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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Don’t Miss The Trailer For Samuel Goldwyn’s Latest French Revenge Classic

Both William Eubank and Stephen Fung are different directors with at least one other thing in common: Alexandre Dumas. The 19th century literary legend’s classic tale of vengeance, The Count Of Monte Cristo, circled the trades quite a bit in the last decade or so with talks of a remake. Time will tell if this gets any headway, while for now folks curious to see what film duo Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière have been up to are more than welcome to head to theaters when their treatment opens in limited theaters starting next week. Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the rights to Delaporte and de la Patellière’s The Count Of Monte Cristo back in May, ahead of its premiere at the 77th edition of Cannes. The film also enjoyed multiple festival runs including the 28th Fantasia Festival where it earned the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film. Actor […]

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO Trailer Teases The Legendary Revenge Tale Of The Summer

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The latest revival of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is hitting Out Of Competition screens at Cannes this month with Le Comte De Monte-Cristo. Directing duo Alexandre de La Patellière and Mathieu Delaporte (writers of Martin Bourboulon’s The Three Musketeers Part I and II) pair up for their latest offering together since 2019’s The Best Is Yet To Come, and 2012’s What’s In A Name?. In the year 1815, within the confines of Marseille, Edmond Dantès finds himself incarcerated within the formidable walls of the Château d’If for a crime he did not commit. Enduring fourteen years of imprisonment, he eventually engineers his escape, embarking on a meticulously crafted quest for vengeance. Assuming multiple identitities – “the Count of Monte Cristo” among them – Dantès first courts his enemies, now highly placed dignitaries, the better to strike them down. But the price of revenge is heavy […]