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Madrid-based Latido Films unveiled its sales during the summer, thanks to notable deals for Daniel Calparsoro’s mystery film “Todos los nombres de Dios” and Gerardo Herrero’s comedy “Bajo terapia”.
The announcement comes just as the corporate Latido, 20, has unveiled the first sales of Javier Fesser’s “Championext”, the sequel to his hit comedy “Campeones”, which has become the biggest Spanish box office success of 2023, with a total of 7. 52. million euros ($8. 08 million)) and 1. 2 million tickets sold through Sept. 3, three weekends after its Aug. 18 premiere.
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The main points of the Latido deal bring much-needed granularity to the state of the non-English language sales scene as major festivals unfold in Venice and now Toronto.
A bullish summer
“It’s a smart summer for Latido. We hope for an even better autumn,” said Antonio Saura, CEO of Latido.
“The functioning of the post-Covid market is not only related to market events themselves. It’s a 365/7 task for advertising companies. Online sales have become essential, but the impact on the site remains key,” he said.
“Acquisition decisions take longer, more people have an opinion, and more points go through buyers before closing a deal. “
“Some territories are more active – we’re seeing constant replacements – and obviously the U. S. was in retreat, but we have to see what the final results will be after the attacks,” Saura added.
“Distributors and broadcasters (including streamers) are becoming more consumer-oriented, and tend to stick to what the audience demands: they risk less than before,” Saura said.
Gender leads the way
“Gender comes first,” Saura said.
In this sense, the new film of Calparsoro, the Spanish king of the action thriller, has sold almost worldwide, after having recently been acquired through AV Jet for Taiwan, Leda Films for Latin America, Blitz for the territories of the former Yugoslavia and Shoval Films in Israel. Headlined by Luis Tosar of “Miami Vice,” “All the Names of God” is co-represented through XYZ in the United States and Canada.
In addition, Germany’s Plaion Pictures, one of Europe’s leading providers of independent films and home entertainment, has acquired the rights to German-speaking Switzerland, Italy and Belén Macías’ film about serial killers “Verano en rojo”, starring Marta Nieto (“Madre”) and José Coronado (“Cierra los ojos”), its front in Spain (September 8).
One of Latido’s biggest hits, Spanish star Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s rural mystery, “The Beasts,” which won the César and Goya awards and premiered at Cannes, continues to close the remaining territories after its exceptional U. S. premiere in July, controlled through Greenwich Entertainment.
New “Beasts” offerings come with Prokino for German-speaking territories, Benchmark-Films (Taiwan), Edge Entertainment (Scandinavia) and Spafax (airlines).
Smart comedies
“Smart comedies paint for the market,” Saura said.
Produced by Luis Manso at Pendleton Films and Alvaro Longoria at Morena Films, the adaptation rights to “Championext” were sold to 200Notout in India, while the international broadcast rights to the sequel were acquired through E-Muse Ent.
In addition, Israel-based Team Productions acquired the rights to remake “Champions,” which triggered an American remake of Woody Harrelson last year, and remains Spanish cinema’s biggest hit since 2016.
Beyond the offers of “Championext” -whose premiere in the market had already had a strong pre-sale before its great box office success in Spain-, Saura highlighted the “fantastic reception” of the comedy “Under Therapy”, by Tornasol Media.
Winner of an Oscar as a producer for “The Secret in Their Eyes” and a Palme d’Or at Cannes for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”, the founder of Tornasol, Gerardo Herrero, stages the story of three couples in treatment that are summoned through their psychologist to a collective healing session. It doesn’t go as I expected.
Beat “Under Therapy” for Aurora Films in Poland, Cinobo in Greece, Outsider Pictures in the United States, Youngjin Creative in South Korea and Japan, Palace in Australia, Fidalgo in Norway and Shoval Films in Israel.
Hope for a drama
“Although the real appetite is for genre films and romantic comedy, there is still hope for dramas,” Saura said.
The CEO of Latido highlighted “interesting sales for more author jewels” such as “La Encantada”, by Elena Trapé, whose pay TV and SVOD rights for Eastern Europe were acquired through HBO Europe, and “Sica”, by Carla Subirana, sold to Outsider Pictures. in the United States.
“Those that take longer to appreciate but are gradually gaining position in the market, as also evidenced by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s acclaimed deyet album in 2022, “Lullathrough”, which has continued to sell slowly but surely, with agreements with Outsider. Pictures. en United States and Pannonia Entertainment in Hungary.
Catalog movie sales aren’t dead either. “All the television bureaucracy, new and old, will have to continue to feed their own libraries,” Saura said.
The most recent deals in the catalog come with Turkey’s Siyah, which bought from Latido a set of seven films directed from Oscar Martinez’s 2016 black comedy “The Illustrious Citizen. “
Other sales come with the comedy “García” by Ana Murugarren
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