Exclusive: Argentinian Distributor FilmSharks has taken on international sales of horror Karem the Possession from Dark Water creator Junichiro Hayashi and sold the Russian and Baltic Rights to Big Film at Cannes.
Discussions are underway with Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, France and the UK over the film.
The pic follows a possessed young girl from an atheist family who refuses to let her new powers go and becomes more than a threat to everyone besides her.
FilmSharks took on sales after striking a deal with TelevisaUnivision-affiliated Videocine. FilmSharks has in the past sold Videocine’s El Habitante and Juega Conmigo.
FilmSharks CEO and Founder Guido Rud said: “It’s an honour to be chosen again to handle Videocine and TelevisaUnivision’s films and we are very thankful of working with them again.”...
Discussions are underway with Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, France and the UK over the film.
The pic follows a possessed young girl from an atheist family who refuses to let her new powers go and becomes more than a threat to everyone besides her.
FilmSharks took on sales after striking a deal with TelevisaUnivision-affiliated Videocine. FilmSharks has in the past sold Videocine’s El Habitante and Juega Conmigo.
FilmSharks CEO and Founder Guido Rud said: “It’s an honour to be chosen again to handle Videocine and TelevisaUnivision’s films and we are very thankful of working with them again.”...
- 5/18/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sales outfit FilmSharks has signed a deal with Videocine, the Mexican company affiliated with Televisa, to represent international rights on its upcoming Spanish-language feature Come Play With Me (Juega Conmigo).
Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Late Phases) directs the supernatural horror from a screenplay by Adriana Pelusi. The plot follows Sofía, an insecure young nanny who starts her new job taking care of two problematic kids. When their parents leave her alone with the children, they become victims of a demonic entity obsessed with playing children’s games. Now Sofia will have to play the games and overcome her childhood fears in order to try to save them.
Liz Dieppa, Emilio Beltran Ulrich, Valery Sais, Alejandra Rodriguez, Octavio Hinojosa and Rocío García star. Producers are Lemonster, from Lemon Studios (Km 31).
The deal follows a previous pact for Videocine’s film El Habitante, which FilmSharks sold out.
“We are proud and happy...
Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Late Phases) directs the supernatural horror from a screenplay by Adriana Pelusi. The plot follows Sofía, an insecure young nanny who starts her new job taking care of two problematic kids. When their parents leave her alone with the children, they become victims of a demonic entity obsessed with playing children’s games. Now Sofia will have to play the games and overcome her childhood fears in order to try to save them.
Liz Dieppa, Emilio Beltran Ulrich, Valery Sais, Alejandra Rodriguez, Octavio Hinojosa and Rocío García star. Producers are Lemonster, from Lemon Studios (Km 31).
The deal follows a previous pact for Videocine’s film El Habitante, which FilmSharks sold out.
“We are proud and happy...
- 3/5/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Raven Banner has acquired three films for Canada, starting with the Mexican-Chilean horror movie El Habitante (The Inhabitant), directed and written by Guillermo Amoedo, a co-writer on Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno and Knock, Knock. The film turns on three sisters who break into a corrupt Mexican senator’s home to rob him, liberating his small daughter, chained up […]...
- 11/5/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
What evil lurks in the basement of a powerful and corrupt senator's creepily empty home? In The Inhabitant, three sisters intent on robbing the place are about to find out, and it will force them to fight their own inner demons and dark secrets as they try to figure out how to escape from the demonic presence's grasp and save the girl it has possessed.
Camila (Vanesa Restrepo), Maria (Maria Evoli), and Anita (Carla Adell) have received some insider information about some bribe money stashed away in the senator's safe in his mansion and proceed to break into the home and steal it to pay back a debt owed by Camila. When they don't find the money where it's supposed to be, they start searching the house, waking the sleeping senator (Flavio Medina) and his wife Angelica (Gabriela...
Camila (Vanesa Restrepo), Maria (Maria Evoli), and Anita (Carla Adell) have received some insider information about some bribe money stashed away in the senator's safe in his mansion and proceed to break into the home and steal it to pay back a debt owed by Camila. When they don't find the money where it's supposed to be, they start searching the house, waking the sleeping senator (Flavio Medina) and his wife Angelica (Gabriela...
- 10/21/2018
- QuietEarth.us
While Eli Roth isn’t a producer on this title, Chilean horror The Inhabitant (El Habitante) does come from the team behind Aftershock, The Green Inferno and Knock, Knock. News out of Tiff is that Guillermo Amoedo‘s horror pic, which looks like a mix between Don’t Breathe and The Exorcist, is being sold across multiple territories. According to Variety, Kinovista has […]...
- 9/7/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: HBO Latino has snapped up U.S. rights to thriller Dark Buildings (Las Grietas De Jara) and comedy Empowered (Sin Rodeos) from Argentinian sales outfit FilmSharks.
