Entertainment One has secured the North American rights for ESCAPE and Rialto Distribution has secured Australia theatrical distribution of the Norwegian action-adventure.
"We're again delighted to collaborate with TrustNordisk and thrilled to secure ESCAPE for North America. We continue to pursue key titles for our expanding US operation, and Canadian business alike," said Jo Sweby, eOne´s Manager, Worldwide Acquisitions.
CEO of sales company TrustNordisk Rikke Ennis about the strong interest from the market: "ESCAPE will be one of our bestselling titles in Cannes. We started presales based on a promo in Berlin and here we are in Cannes with a work in progress-version of the film. ESCAPE has shown to be very impressive, Roar Uthaug is a great director and production arm Fantefilm shows an incredible track record of strong genre films with great international potential".
Screening exclusively for buyers in Cannes, ESCAPE has proven to match numerous of territories already. Momentum (UK), Koch Media (Germany), Aurum Producciones (Spain), Film Europe (Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Middle East´s Gulf Film are already on board.
ESCAPE is distributed domestically by Nordisk Film and premieres in Norway September 28th 2012.