Sony Pictures Classics Makes TIFF Pre-Buy with ‘Micmacs’

Sony Pictures Classics will officially cram one more title at the Toronto Film Festival – and what a pick up it is. SPC has picked up the U.S. and Latin American rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fantasy comedy – which receives its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on the 15th. The film stars Dany Boon, whose Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis catapulted him at the top of the French box office – so the casting of the actor makes this another sure fire hit at the box office, let me specify, the French box office. 

Co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, Micmacs tells the tale of “a video store clerk with a bullet lodged in his brain. Knowing he could drop dead at any time, he bands together with an odd collection of outsiders – a mechanical genius, a con man and a contortionist among them – to devise a plan to take down the weapons manufacturer that made the bullet.”

With so many items on their slate, we can expect Micmacs to be a 2010 release, but I guess this will only be confirmed once France makes its finally decision on which film will represent them in the Foreign Oscar bid. So far, I think the voters would be leaning towards A Prophet (another SPC release).