{"id":2371191,"date":"2026-04-13T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2371191"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:23:12","slug":"jordan-firstmans-buzzy-cannes-debut-club-kid-boarded-by-uta-independent-film-group-and-charades-unveils-first-look-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jordan-firstmans-buzzy-cannes-debut-club-kid-boarded-by-uta-independent-film-group-and-charades-unveils-first-look-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Firstman\u2019s Buzzy Cannes Debut \u2018Club Kid\u2019 Boarded by UTA Independent Film Group and Charades, Unveils First Look (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cClub Kid,\u201d Jordan Firstman\u2019s buzzy directorial debut starring Cara Delevingne (\u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d), Diego Calva (\u201cBabylon\u201d) and Firstman himself, has been boarded by UTA Independent Film Group and Charades ahead of the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Slated to world premiere in Un Certain Regard, \u201cClub Kid\u201d is set in New York City and follows a washed-up party promoter who is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firstman, an internet-native creative talent and star of HBO\u2019s \u201cI Love L.A.,\u201d wrote, directed and stars in \u201cClub Kid,\u201d alongside Delevingne, Calva, Eldar Isgandarov and newcomer Reggie Absolom. The film was shot on 35mm by Adam Newport-Berra, the director of photography who recently won an Emmy for his work on \u201cThe Studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClub Kid\u201d is produced by Academy Award-winner Alex Coco (\u201cAnora\u201d) and Galen Core (\u201cLurker\u201d), alongside Topic Studio\u2019s Ryan Heller (\u201cA Real Pain\u201d) and Michael Bloom. Topic Studios also financed the<br \/>film as well as produced with Stay Gold as co-financier. Firstman also serves as an executive producer<br \/>alongside Ian Stratford, Charles Croft and Jasmine Daghighian for Topic, Olmo Schnabel, and Daniela<br \/>Taplin for Stay Gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UTA Independent Film Group set up the financing for the film with Topic Studios and is handling<br \/>North American and global sales. Paris-based international sales agent Charades has also boarded<br \/>international rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firstman is represented by UTA, Black Bear, The Lede Company and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein &amp; Selz.<br \/>Delevingne is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber &amp; Dean,<br \/>while Calva is with WME, Entertainment 360, Lumina Management, Narrative, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Absolom is represented by Mark Jermin Management, and Isgandarov by Elevate Entertainment and Bloch Law. Coco is represented by Dissident, CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora &amp; Clark. Core is represented by UTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charades\u2019 Cannes slate also includes Asghar Farhadi\u2019s \u201cParallel Tales\u201d and Emmanuel Marre\u2019s \u201cA Man of His Time\u201d in competition, Kiyoshi Kurosawa\u2019s \u201cThe Samurai and the Prisoner\u201d in Cannes Premiere, as well as Sandra Wollner\u2019s \u201cEverytime\u201d in Un Certain Regard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.variety.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Variety's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Variety's Newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Variety&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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Slated to world premiere in Un Certain Regard, \u201cClub Kid\u201d is set in New York City and follows a washed-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2371192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[351690,311576,326557,320731,461160,461162,360588,333341,348488,355294,461161,374313],"class_list":["post-2371191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-american-horror-story","tag-brillstein-entertainment-partners","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cara-delevingne","tag-charades","tag-club-kid","tag-diego-calva","tag-directorial-debut","tag-independent-film","tag-jordan-firstman","tag-stay-gold","tag-topic-studios"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jordan-Firstmans-Buzzy-Cannes-Debut-\u2018Club-Kid-Boarded-by-UTA.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371193,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371191\/revisions\/2371193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}