MUSIC BOX ACQUIRES OSS 117 SEQUEL, “LOST IN RIO”

March 11, 2010

MUSIC BOX ACQUIRES OSS 117 SEQUEL, “LOST IN RIO”

Chicago, IL….Music Box Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of all US rights to Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117 – LOST IN RIO (OSS 177 – Rio ne répond plus), starring Jean Dujardin, a madcap satirical comedy that follows suave but clueless spy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath – better known as OSS 117 – as he travels across Brazil in 1967 with a beautiful Israeli agent on the trail, high-ranking Nazi.

French comedy sensation Jean Dujardin, who also starred in Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117: CAIRO NEST OF SPIES – a blockbuster in France and a cult hit in the US – is at his ironic best as the Pride of French Intelligence. A cross between James Bond and Austin Powers, the film is an ultra-stylized spoof of a popular in France-only hero of a series of ’50’s and ’60’s pulp spy novels and later movies.

Music Box partners Edward Arentz and William Schopf negotiated the deal with Cecile Gaget and Loic Trocme, of Gaumont, the film’s international sales agent.
“Dujardin’s OSS 117 starts where Peter Seller’s Inspector Clouseau left off in satirizing a certain species of French chauvinism, ethnic insensitivity, wanton womanizing and general foolishness,” says Music Box’s William Schopf.

OSS 117 – LOST IN RIO begins its US theatrical release on May 14, 2010.

ABOUT MUSIC BOX FILMS

Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly become one the top independent distributors serving the US arthouse market. With a focus on foreign-language cinema, Music Box’s release of Guillaume Canet’s TELL NO ONE was the most popular foreign-language film of 2008. Upcoming releases in 2010 include the Swedish mega-hit THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and the French gangster epic MESRINE starring Vincent Cassel. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation which also owns and operates the Music Box Theatre, Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films.