Exclusive: Cleopatra Entertainment picks up title from Jinga Films.
Genre specialist sales agent Jinga Films has closed a series of territory deals on its black comedy-horror The Night Of The Virgin.
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired rights for North America, while Alamode Entertainment has taken Germany and Austria for its genre label Pierrot Le Fou, Njuta has taken Scandinavia, and MovieCloud has acquired Taiwan.
The Night Of The Virgin stars Javier Badola as a lonely young man who attends a New Years Eve party with the intention of losing his virginity.
After midnight he finds himself alone and rejected until a...
Genre specialist sales agent Jinga Films has closed a series of territory deals on its black comedy-horror The Night Of The Virgin.
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired rights for North America, while Alamode Entertainment has taken Germany and Austria for its genre label Pierrot Le Fou, Njuta has taken Scandinavia, and MovieCloud has acquired Taiwan.
The Night Of The Virgin stars Javier Badola as a lonely young man who attends a New Years Eve party with the intention of losing his virginity.
After midnight he finds himself alone and rejected until a...
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- PEOPLE.com
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- by Kurt Pitzer, @pitzerkurt
- PEOPLE.com
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