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Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie, Laura Dern-Led ‘Monsanto’ Goes to Netflix

Netflix has landed John Lee Hancock‘s fact-based authorized drama characteristic Monsanto.

Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern star within the high-profile package deal that was acquired at this yr’s Cannes movie market.

Hancock (The Blind Facet) directs the film from a script he wrote with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson. Producers on the movie embody Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Jon Levin, Philip Schulz-Deyle, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick.

Monsanto facilities on the true story of untested lawyer Brent Wisner (Powell) taking up the chemical firm Monsanto on behalf of consumer Dewayne “Lee” Johnson (Mackie), a groundskeeper who used the model’s weed-killing product Roundup. Dern performs Dr. Melinda Rogers, Monsanto’s chief toxicologist.

CAA Media Finance dealt with the film’s U.S. rights and negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers, whereas Rocket Science repped worldwide rights and launched the mission at Cannes.

Powell ascended to the A-list with final yr’s Sony romantic comedy Anybody however You reverse Sydney Sweeney and might seen this summer time in Netflix’s Hit Man and Common’s motion sequel Twisters.

Mackie starred within the latest Peacock collection Twisted Steel and can lead Disney’s 2025 superhero characteristic Captain America: Courageous New World. Dern, who landed an Oscar for Marriage Story, starred within the latest Apple TV+ collection Palm Royale and Common’s 2022 characteristic Jurassic World Dominion.

As a part of his dialog with The Hollywood Reporter for a latest cowl story, Powell famous that any in-the-works mission with which he’s been concerned now has a excessive stage of curiosity from Hollywood dealmakers.

“I’ve labored actually onerous for a very long time, placing issues collectively and simply attempting to get them in form sufficient for folks to offer a shit,” Powell mentioned. “Then lastly you get to a spot the place individuals are similar to, ‘Yeah, let’s do it!’ and out of the blue you’re taking part in musical chairs with your self. You’re like, ‘Wait, do I sit in all these chairs proper now?’”

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Gravitas Ventures buys Israel Adesanya Documentary Stylebender

Gravitas Ventures has picked up the documentary Stylebender, on the UFC Middleweight phenomenon and former world champion Israel Adesanya, for North America.

Zoë McIntosh adopted Adesanya, recognized within the ring as “the final stylebender” for 5 years making the non-fiction function, which premiered on the Tribeca movie pageant final 12 months. Stylebender is much less a basic sports activities doc than an exploration of Adesanya’s origins, household upbringing, and his struggles, as a shy Nigerian child, rising up in rural New Zealand within the 2000s, to seek out his personal means on this planet. We see Adesanya working along with his coach and mentor, Eugene Bareman, in addition to his therapist, as he discusses problems with masculinity, bullying, and psychological well being.

“After screening Stylebender in Tribeca, I may really feel in my bones there was one thing supremely particular about this movie, and about Adesanya’s story,” stated Gravitas’ Danielle Gasher. “There’s a weak and deeply human high quality to the movie, which I consider can be felt far and enormous by audiences throughout North America.”

Gravitas has a expertise for recognizing worldwide breakout docs. In 2021 the corporate picked up the Chilean documentary The Mole Agent, which went on to safe an Oscar nomination for finest documentary.

The deal for Stylebender was negotiated by Gravitas’ Danielle Gasher, VP Acquisitions & Worldwide Gross sales, with Mister Smith Leisure’s SVP Worldwide Gross sales & Acquisitions, Shane Kelly. Mister Smith Leisure co-reps North American rights with WME for the movie. Ahi Movies is dealing with the discharge of Stylebender in Australia and New Zealand.

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Anthony Hopkins plays classic composer George Frideric Handel in Film

Anthony Hopkins, who has embodied a solid of real-life characters in his lengthy profession, starting from Richard Nixon (in Nixon) and Sigmund Freund (Freud’s Final Session) to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV film The Bunker), is about to play composer George Frideric Handel within the upcoming characteristic The King of Covent Backyard.

Minamata filmmaker Andrew Levitas is hooked up to direct the biopic targeted on how the German-British Baroque composer created his 1741 masterpiece Messiah. Tim Slover wrote the screenplay. Dan Lupovitz and Kevan Van Thompson will produce.

Opera star Katherine Jenkins is hooked up as an govt producer on the venture and can be concerned as a musical advisor on the venture in addition to serving to with future advertising efforts. Peter Touche (Navy Wives, The Son) can be govt producing.

Embankment Movies is dealing with world pre-sales on The King of Covent Backyard and can be pitching it to patrons on the Cannes Movie Market later this month. The pitch: “a powerfully majestic celebration of genius breaking all the principles to create an anthem inspiring the favored creativeness of worldwide audiences.” The movie is eying a late fall 2025 launch.

Embankment additionally dealt with worldwide gross sales on Hopkins’ The Father, which earned the Welsh actor his second finest actor Oscar. His first, after all, got here for taking part in Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs.

In a press release, Levitas mentioned the movie’s story will hinge upon “an unlikely pair, who meet one another at their lowest factors, and collectively create a powerful never-heard-before ‘sound for the folks’: the groundbreaking masterpiece Messiah, the annual world bestseller for near 300 years.” He mentioned Slover’s script “is populated by passionate, real-life expertise in all its colour and grime, making a riveting human story with shocking up to date relevancy, common human connectivity and religious uplift.”

Hopkins is represented by UTA and Mitch Smelkinson at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.

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Ruben Östlund, Lorcan Finnegan Projects at Cannes Investors Circle

The brand new initiatives from two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (The Triangle of Disappointment, The Sq.); Irish director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium and upcoming Nicolas Cage drama The Surfer); and Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska, director of Letitia Wright/Tamara Lawrance-starrer The Silent Twins, can be pitching to potential backers at this yr’s Cannes Traders Circle, an occasion organized by the Cannes movie market that goals to deliver collectively prime art-house expertise with producers and financiers.

The 2024 Cannes Traders Circle occasion, held on Could 19 on the Plage des Palmes, will showcase 10 never-before-seen movies in numerous levels of improvement to an unique group of traders and movie financing specialists. The initiatives vary in funds from €1 million ($1.07 million) to greater than €20 million ($21.4 million) and have been particularly curated by the market.

“The purpose of the Marché du Movie with the Cannes Traders Circle is to assist artistically and financially
formidable movie initiatives,” Marché du Movie government director Guillaume Esmiol stated. “For the
second time, we’re choosing initiatives of the best caliber to current to top-tier traders. In mild of
the present monetary panorama and Cannes’ distinctive positioning, we imagine it’s related to discover new
alternatives for funding by way of personal funding.”

Additionally presenting their new initiatives can be Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose Ahed’s Knee gained the Cannes jury prize in 2021; Laura Samani, whose debut Small Physique was a 2021 Critics’ Week spotlight; and Japanese director Chie Hayakawa, whose speculative sci-fi movie Plan 75 was a Digicam d’Or particular point out in 2022.

Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, Uta Beria from Georgia, Romanian director Teodora Ana Mihai and Venezuelan filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand may even pitch their newest options.

The Cannes Traders Circle occasion will kick off with an business keynote and a set of panels on unbiased movie financing forward of the invitation-only pitching and networking periods.