Mubi has acquired worldwide rights for French director Coralie Fargeat’s English-language body horror movie The Substance ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival this month.
The global film distributor, production company and streaming service will retain all rights in North America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America and Benelux, where they will release theatrically this year. MubI has also acquired the rights for Turkey and India.
The Match Factory is handling sales for all other territories.
The Working Title Films production is written and directed by Fargeat and stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
Plot details have been kept largely under wraps but as per Deadline’s announcement of the film in 2022, we understand it is a feminist take on body horror.
The feature follows Fargeat’s buzzy breakout debut feature Revenge, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017.
Director of Photography is Benjamin Kracun (Promising Young Woman, Beast), while co-editors are Fargeat, Jerome Eltabet (Revenge) and Valentin Féron.
Music is composed by Raffertie (I May Destroy You), Production Design is led by Stanislas Reydellet (Le Bal Des Folles), and Costume Design is by Emmanuelle Youchnovski (Café de Flore, La belle époque).
Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan produced the film for Working Title. Alexandra Loewy of Working Title and Nicolas Royer of A Good Story are Executive Producers.
Moore is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, and The Lede Company; Qualley is with CAA, Sloane Offer Weber and Relevant; Quaid is with UTA and Brillstein, and Fargeat’s representatives are UTA and Valery Guibal of Film Talents.
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