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Exclusive: Fabian Forte’s Argenitian horror Legions (aka Legiones) has found buyers at the EFM.

The feature is headed AMC Networks’ Shudder in Spain, where distributor FilmSharks has struck a pay-tv and SVOD deal. AMC has also taken Eastern Europe rights.

In Latin America, FilmSharks struck a multi-territory theatrical release deal with Aman Kapur’s CineStar. This comprises Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Central America.

The deals follow a North American deal struck with XYZ Films at Montreal’s Fantasia Fest following its premiere, as we reported first in July last year. Donau has also picked up several German-speaking territories.

Billed as ‘The Evil Dead meets Latin America,’ Legions follows a powerful sorcerer, who is locked away in an asylum as evil, demonic forces take control of Argentina. If he can escape and find his daughter, their combined strength could save the country,...

Watch the Trailer for Legions: "XYZ Films is proud to launch the trailer to Fabián Forte's Legions, which will land on North American VOD January 19th following an acclaimed festival run that included Sitges, Fantasia, and Fantaspoa. An unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series, this gory, hilarious, and heartwarming horror gem is the perfect way to start your 2023!

Prolific Argentinian filmmaker Fabián Forte’s newest film combines the best of his previous cinematic endeavors: the comedic writing and direction of his 2016 hit Dead Man Tells His OWN Tale is masterfully mixed with mystical horror of 2017's Terrified - which Forte contributed to - and once you add a dash of slapstick gore and a whole lot of heart, and you have Legions of fun!

A powerful sorcerer, Antonio Poyju (Germán De Silva), is locked away in an asylum, and wastes away in his imprisonment as evil,...

Earlier today, we saw the trailer for Evil Dead Rise, the latest official entry in the Evil Dead franchise. Now we’ve gotten our hands on the trailer for writer/director Fabián Forte’s’s film Legions, which is described as being “an unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead series”! You can check it out in the embed above.

Legions has been enjoying a successful festival run in recent months, and now XYZ Films is preparing to give the film a VOD release in North America on January 19th.

Said to be “gory, hilarious, and heartwarming”, Legions has the following synopsis: A powerful sorcerer, Antonio Poyju, is locked away in an asylum, and wastes away in his imprisonment as evil, demonic forces take control of Argentina. If Antonio can escape the psychiatric hospital and find his daughter, Helena, their combined strength could save Argentina… but Helena has forgotten her powers.

"Her blood will be an offering for the Evil One." XYZ FIlms has debuted the US trailer for an Argentinian fantasy horror comedy titled Legions, the latest from a filmmaker named Fabián Forte. After opening in Argentina just last month, the film will be arriving in the US to watch on VOD later in January. The forces of evil descend on Argentina. Mankind's best hope, a once-legendary shaman, is confined to an insane asylum from which he must escape when the battle against demonic resurrection becomes personal - his daughter must learn to use her powers once again. Written and directed by Fabián Forte, this Argentinian folk-horror film stars Germán de Silva, Ezequiel Rodriguez, and Lorena Vega. Described as "a gory, hilarious, and heartwarming ode to The Evil Dead by way of Latin mysticism and folk legend." This does seem like it has some nice Evil Dead touches, beyond that...

Exclusive: XYZ Films has acquired North American rights from FilmSharks to the Argentinian horror film Legions, directed by Fabian Forte.

The film stars Germán De Silva and Lorena Vega and was produced by Javier Diaz. Pic premiered at Fantasia Fest in Montreal this past weekend, and also won best script at the 2022 Fantaspoa. XYZ Films is looking for a late 2022 domestic release.

In Legions, a powerful sorcerer, Antonio, is locked away in an asylum, and wastes away in his imprisonment as evil, demonic forces take control of Argentina. If Antonio can escape the psychiatric hospital, and find his daughter, Helena, their combined strength could save Argentina, but Helena has forgotten her powers. Antonio must reteach her the ways of magic and be humanity’s last hope against this ancient evil.

The North American rights deal was brokered by Valeria Fanego, Matias Fontenla and Guido Rud of FilmSharks on behalf of the filmmakers,...

