Goodfellas, Why Not Productions Board Kantemir Balagov’s English-Language Debut ‘Butterfly Jam’ With AR Content — Cannes Market
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions is joining Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content to produce Beanpole helmer Kantemir Balagov’s first English-language film Butterfly Jam.
Goodfellas is set to launch sales on the project in Cannes next week. The project, which is financed by AR Content, is set to go into production later this year with casting still underway.
Based on Balagov’s script and set in a tight-knit U.S. community of Circassian immigrants, Butterfly Jam portrays a complicated relationship between a father and son, in which the son imbues his father with qualities he doesn’t actually possess.
Rodnyansky produces with Caucheteux while exec producers are Michael Kupisk for AR Content, Pauline Lamy for Why Not Productions and Livia Van der Staay from Goodfellas.
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