GKIDS Acquires ‘Bambi Meets Apocalypse Now’ Film

GKIDS has efficiently acquired the North American theatrical distribution rights to acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Alberto Vázquez’s genre-bending adult-animated movie Unicorn Wars, which is being described as “Bambi meets Apocalypse Now.” It’s anticipated to make its U.S. premiere on the upcoming Improbable Fest, which shall be adopted by its home launch in early 2023.

“There’s no one on Earth who may make a movie like Unicorn Wars besides Alberto Vázquez,” GKIDS President David Jesteadt mentioned in a press release. “We’re proud to companion once more with this distinctive filmmaker on his richly layered and darkly humorous new movie about cute characters doing horrific issues. It continues to hang-out me.”

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Unicorn Wars is a Spanish-French animated horror-comedy directed and written by Goya and Annecy Cristal-winning director Alberto Vázquez. This marks the newest collaboration between Vázquez and GKIDS following the native distribution of the director’s Birdboy: The Forgotten Youngsters and quick movie Decorado.

“The movie is a provocative and unusually stunning horror comedy, who makes use of its outrageous candy-colored premise to discover non secular zealotry, the tortured legacies of army fascism, and the depths of the soul,” reads the synopsis. “For ages, teddy bears have been locked in an ancestral warfare towards their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will full the prophecy and usher in a brand new period. Aggressive, assured teddy bear Bluet and his delicate, withdrawn brother Tubby couldn’t be extra completely different. As the trials and humiliation of teddy bear bootcamp flip to the psychedelic horrors of a fight tour within the Magic Forest, their difficult historical past and more and more strained relationship will come to find out the destiny of all the warfare.

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Unicorn Wars is government produced by Chelo Loureiro, Iván Miñambres, and Nicolas Schmerkin.