Alamode Film Distribution has formed a partnership with London-based outfit FilmChain to handle royalties on Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses, which will premiere at the Berlinale as a Special Gala.
Alamode will distribute the film in Germany and use FilmChain’s technology which automates royalties management.
The deal is the first in a pilot project between the two companies and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme amid calls for greater transparency and digitisation in the independent film sector.
London-based platform FilmChain is the first digital collection account management (CAM) service that collects and disburses revenues transparently and in near real-time. For enterprises - distributors, broadcasters, streamers, studios - they offer the infrastructure to manage royalties calculation, costs, and reports.
Dario Argento’s new Rome-set thriller Dark Glasses stars Ilenia Pastorelli as a prostitute blinded by a serial killer in a botched attack who takes in a young Chinese boy, whose life has also been abruptly altered forever by the maniac’s actions. He will become her ally in a terrifying struggle to see off the serial killer forever.
Pastorelli is joined in the cast by big-screen debutant Andrea Zhang as the young boy as well as Asia Argento in a supporting role. It is 81-year-old Argento’s first feature in the director’s chair in a decade.
Wild Bunch International (WBI) are handling international sales.
