MUBI Acquires Werner Herzog’s ‘Family Romance, LLC’ for North America, Multiple Territories (EXCLUSIVE)
Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentMUBI has acquired the SVOD and TV rights to Werner Herzog’s feature “Family Romance, LLC” for North America, Germany, Latin America (excluding Brazil), Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The sale was negotiated by Film Constellation.The film stars Yuichi Ishii, the real-life CEO of Family Romance LLC, a company that rents out human surrogates for his clients’ every need—a family member for a social event, someone to take the blame for a mistake at work, a stranger to help you relive the best moment of your life.In the film, a mother asks Ishii to impersonate her long-absent husband, and reconnect with her teenage daughter.