21/08/2013 - The company managed by Stéphane Célérier launches François Ozon’s film, discovered in Cannes, and prepares for the future with a busy line-up

After the success of Potiche [+see also:
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6^th in the 2012 list of distributors behind 5 branches of major American companies, Stéphane Célérier’s company will bet on its many assets before the end of 2013. In particular, on October 2, they will release the comedy Eyjafjallajökull by Alexandre Coffre in which Dany Boon and Valérie Bonneton play a divorced couple who hate each other and are forced to drive to Greece together where their daughter is getting married because of the eruption of an Icelandic volcano.

Mars’s 2013 line-up also features the documentary Mademoiselle C. by Fabien Constant about the famous fashion editor Carine Roitfeld (to be released on October 16) and three titles discovered in Cannes: the English language film Blood Ties [+see also:
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interview: Katell Quillévéré
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Amongst the many other feature films on which Mars will be counting in 2014-2015, La rançon de la gloire by Xavier Beauvois (article) stands out, as well as the comedy Le crocodile du Botswanga by duo Fabrice Eboué – Lionel Streketee (article), Je te survivrai by Sylvestre Sbille, La justice ou le chaos by Vincent Garenq (article), On a failli être amies by Anne Le Ny (article), L’homme que l’on aimait trop by André Téchiné (news), Une promesse [+see also:
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(Translated from French)