Plan B Entertainment Acquires Rights To Molly Manning Walker’s Original Feature Film Project

EXCLUSIVE: Plan B Entertainment has acquired an original project from How To Have Sex writer/director Molly Manning Walker. The plot of the irreverent comedy is under wraps.

The deal comes as Manning Walker is about to serve (among six filmmakers chosen) as part the Cannes Film Festival’s annual La Résidence programme for first- or second-time directors running March 15-July of 2024. Manning Walker’s debut feature film How to Have Sex won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI at the 36th European Film Awards.

In 2024, she earned two nominations at the 77th British Academy Film Awards for How to Have Sex, including Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Her first feature film as a cinematographer Scrapper, directed by Charlotte Regan, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She was nominated at the BIFAS for best cinematography and the film went on to be nominated for Outstanding British Film at the BAFTAS.

Plan B’s partnership with Mediawan, the premiere European studio producing audiovisual content and feature films, has enabled the prolific producers to independently pursue the acquisition of projects to develop across the feature and series space and bring them to a global market for distribution with partners across the media landscape.