“We have the new Jim Jarmusch film. We are a co-producer on that, and it’s already confirmed to be in competition at Venice,” Mubi CEO Efe Cakarel said this afternoon during a Q&A session at SXSW London.
The new film from Jarmusch is titled Father Mother Sister Brother and stars Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat. We’d heard from many sources that the film was heading for the Lido, but this is the first time it has been confirmed publicly.
The official synopsis for Father Mother Sister Brother reads: Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
Elsewhere during this afternoon’s session, Cakarel told the SXSW crowd that Mubi has bought La grazia, the new film by Paolo Sorrentino, which he said “is possibly going to be in Venice.”
La grazia sees Sorrentino reunite with his longtime collaborator Toni Servillo. There are currently no details about the film’s plot, but we understand it will feature a love story. Sorrentino has penned the screenplay.
Later during the session, Cakarel was quizzed on whether Mubi has any interest in pushing forward into programming and producing TV series. He told the crowd that series have long been an interest for the Mubi team, but due to business constraints, they had traditionally steered clear of that space. He now believes that that can change.
“We’ve licensed all three seasons of Twin Peaks, which have never never shown together before. That’s coming this month, and we’ve also acquired Wong Kar-wai’s new TV series,” Cakarel said before adding: “And if you’re asking if we have a series in development that we are producing: Yes.”
“I can’t wait for it to launch. It’s a series in Japanese, and it’s so cool. I can’t wait to start talking about it,” he said.
Mubi debuted it’s first solely-produced production this year in Cannes. It was Kelly Reichardt’s latest flick The Mastermind. The film stars Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) alongside Josh O’Connor. Set in a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, the story follows JB Mooney (O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, who plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
“We want to participate more in the making of films going forward,” Cakarel told the crowd of his future plans for the company.
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