Wild Bunch Worldwide (WBI) and Japan’s Gaga Company have introduced that the 2 corporations will once more collaborate on worldwide gross sales on Monster, directed by award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Gaga will deal with gross sales for Asian territories, whereas WBI will deal with worldwide territories excluding Asia. A promo will probably be accessible for consumers on the upcoming European Movie Market (EFM) at Berlin movie competition. The movie has been extensively tipped for choice at this 12 months’s Cannes.
Wild Bunch and Gaga have teamed up for gross sales on a number of of Kore-eda’s titles, beginning in 2011 with I Want, which performed on the Toronto and San Sebastian movie festivals, and extra just lately Shoplifters, which gained the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018.
Monster is scheduled for launch in Japan by way of Toho and Gaga on June 2, 2023. Scripted by Yuji Sakamoto (We Made A Stunning Bouquet) and with with music by Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, the movie stars Sakura Ando (Shoplifters), Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi and Yuko Tanaka.
The movie is produced by Genki Kawamura and Kenji Yamada for Toho, Gaga, Fuji Tv Community, AOI Professional and Kore-eda’s Bun-Buku.