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27.01.2023 - 17:01 / deadline.com
French actor and director Guillaume Canet has revealed he is feeling the pressure ahead of the release next week of his ambitious $70M production Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom.
Canet directs and stars in the film as iconic plucky Gaul Asterix in an all-star ensemble cast also featuring Gilles Lellouche as Obelix, Vincent Cassel as Julius Caesar, Marion Cotillard as Cleopatra and Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović as Caesar’s bodyguard Antivirus.
The production is Canet’s eighth feature after 2006 breakout Tell No One, 2010 hit Little White Lies, Brooklyn-set, English-language debut Blood Ties and the smaller more personal pandemic-shot film Lui.
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Pathé will launch Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom on 1,200 screens on February 1. Local media is hailing the release as the biggest film event of early 2023.
Canet has said he is feeling nervous as the release date nears, and with good reason: much rides on its performance.
“We’re after a pandemic. Cinema is getting better but it’s still quite fragile,” he said in an interview with the French radio network France Inter. “The film industry is waiting on the film. Everyone is really kind to me, there’s no sense of competition but they all know that if this film doesn’t work, there won’t be many others like it in France.”
“We need people to come back and rediscover the pleasure of sharing a film in a cinema, with their families. With the emergence of the platforms, it needs to work for all the other films to work and find financing. If a film like this doesn’t work, there won’t be any financiers who will put money into films. There’s a lot of
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