{"id":449999,"date":"2026-04-23T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/449999\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:34:11","slug":"willem-dafoe-drama-the-birthday-party-gets-north-american-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/449999\/","title":{"rendered":"Willem Dafoe Drama &#8216;The Birthday Party&#8217; Gets North American Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-birthday-party\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-birthday-party\" data-tag=\"the-birthday-party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Birthday Party<\/a>, from director Miguel Angel Jimenez and adapted from Panos Karnezis\u2019s novel of the same name. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarring are <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/willem-dafoe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_willem-dafoe\" data-tag=\"willem-dafoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willem Dafoe<\/a>, Vic Carmen Sonne, Joe Cole, Emma Su\u00e1rez, Carlos Cuevas and Christos Stergioglou. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film originally premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and Quiver will release on June 5, 2026. Judah Klatzker negotiated the deal on behalf of Quiver, with Krisztina Laszlo from Bankside Films and Ioanna Stais from Heretic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. According to the synopsis, \u201cthe party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him at whatever cost, is also secretly plotting a big decision on his daughter\u2019s behalf. Sofia, however, has come to share some important news of her own. As guests start pouring in and night falls, the party grows rowdier and more decadent, while the inevitable clash between Marcos and Sofia reaches a climax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Greek, Spanish, Dutch, and UK co-production, The Birthday Party was shot entirely in Greece, with locations in Corfu and Athens. The film was financed with support from the Greek Film Centre, ICEC, the Netherlands Film Fund, and the BFI\u2019s Global Screen Fund. Additional backing came from Hellenic Film &amp; Audiovisual Center \u2013 Creative Greece, ERT, Kalamata Films, Eolo Film Productions, Hopeless Romantic and Frontstage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers on the project include Ginevra Bulgari, Alexandra Daskalopoulou, Ivan Samokhvalov, Ioanna Stais, Talal Abu Ghazaleh, Mohamed Hefzy, Lee Broda, Alexander Tsekalo, Shane West, Richie Walls, Jeff Rice, Claudia Romero, Gabriel Kaplan, Bruno Lowagie, Ingeborg Willaert, Martien Uyttendaele, Dirk De Lille, Edgar Daarnhouwer, Olivier Mortagne and Dries Phlypo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to The Birthday Party, from director Miguel Angel Jimenez and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,34460,27509],"class_list":{"0":"post-449999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-birthday-party","14":"tag-willem-dafoe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116454520624206396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}