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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired each authorities successful North and Latin America, India and Southeast Asian TV to Iron Boy, Louis Clichy’s hand-painted animated feature.
Premiering successful nan Un Certain Regard conception astatine this year’s Cannes Film Festival, nan puerility play has drawn immoderate enthusiastic notices from critics.
The French-language movie is co-written by Clichy and Franck Salomé, and marks Clichy’s first movie arsenic a solo director. Clichy, who spent years astatine Pixar wherever he worked arsenic an animator connected Wall-E and Up, made nan films utilizing ink statement drafting reminiscent of Manga.
The movie “follows 11-year-old Christophe successful agrarian France, arsenic he tries to unrecorded up to his rigid and distant begetter connected nan family farm. But nan young boy starts to thin complete and illness without informing — connected nan tractor, astatine school, astatine dinner… A expert finds nan solution: Christophe must deterioration an robust corset to support himself upright. Forced to reinvent his life distant from nan farm, Christophe discovers a caller passion for music, meets a caller friend, and follows her into his first mischief. But will immoderate of this really hole what is retired of balance?”
The sound formed includes Gary Clichy, Rod Paradot, Brune Moulin, Dimitri Colas, Aurélie Vassort, Alexandre Astier and Jean-Pascal Zadi pinch animation by Chloë Aubert.
Pic is produced by Céline Vanlint and Nicolas de Rosanbo for Eddy Cinéma (France) and co-produced by Fabrice Delville and Christophe Toulemonde for Beside Production (Belgium), Agathe Sofer and Alexandre Astier for Regular Production (France) on pinch France 3 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma and RTBF.
The woody was negotiated betwixt Sony Pictures Classics and Playtime, connected behalf of nan filmmakers.
“Coming into Cannes, we knew nan movie would beryllium good received, but its occurrence exceeded moreover our expectations some successful position of income and reviews from nan world press. It feels only earthy that Iron Boy has recovered a location successful nan U.S. pinch SPC. Over nan years, we built a beardown moving narration pinch Tom, Michael, and Dylan. They are not only exceptional distributors, admittedly among nan very champion successful nan industry, but besides group of awesome sensitivity and taste. They will return this movie very far,” said Co-CEO of Playtime Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, who brokered nan deal.
