The Match Factory has announced a raft of world sales for Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla ahead of its North American premiere as the Centrepiece selection of the New York Film Festival on Friday.
The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Spain (Elastica Films and BTeam Pictures), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), CIS (Capella Film), Scandinavia and Iceland (Nordisk Film), Poland (Best Film), Greece (Spentzos Film), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Hungary (ADS), Middle East and North Africa (Front Row Filmed Ent.), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic), Japan (GAGA corporation), Taiwan (Moviecloud) and Airlines (Echo Lake Distribution).
Negotiations are ongoing in Czech Republic and Slovakia, South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore.
As previously announced, Mubi snapped up all rights for UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America, Benelux and Turkey ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September, while ARP has French rights and Vision Distribution, a Sky Company, will distribute in Italy.
A24 will open the film wide in the U.S. on November 3, while Mubi has set a cinema release from December 26 in the UK, Ireland, Germany and across Latin America, with sub-distribution partners for the additional territories.
Written and directed by Sofia Coppola, Priscilla is based on the 1985 memoir ‘Elvis and Me’ written by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon.
The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Mare of Easttown, Bad Times at the El Royale) as Priscilla, Jacob Elordi (Euphoria, The Kissing Booth) as Elvis Presley, and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession, Bottoms, The Lost Daughter).
The picture enjoyed a buzzy debut in Venice in the presence of Priscilla Presley and Spaeny and Elordi, thanks to a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement. Spaeny went on to win the prestigious Coppa Volpi for Best Actress.
Priscilla was produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company, Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, and Youree Henley. The film was financed by Fremantle Group.
The Match Factory’s NYFF line-up also includes Best International Feature Film Oscar entries Perfect Days by Wim Wenders and Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki as well as Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped and Sean Price Williams’s The Sweet East.
