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EFM: ‘Lendarys’ Big-Budget Indie Animation Picked up by All Rights

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Hong Kong and Paris-based All Rights Leisure has picked up a mandate to deal with gross sales duties on “Lendarys,” an animated household leisure film that’s now in manufacturing.

The movie is being produced on funds of $30 million and is about for supply in 2023. All Rights Leisure is launching the image for worldwide gross sales on the European Movie Market (EFM), the net companion to this yr’s in-person Berlin Movie Competition.

“Lendarys” is about within the coronary heart of an imaginary world, the place a younger and humorous wizard apprentice groups up with a furry and wacky pachyderm who has grow to be tiny, and an outlaw with a mysterious energy, on a seek for the wizard’s youthful brother. They’re accompanied by a fantastical animal referred to as a Lendarys. Nevertheless, once they discover the boy’s path, they uncover he has rallied the reason for a wierd maleficent creature who’s making an attempt to take over their world.

A French-Canadian coproduction, “Lendarys” is the characteristic debut of Philippe Duchene, whose earlier work consists of appearing as lead idea designer on the animation hit “Leap” and as a personality designer on Netflix’s upcoming animated collection “Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles.”

The movie was developed in affiliation with Illumination Mac Guff, the French results agency which was beforehand behind such worldwide hits as “Despicable Me” and “The Lorax.” It’s produced by PM S.A. (“Fonzy,” “Holy Lands”) with 2 Minutes Animation (“Calamity,” “Zombillenium,” “Lengthy Manner North”) appearing as line producer.

On the digital EFM, All Rights can be representing “Ip Man Kung Fu Legend,” a martial artwork motion movie being directed by Li Liming and set for supply within the third quarter of this yr. It stars Dennis To (aka To Yu-hang), star of earlier franchise titles “Ip Man Kung Fu Grasp,” “Ip Man Legend Is Born” and “Kung Fu League,” and “1911,” and Michael Tong (“God of Conflict,” “Firestorm,” “Shockwave”).

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