Kristen Figeroid

Source: Kristen Figeroid / Sierra/Affinity

Kristen Figeroid

Sierra/Affinity has reported a strong response to its EFM genre sales slate and has closed key territories on Rosamund Pike thriller Rich Flu, action thriller Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera starring Gerard Butler and Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to Dark Castle horror film Orphan.

Buyers on Rich Flu include Square One for Germany, Sun Distribution Group for Latin America, Originals Factory for France, Scanbox for Scandinavia, Watcha for South Korea, and Cai Chang for Taiwan.

In other deals the thriller has gone in Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Baltics (Acme Film), Turkey (Filmarti), and South Africa (Filmfinity/Ster-Kinekor).

Pike stars in the story about a mysterious disease which is killing some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. Pablo Larraín and Juan de Dios Larraín are producing through their Chilean powerhouse Fabula, alongside Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls via Nostromo Pictures, Carlos Juárez, and Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and Albert Soler. Gaztelu-Urrutia, who directed Toronto 2019 sensation The Platform, directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Pedro Rivero.

Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, which also stars O’Shea Jackson Jr, and Swen Temmel, has gone to Metropolitan for France, Telepool for Germany, Village Roadshow for Australia, Svensk for Scandinavia, Lucky Red for Italy, The Searchers for Benelux, and Sun Distribution Group for Portugal and Spain.

Elsewhere sales have closed in Canada (VVS), Eastern Europe (Vertical), Middle East, Greece and Turkey (Italia Film), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Israel (Forum), South Africa (Filmfinity/Ster-Kinekor), and Iceland (Myndform).

Christian Gudegast will direct the sequel from his screenplay that sees Butler returns as cop Big Nick in pursuit of diamond thieves in Europe. Producers Tucker Tooley, Alan Siegel and Butler are anticipated to produce the sequel with Diamond Film Productions, whose Meadow Williams will serve as executive producer alongside Temmel and Glenn Feig. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is expected to join in a producing capacity and eOne and Tucker Tooley Entertainment are financing the project.

Rights to Orphan: First Kill have closed with Signature for the UK, VVS for Canada, Tanweer for Greece, and Superfine for India.

William Brent Bell directed the prequel which centres on a murderous sociopath who resembles a child due to a medical condition and escapes an Estonian psychiatric facility and lands in the US, where she meets her match when she impersonates the missing daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family.

Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan and Hiro Kanagawa star on the film produced and co-financed by eOne and Dark Castle. Alex Mace, Hal Sadoff, Ethan Erwin, and James Tomlinson are producers and David Leslie Johnson, who wrote the original Orphan, served as executive producer along with Daryl Katz, Chloe Katz, Paul Marcaccio, Victor Moyers and Kyle Irving. Co-Producers are Kelly Gallagher and Robert Bell.

Sierra/Affinity MD and EVP Kristen Figeroid and the sales team negotiated the deals on behalf of the filmmakers.