Cannes Deals Begin: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Croisette-Bound Ira Sachs-Helmed ‘Frankie’ deadline.com/2019/04/frankie-cannes-sony-pictures-classics-deal-ira-sachs-isabelle-huppert-1202604519 April 30, 2019
SBS Distribution EXCLUSIVE: The Cannes Film Festival is a couple weeks out, but Sony Pictures Classics has gotten on the board with a splashy deal. SPC is acquiring Frankie before the Ira Sachsdirected film makes its world premiere in competition on the Croisette. The deal is for North America, Eastern Europe (including CIS), Scandinavia, the Middle East, South Africa, Spain, India and worldwide airlines. Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, Andre Wilms, Vinette Robinson, Ariyon Bakare, and Pascal Greggory. Three generations of a European family come together in the fabled town of Sintra, Portugal, for one last vacation before the family matriarch faces the next, and last, chapter of her life. Over the course of one crisp October day, the fairy-tale setting brings about everyone’s most romantic impulses, revealing both cracks between them, as well as unexpected depth of feeling.
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