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\n\tLaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson\u2019s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic \u201cChopin, Chopin!\u201d (\u201cChopin, a Sonata in Paris\u201d), handled for international sales by Paris\u2019 Playtime.<\/p>\n
\n\tMicha\u0142 Kwieci\u0144ski\u2019s $17.5 million budget biopic of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin, produced by Poland\u2019s Akson Studio (\u201cKaty\u0144,\u201d \u201cWarsaw 44\u201d), stars Eryk Kulm (\u201cFilip\u201d) as the prodigious pianist-composer, with Lambert Wilson (\u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d) as King Louis-Philippe.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 19th-century-set drama tracks Chopin\u2019s arrival in Paris at the age of 21 and his rapid ascent as the city\u2019s romantic idol, before illness refocuses his obsession on composition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film boasts high-end craft talent including cinematographer Micha\u0142 Soboci\u0144ski (\u201cThe New Look\u201d), production designer Katarzyna Soba\u0144ska (\u201cCold War\u201d) and writer Bartosz Janiszewski (\u201cWataha\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tShot largely in France with roughly 80% of the dialogue in French, the feature squarely targets upscale audiences and classical-music aficionados while courting broader crossover play via its sweeping, baroque aesthetic.<\/p>\n
\n\tHaving produced since 2003 Spanish top hits such as Enrique Urbizu\u2019s thriller \u201cNo Rest for the Wicked\u201d and Emilio Mart\u00ednez L\u00e1zaro\u2019s comedy \u201cSpanish Affair,\u201d the highest-grossing Spanish film ever in Spain, in 2023 LaZona broadened its horizons launching a new film distribution operation, LaZona Pictures, led from 2024 by former Latido Films executive \u00d3scar Alonso.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFor us \u2018Chopin, Chopin!\u2019 is the first true European \u2018super-production\u2019 on the slate \u2014 a statement of intent to keep growing, step by step, but also to take bolder swings at films with wider audience potential,\u201d\u00a0 Alonso said at Valladolid\u2019s Seminci, where LaZona\u2019s co-production \u201cSubsuelo,\u201d by Fernando Franco, world premiered as part of the festival\u2019s main competition.<\/p>\n
\n\tPositioning \u201cChopin, Chopin\u201d as a \u201crock-star portrait of the Romantic era,\u201d Alonso advances that the Spanish release, scheduled for next year\u2019s first quarter, will activate partnerships with opera houses, conservatories and music schools to extend reach beyond core arthouse circuits.<\/p>\n
\n\tLaZona Pictures has been ramping up since last year with a curated line of arthouse and crossover titles. With \u201cChopin Chopin,\u201d the company has begun early conversations with platforms and broadcasters to complement a planned theatrical rollout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cChopin, Chopin\u201d has already scored top-tier festival exposure and is lining up further key berths, underscoring its positioning as a prestige event title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the kind of ambitious European cinema that doesn\u2019t come along every year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re confident it can resonate with classical-music lovers and a much wider audience drawn to grand, emotionally charged storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tClosing Film at\u00a0Seville European Film Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe film will screen out of competition as the closing night gala title at the upcoming edition of the Seville European Film Festival, which runs Nov. 7-15.<\/p>\n \n\tOne of LaZona\u2019s biggest hits to date as an indie distributor has been \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab,\u201d a Venice Silver Lion and San Sebastian Audience Award winner.<\/p>\n \n\tCo-distributed in Spain with Caramel Films, Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s film, one of the year\u2019s most celebrated international titles, also screened at Valladolid as part of the Constellations sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson\u2019s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic \u201cChopin, Chopin!\u201d (\u201cChopin, a Sonata in Paris\u201d), handled for international sales by Paris\u2019 Playtime. Micha\u0142 Kwieci\u0144ski\u2019s $17.5 million budget biopic of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin, produced by Poland\u2019s Akson Studio (\u201cKaty\u0144,\u201d \u201cWarsaw 44\u201d), stars Eryk Kulm (\u201cFilip\u201d) as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[18537,18536,3168,18538,9952,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-31986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chopin","9":"tag-lazona","10":"tag-pictures","11":"tag-playtime","12":"tag-secures","13":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}