French distributor ARP has picked up all French rights Paul Schrader‘s new movie Oh, Canada forward of its world premiere in competitors in Cannes subsequent month.
The function stars Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and Jacob Elordi.
Oh, Canada reunites Schrader with Gere, greater than 40 years after their first collaboration on American Gigolo. Tailored from the Russell Banks novel Foregone, Oh, Canada sees Gere enjoying Leonard Fife, a famed American documentary filmmaker who fled to Canada as a younger man to keep away from the Vietnam Struggle draft. Dying from most cancers, he agrees to present a last interview the place he guarantees to reveals his long-held secrets and techniques, talking in entrance of his spouse (Thurman), a faithful former pupil (Imperioli), and the movie crew.
David Gonzales is the lead producer on Oh, Canada alongside Tiffany Boyle, Luisa Legislation, Scott LaStaiti, and Meghan Hanlon. Arclight Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales and WME Unbiased is co-repping home rights for the movie with Gonzales.
“We’ve been longtime admirers of Paul Schrader’s work and religious readers of Russell Banks’ books. Oh, Canada is the reunion of two masters,” mentioned ARP’s Michèle Halberstadt. “And likewise [it’s a] reunion between Paul Schrader and Richard Gere, so we felt this was an irresistible proposition.”
Schrader, who began as a screenwriter for Martin Scorsese, penning the scripts for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Final Temptation of Christ, and Bringing out the Useless, is amongst America’s most acclaimed and prolific unbiased administrators, with an extended record of credit operating from American Gigolo, Cat Individuals and Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters to his late profession inventive run of 2017’s First Reformed, The Card Counter in 2021, and 2022’s The Grasp Gardener.
Arclight Movies’ Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye, Ryan Hamilton and Brian Beckmann are government producers alongside Terri Garbarini, Tom Ogden, Andrea Bucko, Kyle Stroud, Elsa Ramo, Oliver Ridge, Andrea Chung, Kathryn M. Moseley, Eyal Rimmon and Damiano Tucci.
The French deal was negotiated between ARP and Gonzales.