Andrea Arnold‘s Chook is hovering to new heights, securing distribution offers worldwide following its profitable premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition.
Cornerstone Movies, which is dealing with worldwide gross sales, confirmed the coming-of-age drama has been picked up throughout a number of main territories together with Germany (MFA), Italy (Fortunate Purple), Spain (Avalon), Japan (New Choose), and South Korea (Challan). Cornerstone additionally struck with Benelux, Scandinavia, Latin America, and others. Arthouse streamer Mubi beforehand picked up the rights for Chook for North America, in a deal co-repped between Cornerstone and CAA Media Finance, as effectively for the U.Okay., Eire, and Turkey. Advert Vitam is releasing the movie in France.
Newcomer Nykiya Adams stars in Chook as Bailey, a 12-year-old lady dwelling in a squat in North Kent together with her single dad (Barry Keoghan) and brother (Jason Buda), who’s struggling to guard her youthful siblings and herself from home violence whereas seeing connection one thing she finds in an off-beat relationship with an odd outsider identified solely as Chook (Franz Rogowski).
Arnold (Fish Tank, Purple Highway) wrote and directed Chook as a Home Productions movie with Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge producing. The movie was backed by BBC Movie, the BFI (awarding Nationwide Lottery funding), Pinky Promise, FirstGen Content material and Entry Leisure.
The British filmmaker, who this 12 months obtained the Carrosse d’Or, or Golden Coach Award, from the Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar, referred to as Chook “the toughest movie I ever made.” It marks her first characteristic since 2016’s American Honey. In between she directed the documentary Cow, which premiered in Cannes three years in the past.