'THE KING'S DAUGHTER'
READY FOR SALES AT CANNES
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| King's Daughter will be offered to buyers at Cannes |
We've been announcing this one since 2015 but it lost the support of two studios in the meantime and now Arclight will offer
THE KING'S DAUGHTER (aka The Moon and The Sun) for international sales at Cannes virtual market this month. The update following that piece of news is that
Julie Andrews has joined the film as the narrator of the fantasy historical film which sees
Pierce Brosnan portraying the Sun King Louis XIV alongside
Kaya Scodelario, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Rachel Griffiths and
Fan Bingbing! As Screen Daily reports, the film imagines a quest for immortality by the megalomaniacal king, whose reign
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| Pierce Brosnan plays King Louis XIV of France |
spanned the 17th and 18th centuries, as he captures and steals a mermaid’s life force. Matters are further complicated when the king’s illegitimate daughter discovers the mythological creature.
'CURON' TRAILER
CURSE HIDES UNDER WATER
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| Curon streams at Netflix from June 10th |
You can also check out the trailer for spooky new Italian series
CURON which will start streaming on
Netflix June 10th following a woman who returns to a mysterious village in Northern Italy where she grew up, only to find her past returning to haunt her and her teenage children. Here is the official synopsis: Seventeen years after the tragic events that forced her to leave Curon, a woman returns home with her twin children. They soon discover that the town is cursed: when you hear the bells of the old church tower ringing in the middle of a lake, repressed
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| I'm not sure, but apparently the submerged city really exists in Italy |
feelings come back to the surface.
A little spoiler: the lake might hide a whole submerged and very much cursed city in its depths.
