{"id":724052,"date":"2026-06-24T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724052\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:48:10","slug":"ss-rajamouli-heads-to-annecy-for-baahubali-the-eternal-war-wip-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/724052\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Rajamouli Heads To Annecy For Baahubali: The Eternal War WIP Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Blockbuster Indian director SS Rajamouli<\/a> will hit France\u2019s Annecy<\/a> International Animation Film Festival on Thursday for a work-in-progress presentation of animated movie Baahubali: The Eternal War<\/a>, on which he is a producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trip comes sees the RRR director takes a break from shooting his live action picture Varanasi which will complete physical production in August, having just wrapped principal photography with the stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Mahesh Babu. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBaahubali: The Eternal War is a CGI animated spin-off of the Telugu-language Baahubali franchise which began with the Rajamouli\u2019s 2015 and 2017 blockbusters Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali: The Conclusion.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is among nine upcoming animated features being showcased in Annecy\u2019s Work in Progress (WIP) sidebar, the sessions of which are as popular as the screenings.<\/p>\n

\n\tLead produced by Arka Mediaworks, the animated feature follows murdered Prince Baahubali as he enters the afterlife and joins an eternal war across 14 realms between Devas and Asuras, personifications of Order and Chaos, with his destiny reshaping the cosmos forever.<\/p>\n

\n\tIshan Shukla is directing from a screenplay by Scott Mosier. \u00a0Shukla will be accompanied on the Annecy panel by art director\u00a0Ajey Lele, co-writer\u00a0Sowmya Sharma, animation director\u00a0Antoine Charryron (Batwheels), and CG supervisor\u00a0Simon Brown (Guardians of the Galaxy).<\/p>\n

\n\tRajamouli will join the creative team as well as fellow producer and longtime collaborator, Arka Media co-head Shobu Yarlagadda. There will also be a screening of RRR, which is being re-released in\u00a0France in late July by Carlotta Films.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Annecy trip kicks off a summer of European appearances for Rajamouli including honorary events at the French Cinematheque in Paris and Neuch\u00e2tel International Fantastic Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere will be a three-day retrospective of Rajamouli\u2019s work at the French Cinematheque from June 26 to 26, featuring a masterclass with the director on June 27. It will screen both Baahubali epics and RRR as well as Maryada Ramanna and Eega, with the latter two films also screening at landmark Paris cinemas on June 29 and 30.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe will then attend a special screening of RRR at\u00a0the Institut Lumi\u00e8re in Lyon, followed by the\u00a0Neuch\u00e2tel International Fantastic Film Festival\u00a0in Switzerland where he is being honored with a special award on their 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaahubali: The eternal War has been slated for a 2027 release exclusively in movie theatres. Varanasi will be released in theaters worldwide on April 7, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Blockbuster Indian director SS Rajamouli will hit France\u2019s Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[207650,311410,88,206,148921],"class_list":["post-724052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-annecy","tag-baahubali-the-eternal-war","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-ss-rajamouli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}