Buyers step into Fog with Uma Thurman

Other Angle has seen strong interest on new drama Night and Fog, its WWII drama set to star Uma Thurman [pictured].

Deals have closed at the AFM with Turkey (Fabula), Middle East (Falcon), South Africa (M-Net) and Former Yugoslavia (2 Eye Films) with Germany, Latin America, Benelux and Poland about to sign.

Thurman is set to play intelligence office Vera Atkins, who made it her mission to discover the fate of missing agents she had dispatched to Occupied France after the conflict.

John Hay will direct the drama, due to shoot in Northern Ireland in 2015.

At the AFM Other Angle has also closed deals on Asia Argento’s festival favourite Misunderstood with Brazil (Imovision) and Turkey (Mars).

The company recently concluded deals with Germany (Rapid Eye), Australia (Palace), Russia (A-One Films), Argentina (Zeta Film), Poland (Spectator), South Korea (At Nine) and Hungary (Cirko).

Also continuing to sell for Olivier Albou’s Paris-based outfit is documentary The Go-Go Boys, which has sold to Switzerland (Praesens), Belgium (Bar Dafeu) and Scandinavia (Non-Stop), in addition to previous deals including France (Paradis) and Japan (Nikkatsu).