sales.
Metrograph head David Laub...
Metrograph is planning a theatrical release at a date yet to be announced.
The film, Colonna’s narrative feature debut, centres on a teenager (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who reconnects with her local mob boss father on the island of Corsica and goes on the run from other mobsters and the police.
Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon produced for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Goodfellas is handling sales.
Metrograph head David Laub...
- 5/21/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Following a buzzy debut this week at the Cannes Film Festival, Parisian-based filmmaker Julien Colonna’s debut feature The Kingdom has been picked up by Metrograph Pictures, who will release the film in North America.
The Kingdom screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar and has been widely touted on the ground in Cannes as a surprising festival standout. Metrograph Pictures has said it will distribute the film theatrically, with additional release details to be announced later.
Set over one sweltering summer on the French island of Corsica, The Kingdom follows a Corsican mob family on the run. The central character is Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti), a teenager who reconnects with her father, Pierre-Paul, a local mob boss in hiding. As Pierre-Paul’s crimes catch up with him, the two go on the run from both mobsters and the police, forging an increasingly close-knit bond that will ultimately...
The Kingdom screened in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar and has been widely touted on the ground in Cannes as a surprising festival standout. Metrograph Pictures has said it will distribute the film theatrically, with additional release details to be announced later.
Set over one sweltering summer on the French island of Corsica, The Kingdom follows a Corsican mob family on the run. The central character is Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti), a teenager who reconnects with her father, Pierre-Paul, a local mob boss in hiding. As Pierre-Paul’s crimes catch up with him, the two go on the run from both mobsters and the police, forging an increasingly close-knit bond that will ultimately...
- 5/21/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
At first, the violence seems limited to news reports. Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene. So long as the killings are confined to television, it’s easy for 15-year-old Lesia to pretend they’re neither real nor relevant, that the people involved aren’t members of her father’s inner circle. But as “The Kingdom” unfolds, the attacks keep getting closer, slowly infiltrating the film itself, until finally, they’re happening right in front of her face.
Corsica, like nearby Sicily, has a serious problem with organized crime, which escalated dramatically in the 1990s, when “The Kingdom” is set. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, it’s an unusual island: technically part of France, but too independent-minded to let outsiders manage its affairs. The Corsican flag depicts a decapitated Moorish...
Corsica, like nearby Sicily, has a serious problem with organized crime, which escalated dramatically in the 1990s, when “The Kingdom” is set. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, it’s an unusual island: technically part of France, but too independent-minded to let outsiders manage its affairs. The Corsican flag depicts a decapitated Moorish...
- 5/20/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
One of the finest films ever made about organized crime, “The Long Good Friday” (1980) sees the world of a London gangster abruptly destabilized by bomb attacks and murders of his associates. He and his henchmen attempt to uncover the attackers’ identities, all whilst trying not to worry their visitors in town for the weekend, who are members of the American mafia looking to invest in redevelopment in the area. This British mob classic may seem an odd film to evoke up top in a review of a French-language, Corsica-set debut feature. But one of the main strengths of director Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom” is how it successfully pulls off a loosely similar, paranoia-driven fall-of-an-empire story within the context of a condensed time period.
The time frame in question is not quite as tight as “The Long Good Friday’s” 24-ish hours of mayhem, but instead a few weeks of...
The time frame in question is not quite as tight as “The Long Good Friday’s” 24-ish hours of mayhem, but instead a few weeks of...
- 5/20/2024
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- Indiewire
The shadow of The Godfather looms large over French director Julien Colonna’s formidable feature debut, The Kingdom (Le Royaume), and not only because one of the characters in it is literally called “Godfather.”
Set in Corsica in 1995, at a time when the island was wracked by warfare among nationalist groups and crime families, the film focuses on one mafioso clan that’s beset by enemies on all sides and needs to survive by any means necessary. The head of that clan is a very casually dressed Don Corleone named Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci), and he needs to both preserve his leadership and protect his teenage daughter, Lesia (the illuminating Ghjuvanna Benedetti), as they run from cops and mobsters alike.
So yes, it’s a very Godfather-like scenario — but it’s as if the Coppola classic were told from the viewpoint of a young Connie, chronicling how a girl on the...
Set in Corsica in 1995, at a time when the island was wracked by warfare among nationalist groups and crime families, the film focuses on one mafioso clan that’s beset by enemies on all sides and needs to survive by any means necessary. The head of that clan is a very casually dressed Don Corleone named Pierre-Paul (Saveriu Santucci), and he needs to both preserve his leadership and protect his teenage daughter, Lesia (the illuminating Ghjuvanna Benedetti), as they run from cops and mobsters alike.
So yes, it’s a very Godfather-like scenario — but it’s as if the Coppola classic were told from the viewpoint of a young Connie, chronicling how a girl on the...
