Sony Pictures Classics Buys Animated Movie ‘A Winter’s Journey’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Sony Images Classics has picked up A Winter’s Journey, an upcoming animated-live motion film from British director Alex Helfrecht (The White King).

SPC pre-acquired the motion picture for North The united states, Latin The us, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Australia/New Zealand, Turkey, India, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan and Thailand, as nicely as taking globally airline rights.

An adaptation of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s classical music cycle, A Winter’s Journey is set in Bavaria in 1812 and follows the wanderings of a lovelorn poet who undertakes a lifestyle-or-dying hike throughout mountains, ice and snow. The film will get started principle images in Poland in June with a forged which includes John Malkovich, Jason Isaacs, Czech actor Marcin Czarnik (Son of Saul), Germany’s Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Other individuals) and Olafur Darri Olafsson (Amazing Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald). Baritone Andrè Schuen and pianist Daniel Heide will carry out the soundtrack, which will be launched by Deutsche Grammophon.

A Winter’s Journey will mix everyday living motion with CGI and painted animation from the team at the rear of the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent (2017). The entire world of the film will be the initial to be developed making use of PlayStation’s Goals know-how, designed by PlayStation Studios’ multiple-BAFTA-profitable game titles studio Media Molecule.

Jörg Tittel and Philip Munger at London-dependent Oiffy are developing, with each other with Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman via their Poland-based mostly BreakThru Films, Reinhard Brundig at German team Pandora Movie, Benoit Roland’s Completely wrong Men North in Belgium, Raphaël Berdugo and Alexis Perrin in France and Richard Mansell. Sebastien Barrillier and Yann Duboux are government producers.

The Sony offer was negotiated with Paris-centered mk2 Movies, who are handling international gross sales.