In a highly competitive situation and the first major deal of the Cannes Virtual market, MGM has landed global distribution rights to Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut Pussy Island.
The original film, written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, will star Naomi Ackie alongside previously announced Channing Tatum.
Bruce Cohen, Kravitz, Tiffany Persons and Tatum’s Free Association will produce, with Garret Levitz overseeing for Free Association.Since Kravitz described to Deadline the role she’d written for the lead actress, there has been high interest.
In Ackie, she has landed up a BAFTA winner who will play Whitney Houston in the Sony biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody from director Stella Meghie.
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