{"id":112938,"date":"2025-05-18T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112938\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:44:11","slug":"ruben-ostlunds-the-entertainment-system-is-down-sells-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112938\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Ostlund\u2019s \u2018The Entertainment System Is Down\u2019 Sells to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFrench distributor\u00a0Memento\u00a0has acquired the  distribution rights to the star-studded upcoming film The Entertainment System Is Down from director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/ruben-ostlund-awards-filmmakers-more-insecure-1235939971\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruben \u00d6stlund<\/a> (Triangle of Sadness, The Square) for France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe darkly satirical movie is set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia where\u00a0the entertainment system fails, and passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kirsten-dunst-daniel-bruhl-ruben-ostlund-film-cast-1235903307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ensemble cast<\/a> includes Kirsten Dunst, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/daniel-bruhl-midlife-crisis-horror-tennis-the-franchise-1235938213\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Br\u00fchl<\/a>, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun,\u00a0Julie Delpy, Tobias Menzies, Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie,\u00a0Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo,\u00a0Elle Piper, Thibaud Dooms,\u00a0Sanna Sundqvist, Tea Stj\u00e4rne, Swedish artist Benjamin\u00a0Ingrosso, and Sanjeev Bhaskar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPrevious sales of the project include A24 for the U.S., Lionsgate Films (U.K.), Alamode Film\/Wild\u00a0Bunch Germany (Germany &amp; Austria), Lucky Red\/Teodora Film (Italy), Sharmill Films\u00a0(Australia &amp; New Zealand), Elevation Pictures (Canada), Elastica\/BTeam Pictures (Spain),\u00a0September Film (Benelux), Bord Cadre Films (Switzerland), Gutek Film \/ Aerofilms (Eastern\u00a0Europe), Feelgood Entertainment (Greece), Alambique Filmes (Portugal), Filmstop (Baltics),\u00a0Sun Distribution Group (Latin America), Falcon (Middle East), and Road Pictures (China).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>World sales are handled by\u00a0Coproduction Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Entertainment System Is Down\u00a0is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with\u00a0Essential Films (Germany) and Parisienne de Production (France). Co-producers include\u00a0BBC Film, Film i V\u00e4st, Sveriges Television, ARTE France Cin\u00e9ma, ZDF\/ARTE, SF Studios,\u00a0Eye Eye Pictures (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark), and Good Chaos (U.K.).\u00a0The film is produced in association with Proton Cinema, Bord\u00a0Cadre Films, Sovereign Films, Cinema Inutile, and Gold Rush Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFinancing was secured through the Swedish Film Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmf\u00f6rderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Film Institute, the Danish Film\u00a0Institute, with participation from Canal+, Disney+, and ARTE France, and support from\u00a0Creative Europe MEDIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French distributor\u00a0Memento\u00a0has acquired the distribution rights to the star-studded upcoming film The Entertainment System Is Down from director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[5839,5840,2000,299,36,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-112938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-cannes","9":"tag-cannes-2025","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-international"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531497692087235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}