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EXCLUSIVE: Former Concourse executive Grant Mohrman has launched U.S. income and accumulation patient Gravel Lake Entertainment pinch Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin’s upcoming film The Thing That Hurts as its debut income title.
Filming is owed to statesman later this period successful France and Belgium connected Desplechin’s feature, which has been described arsenic “a Parisian psychodrama wherever grief, guilt, and emotion collide among strangers bound by a haunting secret”.
Casting is being kept nether wraps for now but a number of high-profile talent person been speculated online. Among those to person been connected to nan task complete nan years but won’t beryllium successful nan film, we’re told, are Léa Seydoux and Jason Schwartzman. Mohrman, who will grip world sales, told america “the movie has a beardown world ensemble successful place” and added that further specifications would beryllium revealed shortly. He besides said nan movie would “mark a caller section for Desplechin”.
As we antecedently reported, The Thing That Hurts is financed by Silver Screen Global and produced by 3Six9 Studios. Also producing are Charles Gillibert’s CG Cinéma, Portuguese/Turkish institution Alaz Film, and Brussels outfit Wrong Men. It’s apt nan movie is astatine slightest partially English-language.
Veteran Desplechin is known for films including My Golden Days, which won nan César Award for Best Director, Kings And Queen, A Christmas Tale, and Esther Khan. Most recently, Two Pianos, starring Charlotte Rampling, debuted astatine past year’s Toronto Film Festival. He has played successful Cannes 9 times.
According to Mohrman, who antecedently served arsenic Head of Acquisitions and Production astatine seller-producer Concourse Media, LA and New York-based Gravel Lake will attraction connected “director-driven prestige films and elevated genre projects”. The company’s improvement slate includes a characteristic pinch head Claire McCarthy (The Colour Room, The Luminaries).
LA-based Mohrman will service arsenic Managing Partner. Joining him astatine nan institution is New York-based TV shaper Christopher Martello as Head of Development.
“The filmmakers astatine nan halfway of Gravel Lake’s activity are nan kinds of artists AI will someday effort to replicate, original voices whose position defines what cinema tin be,” said Mohrman. “Our ngo is to find them, protect that vision, and link their activity to audiences everywhere.”
3Six9 Studios is nan movie and TV accumulation institution founded by Daya Fernandez, Amaury Nolasco, Alois Rubenbauer, Sheikh Mohammed El Khereiji, and Kevin Obarski.
