‘EO’: Sideshow & Janus Films Acquire North America On Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize Winner
deadline.comReteaming after last year’s collaboration on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to veteran auteur Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, which won the Jury Prize in Cannes this past weekend.
A fall theatrical release is planned.EO is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. The titular beast meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune as it randomly turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.
But not for a moment does he lose his innocence. In his review, Deadline’s Todd McCarthy called the film “an exemplary, fresh and radiant piece of work from an 84-year-old director who has not lost his energy or own way of seeing things.”EO is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz and Isabelle Huppert.
Producers are Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski who also co-wrote the screenplay; Eileen Tasca is the Italian co-producer. Jeremy Thomas is executive producer.
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