K5 Intl. has closed a raft of gross sales on action-thriller “The Butler,” starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander, which receives its last market screening in Cannes on Saturday night.
Consumers are Arna (CIS), SPI/Canal+ (Japanese Europe, Benelux), CineSky (Airways), Eagle Photos (Italy), Falcon Movies (Center East), Mediaset (Spain), PT Primacinema (Indonesia), Rialto (Australia), Splendid Movie (Germany) and Tanweer (Greece, Turkey), with extra offers to be introduced quickly.
“The Butler,” which debuts a first-look picture above, additionally stars Bobby Gilchrist (“Sovereign”) and rising star Molly McCann (“Freelance,” upcoming “The Hunger Games: The Sunrise and the Reaping”). The screenplay was by Craig McInnes and the movie was directed by Tom Edmunds.
The movie stars Reno as a retired World Struggle I veteran dwelling in quiet service on a sprawling property earlier than a violent reckoning from his previous turns the family right into a warfare zone. Hollander performs a vicious Irish mobster hell bent on seizing the palatial property Reno has devoted his life to guard after its inheritor runs afoul of his compatriots overseas.
Edmunds beforehand directed the U.Ok. comedy “Dead in a Week,” starring the late Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard and Christopher Eccleston.
Reno’s credit embrace “Leon: The Professional,” “Ronin,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Da Vinci Code,” “Godzilla” and “22 Bullets.”
Hollander is finest recognized for his performances in Season 2 of “The White Lotus,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, amongst different titles, and for his Emmy-nominated flip as Truman Capote in “Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans.”
The movie was produced by Sturdy Island’s Christopher Tuffin alongside Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Ari Novak, Amanda Delaplaine, Colin Bates, William Ramsey and Scott McFarland.
It was produced by Sturdy Island, and co-produced and primarily financed by Valecroft, in live performance with Relatively Good Movies, Tetrad, Pixium Movie Group, Kodachrome, Secondary Lenders and Calculus Capital.
