EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Gregorini’s long-gestating Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna will be on sale at the upcoming Cannes Market with Millennium Media and UTA.
Millennium Media has boarded the project to handle international while UTA represents North American rights.
Produced by producer Cassian Elwes (The Butler), Hurricanna is executive produced by Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital (Terrifier 3).
The film stars Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass, and Sylvia Hoeks. The plot follows the chaotic final 24 hours in the life of Anna Nicole Smith. Told from the fragmented and colliding perspectives of Smith, her psychiatrist, and her former lover, the film explores themes of fame, codependency, and self-destruction in a fractured American psyche.
Gregorini (Killing Eve) directs from a script by Rachel and Matt Sarnoff. The film was previously on sale in international territories with Sierra/Affinity.
“Francesca brings an intense and intimate lens to one of pop culture’s most sensationalized figures,” Elwes said in a statement. “Hurricanna is not a biopic—it’s a pressure cooker character drama that interrogates fame, identity, and collapse with fearless precision.”
Cannes Market runs from May 13 to 21.
