Cohen Media Group has acquired US distribution rights and English language remake rights from Epithete Films to Gilles Legrand’s family drama YWBMS (Tu Sera Mon Filles) starring Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch and Patrick Chesnais. 

Cohen has set a 2013 theatrical release after chairman and CEO Charles S Cohen brokered the deal with Gilles Legrand through the latter’s Epithete Productions. Cohen will produce a remake set in the California wine country to star US actors. 

YWBMY (pictured) takes place in the French region of Saint Emilion at the Chateau Clos Fourtet and centres on the troubled relationship between a vineyard owner and his son.

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