Exclusive: Natalie Portman has joined the voice cast for French director Ugo Bienvenu’s upcoming animated feature Arco about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era.
Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the movie revolves around 10 year old rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future, 2932.
His maiden journey in his multi-colored suit does not go to plan. He loses control and veers off course to land in a near future, 2075, where Iris, a girl the same age as Arco, witnesses his fall and then makes it her mission to get him home.
Arco
Arco is the first feature for Bienvenu after short films Maman and L’entretien and comic books.
Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.
Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the movie revolves around 10 year old rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future, 2932.
His maiden journey in his multi-colored suit does not go to plan. He loses control and veers off course to land in a near future, 2075, where Iris, a girl the same age as Arco, witnesses his fall and then makes it her mission to get him home.
Arco
Arco is the first feature for Bienvenu after short films Maman and L’entretien and comic books.
- 5/13/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Animation-focused sales company Gebeka International has acquired world sales rights to an upcoming 4K remastered version of Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 animated feature Angel’s Egg.
Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise.
Angel’s Egg was first released on video by Japanese publishing and media company Tokuma Shoten in 1985, and, with time, it has come to be regarded by anime fans as a masterpiece that holds keys to Oshii’s later works.
The surreal, allegorical work is set against the backdrop of an underwater city and revolves around a young girl who takes scrupulous care of a large egg in the belief it is an angel’s egg. When a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in a dream,...
Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise.
Angel’s Egg was first released on video by Japanese publishing and media company Tokuma Shoten in 1985, and, with time, it has come to be regarded by anime fans as a masterpiece that holds keys to Oshii’s later works.
The surreal, allegorical work is set against the backdrop of an underwater city and revolves around a young girl who takes scrupulous care of a large egg in the belief it is an angel’s egg. When a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in a dream,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The financing and development platform at Tiffcom will take place in person for the first time.
The Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (Tgfm) has revealed the 15 projects selected for financing and development at Tiffcom, the content market of Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
The 4th edition of Tgfm will take place in-person for the first time from October 25-27, having launched during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when all industry activity took place online.
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Projects include The Fox King by Malaysia’s Woo Ming Jin, whose revenge thriller Stone Turtle premiered in competition at Locarno in...
The Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (Tgfm) has revealed the 15 projects selected for financing and development at Tiffcom, the content market of Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
The 4th edition of Tgfm will take place in-person for the first time from October 25-27, having launched during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when all industry activity took place online.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Projects include The Fox King by Malaysia’s Woo Ming Jin, whose revenge thriller Stone Turtle premiered in competition at Locarno in...
- 9/20/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Gebeka is the animatoin feature specialist launched by Hildegarde and Goodfellas in 2021.
Gebeka International, a Hildegarde-Goodfellas company has signed a slew of international sales for animated features Wojtek Wawszczyk’s Diplodocus and Kristina Dufková’s Living Large.
Dinosaur adventure tale Diplodocus has sold to Signature Entertainment in the UK, and across Europe to Vertigo Films in Spain, Cinemundo in Portugal, Pro Film in Bulgaria, Acme Film in the Baltics, Ads Service for Hungary and Romania, Distri7 for Benelux, Arthouse Traffic in Ukraine and Njutafilms for Scandinavia.
The film has also sold to Boxoo Entertainment for Korea and Vietnam, Forefront Media Group in South Africa,...
Gebeka International, a Hildegarde-Goodfellas company has signed a slew of international sales for animated features Wojtek Wawszczyk’s Diplodocus and Kristina Dufková’s Living Large.
Dinosaur adventure tale Diplodocus has sold to Signature Entertainment in the UK, and across Europe to Vertigo Films in Spain, Cinemundo in Portugal, Pro Film in Bulgaria, Acme Film in the Baltics, Ads Service for Hungary and Romania, Distri7 for Benelux, Arthouse Traffic in Ukraine and Njutafilms for Scandinavia.
The film has also sold to Boxoo Entertainment for Korea and Vietnam, Forefront Media Group in South Africa,...
- 5/24/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
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