EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Gregorini’s long-gestating Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna can be on sale on the upcoming Cannes Market with Millennium Media and UTA.
Millennium Media has boarded the challenge to deal with worldwide whereas UTA represents North American rights.
Produced by producer Cassian Elwes (The Butler), Hurricanna is government produced by Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital (Terrifier 3).
The movie stars Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass, and Sylvia Hoeks. The plot follows the chaotic closing 24 hours within the lifetime of Anna Nicole Smith. Told from the fragmented and colliding views of Smith, her psychiatrist, and her former lover, the movie explores themes of fame, codependency, and self-destruction in a fractured American psyche.
Gregorini (Killing Eve) directs from a script by Rachel and Matt Sarnoff. The movie was beforehand on sale in worldwide territories with Sierra/Affinity.
“Francesca brings an intense and intimate lens to one of pop culture’s most sensationalized figures,” Elwes mentioned in an announcement. “Hurricanna is not a biopic—it’s a pressure cooker character drama that interrogates fame, identity, and collapse with fearless precision.”
Cannes Market runs from May 13 to 21.