AGC International has reported robust response at AFM to the Joel Kinnaman and Mark Strong action thriller The Silent Hour and has sold the film across multiple territories.
Deals have closed with Square One Entertainment in Germany; Signature Entertainment in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand; Wild Bunch in France; Vertice in Italy and Latin America; You Planet in Spain; and WWE in Benelux.
In further deals rights have gone to SF Studios in Scandinavia; Prorom Media in Eastern Europe; MGN in Baltics and CIS; Ascot Elite in Switzerland; Nos Lusomundo in Portugal; Moviebox in Turkey; Spentzos in Greece; Salim Ramia in the Middle East; United King in Israel; Empire Entertainment in South Africa; and Movie Cloud in Taiwan.
Casting is ongoing for the female co-lead role with production scheduled to begin in Malta and Toronto in February 2023. AGC Studios is financing and producing The Silent Hour with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.
Kinnaman (Suicide Squad, For All Mankind, The Secrets We Keep) plays a Boston Police detective who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing impaired. Sixteen months later, he is now an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.
AGC Studios is currently in production on Richard Linklater’s Hitman starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona and Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut The Dating Game starring Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto. The company has sold multiple territorirs on Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman starring Pine, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and DeWanda Wise.
Stuart Ford, AGC Studios chairman and CEO, said: “Our film division is enjoying a strong run of launching smart, commercial movies to our international partners and then driving those projects into production in a timely fashion. In a period where both the international pre-sales and wider indie financing model are experiencing real challenges, I think the marketplace more than ever appreciates AGC’s dependable and prolific investment of capital and know-how into the independent film landscape.”
The company also expects Donnie Yen action title THE FATHER produced by Thunder Road to go into production early next year and anticipates launching a worldwide sales campaign on Rupert Wyatt’s $100m+ Desert Warriors starring Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, and Ben Kingsley, which is expected to be completed soon.
In early 2023 AGC Television will also act as the studio and begin production on Roland Emmerich’s $135m first season of Roman gladiator television series Those About To Die.
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