Epsilon Movie has closed a sequence of worldwide offers on “Momo,” the live-action household journey movie primarily based on the novel by Michael Ende, finest recognized for “The NeverEnding Story,” and starring Martin Freeman and Claes Bang.
Rights within the UK and Eire have been acquired by Signature Leisure, which plans a theatrical launch in summer time 2026. Further gross sales embody Italy (Minerva Photos), Hungary (Mozinet) and Former Yugoslavia (Investacommerce).
Beforehand introduced offers embody North America (Blue Fox Leisure), Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Media Group), Denmark and Norway (One other World Leisure), the Center East (Selim Ramia & Co.) and world air rights (Ricochet Digital Media).
“Momo” follows orphaned Momo as she faces off in opposition to the mysterious Males in Gray, who steal individuals’s time whereas quietly taking on her city.
The movie is directed by Christian Ditter (“Love, Rosie,” “Learn how to Be Single”) and stars Freeman (The Hobbit trilogy,” “Sherlock,” “Black Panther”), Bang (“The Sq.,” “Dracula,” “The Northman”), Alexa Goodall, Araloyin Oshunremi, Kim Bodnia, Laura Haddock and Jennifer Amaka Pettersson.
The movie is produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion (“The Wave”, “Wickie/Vicky”, “Colonia Dignidad”) in co-production with Constantin Movie (“Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Do not Die”, “Regretting You”, “Resident Evil”) and in collaboration with Westside, Beta Movie, Noisemaker and Pakt Media.
Since its inception two years in the past, Epsilon’s function movie lineup contains the animated title “Dreamers – The Hunt for Shadowclaw”, “The Wonderful Maurice 2”, “Nessie Junior”, “Courageous Coronary heart Yakari” and “Mimi and Harold – Out of Body”.
Along with its animated roster, Epsilon additionally represents “Lassie and the Wild Bear” and the Sky Unique manufacturing “Robin and the Hoods,” starring Naomie Harris and Gwendoline Christie.
The corporate additionally manages the worldwide rights to the largest German field workplace hit of the final 5 years: the live-action diversifications of the bestselling e-book sequence “The Faculty for Magical Beasts,” Elements 3 and 4.