Main Korean gross sales firm Finecut has closed pre-sale offers for Park Hoon-jung’s “Tristes Tropiques” in 5 territories following a short-footage screening, with the complete function set to world premiere on the Cannes Film Market.
Splendid Movie has acquired the movie for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; PT Prima Cinema Multimedia has taken Indonesia; Media4Fun has closed Poland; Multivision India has secured the Indian Subcontinent; and Izagur Media has picked up Mongolia. Splendid Movie has beforehand launched Park’s work in Germany, together with the “The Witch” sequence and “The Childe.”
“There is no doubt that Park Hoon-jung knows how to do action, and the elevator scene in ‘Tristes Tropiques’ is already a cult moment,” stated Marko Möllers, senior VP at Splendid Movie. “It’s a must-have for every fan of Asian and action cinema.”
The movie follows a unit of younger assassins who belong to the titular group, skilled in a tropical rainforest by a determine recognized solely as Grasp. As mutual mistrust fractures the group, they vow bloody revenge. The solid contains Lee Sin-young (“Rebound”), Park Yu-rim (“Ballerina”), Kim Myung-min (“V.I.P.”) and Park Hae-soo (“Squid Game 1”), alongside Taiwanese actors Chen Yi-Wen (“The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon”), Wang Po-Chieh (“Eye of the Storm”) and Austin Lin (“96 Minutes”).
An incomplete minimize screened on the Sitges Worldwide Improbable Movie Competition final 12 months and on the Brussels Worldwide Improbable Movie Competition, the place it gained the Silver Raven Award. The upgraded full-length model will obtain its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Market.
The movie is produced by Park’s personal Gold Moon Footage and co-produced by Studio & New. Mindmark, a artistic content material studio below the Shinsegae Group, whose latest slate contains “Boss,” “A Normal Family,” and “Love Reset,” serves as presenter.
Park is greatest recognized for “New World,” the “The Witch” franchise, and “Night in Paradise,” a Netflix unique that screened out of competitors on the 2020 Venice Worldwide Movie Competition.
Finecut may also maintain a 15-minute footage presentation on the Cannes Movie Marketplace for “Long Long Night,” a 3D animated function primarily based on an award-winning Korean novel. The story traces the final rhino of his type and a penguin hatched from an deserted egg. The supply novel has been printed in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey, with a China version forthcoming, and has since been tailored as a stage musical.
The corporate moreover represents July Jung’s “Dora,” chosen for this 12 months’s Administrators’ Fortnight at Cannes — Jung’s third consecutive Cannes invitation following “Next Sohee” and “A Girl at My Door.” The movie stars Kim Doyeon and Ando Sakura.
