Buyers target Scott Adkins' Close Range

Blue Box International has closed key territories here on the Scott Adkins action-thriller Close Range, which wrapped production last week.

Bleiberg Entertainment licensed the US to XLrator Media and Canada to VVS. Blue Box has closed deals with Latin America (California Filmes), Eastern Europe and Africa (Daro), France (AB Groupe), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Spain (Second Gen Pictures) Turkey (Moviebox), China (HGC), India (SGN Mediaworks) and the Middle East (Eagle Films).

Adkins, whose credits include The Expendables 2, Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning, Zero Dark Thirty and the upcoming Criminal, reunites with Isaac Florentine, who previously directed him in the Ninja and Undisputed franchises.

Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor wrote the screenplay for Close Range. Ehud Bleiberg serves as producer while Adkins and Nicholas Donnermeyer are executive producers.

Blue Box International also represents at EFM The Curse Of Sleeping Beauty, the dark fairy tale update that stars Ethan Peck and India Eisley.

Bleiberg Entertainment’s EFM slate includes action-thriller Echo Effect starring Michael Jai White and Steve Austin; nightclub drama Club Life starring Jerry Ferrara; and Brit Marling and Jack Huston in the recently wrapped romance Posthumous.