“Fairyland,” a coming-of-age drama directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola, set an Oct. 10 launch Tuesday with impartial studio Willa partnering as co-distributor with Lionsgate, TheWrap has discovered.
Based mostly on the memoir of the identical title by Alysia Abbott, “Fairyland” is ready in San Francisco within the Nineteen Seventies-80s and follows a father-daughter relationship by way of the AIDS disaster. Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy star alongside Cody Fern, Maria Bakalova, Bella Murphy, Adam Lambert and Geena Davis.
“Fairyland” premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant and was acquired by Lionsgate and Willa this month. It has additionally screened on the Biarritz, Palm Springs and Frameline movie festivals, serving because the opening evening movie for the latter.
“It’s an honor to proceed our longstanding relationship with the American Zoetrope household and to collaborate with Sofia Coppola. This movie captures a pivotal period by way of the lens of a father-daughter relationship that’s as particular as it’s common. It’s a pointy, humorous, transferring portrait of identification, resilience and coming of age in a world in flux that may depart audiences spellbound,” stated Amelia McPartlon Rogers, EVP of Content material Technique & Advertising and marketing Integration for Lionsgate.
As a part of the partnership, Willa, which distributed the Oscar-nominated immigration drama quick “A Lien,” will launch an influence marketing campaign to have interaction viewers with the social points touched upon in “Fairyland.”
“With ‘Fairyland’, Durham has crafted a deeply affecting movie that brings related social points to life with authenticity and coronary heart. We’re excited to be partnering with Lionsgate to distribute the movie, and to create a tailor-made influence and viewers engagement marketing campaign round its launch,” stated Elizabeth Woodward, CEO and founding father of Willa.
Megan Carlson, Laure Sudreau, Siena Oberman and Greg Lauritano are producers on the movie with Coppola. Government producers are Roman Coppola, Michael Musante, Liz Destro, James Mockoski, Alysia Abbott, Leo Matchett, Fred Roos, Elizabeth Woodward, Jeff Sobrato, Nicole Shipley, Camille Floquet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Gabriele Moratti, Raffaella Viscardi, Sasha Shapiro, Rebecca Gang, Gale M. Harold III, Anton Lessine, Gary Hamilton, Ryan Hamilton, Jesse Ozeri, Susie Landau Finch, Elena Baranova, Karen Salveson, Eileen Pleasure Spitalny, Brooks Worth and Michael Spitalny.
“Fairyland” is an American Zoetrope manufacturing, in affiliation with Ouroboros Leisure LLC, Black Magic, Artemis Footage, Walter Movies, Decentralized Footage, Secure Area Footage, MeMo Movies, 3Marys Leisure, QED Worldwide and Misplaced Gang Movies West.
