{"id":556079,"date":"2026-04-29T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556079\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:49:12","slug":"bong-joon-hos-ally-sets-neon-as-distributor-2027-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556079\/","title":{"rendered":"Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Ally’ Sets Neon As Distributor, 2027 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNeon<\/a> has acquired North American rights to Bong Joon Ho<\/a>\u2018s debut animated feature, Ally<\/a>, slating it for release in 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project will mark the studio\u2019s first with the filmmaker since his 2019 phenomenon Parasite, the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, which was also the first film to win both Best Picture and Best International Feature at the Academy Awards, additionally snagging the awards for Director and Original Screenplay, and grossing over $53 million in North America.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlly follows a curious and endearing piglet squid of the same name that lives in the uncharted depths of the South Pacific Ocean. Ally dreams of one day seeing the sun and becoming the star of a wildlife documentary. But when a mysterious aircraft sinks into the ocean, her peaceful world is suddenly thrown into danger. Alongside her colorful and loyal \u2014 yet unlikely \u2014 companions, Ally is thrust into an extraordinary journey that will take her all the way to the surface.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn development since 2019, Ally marks Director Bong\u2019s sixth collaboration with Neon CEO Tom Quinn. Financing and distribution are handled by CJ ENM, Penture Invest, and Path\u00e9, with Barunson C&C overseeing production. Seo Woo-sik serves as producer on the film, in his third collaboration with Director Bong, following Mother and Okja. Director Bong penned the script with Jason Yu.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon SVP Acquisitions Sarah Colvin negotiated the deal for North American rights with WME on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\n\tPath\u00e9 will handle the film\u2019s distribution in France, Benelux, Switzerland and West Africa while CJ and Penture will distribute in South Korea, Vietnam, Turkey and Indonesia. Path\u00e9 reps international sales excluding Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, for which CJ and Penture are handling sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of Ally\u2018s Noth American deal with Neon comes just ahead of Cannes, where the studio returns to competition with James Gray\u2019s Paper Tiger, Arthur Harari\u2019s The Unknown, Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Fjord, Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s All of a Sudden, Hirokazu Koreeda\u2019s Sheep in the Box, and Na Hong-Jin\u2019s Hope. In Directors\u2019 Fortnight, they have Arie Esiri & Chuko Esiri\u2019s Clarissa, a modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway, and David Greaves\u2019 Once Upon a Time in Harlem. Finally, there\u2019s Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s Her Private Hell, which will screen out of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon has acquired North American rights to Bong Joon Ho\u2018s debut animated feature, Ally, slating it for release…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[178384,117604,96,2839,9077,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ally","tag-bong-joon-ho","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-neon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}