EXCLUSIVE: We perceive that Magnolia Footage has acquired U.S. rights to The Carpenter’s Son, a not often instructed story about Jesus’ childhood starring Nicolas Cage as The Carpenter, FKA Twigs as Mom and Noah Jupe because the Boy. The Lotfy Nathan (Harka) directed film is at the moment in post-production, with a theatrical launch deliberate for later this 12 months.
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Impressed by the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, The Carpenter’s Son tells the darkish story of a household hiding out in Roman Egypt. Identified solely as ‘the Boy’, the son is pushed to doubt by one other mysterious little one and rebels towards his guardian, the Carpenter, revealing inherent powers and a destiny past his comprehension. As he workouts his personal energy, the Boy and his household develop into the goal of horrors each pure and divine.
“With The Carpenter’s Son, Lotfy Nathan has delivered a genre-bending spectacle that defies expectations at each flip,” mentioned Magnolia Footage co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley.
Nathan additionally wrote the film. Julie Viez produced for Cinenovo, with Alex Hughes and Riccardo Maddalosso at Spacemaker, and Cage on behalf of Saturn Movies.
David Levine and Nick Shumaker govt produced on behalf of Nameless Content material alongside Noëmie Devide for Goodfellas, Jennifer Venditti, Nathan and Theo Vieljeux. Eugene Kotlyarenko govt produced on behalf of Spacemaker.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia’s SVP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, with AC Unbiased, a division of AC Studios, WME Unbiased, Goodfellas, and Feig Finkel LLP on behalf of the filmmakers.
Goodfellas has secured gross sales in different territories, together with France (Le Pacte), Benelux (18K Movies), UK, Ireland (Altitude), Portugal (Cinemundo), Bulgaria (Beta Movie), Former Yugoslavia, Adriatics (MCF), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Romania (Independenta), Poland (Kino Swiat), Turkey (Sugarworkz), Latin America (Imagem), Indonesia (Prima Cinema), Mongolia (Movie Bridge).
