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NEW YORK (May 16, 2018) – Sony Pictures
Classics announced today that they have acquired all rights in the US,
Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to Academy Award® winner Denys
Arcand's THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. The film, a follow up to his
critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN
EMPIRE, is written and directed by Arcand and produced by Academy Award®
winner Denise Robert.
Thirty years after THE DECLINE, THE FALL
OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE explores the predominance of capitalism in a
society where all other values seem to have crumbled. Pierre-Paul
Daoust, 36, an intellectual with a PhD in philosophy is forced to work
as a deliveryman to afford a decent living. One day, while delivering a
parcel, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly wrong: two dead and
millions in money bags laying on the ground. Pierre-Paul is confronted
with a dilemma: leave empty handed, or take the money and run?
Alexandre
Landry (GABRIELLE) stars as Pierre-Paul Daoust with newcomer Maripier
Morin, Louis Morissette (THE MIRAGE), Maxim Roy (LOOK AGAIN), Pierre
Curzi (THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS), Vincent Leclerc (THE REVENANT), Patrick
Émmanuel Abellard, Florence Longpré (THREESOME), Eddy King and Rémy
Girard (THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS).
The film reunites Arcand with
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard after previously working together on
Sony Pictures Classics' LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS and Orion Classics' JESUS
OF MONTREAL. Arcand was awarded the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language
Film for THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS.
"I am truly excited to come
back to Sony Pictures Classics and to be reunited with Michael Barker
and Tom Bernard. They are the best in the business, and they know
perfectly well what kind of audiences are going to be touched by this
film. I made this film in a spirit of absolute freedom and they
certainly are the best people to take care of it," said Denys Arcand.
Said
Sony Pictures Classics, "Denys Arcand is back with a satirical spirit
as biting and as perceptive and as entertaining as he has ever been!
It's great to be back with him and bring his new robust work to the
American audience."
The deal was negotiated by Anick Poirier from Seville International, an eOne company, and Denise Robert from Cinemaginaire.
ABOUT SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard serve as co-presidents of Sony Pictures
Classics—an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment they
founded with Marcie Bloom in January 1992, which distributes, produces,
and acquires independent films from around the world. Barker and
Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 39 Academy Awards®
(35 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 169 Academy
Award® nominations (143 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best
Picture nominations for CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, WHIPLASH, AMOUR, MIDNIGHT
IN PARIS, AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, AND CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN
DRAGON.
ABOUT SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
Sony Pictures Entertainment
(SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is a subsidiary
of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass
motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television
production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital
content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and
development of new entertainment products, services and technologies.
SPE's Motion Picture Group production organizations include Columbia
Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Stage 6
Films, AFFIRM Films, and Sony Pictures Classics. For additional
information, visit http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/divisions.html .
