American Film Market returns to Los Angeles and will be held at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel from November 11th to 16th.
Located in the heart of the entertainment industry, AFM will attract buyers, sellers, and producers from more than 60 countries when it returns to Las Vegas in 2024. In addition, countries such as China, France, Germany, Italy, and Thailand have also set up national umbrella stands with sales and production companies.
Screenings will be held at AMC Century City 15 in Westfield Century City Mall, a short walk from the hotel.
Variety features a selection of AFM sales titles featuring stars, animation, comedy, thrills and chills.
alone together
Director: Ben Sherlock
Producer: Florian Zeller, Federica St. Rose
Main cast: Callum Turner, Adria Arjona, Amir El Masry
A British film director travels to the Arabian desert for work and faces a crisis in his life, but forms a strong bond with two people during an unusual rainstorm.
Sales: Hanway
arrival
Director: Bijan Sheibani
Producers: Tessa Ross, Juliet Howell, Theo Barrowclough (House Prods.), Michael Fassbender, Daniel Emerson, Conor McCaughan (DMC Film), Nell Green
Main cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Archie Madekwe
This drama about identity, obsession and betrayal follows two estranged brothers, Raheem (Madekwe) and Tom (Ben Adir), who reunite as adults.
Sales: Cornerstone
baby
Movie title: Babies
Director: Lauren Miller Rogen
Producer: Lyrus Pictures, Monarch Media, AGC Studios
Producer: Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen W. Ray, Stuart Ford, Steve Barnett
Main cast: Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
A group drama depicting the journey to parenthood…or not.
Sales: AGC, CAA Media Finance
bad brigitz
Director: Rich Peppiatt
Producer: LuckyChap
Main cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Emilia Jones
Set in the 19th century, the story focuses on two Irish sisters who make a dangerous journey to America to escape their abusive father, poverty, and starvation. Once in New York, they join the ranks of the Irish so-called “Bridgets” and cause chaos in the city.
Distributor: FilmNation (International), WME Independent (USA)
barry & me
Director: Markus Welter
Producer: Marcel Wolfisberg
Main cast: Paco von Wys, Mael Galatti, Alma Buchenbacher
A boy raises a St. Bernard puppy in a mountain pass, but when he is threatened with losing his beloved dog to someone else, he risks everything to protect their bond.
Sales: The Playmaker Munich
brave cat
Director: Gabriel Osorio
Producer: Pato Escala
Combining stop-motion and CGI 3D, “Brave Cat” tells the story of Kona, a teenage forest cat who decides to face her fears and find her missing mother, who has been kidnapped by dogs who work for humans.
Sales: Indie sales
buzzkill
Director: Joe Lynch
Producers: Dane & Cole Eckel, Jonathan Schwartz & Nick Shoemaker (Anonymous Content), Billy Magnussen (Happy Bud Bungalow)
Sheriff Red, a recently widowed and recovering alcoholic, begins an investigation when local residents are found dismembered and discovers that the monster is feeding on the victims’ blood alcohol content.
Main cast: Billy Magnussen, Lulu Wilson
Sales: The Veterans (International), AC Independent, UTA Independent Film Group (USA)
everyone wants to fuck me
Director: Jonathan Shea
Producer: Studiocanal, Film4, Parkville Pictures, LuckyChap
Main cast: Taron Egerton, Jessica Henwick
The razor-sharp, wild and original dark comedy thriller is currently filming across London.
Sales: Studio Canal
father joe
Director: Barthelemy Grossmann
Producer: LB Production, EuropaCorp
Main cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Al Pacino, Ever Anderson
The action thriller depicts Sutherland as a man of faith who wages a violent war against the city’s criminal underworld. Pacino plays a powerful mob boss whose empire clashes with Father Joe’s crusade.
Sales: Kinology
fish
Director: Carlo Hintermann
Main cast: Tim Roth, Hunter Shafer
Producer: Indiana Productions, Citrullo International Airport
In this genre-busting drama (currently in pre-production), art history professor Fish Osborne finds himself transformed into a fish, and his students begin to realize that they, too, are mutating physically, emotionally, and mentally as part of a larger evolution.
Sales: Minerva Pictures, TVCO
Halloween vs. Day of the Dead
Director: Celso Garcia
Producer: Torsten Wegener, Celso Garcia, Jerry Cardoso
This animated film follows a boy from Halloween Ville who travels to the town on Day of the Dead to meet his late grandfather, and goes on a magical adventure to unite rival towns and save his beloved holiday.
Sales: Studio 100
heartless
Director: Camille Delamare
Producer: Dean Altitt, Richard Alan Reid
Main cast: Jeanne Grousseau, Colin Morgan
When her son’s transplanted heart is stolen during a hospital power outage, the former mixed martial artist must use her skills and her hacker husband to track down a dangerous organ-trafficking ring and save her son’s life.
