distribution-sales companies, has acquired all French rights to Alberto Rodriguez’s noirish period cop thriller “Marshland,“ an early competition favorite at San Sebastian.
Warner Bros. will release “Marshland” in Spain on Sept. 26.
Struck by Le Pacte and “Marshland’s” sales company, Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment, deal is the first major territory sale announced on “Marshland,” which world premiered Saturday at San Sebastian to score 7.2 out of 10, sufficient to make it, at least in Spanish critics eyes, one of the competition contenders at this year’s Spanish fest.
The fifth solo feature by Rodriguez – whose 2012 Seville narcotics squad chronicle “Unit 7” scored an appreciable €2.4 million ($3.15 million) at Spanish B.O., plus critical plaudits and foreign sales – “Marshland” is set in 1980, three years after Spain’s first general elections in 40 years, after Franco’s ruling establishment had agreed to relinquish formal political power on the condition of a “pact of silence” about former crimes,...
Warner Bros. will release “Marshland” in Spain on Sept. 26.
Struck by Le Pacte and “Marshland’s” sales company, Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment, deal is the first major territory sale announced on “Marshland,” which world premiered Saturday at San Sebastian to score 7.2 out of 10, sufficient to make it, at least in Spanish critics eyes, one of the competition contenders at this year’s Spanish fest.
The fifth solo feature by Rodriguez – whose 2012 Seville narcotics squad chronicle “Unit 7” scored an appreciable €2.4 million ($3.15 million) at Spanish B.O., plus critical plaudits and foreign sales – “Marshland” is set in 1980, three years after Spain’s first general elections in 40 years, after Franco’s ruling establishment had agreed to relinquish formal political power on the condition of a “pact of silence” about former crimes,...
- 9/21/2014
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