A number of animated options are getting high-profile screenings at this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant, together with Peter Sohn’s Elemental, Pablo Berger’s Robotic Desires, and Sébastien Laudenback and Chiara Malta’s Rooster for Linda.
In the meantime, on the Marché du Movie, quite a few upcoming animated titles are making waves. U.S. indie distributor Neon picked up Robotic Desires and Sony Footage Classics nabbed the U.S. rights to They Shot the Piano Participant.
Beneath, we have a look at a few of the different animation offers introduced at Cannes over the previous week.
World gross sales agent All Rights Leisure picked up the Czech animated function The Proud Princess, tailored from writer Bozena Nemcova’s fairy story Punished Pleasure. Directed by Radek Beran (The Little Man) and David Lisy (Spy Cat), the movie is produced by Luminar Movie with animation from PFX (Diplodokus, The Websters).
Montreal/Madrid-based distributor Pink Parrot Media has closed a raft of gross sales on Unstable, an animated musical comedy co-produced by Canada’s CarpeDiem and U.Okay.-based Cantilever Productions. Within the U.S., Viva Footage has snagged distribution rights to the movie, which was directed by Benoit Godbout (Racetime, The Bottanix). Pink Parrot has additionally acquired international gross sales rights to 2 youngsters and household animated comedies. Norbert is the function debut of José Corral (Down by Love) and is produced by Captain Araña (Ozzy). The Bottanix is written by Marie-France Landry, directed by Benoit Godbout, and produced by Carpediem Movie & TV. (Supply: Deadline).
Spanish gross sales agent Filmax acquired worldwide rights to the Spanish-Argentine animated function Robotia, co-produced by Malabar Producciones (Minimalitos) in Argentina and Dibulitoon Studio (Yoko) in Spain in affiliation with Tropics Artistic in Costa Rica. The function is predicated on the animated sequence of the identical title and shall be co-directed by the sequence’ director Diego Cagide and editor Diego Lucero. (Supply, Deadline).
London-based Movie Constellation is promoting Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk’s The Growcodile. The movie is produced by Fantabulous, a latest three way partnership from distributor KMBO (The Wonderful Maurice) and Fabrique dÍmages (Sew Head). The 2 filmmakers are long-time collaborators, and have labored collectively on quite a few shorts, sequence, and movies together with Skunk Fu!, The Take a look at of Time, and INKT. It’s tailored from the youngsters’ e book Crocodile Got here Inside! by Paul Van Loon. (Supply: Selection).
