Netflix Picks Up ‘The Little Prince’ from Paramount1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe animated feature, which had been scheduled for a March 18 theatrical release, will now go to the streaming service instead. Netflix has picked up Paramount Pictures’ domestic rights to The Little Prince, the new animated film based on the 1943 book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The studio had originally slated the movie to open in U.S. theatres on March 18, but then quietly pulled it off that date. It is now expected to premiere stateside on the streaming service later this year.
The film, directed by Mark Osborne, an Oscar nominee for Kung Fu Panda, premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival last May and has grossed $100 million internationally (excluding the U.K., Australia, Scandinavia and Spain), where it was handled by various distributors. Last month, it was awarded France’s Cesar Award for best animated film.
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