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EXCLUSIVE: Paraguayan horror hit Morgue has been picked up for world sales by Argentinian outfit FilmSharks. Released late last month in Paraguay, the low-budget breakout from writer-director Hugo Cardozo opened at No. 1 at the box office and has become the territory’s leading horror of the year ahead of U.S. studio…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Latino has taken U.S. rights to animated kids film Lino 3D from Argentine outfit FilmSharks. The Brazilian movie now has an English-language update but the channel will be broadcasting the Spanish-language version. Rafael Ribas' toon pic follows an entertainer at children’s parties who is determined to…

EXCLUSIVE: Ricardo Darin-starrer An Unexpected Love is one of a handful of films going global for Argentine outfit FilmSharks. Guido Rud’s label has sold remake rights for Juan Vera’s film to Recifilm for France and BTF for Mexico. The film has to date been sold to more than 45 countries by sales outfit and remake…

EXCLUSIVE: After its EFM screening, Argentinian sales outfit FilmSharks has sold rom-com An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado), starring Ricardo Darin (The Secret In Their Eyes) and Mercedes Moran (La Cienaga), to HBO Latino for U.S. first run pay TV and SVOD. The deal was struck by HBO’s Leslie Cohen VP, Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios has nabbed English-language remake rights to hit Argentine family-comedy Mama Se Fue Viaje (10 Days Without Mom) from Buenos Aires sales outfit FilmSharks. AGC will finance and produce the remake under the title 10 Days Without Mom with a screenplay from writing-producing team…

EXCLUSIVE: Argentinian firms FilmSharks and Vista Sur, Peru’s Golem and Zentropa’s Spain-based animation arm Doce are launching the animated film Dalia Y El Libro Rojo 3D (Dalia and the Red Book 3D) at the American Film Market. According to the producers, this is among the first Spanish-language animations to combine…

EXCLUSIVE: Argentinian sales outfit FilmSharks, which has plied a profitable trade in the increasingly popular market of local-language remakes, has closed deals on hit Spanish-language movies to companies in France, Italy, Mexico, China, Brazil and India. FilmSharks has closed deals with French outfit Soyouz Films…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Argentinian rom-com An Unexpected Love (El Amor Menos Pensado) featuring Latin giants Ricardo Darin and Mercedes Moran — who are both in Cannes with different movies — has been picked up on promo at the market for France, Russia and Israel. Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has closed deals with Eurozoom for…