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Believe the Hype, ‘The Horde’ Selling Like Hot Cakes
We’ve been pushing on you dear readers a French film by the name of The Horde, which is being produced by Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens. While there are a slew of new French horror films in production, Horde is the ace of them all and we’ve had a gut feeling that it will be something special. While we’ve yet to hear any real buzz (expect something out of Cannes next week), the film has already started to sell like hot cakes. Read all about it beyond the break.
Paris-based sales and financing company Films Distribution has licensed Gallic genre pic “The Horde” to Italy (Fandango), the U.K. (Momentum), Germany (Square One) and France (Le Pacte).
Hopefully we’ll hear of a US sale soon!
Set in a high-rise apartment block in Paris, “Horde” is a cop/gangster shoot ’em-up, which suddenly sharp turns into a zombie munch fest. Genre blender created buzz off a one-minute teaser at Berlin.
From Gallic TV producer Capture the Flag, and co-financed by France’s Backup, Le Pacte and Films Distribution, “Horde” marks the feature film debut of two young French genre auteurs, Yanick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
“Horde” underscores Films Distribution’s growing genre commitment: It’s also handling international on Spaniard Daniel Monzon’s prison thriller “Cell 211.”
In a rare venture into animation, Films Distribution has international rights to English-language toon pic “Eleanor’s Secret,” the highbrow tale of a magic library targeting 6-10s. Films Distribution is also repping Hong Kong-shot erotic fetish drama “The Red Nights,” helmed mostly at night by French scribes Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud, harking back to the style of Italian ’60s movies directed by Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Carbon and Courtiaud have co-written films by Johnnie To and Tsui Hark.
“In these tough times, you have to innovate. We are but we’re essentially staying true to ourselves. We’re not going to take on board huge animation movies or Japanese actioners,” said Films Distribution partner Nicolas Brigaud Robert.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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