Sony Pictures International Productions, SND films and Monolith films acquire adaptation rights to Russian comedy "Son of a rich"

The film is currently Russia’s highest-grossing film at the box office

Mexican, Indian, South Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian adaptation rights to Russian comedy Son of a Rich have been acquired by Sony Pictures International Productions with French rights acquired by SND Films and Polish rights acquired by Monolith Films.

Produced by Yellow, Black & White Production Studio, MEM Cinema, and United Companies of GPM KIT (part of Gazprom-Media Holding), along with the support of the Cinema Foundation of Russia, Son of a Rich is currently the highest-grossing Russian film to date, it has taken in 3.071 billion rubles in Russia and has grossed a total of over $1.8 million USD abroad.

SND Films is the leading French distributor and production branch of Groupe M6, the largest existing French media company that owns the most popular French television network. SND Films bought the rights for the production of the remake in France.

The Polish company of Monolith Films has bought the production rights for the Polish remake of the film, which they will begin filming next year.

International sales are being managed by the film production and distribution company of Central Partnership (part of Gazprom-Media Holding).

Son of a Rich also became the highest-grossing Russian film in the Baltic States (distributed by Garsu Pasaulio Irasai). By February 10th, more than 70,000 moviegoers had watched the film in the Baltic countries, thus bringing in €45,061,000 into the box office. Moreover, the film continues to hold the top spot in gross revenues among all Russian films in Serbia, the homeland of the film's leading actor, Milos Bikovich. There, the box office revenue well exceeded half a million dollars. 

Son of a Rich hit the screens in Israel (distributed by Stars Media), the USA, and in a number of European countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and England (distributed together by Kinostar and KinoKartina.TV). 

The total revenue grossed by the film in Europe and the United States amounted to 497 thousand euro, which goes to show that there were more than 45 thousand tickets sold.

Klim Shipenko's comedy managed to even take this record-breaking title from T-34, a military action motion picture that was the previous highest-grossing Russian film in Europe (222,700 thousand euro). Not only this, but Son of a Rich surpassed in gross revenue other well-received films like the fairy tale of The Last Warrior (187 thousand euro), the comedies Yolki 6 (145 thousand euro) and Yolki 7 (166 thousand euro), as well as the sports drama Three Seconds (197 thousand euro).