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Neon has acquired James Gray’s latest feature, Paper Tiger.
Written and directed by Gray, nan movie stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller. The communicative has been described arsenic tense and gritty. The crippled follows 2 brothers who prosecute nan American Dream—only to go entangled successful a strategy that turns retired to beryllium excessively bully to beryllium true.
The charismatic synopsis reads: As they effort to navigate their measurement done an ever-more vulnerable world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by nan Russian “Mafiya.” Their enslaved originates to fray, and betrayal—once utterly unthinkable—now becomes each excessively possible.
The movie has been produced by Rodrigo Teixeira nether his RT Features banner and predominant collaborator Anthony Katagas nether AK Productions alongside Raffaella Leone, Gary Farkas, Marco Perego, Carlo Salem, and Andrea Bucko. Executive producers see Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Riccardo Maddalosso, and Emily Salveson.
Paper Tiger wasn’t announced past week during nan charismatic Cannes lineup, but nan movie has been hotly tipped arsenic 1 of this year’s precocious additions. With a U.S. woody locked, nan title is expected to beryllium announced imminently by nan festival.
A Cannes regular, Gray’s past feature, Armageddon Time, debuted connected nan Croisette successful 2022. That movie was released Stateside by Focus Features.
Variety first reported news of nan Neon deal.