- 5/20/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Un Certain Regard is always a time to explore new, daring films from first- and second-time feature filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival. They’ll eventually be eligible for the Camera d’Or, the Un Certain Regard equivalent of the Palme d’Or. So if you’re looking for something to see outside the main competition at Cannes this year, Julien Colonna’s Un Certain Regard entry is a simmering and intense coming-of-age story about a teenage girl coming of age amid a criminal family. And that family is maybe one she doesn’t want to reconnect with but is forced to over one summer in Corsica, 1995. Watch an IndieWire exclusive clip from the film below.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father,...
Here’s the official synopsis: “Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Goodfellas has boarded Julien Colonna’s father-daughter coming-of-age thriller Le Royaume ahead of the film’s world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
The debut feature is set in Corsica in summer 1995 and follows a teenage girl (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who discovers her father (Saveriu Santucci) in hiding in an isolated villa with his clan of men. As war breaks out in the underworld, the noose tightens around the clan and death strikes. Forced to go on the run, the father-daughter duo must learn to understand and love each other.
The film is produced by Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon at Mediawan-owned Chi-Fou-Mi,...
The debut feature is set in Corsica in summer 1995 and follows a teenage girl (played by Ghjuvanna Benedetti) who discovers her father (Saveriu Santucci) in hiding in an isolated villa with his clan of men. As war breaks out in the underworld, the noose tightens around the clan and death strikes. Forced to go on the run, the father-daughter duo must learn to understand and love each other.
The film is produced by Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon at Mediawan-owned Chi-Fou-Mi,...
- 4/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Official Selection for the 77th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition (see full lists below).
Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea Arnold returns with Bird, starring Barry Keoghan, and Jacques Audiard’s latest, Emilia Perez, a musical with Selena Gomez will also debut in competition.
Elsewhere, American filmmaker Sean Baker brings Anora to the Croisette. Poor Things filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos will launch Kinds of Kindness, his latest collab with Emma Stone. David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, and Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canada starring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere.
Related: ‘The Apprentice’: First Look At Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump & Jeremy Strong As Roy Cohn In Cannes Competition Film
There’s a strong English-language and American presence in the...
Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea Arnold returns with Bird, starring Barry Keoghan, and Jacques Audiard’s latest, Emilia Perez, a musical with Selena Gomez will also debut in competition.
Elsewhere, American filmmaker Sean Baker brings Anora to the Croisette. Poor Things filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos will launch Kinds of Kindness, his latest collab with Emma Stone. David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, and Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canada starring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere.
Related: ‘The Apprentice’: First Look At Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump & Jeremy Strong As Roy Cohn In Cannes Competition Film
There’s a strong English-language and American presence in the...
- 4/11/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: JoAnne Colonna has joined Linden Entertainment as a partner alongside founders Nicole King and Stacy O’Neil. She ends a 20-year run at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, where she was a manager and partner. Colonna will operate between Linden’s LA and NY offices.
“JoAnne is someone we have long admired,” King and O’Neil said “She is very highly respected and valued both by her clients and by people within the industry as a whole. She is passionate about her work and we are thrilled to have her join us. We are excited to have such a strong partner as we look to continue to build to a dynamic future for Linden.”
Said Colonna: “I am excited to partner with Stacy after having worked together for many years. Nicole and Stacy are both incredibly driven and entrepreneurial; they take great care in their work to create unique and exciting opportunities for their clients,...
“JoAnne is someone we have long admired,” King and O’Neil said “She is very highly respected and valued both by her clients and by people within the industry as a whole. She is passionate about her work and we are thrilled to have her join us. We are excited to have such a strong partner as we look to continue to build to a dynamic future for Linden.”
Said Colonna: “I am excited to partner with Stacy after having worked together for many years. Nicole and Stacy are both incredibly driven and entrepreneurial; they take great care in their work to create unique and exciting opportunities for their clients,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Mumbai, Sep 16 (Ians) France’s Minister for Europe & Foreign Affairs (Miss) Catherine Colonna conferred the ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on scientist-industrialist Dr Swati Piramal, Vice-Chairperson of the Piramal Group, here on Friday, officials said.
The highest French civilian award is in recognition of “Dr Piramal’s outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of business and industry, science, medicine, arts and culture, both nationally and internationally”, and was conferred on behalf of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Earlier, in 2006, she was awarded France’s second-highest civilian honour, the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite (Knight of the Order of Merit).
Ranked among India’s leading scientists and corporate leaders, Dr Piramal’s contribution to innovations, new medicines and public health has touched many lives, besides playing a prominent role in encouraging business and industry, innovations, arts and culture between India-France.
In her...
The highest French civilian award is in recognition of “Dr Piramal’s outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of business and industry, science, medicine, arts and culture, both nationally and internationally”, and was conferred on behalf of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Earlier, in 2006, she was awarded France’s second-highest civilian honour, the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite (Knight of the Order of Merit).
Ranked among India’s leading scientists and corporate leaders, Dr Piramal’s contribution to innovations, new medicines and public health has touched many lives, besides playing a prominent role in encouraging business and industry, innovations, arts and culture between India-France.
In her...
- 9/16/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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