THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Daniele Luchetti's Italian-French hit My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio Fratello E Figlio Unico).
The comedy caper is playing in the festival here after screening in Cannes last May and will open in North America in March 2008.
THINKFilm International's head of sales Eve Schoukroun, theatrical division chief Mark Urman, senior vice president of acquisitions and business affairs Randy Manis, and director of acquisitions Ben Stambler negotiated the deal with producer Marco Chimenz.
The company acquired international rights in Cannes to the story of rival brothers growing up in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s with polarised political beliefs who fall for the same girl. The film has already grossed more than $8.5m in Italy.
Riccardo Scarmaccio, Elio Germano and Diane Fleri star, and Chimenz produced with Riccardo Tozzi and Giovanni Stabilini, his partners at Rome-based film and TV production company Cattleya.
'My Brother Is An Only Child is an intensely cinematic, incredibly incisive film about the dreams and the disappointments of the 60s and 70s,' Urman said.
Chimenz added: 'We are quite familiar with THINKFilm's track record in the US for
handling films at once stimulating, provocative and entertaining, and we are proud for our company and our film to be associated with them.'
The comedy caper is playing in the festival here after screening in Cannes last May and will open in North America in March 2008.
THINKFilm International's head of sales Eve Schoukroun, theatrical division chief Mark Urman, senior vice president of acquisitions and business affairs Randy Manis, and director of acquisitions Ben Stambler negotiated the deal with producer Marco Chimenz.
The company acquired international rights in Cannes to the story of rival brothers growing up in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s with polarised political beliefs who fall for the same girl. The film has already grossed more than $8.5m in Italy.
Riccardo Scarmaccio, Elio Germano and Diane Fleri star, and Chimenz produced with Riccardo Tozzi and Giovanni Stabilini, his partners at Rome-based film and TV production company Cattleya.
'My Brother Is An Only Child is an intensely cinematic, incredibly incisive film about the dreams and the disappointments of the 60s and 70s,' Urman said.
Chimenz added: 'We are quite familiar with THINKFilm's track record in the US for
handling films at once stimulating, provocative and entertaining, and we are proud for our company and our film to be associated with them.'
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