Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ Acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures for Key International Territories, Including the U.K. and Spain
Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language film debut “The Room Next Door” for key international territories, including the U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany and Latin America.
Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, “The Room Next Door” will also be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Poland) and some of the Asia Pacific markets, including Japan.
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Produced by Almodóvar’s banner El Deseo, “The Room Next Door” was shot between Madrid and New York, with the support of Movistar Plus+. The cast is completed by Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.
“The Room Next Door” follows the story of Martha, a flawed mother working as a war reporter, and Ingrid, her spiteful daughter who is an auto-fictional novelist. While the mother and daughter are separated by a serious misunderstanding, another woman is the keeper of their pain and bitterness.
“The film addresses the endless cruelty of war, the very different ways in which the two female authors approach and write about reality, death, friendship and sexual pleasure as the best allies in the fight against horror,” Warner Bros. Pictures wrote in a release. The studio added that the film evokes “the sweet awakening with the chirping of birds, in a house built in the middle of a nature reserve in New England, where the two friends live in an extreme and strangely sweet situation.”
“The Room Next Door” is set to hit theaters later this year. Almodovar last directed “Strange Way of Life,” a gay western short starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, which world premiered at Cannes.
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