{"id":3240,"date":"2018-05-23T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/05\/23\/news-cannes-palme-dor-winner-shoplifters-scores-uk-deal-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:00:46","slug":"news-cannes-palme-dor-winner-shoplifters-scores-uk-deal-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/05\/23\/news-cannes-palme-dor-winner-shoplifters-scores-uk-deal-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS Cannes Palme d&#8217;Or winner &#8216;Shoplifters&#8217; scores UK deal (exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tom Grater\/ Screen Daily\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pageOptions\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"articleWrapper\">\n<div class=\"articleContent\">\n<div class=\"storytext\">\n<p>Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s family drama\u00a0<em>Shoplifters<\/em>,\u00a0winner of Cannes Film Festival\u2019s prestigious Palme d\u2019Or this year, has landed a UK distribution deal with Thunderbird Releasing.<\/p>\n<p>Kore-eda\u2019s seventh film to screen at Cannes beat Spike Lee\u2019s\u00a0<em>BlacKkKlansman<\/em>, Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cold War<\/em>\u00a0and Lee Chang-dong\u2019s\u00a0<em>Burning<\/em>\u00a0to take the top honour from Cannes\u2019 main competition this year.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Sakura Ando and Mayu Matsuoka, the film tells the story of a shoplifting father-and-son duo and the little girl they take in from the street. Producers on the project are Kaoru Matsusaki, Akihiko Yose and Hijiri Taguchi.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was negotiated by Kevin Chan, acquisitions manager of Thunderbird Releasing, and Olivier Barbier at sales agent Wild Bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Chan commented: \u201cWe immediately fell in love with Kore-eda\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shoplifters<\/em>\u00a0when we saw it. We are delighted to continue our growing partnership with Wild Bunch to bring this bittersweet modern family drama to a UK audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barbier added: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Thunderbird Releasing as a new member of the Kore-eda family. We are sure this powerful and tender film has found the right home to reach a wide audience in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird also picked up\u00a0Lee Chang-dong\u2019s\u00a0<em>Burning,\u00a0<\/em>which\u00a0set a record score\u00a0in the history of\u00a0<em>Screen<\/em>\u2019s Cannes jury grid this month, and Christopher Honore\u2019s romantic drama\u00a0<em>Sorry Angel<\/em>\u00a0from Cannes\u2019 Competition this year.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s upcoming releases include\u00a0<em>Vita And Virginia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Kindergarten Teacher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or winner, Ruben Ostlund\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Square<\/em>, was released by Curzon in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Grater\/ Screen Daily\u00a0 Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s family drama\u00a0Shoplifters,\u00a0winner of Cannes Film Festival\u2019s prestigious Palme d\u2019Or this year, has landed a UK distribution deal with Thunderbird Releasing. Kore-eda\u2019s seventh film to screen at Cannes beat Spike Lee\u2019s\u00a0BlacKkKlansman, Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0Cold War\u00a0and Lee Chang-dong\u2019s\u00a0Burning\u00a0to take the top honour from Cannes\u2019 main competition this year. Starring Sakura Ando and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/05\/23\/news-cannes-palme-dor-winner-shoplifters-scores-uk-deal-exclusive\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS Cannes Palme d&#039;Or winner &#039;Shoplifters&#039; scores UK deal (exclusive) - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/05\/23\/news-cannes-palme-dor-winner-shoplifters-scores-uk-deal-exclusive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEWS Cannes Palme d&#039;Or winner &#039;Shoplifters&#039; scores UK deal (exclusive) - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Grater\/ Screen Daily\u00a0 Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s family drama\u00a0Shoplifters,\u00a0winner of Cannes Film Festival\u2019s prestigious Palme d\u2019Or this year, has landed a UK distribution deal with Thunderbird Releasing. 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