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Kindred Spirit’s Anita Gou Talks Cannes Title ‘Locust’, Reimagining Ang Lee’s Classic ‘The Wedding Banquet’ & Why Company Invested In ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ Theatre Production With Sarah Snook
The producer talks Cannes title 'Locust', reimagining Ang Lee's 'The Wedding Banquet' & investing in Sarah Snook starrer 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance (think Lulu Wang’s Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which made $23M worldwide, Shia LaBeouf-starrer Honey Boy and Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation) but, more recently, her co-production Silent Twins was selected in Un Certain Regard in 2022, while Dominic Savage’s Close To You premiered in Toronto last year. I’m a guardian of this treasure and I really revere the works and I’m just excited that it’s part of our cultural legacy, so I really wanted to make sure that it was treated right in conversations around the world and how we find new opportunities for the studio to engage with the international industry.” Kindred Spirit is also coming off the back of investing in its first theatre project with the one-woman stage adaptation of The Picture ofDorian Grey, starring Sarah Snook, which largely played to critical acclaim when it ran on London’s West End this year.
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