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‘Pet Shop Days’ Director Olmo Schnabel Signs With WME, Black Bear


Olmo Schnabel, director of the Venice and SXSW player "Pet Shop Days," has signed with WME for representation and Black Bear for management.

Schnabel’s breakout directorial effort “Pet Shop Days” played both the Venice International Film Festival and SXSW this cycle, scoring distribution from Utopia for a 2024 theatrical release. Starring Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, the film tells of a drug lord scion on the run from his powerful family. Schnabel’s father Julian is the noted filmmaker and painter behind “Basquiat,” “Before Night Falls” and the Oscar nominee “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” Olmo got his start in show business on the 2018 Vincent van Gogh biopic “At Eternity’s Gate” starring Willem Dafoe.

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