Magnolia Buys U.S. Rights to Jerome Salle Thriller ‘Kompromat’

Magnolia Footage has acquired U.S. rights to “Kompromat,” an motion thriller movie directed by Jerome Salle (“The Largo Winch” ), starring Gilles Lellouche (“The Stronghold”) and Joanna Kulig (“Chilly Conflict”). SND, the industrial arm of M6, is representing the movie in worldwide markets.

Loosely based mostly on a real story, “Kompromat” stars Lellouche as a French diplomat working in Siberia who’s arrested in a single day by the Russian authorities. Accused of sexually abusing his personal daughter and imprisoned, he realizes he’s a sufferer of a Kompromat. Somebody is working with the FSB (Federal Safety Service) to border him. His solely means out is to flee.

“’Kompromat’ is an extremely tense espionage thriller,” stated Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “Jerome Salle and the stellar forged have delivered an distinctive film.”

Salle, who wrote the script with Caryl Ferre, a well-known French crime novelist, stated “the story of ‘Kompromat’ is absolutely pertinent to our instances” and added that “a U.S viewers will view the movie by their very own lens.” Salle beforehand directed “Zulu” with Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker, and “L’Odyssée,” a biopic of Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Lambert Wilson and Pierre Niney.

“Kompromat” was launched in France by SND on Sept. 7 and has been one among this month’s high grossing French films. SND has now offered the movie worldwide to main distributors, together with Germany, Austria and Italy (Koch Media), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Pathé), Benelux (Athena), Australia and New Zealand (Palace), Poland (Monolith) and Ex Yugoslavia (Blitz). Upcoming releases are scheduled in Belgium, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Australia and Spain, amongst different territories.

“SND did an ideal job for the French launch, which is a hit and we will’t watch for the movie to satisfy the U.S. public, because of a accomplice as prestigious as Magnolia Footage,” stated Albane de Jourdan, who produced the movie at Tremendous 8 Productions. De Jourdan stated the “points tackled by this thriller are extra related than ever.”

Ramy Nahas, head of worldwide gross sales at SND, identified “Magnolia has constructed a powerful expertise in efficiently releasing worldwide options within the U.S.”

Lellouche is one among France’s most bankable native actors. He notably headlined Cedric Jimenez’s “The Stronghold,” Netflix’s hit thriller.

Government producers are Albane de Jourdan, Jerome Salle and Marc Simoni. The deal was negotiated by Magnolia John Von Thaden, with Ramy Nahas at SND on behalf of the filmmaker.