Arna Media, the brand new Russian distribution firm launched by Capella Movie government Nadezda Motina, has stocked up on new options forward of its official launch subsequent yr.
Motina signed offers for a number of pre-sales titles eventually week’s American Movie Market, choosing up rights throughout Russia and the CIS territories for Terrible Auntie, a kids’s e-book adaptation starring Rosamund Pike (I Care a Lot) and Chloe Coleman (Huge Little Lies); interval drama The Duchess of Malfi that includes Sam Riley (Management), Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!) and Morfydd Clark (Saint Maud); and monster film The Black Demon, starring Josh Lucas (The Deep Finish).
Arna additionally secured Russian and CIS rights for Maigret, a French animated characteristic from director Patrice Leconte (Lady on the Bridge), that includes the voice skills of French star Gérard Depardieu. Montina stated she is at the moment additionally in negotiations on different pre-sale initiatives.
Arna plans to theatrically launch 12 titles a yr in Russia ranging from 2022. The brand new firm will kick off its slate with options together with Lionsgate’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, Park Chan-Wook’s crime drama Choice to Go away, the Gemma Arterton-starrer Enter the Dragons, Not Bloody Seemingly that includes Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter, in addition to Oliver Stone’s new documentary JFK Revisited: By the Wanting Glass.
Russia reopened its cinemas in the summertime of 2020 after the primary wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and has not shut them since. An infection charges throughout the nation are spiking, nonetheless, resulting in fears that Russia could possibly be heading in the direction of a winter lockdown. The federal government carried out a nationwide obligatory paid vacation aimed toward curbing the unfold of the coronavirus, however that got here to an finish on Monday.
