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Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Gold Rush’ Getting 4K Restoration That Will Bow in Cannes and Release Globally 100 Years to Day of Film’s 1925 Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

The 4K version of the classic will release globally 100 Years to day of film's original 1925 premiere

A restored 4K version of Charlie Chaplin ‘s classic silent comedy “The Gold Rush ” is set to have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of a global release timed exactly 100 years to the day that it first screen at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles. Organized by mk2, the global rollout will include more than 250 screenings spanning over 70 territories on the same day, in collaboration with a network of local distributors, including mk2 (France), Janus Films (U.S. and U.K.), Cineteca di Bologna (Italy), A Contracorriente (Spain), StudioCanal (Germany), Budapest Film (Hungary), Mars Production (Turkey), Lev Cinemas (Israel), Kadokawa (Japan), Cinetopia (Spanish-speaking Latin America) and Yema Distribution (Sub-Saharan Africa) as well as theatres and cinema networks worldwide, such as: Broadway Cinematheque (via Edko, Hong Kong), New Horizons (Poland), Cine Paris (via Cinobo, Greece) Kino Moscow (Armenia). “We have been working on Chaplin’s oeuvre for nearly thirty years, with the goal of giving back to each and every film all the beauty originally imagined by its author,” said Gian Luca Farinelli, director of La Cineteca di Bologna.

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