{"id":452173,"date":"2026-05-16T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:18:17","slug":"action-thriller-the-butler-sells-to-several-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452173\/","title":{"rendered":"Action-Thriller ‘The Butler’ Sells to Several Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tK5 Intl. has closed a raft of sales on action-thriller \u201cThe Butler,\u201d starring Jean Reno<\/a> and Tom Hollander<\/a>, which receives its final market screening in Cannes on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

\n\tBuyers are Arna (CIS), SPI\/Canal+ (Eastern Europe, Benelux), CineSky (Airlines), Eagle Pictures (Italy), Falcon Films (Middle East), Mediaset (Spain), PT Primacinema (Indonesia), Rialto (Australia), Splendid Film (Germany) and Tanweer (Greece, Turkey), with more deals to be announced soon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Butler,\u201d which debuts a first-look image above, also stars Bobby Gilchrist (\u201cSovereign\u201d) and emerging star Molly McCann (\u201cFreelance,\u201d upcoming \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Sunrise and the Reaping\u201d). The screenplay was by Craig McInnes and the film was directed by Tom Edmunds.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film stars Reno as a retired World War I veteran living in quiet service on a sprawling estate before a violent reckoning from his past turns the household into a war zone. Hollander plays a vicious Irish mobster hell bent on seizing the palatial estate Reno has dedicated his life to protect after its heir runs afoul of his compatriots abroad.<\/p>\n

\n\tEdmunds previously directed the U.K. comedy \u201cDead in a Week,\u201d starring the late Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard and Christopher Eccleston.<\/p>\n

\n\tReno\u2019s credits include \u201cLeon: The Professional,\u201d \u201cRonin,\u201d \u201cMission: Impossible,\u201d \u201cThe Da Vinci Code,\u201d \u201cGodzilla\u201d and \u201c22 Bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHollander is best known for his performances in Season 2 of \u201cThe White Lotus,\u201d the \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d franchise, among other titles, and for his Emmy-nominated turn as Truman Capote in \u201cFeud: Capote Vs. the Swans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was produced by Strong Island\u2019s Christopher Tuffin alongside Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Ari Novak, Amanda Delaplaine, Colin Bates, William Ramsey and Scott McFarland.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was produced by Strong Island, and co-produced and primarily financed by Valecroft, in concert with Rather Good Films, Tetrad, Pixium Film Group, Kodachrome, Secondary Lenders and Calculus Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K5 Intl. has closed a raft of sales on action-thriller \u201cThe Butler,\u201d starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10532,93,61,60,196268,270,148492],"class_list":["post-452173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jean-reno","tag-movies","tag-tom-hollander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}