U.S. distributor Dark Star Pictures has picked up all U.S. rights to Canada-France copro Mobile Homes.
Mongrel International struck the deal for the drama at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Mobile Homes is produced by Paris, France-based Madeleine Films and Incognito Films, and Toronto-based Lithium Studios Productions. Producers on the film are Madeleine’s Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Incognito’s Eric Dupont and Lithium’s Mike MacMillan.
Written and directed by French director Vladimir de Fontenay, the Niagara Falls, ON-shot drama follows a young mother, her boyfriend and her son as they drift from motel to motel until they settle in a mobile home community. Mobile Homes premiered at Cannes in 2017 in the Directors’ Fortnight program. The film stars Green Room‘s Imogen Poots, Callum Turner (War & Peace), Callum Keith Rennie (Born to Be Blue) and marks the acting debut of Frank Oulton.
Dark Star, which launched in November with Jason James’ Entanglement, is planning a theatrical release for the film in summer 2018, with the film first rolling out in New York and Los Angeles. A digital and home video release is slated for the fall. The deal was negotiated by Neil Mathieson of Mongrel International and Michael Repsch of Dark Star Pictures.
Mongrel Media, which acquired the Canadian rights to the copro back in May 2017, will be releasing the film theatrically in April 2018. Meanwhile, Thunderbird Releasing and Nour Films will release the film theatrically in England and France this spring.