After a sleepy start on the Cannes acquisitions front, buyers are waking up to buzzy Croisette selections and Jordan Firstman’s Un Certain Regard entry Club Kid has broken out as the first must-have of the festival.
A pack of US buyers is understood to be in pursuit of the queer drama about a New York club promoter who discovers he has a 10-year-old son after executives piled into a market screening yesterday [May 16] following Friday’s well-received world premiere.
According to reports Mubi, A24, Searchlight and Netflix are among those in pursuit and it remains to be seen if the newer US players will join the chase.
UTA Independent Film Group and Charades represent rights to the film produced by Rapt Films and Twin Pictures.
Many films have arrived with distribution in place and Neon holds rights to nine selections including six Palme d’Or contenders.
Meanwhile buyers were so eager to attend a market screening of Emmanuel Marre’s French Competition entry A Man Of His Time that they reportedly entered the Palais on the pretext of using the restrooms inside the cinemas and tried to skip the line.
With many Competition selections already spoken for, there will be fierce scrutiny of upcoming world premieres for available titles like Laszlo Nemes’s Moulin on Sunday and Ira Sach’s The Man I Love starring Rami Malek on May 20.
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