Not Just ‘Bola Negra’, Netflix Closing Deal For Léa Seydoux ‘Gentle Monster’ In Oscar Season Ramp-Up – Cannes

EXCLUSIVE: We’re proceeding that Netflix is adjacent to acquiring Cannes Competition title Gentle Monster starring Léa Seydoux. Word is that nan streamer believes nan Parisian character has a changeable successful nan Oscar Best Actress race. The pic reps nan first clip that nan Spectre and No Time to Die actress sings onscreen. Details are still being worked out, but we perceive nan woody is for North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand. MK2 Films is trading Gentle Monster here astatine Cannes.

The streamer is besides closing successful connected a $4M-$5M woody for Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo directed Penélope Cruz title La Bola Negra which received an unprecedented and jaw dropping 20-minute opinionated ovation present astatine Cannes.

“If they onshore Gentle Monster, between that and La Bola Negra, Netflix is playing their Oscar game,” says 1 source.

In Gentle Monster from Austrian director Marie Kreutzer , Seydoux plays an experimental pianist who relocates pinch her family to nan countryside. There she deals pinch nan dawning knowledge that her beloved hubby Philip (Laurence Rupp) has been accused of having a 2nd life online arsenic a pedophile pornographer. She besides contends pinch his panic attacks. Kreutzer drew inspiration for nan movie from an article successful nan German play newspaper, Die Zeit.

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