Warner Bros has acquired Spanish rights to Robert Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People from Intandem.

The comedy, based on Toby Young's book of the same name, stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges.

MGM has struck a deal for North America and Paramount for the UK. Both will releases will kick off Oct 3.

London-based Intandem Films structured the finance for the film and handles sales duties.

Gary Smith, Intandem chairman, said: 'Our aim is to deliver studio level films with international appeal. How to Lose Friends has taken distributors by storm and with a third major studio on board to distribute, it demonstrates that our strategy is working.'

Stephen Woolley and Liz Karlsen produced for Number 9 Films, with financing from Aramid, Film 4 and the UK Film Council.

Intandem's previous sales to other territories include; Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen), Italy (Mikado), Portugal (Lusomundo), Turkey (Sanat Ozen), Korea (MFI), Poland (Hagi) and Benelux (RCV).