Movie gross sales and finance outfit International Constellation has closed a primary raft of gross sales on Cannes breakout animated comedy “Jim Queen,” which might be screening on the Annecy Intl. Animation Movie Competition.
Following its buzzy premiere in Cannes’ Midnight Screening slot, the movie has offered to Italy (I Surprise Photos), Benelux (O’Brother), Germany (Capelight Photos), Switzerland (Praesens), Austria (Polyfilm), Spain (Filmin), Israel (Lev Cinema), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Canada (Photon Movies), Brazil (Pandora Filmes/Belas Artes Grupo), Mexico (Pimienta Movies) and Taiwan (Artistic Century), with further territories, together with the U.S., in negotiation.
The Jokers Movies launched the movie in French theaters on June 17, the place it debuted at No. 3 on the field workplace, behind “Toy Story 5” and “Backrooms.” The movie attracted over 16,000 admissions throughout 95 screens on its opening day and surpassed 54,000 admissions ($450,000 equal) throughout its first weekend of launch.
The movie is directed by Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané, and produced by Bobbypills’ David Alric and Arthur Delabays.
Hailed by Selection’s Guy Lodge as a “hilarious adult animation on literal steroids” and “infectiously giddy,” the movie sparked an enthusiastic viewers response in Cannes with the Grand Théâtre Lumière “erupting in laughter, breaking into song, and ultimately delivering a raucous late-night standing ovation,” International Constellation said, inspiring Cannes director Thierry Frémaux to say: “ ‘Jim Queen’ was one of the most beautiful screenings in the festival’s history.”
A wild comedic experience by identification, fame and queer tradition in disaster, the movie tells the story of Jim, the final word Health club Queen, influencer and object of common thirst, who reigns supreme on the Paris homosexual scene. However when a weird virus known as Heterosis begins turning homosexual males straight, his reign ends in a single day. Unfollowed, deserted and stripped of standing, Jim is left with only one unlikely ally: Lucien, a faithful scrawny twink with extra loyalty than clout. Collectively, they plunge into the queer chaos of the Marais, chasing a rogue physician rumored to have a treatment.
Co-written with Simon Balteaux and Brice Chevillard, “Jim Queen” is produced by Bobbypills, one in all Europe’s most cutting-edge grownup animation studios. Bobbypills just lately produced James Gunn’s “Creature Commandos,” the primary tv collection and first official chapter of the DC Universe, DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation. Their credit additionally embody “Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix,” produced with Ubisoft Movie & Tv for Netflix, in addition to the grownup animated collection “Crisis Jung” and “Vermin,” each now streaming on Netflix.
Nguyen and Athané, each Gobelins alumni, carry intensive expertise throughout animated options, collection and video games, with key credit on acclaimed options together with “The Summit of the Gods,” “Ernest & Celestine,” “The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales,” “The Swallows of Kabul,” “The Rabbi’s Cat” and “The Red Turtle.”
“Jim Queen” is co-produced by Umedia (“The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Night of the Zoocalypse”), with the assist of Eurimages (Council of Europe), Avance sur recettes (CNC), la région Nouvelle Aquitaine, le département de la Charente and la région Réunion.
It’s government produced by Moby and Lindsay Hicks for Little Walnut within the U.S., and Katarzyna Janiak and Jacek Świgost for Timeless Studios.
“Jim Queen” is one in all three animated options represented by International Constellation at Annecy this yr, alongside Sébastien Laudenbach’s “Viva Carmen,” which is screening in competitors following its premiere in Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight, and Reza Memari’s “The Last Whale Singer,” displaying within the Annecy Presents part.
