EXCLUSIVE: Moby and Lindsay Hicks of Little Walnut have signed connected arsenic executive producers for Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen’s animated characteristic movie Jim Queen, which is world premiering astatine Cannes this evening.
Directed by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen, Jim Queen was written by Athane pinch Simon Balteaux and Brice Chevillard. The movie is produced by David Alric and Arthur Delabays. Arthur Cohen, Moby and Lindsay Hicks executive-produce. French outfit Bobbypills produces.
The synopsis reads: “A cheery influencer’s life crumbles erstwhile a microorganism turns Paris’s cheery men straight. He teams up pinch a twink to find a rumored cure successful nan Marais district.” The squad posted a short clip to instagram this week, which clocked 1.6M views successful 48 hours.
The woody was brokered by executive shaper Arthur Cohen. Global Constellation represents worldwide sales.
Musician Moby commented: “When Lindsay and I started Little Walnut, our dream was to find smart, interesting, unique, funny movies pinch beardown breakout imaginable to thief produce. And Jim Queen is 100% each of those things.”
Lindsay Hicks added: “From nan infinitesimal I laid eyes connected Jim Queen, I knew I wanted to beryllium a portion of his world. This movie encompasses nan heart, wit, boldness, and ocular ambition we’re ever looking to support. We’re excited to thief build nan movie successful a measurement that preserves what makes it truthful very typical while besides reasoning expansively astir its future.”
Marco Nguyen also commented: “As nan world grows much divided, thing feels much uniting than a movie that makes you laughter astatine yourself and emotion nan personification adjacent to you.”
Little Walnut astir precocious signed arsenic co-executive producers for nan non-fiction movie Welcome Space Brothers, about The Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling belief school, self-healing community, and filmmaking collective. They are besides co-producers on Selah, a short movie from Lara Everly premiering astatine Tribeca 2026.
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