Argentine production company Coruya Cine (“Nocturna: Side A”), led by Javier Díaz, has signed-on to co-produce “The Sugar Girl,” (“La Niña Del Azúcar”) alongside Peru’s Av Films (“Juego Siniestro”). The project, shooting in the remote and sprawling city of Iquitos, will utilize an Amazonian cine noir aesthetic to merge the suspenseful and metaphysical components of four parallel narratives.

“The space is being given to tell the stories of others. It’s not always the narco, it’s also the one who lives in the jungle, taking another look at Latin America and who we are. Before, it seemed that Europeans were the only ones who could talk about the human condition. Latin America also has stories to tell,” Díaz told Variety.

“The Sugar Girl” writer-director Javier Velásquez Varela will lead a mix of Peruvian and Argentine talents as they unravel the mysterious facts surrounding a missing woman amidst supernatural...

The line between mercy killing and plain old murder is uncomfortably drawn in Argentine “La Dosis.” Writer-director Martin Kraut’s debut feature sets up an intriguing cat-and-mouse conflict between one male hospital nurse whose early-terminus interventions are of the compassionate kind, while a new staffer’s seem motivated by pure malice.

Not quite as suspenseful or twisty as that premise might lead one to expect, this ends up falling somewhere between thriller and character-study terrain. Nonetheless, it occupies that not-entirely-satisfying middle ground capably enough to keep viewers interested, and to suggest its maker has the chops for less-modestly-scaled future projects. Following a run on the genre festival circuit, Goldwyn is releasing directly to U.S. VOD and digital platforms on June 11.

Outwardly, Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is something of a sad sack: A portly middle-aged loner without apparent friends or family, working a singularly grim night-shift job. He can’t even escape via sleep,...

Despite being a film about euthanatizing ICU nurses at a provincial hospital in Argentina, Martín Kraut’s directorial debut La Dosis actually begins with a miraculous attempt to revive a patient after doctors declared her dead. That’s the kind of man Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is, though: on the job for two decades and counting, he knows when someone is beyond help and when their time has yet to arrive. He therefore grabs the paddles, shocks her two more times while everyone else looks on with confusion, and is rewarded by the beeping of her heartbeat. Was it worth it? Maybe. The doctors say it bought her another week as they decide to stop her treatment anyway. That means another week of pain.

Had Marcos let her die, we wouldn’t understand his motives when he decides to kill her himself a couple days later. We need to know that...

"Someone might accuse you. Or maybe they alread yhave." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official trailer for an Argentinian thriller titled La Dosis, which just translates to The Dose in English. This first premiered at last year's Rotterdam Film Festival, and it also played at the BFI Flare, Bucheon, Heartland, and Fantasia Film Festivals last year. The title is a reference to the lethal "dose" that one nurse provides to various patients in need. Marcos is a nurse on the night shift at a clinic. Applied and professional, but with a secret: in some extreme cases, he applies euthanasia. Gabriel, a new night nurse at the clinic, soon unravels Marcos' secret with the confrontation leading to more trouble. Starring Carlos Portaluppi as Marcos, and Ignacio Rogers as Gabriel, plus Lorena Vega. Looks like an intriguing medical thriller from Argentina. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Martín Kraut's La Dosis,...

Oration Films to continue international sales at virtual EFM.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights from Oration Films to Martín Kraut’s Argentinian psychological thriller La Dosis.

Oration Films will continue international sales at the virtual EFM next week on the drama about two nurses in a private clinic who clash over their illicit behaviour.

Carlos Portaluppi (Lo Habrás Imaginado), Ignacio Rogers (Esteros), and Lorena Vega (El Bosque De Los Perros) star.

Samuel Goldwyn plans a June release on the feature directorial debut by Kraut, who wrote the screenplay and produced alongside Pablo Chernov of Alina Films.

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Deadline reported yesterday that my friends at FilmSharks will handle worldwide sales and remake rights for a new Argentine horror flick, Legions, from filmmaker Fabien Forte.    Legions is currently in post-production, yet a trailer was released from completed footage, which you will find below along with a collection of behind the scenes images sent to us by Forte and FilmSharks. Both will give you a sense of what Forte is doing here and also the neat practical effects they are using. Fun.    Legions follows an incarcerated man who must summon his powers of sorcery to escape and rescue his daughter from danger.    Cast includes Germán De Silva (Wild Tales), Lorena Vega (Tigre) and Ezequiel Rodriguez (Soy Luna). Genre specialist Coruya Cine is...

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