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EXCLUSIVE: Charades person acquired world income authorities for Canadian head Leah Nelson’s Alzheimer’s-themed animated characteristic debut Tangles, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and Seth Rogen successful nan sound cast, ahead of its world premiere successful Cannes.
They will motorboat world income successful Cannes alongside UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for nan project, and are co-repping North American and Global sales.
The film, based connected Sarah Leavitt’s schematic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, will premiere arsenic a Special Screening successful Cannes and past heads to nan Annecy International Film Festival successful June, wherever it will play successful nan main competition.
The charismatic synopsis reads: “When Alzheimer’s originates to erase her mother’s vibrant personality, Sarah leaves her breathtaking life arsenic an activistic and creator successful 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family successful nan blimpish mini municipality she precocious fled. Initially assured she tin negociate nan situation, she soon realizes she must judge nan harsh, disorienting reality of nan illness to go nan girl her family needs.
The movie is produced by Vicky Patel, Steve Barnett and Alan Powell of Monarch Media; Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Alex McAtee and Madeline Blair of Point Grey Pictures; Ross Murray, Teresa Toews done head Nelson and Jay Grandin’s Giant Ant Films; Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen Ray and Sophie Hoegh done LYLAS Pictures; and Louis-Dreyfus.
Producers Patel, Rogen and Miller Rogen are longtime Alzheimer’s activists, having been affected by nan illness successful very individual ways.
Patel’s precocious begetter was diagnosed pinch nan illness successful 2003, inspiring her to go 1 of nan nation’s starring fundraisers for encephalon subject research. Miller Rogen mislaid her grandmother, grandfather and mother to nan disease, prompting she and hubby Rogen to recovered Hilarity for Charity, a nationalist nonprofit that cares for families impacted by Alzheimer’s disease.
Emmy-Award winners Louis-Dreyfus and Rogen and Academy Award Nominee Cranston are joined successful nan sound formed by Abbi Jacobson, Beanie Feldstein, Samira Wiley, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon and newcomer Fern Grandin.
Nelson adapted nan schematic caller alongside Sarah Leavitt and Trev Renney.
Nelson is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Louis-Dreyfus is repped by CAA and Latham & Watkins. Rogen is repped by UTA, Principal Entertainment, and Toczek Suddleson Law Group.
Charades heads to Cannes pinch 10 films pinch successful Official Selection and nan parallel sections, pinch its lineup besides featuring Palme d’Or contenders Parallel Tales and A Man of his Time arsenic good arsenic Cannes Critics’ Opener In Waves and Directors’ Fortnight selections I See Buildings Fall Like Lightening by Clio Bernard.
