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10.06.2022 - 15:01 / variety.com
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSND has closed a flurry of sales across its slate, including the animated feature “The Jungle Bunch: World Tour,” the French comedy “Ooh La la,” and the international melodrama “The Braid.” Produced by leading animation studio TAT Productions, “The Jungle Bunch: World Tour” is the sequel to the animated feature hit “The Jungle Bunch – The 3D Movie” which was one of the highest grossing French productions worldwide in 2017 and sold to over 70 territories. The spinoff movies expand on the popular animated series “The Jungle Bunch” which follows the adventures of a group of misfit animals on a mission to protect their kingdom.
In “The Jungle Bunch: World Tour,” a mysterious super-villain covers the jungle with a toxic pink foam that explodes on contact with water, prompting the heroic animals to set off on a race-against-time journey around the world to find an antidote before the start of the rainy season. After introducing the project to buyers at Cannes with a script and sizzle reel, SND sold it to Nos in Portugal, Praesens in Switzerland, Grand Ent in the Middle East, AQS in Czech Republic and Slovakia, Blitz in Ex Yougslavia, Acme in the Baltics, Redcape in Israel, Njuta in Scandinavia and Vertigo in Hungary.
The CGI-animated film will be released in France by SND. Ramy Nahas, head of international sales and distribution at SND, will be attending the Annecy film market (MIFA) to meet buyers and pursue negotiations started at Cannes.
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told GQ magazine that he was told gold worth millions of dollars was known to be buried under Château Miraval, his 1,000-acre estate in Provence.“I got obsessed,” Pitt, 58, told the mag.“Like for a year, this was all I could think about, just the excitement of it all,” said the Missouri-raised actor.“Maybe it has something to do with where I grew up, because in the Ozark Mountains there were always stories of hidden caches of gold.”Pitt said he even brought radar equipment during his year scouring the vast estate, which is now part of a bitter lawsuit with his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, whom he bought it with in 2008 and married there in 2014.He never found any gold — and later realized that the man who told him the initial tall tale had been seeking investments for a radar company. It was not clear if it was the same equipment that he bought for the dig.It proved to be “pretty foolish in the end,” Pitt admitted.“It was just the hunt that was exciting,” said the star who makes up to $20 million a movie, according to the GQ profile.The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.
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Brad Pitt wants his day in court!
Battle of the exes. Brad Pitt filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Angelina Jolie in February 2022, claiming that she illegally sold her shares of Miraval, a French company including a chateau and vineyard that the former couple purchased together in the south of France.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s legal battle is far from over, now that the actor has accused his ex of seeking to intentionally harm the wine business they co-owned together since 2008 in the South of France, as she is selling her part of the business and he is not happy about it.The Hollywood actor is suing Angelina for selling her stake in Château Miraval, which was previously bought for 25 million euros, detailing that they previously agreed they would not sell their half without permission of the other, making it a “violation of the parties’ agreement.”Pitt described Jolie’s buyer, who is Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, as “a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions,” stating that he does not approve of her actions.He also explains that the actress has “contributed nothing” to the business he “carefully built,” growing it into a “multimillion-dollar international success story,” and he claims that the sale has launched a “hostile” takeover.The legal documents also state that “Through the purported sale, Jolie sought to inflict harm on Pitt,” adding that “Jolie knew and intended that Shefler and his affiliates would try to control the business Pitt had built and to undermine Pitt’s investment in Miraval.”The lawsuit states that the new buyer “has gained notoriety through cut-throat business tactics and dubious professional associations” and making the sale would jeopardize “the reputation of the brand Pitt so carefully built.”And while Angeline has yet to respond, Pitt described the success of the business in the lawsuit, declaring that “though she benefited from Miraval’s success, Jolie had no involvement in these efforts.”
Brad Pitt is accusing Angelina Jolie of shady dealings with an apparent “Russian oligarch” regarding the sale of her stake in Pitt’s beloved French vineyard Chateau Miraval!
Brad Pitt is accusing Angelina Jolie of trying to damage him by secretly selling her stake in his French vineyard to a “Russian oligarch” with “poisonous intentions”. The ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ actor, 58, also alleges in a new court filing there is a plan to seize total control of his multi-million dollar wine passion project. Angelina, 47, sold half of the booming Château Miraval winery to a company run by Yuri Shefler, 54, who owns the firm that produces flagship Russian vodka Stolichnaya, rebranded Stoli.
It’s not all sunshine and rosé. The latest filing in Brad Pitt‘s ongoing lawsuit against Angelina Jolie regarding their winery has Pitt’s lawyers accusing the Oscar winner of contributing “nothing” to the brand and intentionally seeking to harm the business.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based sales company Charades has closed a raft of deals on “Forever Young,” Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s film which competed at Cannes and earned a warm critical welcome. “Forever Young” opens at the end of the 1980s in Paris and follows a young troupe of comedians who have just have been admitted to Les Amandiers, the prestigious theater school headed by Patrice Chéreau. Bruni Tedeschi wrote the script alongside Agnès De Sacy and regular collaborator Noémie Lvovsky.
Manori Ravindran International EditorCannes competition title “Pacifiction,” from “Liberté” director Albert Serra, has been acquired for the U.S. by specialty distributors Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films.Serra won the Un Certain Regard section’s Special Jury Prize in 2019 for “Liberté” and cracked the festival’s official selection this year with “Pacifiction.”The film is set on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, and centers on the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official, whose role brings him to navigate both the high-end “establishment” and shady venues where he mingles with the locals.
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