Mubi Launching Global Publishing Arm, Sets First Book Release for 2025 (EXCLUSIVE)
Arthouse distributor, streamer and production company Mubi is venturing into the world of publishing.
Mubi Editions, set to launch in April, is a new global publishing arm dedicated to cinema and the arts set to publish across a range of formats and genres. Up first is “Read Frame Type Film” — prepared in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris — which Mubi says should be one of up to three titles it hopes to publish next year.
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The new venture, according to Mubi, “intends to play a meaningful role in fostering a global community of engaged, art-loving viewers and readers — now and into the future,” and will publish across four core series. Projections will be dedicated to the world of film culture and history, Auteurs will cover both books and objects made in close collaboration with renowned artists and filmmakers and Internegatives will be republications of rare, out-of-print or newly translated texts. Meanwhile, Lights! will be books that explore and expand Mubi’s own productions and releases.
Mubi already sells select merchandise linked to its film catalog (including a “The Substance” candle shaped like Demi Moore’s deformed monster from the body-horror’s finale) and has the biannual print magazine Notebook. However, the formalization of an official publishing imprint — which sees it follows the publishing efforts of A24 — marks the latest significant step in a period of major growth for the company. This year alone it has broken its own theatrical box office record twice, first with “Priscilla” and more recently with “The Substance,” which became the company’s first wide release in the U.S.
Available to pre-order immediately, “Read Frame Type Film” has been put together by curator Enrico Camporesi, design historian Catherine de Smet and designer Philippe Millot and aims to address the overlooking of critical important textual elements — such as credits, subtitles and title cards — in experimental and arthouse filmmaking. In the book, the trio discuss 24 works from the film collection at the Centre Pompidou that Mubi says will offer unique perspectives on the affinity between cinema and typography.
“Since its founding, Mubi has always seen publishing as a key element of connecting cinema with global audiences,” said vice president of editorial content Daniel Kasman. “With Mubi Editions, we are building upon the great work done by our online and print publication, Notebook, and going even further: to start a new book imprint dedicated to exploring the beauty and richness of the seventh art. In doing so, Mubi will continue to deepen its mission to bring audiences around the world together through their love of great movies and the culture and history of cinema.”
Mubi Editions will be available through the Mubi website, but also has exclusive worldwide distribution partners in Thames & Hudson for global outside the U.S. and Canada, and Distributed Art Publishers for the U.S. and Canada.
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