By This year’s Cannes Film Festival smash hit Spanish-language musical drama “Emilia Pérez” is nearing a deal to sell its U.S. and U.K. rights to Netflix.
The deal, which could also include additional territories, is for approximately $12 million. Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón star in the film which has scored some of the best reviews out of this year’s fest so far.
Saldaña stars as Rita, an undervalued lawyer at a corrupt firm who finds an unexpected way out when a feared drug cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) recruits her to aid him in surreptitiously completing a sex change operation to become the woman he’s always wanted to be.
Gomez plays the unsuspecting wife of the cartel boss. The project hails from Jacques Audiard who is a regular at Cannes with acclaimed films like “A Prophet,” “Rust and Bone,” and “Dheepan”.
Netflix has also landed John Lee Hancock’s fact-based legal drama feature “Monsanto” starring Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern. Hancock directs from a script he wrote with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson.
Powell plays untested attorney Brent Wisner who takes on the chemical company Monsanto on behalf of client Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson (Mackie), a groundskeeper who used the brand’s weed-killing product Roundup. Dern plays Dr. Melinda Rogers, Monsanto’s chief toxicologist.
No word on a potential release date for either project.
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