One of the vital anticipated crossover arthouse films available in the market, two time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s The Leisure System Is Down, has scored robust pre-sales for Paris-based Coproduction Workplace, we will reveal.
The starry characteristic, led by Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, and Keanu Reeves, has been pre-sold to UK (Lionsgate Movies), Germany & Austria (Alamode Movie / Wild Bunch Germany), Italy (Fortunate Pink / Teodora Movie), Australia and New Zealand (Sharmill Movies), Canada (Elevation Photos), Spain (Elástica / BTeam Photos), Benelux (September Movie), Switzerland (Bord Cadre movies), Jap Europe (Gutek Movie / Aerofilms), Greece (Feelgood Leisure), Portugal (Alambique Filmes), Baltics (Filmstop), Latin America (Solar Distribution Group), Center East (Falcon) and China (Street Photos).
As we beforehand revealed, the movie was snapped up in Cannes by A24 for U.S. rights. SF Studios is releasing in Nordic markets in a deal negotiated with the movie’s Swedish producer Plattform Produktion.
The darkly satirical mission is ready on a long-haul flight between England and Australia the place the leisure system fails and passengers are compelled to face the horror of being bored.
Filming started in late January 2024 and is ready to run by the tip of Might, with principal pictures primarily happening on a studio set constructed round an actual Boeing 747 acquired and fitted out for the manufacturing. Under is a first-look at Östlund on set.
Additionally starring are Nicholas Braun, Tobias Menzies, Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie, Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo, Elle Piper, Thibaud Dooms, Sanna Sundqvist, Tea Stjärne and Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso.
Pic is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with Important Movies (Germany) and Parisienne de Manufacturing (France). Co-producers are BBC Movie, Movie i Väst, Sveriges Tv, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/ARTE, SF Studios, Eye Eye Photos (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark), and Good Chaos (UK).
Financiers are the Swedish Movie Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, with the participation of Canal+, Disney+ and ARTE France and with the assist of Artistic Europe MEDIA. It’s produced in affiliation with Proton Cinema, Bord Cadre movies, Sovereign Movies, Cinema Inutile, Gold Rush Photos.
Nadine Rothschild, head of gross sales at Coproduction Workplace, stated: “We’re proud to be working with such skilled, passionate distributors, all of them real movie lovers who can not wait to find The Leisure System is Down. Ruben’s creative imaginative and prescient stands out and can as soon as once more provoke ideas and discussions. Many of those distributors have been releasing Ruben’s movies for greater than a decade now. We now have succeeded in hitting hardly ever seen costs for impartial distributors, matching the sky-high ambitions of this mission”.
Ruben Östlund on the set of The Leisure System Is Down.
