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EXCLUSIVE: Peruvian comedy hit YouTuber Dad (Papa YouTuber), about a technophobe who must become a YouTuber, is set for French and Spanish remakes with Studiocanal and YouPlanet Films, respectively. Argentine sales agency FilmSharks sold the remake rights via its label The Remake Company, which has previously handled…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first trailer for Immortal, Fernando Spiner's fantasy sci-fi which is set to world premiere at Spain's Sitges genre film festival this month. The Spanish-language feature stars Belen Blanco, Daniel Fanego and Diego Velazquez in the story of a woman who returns to Buenos Aires from Italy to sort…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks has boarded world sales and remake rights to Argentinian horror Legions, whose first trailer we can reveal above. Currently in post-production, the film follows an incarcerated man who must summon his powers of sorcery to escape and rescue his daughter from danger. Cast includes Germán De Silva (W…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Latino has taken U.S. pay TV/SVOD rights to Spanish language rom-com Love Can’t Wait (El Amor No Puede Esperar) from Argentinian sales firm FilmSharks. The film is due to be available on HBO from January 2021 after a deal was struck by Leslie Cohen and Rebecca Vazquez on behalf of HBO and Guido Rud on…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, LA-based Sentient Entertainment has won the remake rights to Nicole Kidman horror movie hit The Others, which scared up north of $200M global when it was released in 2001. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Alejandro Amenabar’s timely self-isolation tale about a war…

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…