EXCLUSIVE: Mike Goodridge’s rising UK manufacturing firm Good Chaos, which is in Cannes with Un Sure Regard title Santosh, has had a minority fairness funding from Cameron Lamb’s Paris-based audio platform Alexander.
The funding will give Alexander a chance to develop its rising non-fiction IP library, throughout movie and TV codecs, whereas Good Chaos has been capable of develop its headcount, operations and manufacturing attain.
The businesses’ first joint movie undertaking is Spouse, Witch, Poisoner, Whore, a interval thriller primarily based on the Alexander audiobook by Katherine Rundell, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
The official synopsis reads: “Stunning, wealthy, intelligent, and decided English noblewoman Frances Howard was a stunning movie star on the court docket of James I. However when the sad teenage bride rebelled towards the patriarchy of her day, she was placed on trial for witchcraft, infidelity and homicide – very practically on the expense of her life.”
Good Chaos is on a roll. This 12 months, it has premiered Mikko Makela’s Sebastian in Sundance, and Qiu Yang’s Some Rain Should Fall in Berlin, the place it gained the Encounters Particular Jury Award. Sandhya Suri’s Santosh has been chosen for Un Sure Regard in Cannes, whereas Baltasar Kormakur’s romantic drama Contact opens within the U.S. via Focus Options on July 12 and internationally via Common Photos Worldwide all year long.
Set to shoot later this 12 months are Edward Berger’s The Ballad Of A Small Participant for Netflix and Laszlo Nemes’ Orphan which is being launched on the Cannes market by Charades and New Europe Movie Gross sales.
Alexander is a direct-to-consumer unique audio platform, with narrations from the likes of Vanessa Kirby, Dan Stevens, John Malkovich, David Oyelowo, Natasha Lyonne and Emma Corrin, and writers reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Reijneveld, Colum McCann, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Michael Rezendes, Xiaolu Guo and physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Lamb was beforehand a producer on films together with Wim Wenders pic Submergence and 2014 Sundance title Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter.