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IFSI SELLS HORROR HOUSE TO METROPOLITAN, REDBUS, OTHERS

Screen Daily, June 19th 2003
Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles

Interactive Film Sales International (IFSI) closed a raft of foreign sales at Cannes on House Of The Dead, the horror feature from German production and finance fund Boll KG and Mindfire Entertainment.
IFSI, the exclusive sales agent for Boll KG, sold the zombie story to Metropolitan in France, Manga in Spain, Redbus (formerly Helkon SK) in the UK, Mediafilms in Italy and Chang Entertainment in Korea.
The film, which was produced and directed by Uwe Boll, also sold to Noble & Partners for Scandinavia and all Spanish-speaking Latin American rights have gone to Arturo Feliu's PWI.
"With a slew of new sales at the market, bringing the number of international deals for House Of The Dead to over 20, we now have only Australia, Japan, Brazil, Portugal, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, CIS and Eastern Europe available," Daniel Sales, president of IFSI, said in a statement.

Sales added there was interest from the remaining territories and he expected the film to be "completely sold out" by the end of the year.
Based on the best-selling Sega video game, House Of The Dead centres on a group of teenagers who take refuge in a house when they discover the island they are on is full of zombies.
IFSI also finalised pre-sales on Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures' Alone In The Dark, which is based on the Infogrames video game series and is due to begin filming in July.
Spentzos has picked up the project for Greece and Phars Film Company (formerly Founoon) for the Middle East.
North American distribution rights to House Of The Dead and Alone In The Dark have gone to Artisan Entertainment. House Of The Dead is scheduled for release in the autumn.
Spentzos (Greece) and Crest International (Japan) have also bought The Way It Is, a 1984 art drama directed by Eric Mitchell and produced by Sales starring Steve Buscemi and Vincent Gallo.

Sales and consultant Frederic Demey handled IFSI's sales business in Cannes.