Sony Pictures Classic To Distribute “The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol”

Sony Pictures will be manning the worldwide release of the English language animated feature  The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol which is slated to be released sometime in 2025.

According to Variety, the modern fable and animated biopic will detail the life of Pagnol, a French novelist, playwright and filmmaker who grew up in a middle-class household in Marseille and became one of the world’s most inventive and prolific artists from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Throughout his long career, Pagnol’s books were translated into more than 50 languages and sold more than 150 million units. Pagnol also built his own studio and distribution company, pioneering talking pictures and helping shape the global cinema industry at the time. His movies, including his best-known Provence-set melodrama trilogy “Marius,” “Fanny” and “César,” reached more than 200 admissions worldwide.

Our Take

With adult animation films getting increasing relevance in the Academy Awards, look for more like this to be acquired by other studios in the coming years.