Main indie producer-distributor GKIDS has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Jean-Christophe Roger and Julien Chheng’s Ernest & Celestine: A Journey to Gibberitia.
Movie particulars:
- A Journey to Gibberitia is a follow-up to the 2012 function Ernest & Celestine. The movie opened in French theaters in December of final yr, and now GKIDS will host its U.S. premiere because the opening night time function of the New York Worldwide Kids’s Movie Pageant on Friday, March 3.
- The sequel is directed by Roger, director of the Ernest & Celestine: The Assortment animated sequence, and is joined by Emmy-nominated co-director Chheng, who labored on the unique Ernest & Celestine movie as a personality animator and is directing an upcoming set up of Star Wars: Visions for Disney+. It’s produced by Folivari, Studiocanal, and Melusine Productions.
- Synopsis: Ernest and Celestine return on this pleasant and joyous follow-up to their first journey, which launched a bear and mouse because the unlikeliest of pals. Ernest stays an ursine troubadour devoted to a lifetime of music and artwork, and his fixed grouchiness is softened by the artistic whims of his mouse buddy Celestine. When she unintentionally breaks his beloved violin, they need to take a protracted voyage to Ernest’s nation of Gibbertia, dwelling to the one artist who can restore it. However once they arrive, they’re shocked to find that each one types of music have been banned in Gibbertia for a few years, and a land as soon as recognized internationally for its unbelievable musicians has fallen silent. It’s as much as Ernest and Celestine and their new pals, together with a mysterious masked outlaw, to deliver music and happiness again to the land of bears.
- GKIDS additionally distributed the primary Ernest & Celestine movie, which obtained a particular point out at Cannes’ Administrators Fortnight in 2012, received the French Academy César Award for finest animated function in 2013, and scored a finest animated function Oscar nomination in 2014, amongst its quite a few different achievements.
- GKIDS President David Jesteadt stated in a launch: “After ten years, it’s fantastic to reunite with my favourite bear and mouse, Ernest and Celestine. Ernest and Celestine: A Journey to Gibbertia is filled with the emotional heat, comedy, and gorgeous animation that made the unique movie so iconic. Movies of this high quality are more and more uncommon, and we’re honored to have the ability to associate once more with the producers on a brand new chapter with these beloved characters.”
