Following world premiere in Venice, FilmNation has inked multiple collaboration deals across Europe Mariastarring Angelina Jolie as revered opera soprano Maria Callas.
The international sales agent signed agreements with Studiocanal in the UK, Germany and Poland, ARP in France and 01 Distribution in Italy, where Callas became an opera legend. In addition, there are agreements with Sun Distribution for Latin America, Spain, Portugal and South Africa, Pathe for Switzerland and The Searchers for the Benelux, among other regions.
According to real accounts, Maria Relives and reimagines the tumult, beauty, and tragedy of the world’s greatest opera singer’s final days in 1970s Paris. Venice Film Festival World Premiere Maria The audience, which included Jolie and Pablo Larraín, gave her an eight-minute standing ovation.
After premiering on Lido, the film will be released on Netflix in the US market on an undisclosed date. “I’m excited to once again be working with a team at Netflix that is so passionate about movies,” Larraín said in a statement about the deal. “This film is my most personal work to date. It is the creative imagination and psychological portrait of Maria Callas, who dedicated her life to performing for audiences around the world and finally decided to find her voice, her identity and to Sing to yourself.
Directed by Larraine and written by Steven Knight, Maria Also starring: Kody Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino.
Producers include Juan de Dios, Larraín, Jonas Dornbach and Lorenzo Mieri. The Fremantle Group financed the film, which was produced by The Apartment, Fabula, Komplizen and Fremantle.
