Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Bidding is above $75 million on the first major property at the Cannes Film Festival virtual market.
Warner Bros, Apple, MGM, Lionsgate and Universal are among the studios in the mix for world rights on Emancipation. The film package will have Antoine Fuqua direct Will Smith in a Willam N.
Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey North where he joined the Union Army.The filmmakers have been working on this one for two years, but there is an eerie parallel to the footage of George Floyd that sparked protests across the country and reforms that have.
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