The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Image: Neon
Has the Cannes film marketplace been as erratic as this year’s competition offerings? When everyone takes sides in the Fantastic Emilia Perez Discourse of 2024 or will come to terms with the rise of the cult of Megalopolis, we’ve been compiling a listing of all the films that offered to distributors at the most prestigious competition of the 12 months. The Seed of the Sacred Fig, directed by Iranian political exile Mohammad Rasoulof, is the only title in opposition on the Croisette that sold consequently far, planting at Neon for North American distribution. If not, packages have sold for both of those future films and concluded initiatives, like The Leisure Procedure Is Down, a Kirsten Dunst–starring Ruben Östlund affair that the moment once again contemplates how loaded weirdos trapped on a moving vessel will act in striving times. It went for a imprecise eight figures to A24, the most certain volume compensated nevertheless. Below, all the titles picked up at Cannes 2024.
Distributor: Neon
As nationwide political protests intensify, an investigating judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court commences to suspect his spouse and daughters are at the rear of the mysterious disappearance of his gun. Paranoia encompassing the incident qualified prospects him to impose progressively oppressive actions at dwelling. The director guiding the topical movie fled to Europe from Iran this thirty day period right after the Revolutionary Court sentenced him to flogging, 8 decades in jail, and a lot more for producing films and political statements that criticized the Iranian governing administration.
Selling price: Undisclosed
Distributor: A24
Ruben Östlund’s most up-to-date social satire will take spot on a extensive-haul flight on which the amusement devices go dim, forcing an eccentric group of travellers to contend with the most horrifying state of all: boredom. The film, even now in creation, stars Kirsten Dunst (Civil War) and Daniel Brühl (All Silent on the Western Entrance) as an unwell-fated married couple.
Price tag: 8-determine deal
Distributor: Neon
Anatomy of a Slide co-writer Arthur Harari will immediate French phenom Léa Seydoux (Dune: Part Two) in his follow-up to the Oscar-profitable movie. Significantly like the title, particulars about the movie are not known, aside from the point that it is scheduled for completion in the initial 50 % of 2026.
Cost: Undisclosed
Distributor: IFC Movies
Adam Elliot’s cease-movement drama is about an unlikely friendship involving an eccentric elderly female and a nerdy, depressed female who collects decorative snails and obsesses in excess of romance novels though having difficulties with separation from her twin brother. Sarah Snook (Succession) qualified prospects the voice cast.
Price: Undisclosed
Distributor: Apple
Willem Dafoe (Types of Kindness) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) will star in the biopic about the Nepalese mountaineer and his 1953 summit of Everest. Casting for the guide role of Tenzing Norgay is nevertheless underway. The film is scheduled for launch in the spring of 2025.
Cost: A “big deal”
Distributor: Neon
Julia Ducournau’s comply with-up to her Palme d’Or–winning Titane will be “genre-defying,” in accordance to studies. Alpha will star Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian).
Price: Undisclosed
