EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate and LD Entertainment are in closing talks to take home rights to Sundance’s most buzzed about film this yr, the Invoice Condon directed, Jennifer Lopez characteristic take of Broadway musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
We’re listening to it took rather a lot for this deal to come back collectively on this $50M Artists Fairness manufacturing primarily based on the guide by Terrence McNally and John Kander and Fred Ebb’s songs. Stuart Ford’s AGC dealt with overseas gross sales at EFM. WME and CAA Media Finance co-repped U.S. rights on the film.
Tonatiuh and Diego Luna in ‘Kiss of the Spider Girl’
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Particulars are nonetheless coming collectively. The pic follows Diego Luna and Tonatiuh as Valentín and Luis, jail cellmates in a military-run 1983 Argentinian. Homosexual widow dresser, Luis, retains Valentín’s spirits alive with tales about his favourite actress, Ingrid Luna (Lopez), and the film musicals she starred in. That is the primary huge display screen main splash for Tonatiuh who starred on the Starz collection Vida. Deadline’s Pete Hammond prasied, “Breakout discovery Tonatiuh exhibits why he acquired the half after a worldwide search. Equally adept on the musical necessities doubling as Nesbit, he’s heartbreakingly good as a movie-mad younger homosexual man residing in his fantasy world in a repressed society, but in addition discovering love the place he least anticipated it and in opposition to all odds.” Critics popping out of Sundance hugged Kiss of the Spider Girl with an 82% contemporary Rotten Tomatoes rating.
Lopez, together with Condon, was a power of nature in getting this challenge off the bottom, which spotlights the Selena actress in her first huge Broadway musical film starring position (She virtually did Bye Bye Birdie). Outdoors of her Netflix streaming characteristic hits, The Mom and Atlas, Kiss of the Spider Girl, is arguably her first huge display screen critically acclaimed theatrical position since 2019’s Hustlers from STX which was her highest grossing live-action home title at $105M and notched her supporting actress noms at Display screen Actors Guild, Critics Selection and her second Golden nod (after Selena). Ought to Kiss of the Spider Girl get an awards season run, it received’t be a shock to see the actress within the dialog as soon as once more.
Roadside Sights landed Gia Coppola’s The Final Showgirl out of TIFF as Deadline first reported and in a really brief time generated buzz for star Pamela Anderson final fall, with a Golden Globe Finest Actress nomination and SAG Feminine Lead Actress nom, and Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, in addition to BAFTA, Golden Globes and Critics Selection noms for the pic’s Miley Cyrus. Not solely was Final Showgirl an homage to the Baywatch star, however it catapulted Anderson for different huge components in Paramount’s upcoming reboot of the Bare Gun with Liam Neeson, and Kornél Mundruczó’s subsequent drama Place to Be.
Producers on Kiss of the Spider Girl are Barry Josephson, Greg Yolen, and Vindhya Sagar. Along with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Fairness as EPs, so are Lopez’s Nuyorican with the multihyphenate in addition to Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas as EP.
Kiss of the Spider Girl the Broadway musical was preceded by its unique supply materials, the 1976 novel by Argentinian author Manuel Puig, and the 1985 Hector Babenco directed film which was nominated for Finest Image and received William Damage the Finest Actor Oscar. Kiss of the Spider Girl, the musical received seven Tony Awards in 1993 together with Finest Musical, Finest E-book of a Musical, Finest Unique Rating, Finest Costume Design, in addition to performing awards for all three principals within the forged together with Chita Rivera who originated the position of Ingrid/Aurora onstage.
We’ll let you already know when every little thing has been finalized. Roadside Sights and Lionsgate didn’t return request for remark.
