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‘Savior For Sale: The Story of Salvator Mundi’ Sells Widely For MK2 Films (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 3 hrs ago
The film lifts the veil on the painting titled “Salvator Mundi” (The Savior of the World), which mysteriously resurfaced several years ago and was sold at Christie’s for a record $450 million to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, in 2017.
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“The Savior For Sale: The Story of Salvator Mundi” recently premiered on France 5, a channel of French broadcaster France Televisions, and was unanimously praised by critics. MK2 Films has now sold the title to Koch Media for a multi territory deal (Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Avalon (Spain), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal), Planeta Inform (CIS), Andrews Film (Taiwan) and South Korea (Challan). Further talks are underway, notably in Japan, Scandinavia and Australia/New Zealand.
Pirates Down The Street
DFW International has sold a slew of major European territories on Pim van Hoeve’s Dutch live-action family film
Pirates Down The Street. The film has been bought by Studio Hamburg Enterprises (Germany), Imago Company (Italy), and Planeta Inform (Russia and the Baltic states)
Pirates Down The Street is an adaptation of the Reggie Naus’ book series about the Blunderbuss family, a sword-fighting, rum-drinking bunch of pirates who take up residence in a small coastal town. Tygo Gernandt and Egbert-Jan Weeber star.
DFW International, the sales arm affiliated to leading Benelux distributor Dutch FilmWorks, first presented the film to international buyers at the virtual American Film Market in November. The film also recently won the youth jury prize at the Schlingel International Film Festival in the German city of Chemnitz.