Jon Hamm, Vanessa Hudgens, Diane Keaton Films Offered to EO Media by SPI

Within the run-up to Content material Americas, EO Media, headed by Eze Olzanski, former Gaumont VP Latin America, has clinched all rights for Latin America on a slate of star-driven films from Canal+ firm SPI International.

Films soak up titles starring “Mad Males” and “Prime Gun: Maverick’s” Jon Hamm (“Nook Workplace”), “The Princess Swap” double or triple lead Vanessa Hudgens (“Full Moon Retreat”), Diane Keaton (“Mack & Rita,” “Arthur’s Whiskey”) and Casper Van Dien (“Battle for Saipan”), nonetheless memorable from “Starship Troopers.”

Acquired after November’s American Movie Market, the brand new titles will likely be offered to potential consumers on the new commerce honest and convention Content material Americas, which runs Jan. 24-26 in Miami.

The EO Media-SPI Internacional deal builds on previous acquisitions by EO Media from SPI Intl, together with “American Traitor,” starring Al Pacino. Films will feed into the catalog of titles – mixing motion movies, dramas and household films – that EO Media is now promoting to platforms and TV channels in Latin America, a area which is avid for Hollywood star wattage.

World premiering on the 2022 Tribeca Movie Pageant, and the perfect reviewed of the titles by Selection on the brand new slate, within the humor and fantasy-laced “Nook Workplace,” Hamm performs an workplace employee who strikes into a comfy govt suite, riling and dazzling his colleagues – or perhaps it’s all in his thoughts. Selection referred to as the movie “a low-key, screw-loose office satire…gradual, blunt and benign.”

Fantasy comedy drama “Mack & Rita” has a 30-year previous social misfit (Elizabeth Lail) body-swapping into Diane Keaton and being embraced as a millennial icon. 

Set in WWII, in 1944, and primarily based ontrue occasions, “Battle for Saipan” has Van Dien as the only medic at a U.S. Military hospital on the distant island of Saipan besieged by Japanese forces who battles along with his nurses to steer his wounded sufferers to security. The actioner was acquired by Saban Movies throughout Toronto.

Each in pre-production, “Full Moon Retreat” stars Hudgens in a supernatural-laced comedy, “Arthur’s Whiskey” has Keaton as a girl who will get a brand new lease of youth.

“We’re glad to companion with EO Media, an organization with a powerful presence in Latin America, for the distribution of a few of our new content material that includes A-list Hollywood stars,” mentioned Loni Farhi, president of SPI Worldwide. “With over 25 years of business expertise below our belt, it’s stable alliances equivalent to this that assist us cowl the world with premium leisure and ship solely the perfect to all audiences globally.”

“It’s a privilege for me and EO Media to proceed to strengthen our relationship with SPI and its wonderful staff, and to have the ability to carry to the territory the rights to such a collection of new movies, with nice tales and high Hollywood stars that we belief will likely be of nice curiosity for the audiences of platforms, networks, channels and naturally theaters all through Latin America,” mentioned Olzanski. He added that he seemed ahead to persevering with to construct the connection with SPI Worldwide “being a part of choosing collectively higher and extra enticing titles via the 12 months and on.”

At Gaumont, Olzanski pioneered the free-to-air distribution of “Narcos” in Latin America.” EO Media dealt with the all rights distribution of “Parasite” within the area. Whereas at Gaumont, Olzanski was one of many producers on groundbreaking pan-regional manufacturing “El Presidente,” Season 1, and is now a producer on Star+ title “Ringo,” a standout at September’s Iberseries & Platino Industria.  

Bought by Canal+ Group in 2022, SPI Worldwide operates 62 TV channels throughout six continents and provides theatrical movies and TV programming in worldwide markets.