Cannes: Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ Sells to China

“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” the controversial film that is set as the closing night movie of the Cannes Film Festival, has been licensed to China’s Turbo Film.Directed by Terry Gilliam, it stars Jonathan Price, Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko.

International sales are handled by Paris-based Kinology.

The film has significant finance from Amazon Studios.

KIology confirmed the sale with Variety.The film has been in the pipeline for some 20 years and is still the subject of a legal dispute over its ownership.

That legal dispute, with prolific French-based producer Paolo Branco, who was previously set as co-producer, could still upset the festival’s plans to screen “Quixote” on May 19.Turbo, which has until now specialized in small scale imported titles, plans a major launch later this year.Chinese audiences are rapidly warming to a variety of international films from non-Hollywood sources.

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