MISE EN SCENE SECURES DON QUIXOTE U.K DISTRIBUTION WITH SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT

Expeditious progress for The Mise En Scène Company (MSC)

London based The Mise En Scène Company (MSC) – has today secured a distribution deal with Signature Entertainment for the True Don Quixote in the United Kingdom. The film stars TIM BLAKE NELSON (Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Ballad Of Buster Scrugs), JACOB BATALON (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame), BRANDON STACY (The Big Short) and ANN MAHONEY (The Walking Dead).

The film is a modern adaptation of the classic Cervantes novel from 1605 but is set in the wilds of Louisiana. Nelson dons his makeshift armour and rides a rusty old vespa in place of a horse, slipping into this role with profound style. The film is the directorial debut from Chris Poché a screenwriter with a hand in writing nearly twenty films for Paramount, Dreamworks, Sony, Fox/New Regency, and others, including work on Kung Fu Panda, Charlotte’s Web, and Smallfoot.

The deal was negotiated between The Mise En Scene Company’s Paul Yates, who is handling International sales, and Signature’s Acquisitions and Development Executive Katie Wilkinson.

Regarding the deal, Yates said: “We’re delighted that The True Don Quixote has found such a respectable home in the United Kingdom. We’re really excited to be working with the team at Signature who have a career history in excellence. The passion and creativity that their company can bring to the table on this film is only equal to our own; it means a great deal to us and the producers to have found a distributor who believes in the film and its potential in the same way we do.”

The deal is a landmark turning point for the Mise En Scene company which was formed last March during the first lockdown in London and launched its first slate at the AFM last November. The founders Paul SL Yates and Netto Fernandes who met working at the Ritz in London were only able to fully launch the company once they were given the freedom and time to do so on the U.K governments furlough scheme. Since launching twelve months ago they have managed to significantly expand their slate and their staff.

Sorin Baluta, the company’s deliverables coordinator said: “It’s a very exciting to be a part of building a company from the ground up like this. We’re getting more and more projects coming to us every day and it really feels like we’re tapping into something creatively from the U.S. To be building a company during the pandemic feels as if we’re climbing a mountain in the midst of a blizzard whilst everyone else is taking shelter, but when that storm clears, we’ll be halfway up the mountain.

Signature Entertainment will launch the film in Q3 this year, whilst the MSC will line up its distribution in the remaining territories.

source: The Mise En Scène Company