{"id":234754,"date":"2026-05-17T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:53:34","slug":"moby-joins-queer-comedy-jim-queen-ahead-of-cannes-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234754\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby Joins Queer Comedy &#8216;Jim Queen&#8217; Ahead Of Cannes Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/moby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_moby\" data-tag=\"moby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moby<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lindsay Hicks\u00a0of\u00a0Little Walnut\u00a0have signed on as executive producers for Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen\u2019s animated feature film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-queen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jim-queen\" data-tag=\"jim-queen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Queen<\/a>, which is world premiering at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\" data-tag=\"cannes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes<\/a> this evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen,\u00a0Jim Queen\u00a0was written by Athane with Simon Balteaux and Brice Chevillard.\u00a0The film is produced by David Alric and Arthur Delabays.\u00a0Arthur Cohen, Moby and Lindsay Hicks executive-produce.\u00a0French outfit Bobbypills produces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe synopsis reads: \u201cA gay influencer\u2019s life crumbles when a virus turns Paris\u2019s gay men straight. He teams up with a twink to find a rumored cure in the Marais district.\u201d The team posted a short clip to instagram this week, which clocked 1.6M views in 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal was brokered by executive producer Arthur Cohen.\u00a0Global Constellation represents worldwide sales.<\/p>\n<p>Musician Moby\u00a0commented: \u201cWhen Lindsay and I started Little Walnut, our dream was to find smart, interesting, unique, funny movies with strong breakout potential to help produce. And\u00a0Jim Queen\u00a0is 100% all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLindsay Hicks\u00a0added: \u201cFrom the moment I laid eyes on Jim Queen, I knew I wanted to be a part of his world. This film encompasses the heart, wit, boldness, and visual ambition we\u2019re always looking to support. We\u2019re excited to help build the film in a way that preserves what makes it so very special while also thinking expansively about its future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marco Nguyen\u00a0also commented: \u201cAs the world grows more divided, nothing feels more uniting than a film that makes you laugh at yourself and love the person next to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little Walnut most recently signed as co-executive producers for the non-fiction film Welcome Space Brothers,\u00a0about The Unarius Academy of Science,\u00a0an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school, self-healing community, and filmmaking collective. They are also co-producers on\u00a0Selah,\u00a0a short film from Lara Everly premiering at Tribeca 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe company develops and produces films, documentaries, music-driven projects, and immersive experiences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Moby\u00a0and\u00a0Lindsay Hicks\u00a0of\u00a0Little Walnut\u00a0have signed on as executive producers for Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen\u2019s animated feature film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[91293,91981,91294,13138,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-234754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-market","tag-jim-queen","tag-moby","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}