FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES ACQUIRES
PAOLO SORRENTINO’S “YOUTH”
STARRING MICHAEL CAINE, HARVEY KEITEL, RACHEL WEISZ,
PAUL DANO AND JANE FONDA
Specialty Arm Acquires North American Rights
Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that the
company has acquired North American rights to YOUTH, starring Oscar winner
Michael Caine, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, Oscar winner Jane Fonda,
Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel and Paul Dano. The film is
written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, director of Italy’s
Oscar foreign language winner THE GREAT BEAUTY, and produced by Nicola
Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori for Indigo Film in
collaboration with Medusa Film. YOUTH is coproduced by Fabio
Conversi for Barbary Films, Jérôme Seydoux
for Pathé,
Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen for Number 9, David Kosse for Film4, and Anne Walser for C-Films.
YOUTH will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and is scheduled to be released in 2015.
“I’m
delighted and proud that Fox Searchlight has acquired my new film:
Youth. As a movie lover, I
have always appreciated Fox Searchlight’s choices which have given us
the opportunity to see beautiful and unforgettable films. This time, as
the auteur, I am honored with the faith they have placed in me and the
film," said Sorrentino.
“Paolo’s
masterful film projects an extraordinary wisdom and grace. Anchored by
Michael Caine’s emotionally riveting performance and buoyed by an
exceptional supporting
cast, YOUTH is, simply put, a film about life and living told in the
most cinematic of terms,” said Utley and Gilula.
“I
am very happy that Fox Searchlight has picked up Youth. To secure a
North American distribution with such a prestigious company,
which always chooses and promotes its films with the utmost care, is a
very important signal for Italian Cinema," said producer Giuliano.
From
Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Italy’s Oscar foreign language winner
THE GREAT BEAUTY comes YOUTH, about two longtime friends vacationing in
the Swiss Alps. Oscar
winning actor Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and
conductor, who brings along his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend
Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker. While Mick scrambles to
finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be
his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical
career. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of
the most important experiences can come later in life.
The
deal was brokered by Fox Searchlight’s Senior Vice President of
Acquisitions & Co-Productions Ray Strache and Executive Vice
President of Business Affairs Megan O’Brien with Muriel Sauzay, Pathe’s
Executive Vice President International
Sales, who represented the film.
Fox
Searchlight Pictures is a specialty film company that both finances and
acquires motion pictures. It has its own marketing and distribution
operations, and its films
are distributed internationally by Twentieth Century Fox. Fox
Searchlight Pictures is a unit of 21st Century Fox.
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