Jim Queen, the queer adult animation that premiered at Cannes, is turning attention into a genuinely wide release. After its first Asian market stop at Busan, sales agent Global Constellation has signed a fresh batch of territory deals across Europe and Latin America, while France keeps building the number that makes those deals easier.
What sold at Busan
- HBO took first-window pay-TV and SVOD rights in Eastern Europe.
- Prorom acquired Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
- Folkets Bio, AS Fidalgo and Films4You took Sweden, Norway and Portugal respectively.
- CDI/LAT-E picked up Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay.
- A South Korean deal is in negotiation.
Those join earlier sales across Italy, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Israel, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Taiwan. Creative Century will open the film in Taiwan on Oct. 23.
France gives buyers a number
In France, Jokers Films opened the title on June 17, where it landed at No. 3 on the box office chart behind Toy Story 5 and Backrooms. It has since passed 385,000 admissions and grossed more than $3 million.
For an independent adult animation, that is a real commercial signal, not a festival vanity metric. The No. 3 debut matters because it came in a mainstream multiplex frame, not an arthouse sidebar.
Why the model matters
The territory-by-territory approach is how many animated indies get financed: sell select markets first, use festival selections to create urgency, then use box office data to close the next round. The HBO first-window deal in Eastern Europe is especially relevant for streamers: it gives a platform a clearly positioned catalogue title after the theatrical window, rather than a global all-rights commitment.
Global Constellation, formed in 2025 from London’s Film Constellation and Munich-based Global Screen, is handling sales for pan-European studio Vuelta. It is weighing several U.S. offers, with a release set for 2027. The recently announced English-language voices of Jordan Firstman and Matteo Lane strengthen that package. Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux called the world premiere “one of the most beautiful in the festival’s history in terms of atmosphere,” but the commercial run has now added a hard number to the festival story.
What the film is
Set in Paris, the story follows Jim, a gym-obsessed influencer whose status collapses when a virus called Heterosis begins converting gay men to heterosexuality. Dropped by his followers, Jim and his loyal admirer Lucien search the Marais for a renegade doctor who may have a cure.
Producers David Alric and Arthur Delabays made the film through Bobbypills, the Paris adult-animation studio behind Creature Commandos and Captain Laserhawk. Umedia co-produced with support from Eurimages and French regional funds.
Source: Variety
