Overview
- Mubi announced it acquired global distribution rights to Making Marie Antoinette, a deal first reported on Wednesday, July 8.
- The documentary was assembled from roughly 80 hours of unseen footage Eleanor Coppola shot during the 2005 Palace of Versailles production of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and edited into a feature-length film.
- Diane Lane provides the voiceover reading passages from Eleanor Coppola’s journals, and the film credits Sofia Coppola, Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Rachel Dengiz and Youree Henley as producers with financing from Our Films, Mediawan Rights and Entourage Pictures.
- Eleanor Coppola died in 2024 while working on the project and the film was completed afterward with editor Aaron Matthews and input from her friends Davia Nelson and Liz Bird to honor her wish that the footage be turned into a feature.
- Mubi says it will announce release plans soon; reports suggest the streamer may aim for a fall or 20th‑anniversary window but no public release date has been confirmed.