Oscar Martinez (The Distinguished Citizen) and Joaquin Furriel (La Quietud) star in the former about a dark secret at an architecture firm. The film has also been picked up by HBO Europe for Eastern Europe. Disney/Buena Vista previously picked up multi-territory rights to the movie in South America.
Comedy Empowered comes from Torrente franchise director Santiago Segura and stars Maribel Verdu (Pan’s Labyrinth) in the lead role as a woman who, after a visit to an Indian healer, starts saying aloud what she would previously have only thought. The pic has also newly sold to Edel for German-speaking Europe. Previous deals included Contracorriente for Spain, Colarado for Italy and Palace Pictures for Aus/Nz.
Meanwhile, also for FilmSharks, Tribeca horror You...
Oscar Martinez (The Distinguished Citizen) and Joaquin Furriel (La Quietud) star in the former about a dark secret at an architecture firm. The film has also been picked up by HBO Europe for Eastern Europe. Disney/Buena Vista previously picked up multi-territory rights to the movie in South America.
Comedy Empowered comes from Torrente franchise director Santiago Segura and stars Maribel Verdu (Pan’s Labyrinth) in the lead role as a woman who, after a visit to an Indian healer, starts saying aloud what she would previously have only thought. The pic has also newly sold to Edel for German-speaking Europe. Previous deals included Contracorriente for Spain, Colarado for Italy and Palace Pictures for Aus/Nz.
Meanwhile, also for FilmSharks, Tribeca horror You...
- 9/7/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Mexican-Chilean horror movie “El habitante” (“The Inhabitant”) has closed new major territory deals in the run-up to this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
Kinovista has acquired rights to France and French-speaking Europe, Capelight Pictures to Germany and Austria and Double & Joy Pictures to South Korea and Vietnam.
“El habitante” is directed and written by Guillermo Amoedo, a co-writer on Eli Roth’s “The Green Inferno” and “Knock, Knock.” The film turns on three sisters who break into a corrupt Mexican senator’s home to rob him, liberating his small daughter, chained up in the basement only to discover that she’s possessed.
Closed by Guido Rud’s FilmSharks Intl., the sales add to an already-announced U.S. acquisition deal with Lionsgate’s Pantelion and a sale to Cinema Prestige in Russia, where “The Inhabitant” opened in late August at No. 4 at the Russian box office, Rud said.
Described by Rud...
Kinovista has acquired rights to France and French-speaking Europe, Capelight Pictures to Germany and Austria and Double & Joy Pictures to South Korea and Vietnam.
“El habitante” is directed and written by Guillermo Amoedo, a co-writer on Eli Roth’s “The Green Inferno” and “Knock, Knock.” The film turns on three sisters who break into a corrupt Mexican senator’s home to rob him, liberating his small daughter, chained up in the basement only to discover that she’s possessed.
Closed by Guido Rud’s FilmSharks Intl., the sales add to an already-announced U.S. acquisition deal with Lionsgate’s Pantelion and a sale to Cinema Prestige in Russia, where “The Inhabitant” opened in late August at No. 4 at the Russian box office, Rud said.
Described by Rud...
- 9/6/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Blood Window, Argentina’s rapidly growing Latin American genre film market, part of Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur meet-mart, will hold a showcase at Cannes Festival’s Cannes Film Market from March 11 – 14.
Seven works in progress, currently in post-production, will be presented as part of Upcoming Fantastic Films, where ten-minute clips will accompany the presentations. Three finished films will also screen, aimed at representing the best of recent genre Latin American genre filmmaking, with two more participating in the Market Screenings.
Although Blood Window’s beginnings are steeped in blood and gore, the current body of films representing the market goes far beyond the traditional slasher flicks Latin America has nearly perfected, with films of fantasy, science fiction and a slew of different thrillers now participating – an indication of the festival’s maturation and growth.
The three features which will screen at Cannes come from Uruguay and Argentina, Mexico, the latter...
Seven works in progress, currently in post-production, will be presented as part of Upcoming Fantastic Films, where ten-minute clips will accompany the presentations. Three finished films will also screen, aimed at representing the best of recent genre Latin American genre filmmaking, with two more participating in the Market Screenings.
Although Blood Window’s beginnings are steeped in blood and gore, the current body of films representing the market goes far beyond the traditional slasher flicks Latin America has nearly perfected, with films of fantasy, science fiction and a slew of different thrillers now participating – an indication of the festival’s maturation and growth.
The three features which will screen at Cannes come from Uruguay and Argentina, Mexico, the latter...
- 5/1/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
With the release date nearing for Guillermo Amoedo Schultze's The Inhabitant (El Habitante) looming a new international poster has been released. Because we are in good standing with international sales agents Film Sharks we have been asked to premiere it. Check it out! One night, 3 edgy sisters break into the house of a very important senator to steal money he got from bribes. While doing it, they hear strange cries coming from the basement and decide to go down to investigate. Below, tied to a bed and with signs of having been brutally tortured, the 3 sisters find the paraplegic daughter of the senator begging them to release her; and the girls decide to help her. However, what they do not know...
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- 4/26/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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