Belfast: Focus Features Acquires Global Rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Semi-Autobiographical Film
Focus Features has announced that they have successfully acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh’s newest directorial feature titled Belfast. The studio is planning to release the coming-of-age drama sometime next year.
“Belfast is my most personal film. It’s about coming home – a dramatic journey of excitement, emotion and humour,” Branagh said in a statement.
“To be embraced by filmmakers and distributors of such proven imagination and talent as Focus is fantastic. We are honoured to partner with Peter Kujawski and his amazing team. With the incredible support of Northern Ireland Screen also in the mix, we are very excited for the future of BELFAST in cinemas around the world in 2021.”
Focus Features announced that the studio had acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s “
Belfast,” which he wrote and directed. The cast includes Golden Globe nominee Caitriona Balfe, Academy Award winner Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and introduces Jude Hill.
The studio’s description reads, “Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.”
According to Focus Features, Dornan and Balfe play a glamorous working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as the wry and spry grandparents.
The film is produced by Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas.