Goldwyn Bets on French WW2 Epic ‘De Gaulle’ Crossing Over to U.S. Audiences: ‘It’s the Story of an Ally’

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this weekend, and has just sold to China. By Elsa Keslassy Plus Icon Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent @elsakeslassy Latest French Cinema Is Thriving at Festivals but Facing an Uphill Battle in U.S.

İlginizi çekebilir: French Cinema Is Thriving at Festivals but Facing an Uphill Battle in U.S. Theaters as Distributors Navigate a Shrinking Market

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The €74 million production, starring Simon Abkarian as the French general and Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill, marks one of Pathé ’s boldest gambles following “The Count of Monte Cristo” and the two-part “The Three Musketeers,” which were also distributed in the U.S. by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

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“De Gaulle” has also just been acquired in China – a rare feat — where Light Films will release it in late November. In the U.S., Goldwyn is rolling out the epic theatrically across major U.S.

markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, Houston and Atlanta, while making it available nationwide on transactional VOD. The second film, “De Gaulle: Liberty” will be released in early December.

Speaking to Variety during the American French Film Festival, Peter Goldwyn said he’s betting that the sprawling saga can appeal to U.S. audiences even if it revolves around a French historical figure that many aren’t familiar with.

“The films have proven themselves, and audiences are audiences, whether they’re American or French,” Goldwyn said. “It’s an amazing feat of filmmaking that you don’t quite see anymore and ultimately, World War II is an easy entry point for U.S.

audiences have been very much enthusiastic consistently about stories about Roosevelt, about Churchill, and I think that the story of De Gaulle is relatively untold in America,” he continued, adding that the “staggering scope and scale of what (De Gaulle) accomplished as one man is pretty amazing.” Goldwyn argued that the films’ cinematic ambition places

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