EXCLUSIVE: Sola Media has sealed a raft of offers at on Twisted, U.S. animator Lino DiSalvo’s upcoming animated function for Mediawan Youngsters & Household.
The movie has offered to the Baltics (ACME), CIS (MJM Group), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF), Greece (Tanweer), Israel (Crimson Cape), Latin America (Imagem), Center East (Selim Ramia), Mongolia (The Filmbridge), Poland (Kino Swiat), Portugal (Cinemundo), Spain (Flins y Pinículas), Turkey (Bir Movie) and Ukraine (Inexperienced Gentle).
Directed by Frozen Head of Animation DiSalvo, the animation is billed as one of many greatest animated options at the moment in manufacturing in France.
Supply is slated for Q1 2027. French distributor Le Pacte is on board, alongside France 3 Cinéma and Paramount+ France.
Set in a picturesque alpine village in Italy, Twisted follows Angelina, a young person who inadvertently disrupts her city’s beloved pageant and unleashes a wave of mischievous magical creatures—every one born from a lie she tells to cowl her tracks.
To make issues proper, she embarks on a cross-country journey with the Badalisc, a reluctant, truth-telling folklore creature, in a heartfelt road-trip journey about id, neighborhood, and self-acceptance.
Additional offers are at the moment in negotiation, with extra territory bulletins anticipated within the coming weeks.
“The response to Twisted has been actually enthusiastic,” mentioned Solveig Langeland, Managing Director at Stuttgart and Munich-based Sola Media.
“Consumers are drawn not solely to the breathtaking Italian setting, but in addition to the movie’s well timed and common theme of fact versus lies and its penalties, all wrapped in a enjoyable, heartfelt journey. We’re thrilled with the sturdy gross sales and excited by the worldwide enchantment the movie is producing.”
Mediawan Youngsters & Household is out in power in Cannes this yr as one of many producers on Sylvain Chomet’s Marcel Pagnol biopic A Magnificent Life, with previous high-profile credit together with Miraculous – The Film and The Little Prince.
Stuttgart and Munich-based Sola Media’s Cannes Market slate additionally options The Pout-Pout Fish and Tafiti – Throughout the Desert, each set to display screen in Cannes. The corporate additionally represents Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel, which premieres in Annecy this June.