Sales: K5 International
Hello, Betty
Director: Pierre Monard
Producer: Peter Reichenbach
Main cast: Sarah Speer
The true story of Emi Creola, the advertising pioneer who created Swiss culinary icon Betty Bossi in 1956. She is very similar to Betty Crocker, a fictional character made famous in the United States.
Sold by: Picture Tree Intl.
ink
Director: Danny Boyle
Producer: Media Res, House Prods.
Main cast: Guy Pearce, Jack O’Connell, Claire Foy
An explosive cinematic roller coaster about the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Sales: Studio Canal
life is life
Director: Riccardo Milani
Producers: Our Films, Wildside, PiperFilm, Medusa Film
Main cast: Diego Abatantuono, Aldo Baglio, Virginia Raffaele
This Italian box office hit tells the story of Efficio Muras, a lonely shepherd and caretaker of a distant past, who defends his land from developer Giacomo, who is determined to turn it into a luxury resort.
Sales: Piper Film
love language
Director: Joey Power
Producers: Bert Hamelinck and Alison Hironaka (Caviar), Ari Lubet (3 Arts Entertainment), Colin Jost and Jeff Grosvenor (No Notes Prods.)
Main cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos, Manny Jacinto, Isabel May, Lucas Gage, Billie Lourd
After a failed engagement, a woman discovers that she has a talent for writing other people’s wedding vows. But everything changes when he is asked to write vows for Olivia, who is marrying Lou’s college sweetheart.
Sales: Main character
The Mark
Director: Justin Chadwick
Producers: Jessica Alba (Lady Metalmark Entertainment), Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Henry Winterstern (Highland Film Group), Kia Jam (K. Jam Media), Kosaku Yada (Westbrook Studios), Tracey Vieira (Hoodlum), Peter Jákl
Main cast: Jessica Alba, Tom Hopper, Angus Sampson
In the thriller, spy Eden goes on a secret and dangerous mission that draws single father Ben into the high-stakes world of espionage.
Sales: Highland Film Group
black moses
Director: Jelena Popovic
Producer: Alexandros Potter and Popovic for Simeon Faith. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and G-Unit Film and Television executives will serve as producers, alongside Wiz Khalifa of Taylor Gang Films and Omar Epps of Brooklyn Works Films.
Main cast: Omar Epps, Wiz Khalifa, Quavo, Chukwudi Iwuji
A modern-day Chicago gangster story inspired by the 5th century saint’s story of repentance.
Sales: Stoic
only what we carry
Director: Jamie Adams
Producer: Charles Benoin, Liam Hellman, Juri Smit of Atlas Pictures and Easy of the Eye
Main cast: Simon Pegg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Liam Hellman, Sofia Boutella, Quentin Tarantino
A once-tough instructor (Pegg) must confront a former student (Butera) who has returned to his hometown to confront the ghosts of his past.
Distributor: International Film Trust
reproduction
Director: Grant Singer
Producers: Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Thad Luckinbill (Black Label), Patrick Wachsberger (193)
Starring: Benicio del Toro, Cameron Diaz
The plot is kept secret.
Number of sales: 193
queen of waterfalls
Director: Rania Atiyeh, Daniel Garcia
Producer: Molly Asher, Shruti Ganguly
Main cast: Pamela Anderson, Guy Pearce
On the run, a roadkill janitor (Anderson) and a fugitive (Pierce) fall in love and race toward Niagara Falls, pursued by the law and haunted by their pasts.
Sales: Global Constellation
ultra
Director: Victoria Negri
Producer: Alison Rose Carter, John Reed (Savage Rose Films), Iris Torres
Main cast: Shailene Woodley
After the tragic death of her twin sister, Eve (Shailene Woodley) participates in the most intense athletic competition on earth, the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race through Death Valley. As Eve is exposed to the harsh elements and physical and mental strain of the race, she is chased by an unknown runner dressed in white, and steadily closes the gap between her and the runner as they race through the desert. In an attempt to escape a creepy presence, Eve faces the darkest parts of herself and discovers what she is made of.
Sales: Mister Smith Entertainment (overseas), WME Independent (North America)
The Ville
Producer: Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Rami Yassin (Spooky Pictures), Mohamed Hefzy
Director: Majid Al Ansari
Main cast: Boudoor Mohammed, Sara Taiba, Eman Tariq
A devoted wife and mother, her life begins to fall apart when her husband returns home with his second wife.
Sales: AGC Co., Ltd.
viva la madness
Director: Guy Ritchie
Producer: Jason Statham, Thomas Bensky, Tov Gai Film, Black Bear
Main cast: Jason Statham
The plot is kept secret.
Sales: Black Bear
