EXCLUSIVE: The starry packages carry on coming on the Cannes market.
The most recent is comedy The Temptation Of Gracie, starring Celia Imrie (The Finest Unique Marigold Lodge), Isla Fisher (Wedding ceremony Crashers), Andie MacDowell (Maid), Rupert Everett (My Policeman), Franco Nero (John Wick Chapter 2), Viola Prettejohn (The Crown), and Isabella Rossellini (La Chimera). Extra forged are set to affix the ensemble.
Imrie will play Gracie Burton, an strange widow who lives quietly in Devon, however who splashes out on every week’s cookery course at a lovely castello in Italy. Unbeknownst to everybody, she is hiding a unprecedented secret. Along with her estranged workaholic daughter Carina (Fisher) and teenage granddaughter Anastasia (tbc) reluctantly in tow, the three girls rediscover one another and the sensual delights of Italy. And Gracie begins to peel again the key previous she has not confronted in over 40 years.
WestEnd Movies has acquired worldwide rights and is launching in Cannes with UTA dealing with home.
Based mostly on Santa Montefiore’s novel, Claire McCarthy (The Color Room) co-wrote the script alongside producer Chris Coen, and can direct the variation. Filming in Italy and UK is because of begin earlier than the top of the yr.
Chris Coen (Humorous Video games) produces with Eleonora Granata Jenkinson for Melograno Movies (Monica).
Santa Montefiore, whose novels have offered greater than six million copies worldwide, serves as government producer as does Richard Mansell (A Harmful Technique). Casting is by Claudia Blunt (Bonus Monitor), and director of images is Denson Baker (Ophelia).
Director McCarthy stated: “My hope is for the movie to really feel like a heat hug – effervescent, charming, filled with wit, delight and humour inside an in the end redemptive, deep, emotional and hopeful story.”
WestEnd’s managing director Maya Amsellem commented: “We love working with feminine filmmakers, and Claire is an extremely gifted director who has persistently delivered visually luxurious and efficiency pushed work. With this spectacular ensemble we all know every of those gifted actors will carry humour and spark to this forged of characters, immersed in a surprising Italian panorama and mouthwatering Italian cooking.”
Celia Imre is represented by Sarah Spear and Grace Clissold at Curtis Brown Group Ltd. Isla Fisher is represented by Sarah Spear and Grace Clissold at Curtis Brown Group Ltd. Andie MacDowell is represented by Gersh Company and RMS Productions. Rupert Everett is represented by Saskia Mulder at The Artists Partnership. Franco Nero is represented by Michelle Burke at Gavin Barker Associates. Viola Prettejohn is represented by Maya Hambro at Perception Administration & Manufacturing. Isabella Rossellini is represented by Houston Costa at UTA.
