{"id":458234,"date":"2026-05-20T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:55:10","slug":"in-waves-park-chan-wook-deals-end-cannes-market-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458234\/","title":{"rendered":"‘In Waves,’ Park Chan-Wook Deals End Cannes Market With A Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter a sluggish opening week that left many sellers staring at their phones, the Cannes Film Market<\/a> found something like a second wind in its final days, with a flurry of high-profile acquisitions injecting some much-needed energy into what had been a cautious, defensive March\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe late surge was headlined by two deals that had been quietly percolating on the Croisette. Netflix<\/a> moved to acquire the animated feature In Waves<\/a>, while Warner Bros.\u2019 nascent specialty label Clockworks entered exclusive negotiations to take Park Chan-wook<\/a>\u2018s upcoming revenge Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek \u2014 a project that had been flagged by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the market\u2019s most coveted packages<\/a> before the first screening had even unspooled.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix took worldwide rights outside of France for In Waves<\/a>, which opened Cannes Critics\u2019 Week. The hand-drawn French animated feature, from Franco-Vietnamese director Phuong Mai Nguyen, is an adaptation of the graphic novel by AJ Dungo and is a love story set in L.A. between AJ, a shy, skateboard and art-loving teen, and Kristen, a surfer girl. Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu voice the English-language version. Charades is handling sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Brigands of Rattlecreek, the next feature from Cannes 2026<\/a> Jury President Park, is set to star Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei and has been a long-gestating passion project for the Oldboy and Decision to Leave director.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Park acquisition, if it closes, would mark a significant early statement of intent for Clockworks, the newly minted Warner Bros. division still establishing its identity.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deals followed A24\u2019s big buy of Cannes, taking worldwide rights to Jordan Firstman\u2019s crowd-pleaser Club Kid<\/a> for a reported $17 million following a bidding war of the kind Cannes once reliably produced but has struggled to replicate in recent years. UTA and Charades handled sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon also added heat to the March\u00e9, picking up Pumping Black, another THR Hot List title. The package, from Fresh director Mimi Cave, stars Jonathan Bailey and Natalie Portman in a psychological thriller set in the world of competitive cycling. Amazon picked up the majority of international<\/a> rights. CAA Media Finance and Anton are co-repping world rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the strong finish for the Cannes Market only underscored the relative quiet that preceded it \u2014 this was a Cannes that needed a last-minute sprint to get marked down as a win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a sluggish opening week that left many sellers staring at their phones, the Cannes Film Market found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173028,188845,195632,93,61,194354,1042,60,270,1868,47608],"class_list":["post-458234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-film-market","tag-club-kid","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-in-waves","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-park-chan-wook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458234","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=458234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}