Mubi CEO Efe Cakarel Confirms Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Will Debut In Competition At Venice & Teases Push Into Series Production
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“We have the newJim Jarmusch film. We are a co-producer on that, and it’s already confirmed to be in competition at Venice,”Mubi CEO Efe Cakarel said this afternoon during a Q&A session at SXSW London.
The new film from Jarmusch is titledFather Mother Sister Brother and stars Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat. We’d heard from many sources that the film was heading for the Lido, but this is the first time it has been confirmed publicly.
The official synopsis forFather Mother Sister Brotherreads: Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
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Elsewhere during this afternoon’s session, Cakarel told the SXSW crowd that Mubi has boughtLa grazia, the new film by Paolo Sorrentino, which he said “is possibly going to be in Venice.”
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La graziasees Sorrentino reunite with his longtime collaboratorToni Servillo. There are currently no details about the film’s plot, but we understand it will feature a love story. Sorrentino has penned the screenplay.
Later during the session, Cakarel was quizzed on whether Mubi has any interest in pushing forward into programming and producing TV series. He told the crowd that series have long been an interest for the Mubi team, but due to business constraints, they had traditionally steered clear of that space. He now believes that that can change.
“We’ve licensed all three seasons ofTwin Peaks, which have never never shown together before. That’s coming this month, and we’ve also acquired Wong Kar-wai’s new TV series,” Cakarel said before adding: “And if you’re asking if we have a series in development that we are producing: Yes.”
“I can’t wait for it to launch. It’s a series in Japanese, and it’s so cool. I can’t wait to start talking about it,” he said.
The Wong Kar-wai series isBlossoms Shanghai. Mubi will release the 30-part drama series in Latin America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Turkey and India.Blossoms Shanghai is the first ever series for the revered Hong Kong filmmaker, known for acclaimed movies such as Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046. Based on the novel Blossoms by Jin Yucheng, Blossoms Shanghai chronicles the ascent of a self-made millionaire Ah Bao, the Jay Gatsby of Shanghai, from the slums to the height of the gilded city.
Mubi debuted it’s first solely-produced production this year in Cannes. It was Kelly Reichardt’s latest flickThe Mastermind. The film stars Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) alongside Josh O’Connor. Set in a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, the story follows JB Mooney (O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, who plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
“We want to participate more in the making of films going forward,” Cakarel told the crowd of his future plans for the company. He later added that the company’s second original production, Jane Schoenbrun’sTeenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, is currently in production and it’s third, the next film from Paweł Pawlikowski, moves into production this summer.
SXSW London runs until June 7.
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