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Apple wins bid for Will Smith motion movie ‘Emancipation’, reported $120 million deal GL-NEWS

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August 25, 2020
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Apple wins bid for Will Smith motion movie ‘Emancipation’, reported $120 million deal GL-NEWS
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Apple has simply acquired the worldwide rights to an upcoming motion thriller movie known as Emancipation starring Will Smith and directed by Antoine Fuqua (each pictured above). The deal marks the biggest-ever movie pageant acquisition with Apple reportedly spending greater than $100 million to shut the deal, competing in opposition to Warner Bros. and others.

Reported by Deadline, the deal for Emancipation comes from the Digital Cannes market and initially included seven bidders. After shifting previous $75 million, the bidding was all the way down to Apple and Warner Bros.

The official value of the deal wasn’t disclosed however sources near the matter mentioned Apple received the rights with a bid of round $105 million and a complete spend seemingly close to $120 million.

The plan is for Emancipation to premiere in theaters worldwide earlier than touchdown on Apple TV+. Right here’s the synopsis of the upcoming motion thriller (through The Hollywood Reporter):

Based mostly on the true story, the film follows Peter, a runaway slave pressured to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on his journey North. As soon as there, he joined the Union Military. When Peter confirmed his naked again throughout an Military medical examination, pictures had been taken of the scars from a close to deadly whipping delivered by an overseer on the plantation owned by John and Bridget Lyons.

Deadline notes the horrifying parallel between what occurred to Peter again within the 1800s and George Floyd simply this yr.

Whereas the filmmakers have been engaged on this one for 2 years, there’s an eerie parallel to the footage of George Floyd that sparked protests throughout the nation and reforms which have unfold past policing and reaching even the corridors of Hollywood. The story of Peter was additionally fueled by an indelible picture, after he confirmed his naked again throughout an Military medical examination. The pictures taken of the scars from a whipping delivered by an overseer on the plantation bought revealed and seen world wide in 1863. The image gave the abolitionist trigger indeniable proof of the cruelty of slavery in America, and when the photograph reached world wide, legend has it that it made international locations like France refuse to purchase cotton from the South. The photograph, generally known as The Scourged Again, solidified the reason for abolitionists and the remainder of the world in opposition to slavery and prompted many free blacks to affix the Union Military.

Director for Emancipation, Antoine Fuqua commented on the significance of telling tales of the previous to create a greater future:

Fuqua famous that the {photograph} was “the primary viral picture of the brutality of slavery that the world noticed, which is attention-grabbing, while you put it into perspective with at this time and social media and what the world is seeing, once more. You may’t repair the previous, however you possibly can remind individuals of the previous and I feel now we have to, in an correct, possible way. All of us need to search for a brighter future for us all, for everybody. That’s one of the necessary causes to do issues proper now, is present our historical past. Now we have to face our fact earlier than we will transfer ahead.”

Emancipation is slated to begin manufacturing in 2021.

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