GKIDS, a distributor of award-winning animation for both adult and family audiences, announced its acquisition of North American rights to PHANTOM BOY, the highly anticipated new animated feature from Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol, the Oscar®-nominated writers and directors of A Cat in Paris. The film premieres on June 19 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and GKIDS plans a theatrical release in spring 2016. The deal was negotiated between Daniela Elstner for Doc & Film International, Annemie Degryse for Lumière Publishing, and Eric Beckman for GKIDS.
PHANTOM BOY marks a return to the stylish animated noir of Felicioli and Gagnol’s A Cat in Paris, which was also distributed by GKIDS and earned the writing/directing duo their first Academy Award nomination. In the new film, the setting has shifted from Paris to New York in this family- and adult-friendly crime animated thriller. The film was produced by Jacques-Remy Girerd and Annemie Degryse, and is a co-production between Folimage, Lunanime, France 3 Cinéma and Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.