Now filming, Sylvester Stallone soon returns in Rambo: Last Blood, and Deadline brings us the news today that buyers were hungry to snatch up distribution rights. Millennium, they report, sold out on the movie between Cannes and the American Film Market.
Deadline details…
“Buyers include Lionsgate for U.S. and UK, Universum for Germany, Metropolitan for France, Notorious for Italy, Vertice 360 for Spain, VVS for Canada, Mis. Label for Scandinavia, DFW for Benelux, Monolith in Poland, United King for Israel, Eagle for Middle East, California Filmes for Latin America and Mexico, Top Film for Russia, CIS and Baltics, Dadi for China, Gaga for Japan, JoynCinema for South Korea/Thailand and Tanweer for Pan Asia Pay TV. Amazon Prime Video has the exclusive first-run SVOD window in the U.S.”
“Odeon will release in Greece, Lusomundo in Portugal, One Dollar in Hong Kong, PT Parkit in India/Vietnam, PT Amero in Indonesia, and VAA in West Indies, One World in Malaysia/Singapore, Deepjoy in Thailand, Tandem in Bulgaria, North Video in Czech and Slovak Rep, Blitz in Ex-Yugo, and Bowline in Romania.”
Sergio Peris-Mencheta (“Snowfall”) will be playing Rambo’s latest adversary. The actor will play the cartel’s brutal leader, Hugo Martinez.
Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Oscar Jaenada, Joaquin Cosio and Yvette Monreal will also star.
“In the fifth episode of franchise, when the daughter of one of his friends is kidnapped, Rambo, who has been working on a ranch, crosses the U.S.-Mexican border and quickly finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.”
Adrian Grunberg is directing from a script by Matt Cirulnick and Stallone.
