John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant Comedy-Drama ‘Mr. Blake At Your Service!’ Nets Slew Of Deals For France TV Distribution
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has unveiled a first round of deals for best-selling French writer Gilles Legardinier’s feature directorial debut Mr.
Blake At Your Service!, reuniting John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant on the big screen. The film has been acquired for Germany and Austria (MFA+ Film Distribution), Italy (Adler Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Spain and Portugal (A Contracorriente Films), Switzerland (Praesens Film), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Poland (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film) as well as for Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution).
The comedy-drama is adapted from Legardinier’s 2012 best-selling French novel Complètement Cramé! which sold more than one million copies sold in France and was translated into 17 languages across 22 countries.
Malkovich stars as Andrew Blake, a recently widowed British businessman who takes a job as a butler in a faded manor house in northern France, close to where he and his late wife spent the early days of their romance.
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