Interactive Film Sales International (IFSI) closed a raft offoreign sales at Cannes on House Of The Dead, the horror feature from Germanproduction and finance fund Boll KG and Mindfire Entertainment.
IFSI, the exclusive sales agent for Boll KG, sold the zombie storyto Metropolitan in France, Manga in Spain, Redbus (formerly Helkon SK) in theUK, Mediafilms in Italy and Chang Entertainment in Korea.
The film, which was produced and directed by Uwe Boll, also soldto Noble & Partners for Scandinavia and all Spanish-speaking Latin Americanrights have gone to Arturo Feliu's PWI.
"With a slew of new sales at the market, bringing the number ofinternational deals for House Of The Dead to over 20, we now have only Australia, Japan, Brazil,Portugal, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, CIS and Eastern Europe available,"Daniel Sales, president of IFSI, said in a statement.
Sales added there was interest from the remaining territories andhe expected the film to be "completely sold out" by the end of the year.
Based on the best-selling Sega video game, House Of The Dead centres on a group of teenagers who takerefuge in a house when they discover the island they are on is full of zombies.
IFSI also finalised pre-sales on Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures'Alone In The Dark,which is based on the Infogrames video game series and is due to begin filmingin July.
Spentzos has picked up the project for Greece and Phars FilmCompany (formerly Founoon) for the Middle East.
North American distribution rights to House Of The Dead and Alone In The Dark have gone to Artisan Entertainment. HouseOf The Dead is scheduledfor release in the autumn.
Spentzos (Greece) and Crest International (Japan) have also boughtThe Way It Is, a 1984art drama directed by Eric Mitchell and produced by Sales starring SteveBuscemi and Vincent Gallo.
Sales andconsultant Frederic Demey handled IFSI's sales business in Cannes.
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