IP & Remake Rights Portfolio

MEET ME IN CAIRO

 

In Development

Meet Me In Cairo is an IP for either a feature film or a limited drama series, based on the true story of master spy Wolfgang Lotz. A German national, Lotz worked on behalf of the Israeli government as a double-agent living in Egypt in the mid-1960s.

Our proprietary assets include three screenplays (two in English, one in German), two written by Lotz himself in 1987, a 16-minute video interview with Lotz and an extensive audio debriefing, both conducted in 1987. The audio comprises over 6 hours of content (audio files and transcripts available).

An incredible “Mr & Mrs Spy” story, Meet Me in Cairo has it all. A handsome, reckless, high-society spy who breaks all the rules by falling in love with a beautiful young blonde on the Orient Express. Glamorous European locations (Munich, Paris, Geneva), as well as primary locations in 1960s-era Cairo, Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv. Nazi expatriate scientists helping the Egyptian army with advanced missile technology. All culminating in the Arab-Israeli 6-Day War.

We are currently looking to partner with a blue-chip production company with experience in period dramas, and with bonafide relationships with commissioning executives at global streaming platforms. We have had serious discussions with several major players in recent years and even spent two years negotiating an agreement with a major Israeli studio, but the project was ultimately not optioned, and we are back in the marketplace. At present, our concept will have Lotz tell his own story, in his own voice.

Croisette Films has been in high-level negotiations with several major drama producers and distributors, including Netflix Germany and Keshet (Israel) to produce the series, however the Israel-Gaza War has placed all discussions on hold for the forseeable future.

THE DONKEY KING

 

Completed

In 2018, The Donkey King was the highest-grossing animation film in Pakistan’s box-office history. The 3D animated film was directed by Aziz Jindani. It was released in Pakistan by Geo Films and Talisman Studios and became the first Pakistani film to be dubbed into seven languages for multiple international releases. The film was re-versioned from Urdu into English by Janson Media. Because of the global Coronavirus pandemic, the company had to cancel the planned July 2020 theatrical release in the United States, instead launching the film as a Direct-to-VOD release in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Janson Media secured social media influencers Kenny Knox and Mark Dohner to voice the two leading characters in the film. The film’s U.S. Premiere Video-on-Demand (PVOD) release was July 3rd, 2020. Additional platform rollouts coincided with the presidential elections between September 7th and the U.S. presidential election in early November, and today the film is still available on most AVOD platforms in the United States and other English-speaking countries.

The Donkey King tells the story of an aging Lion King of the jungle city of Azad Nagar who prepares to retire and anoint his son the Prince as his successor. But a conspiracy of evil-doers have other plans, and when the inhabitants of the jungle city rise up to insist on democratic elections, a poor donkey, Mangu, is elected as the new king. But things are just getting interesting in this hilarious animated film for the whole family.

Read more here.

GOGOL

 

Available

Gogol is a Russian-produced limited (8-hour) drama series directed by Alexander Tsekalo and written by Kim Belov and Tikhon Kornev. The series is loosely based on works by Nikolai Gogol and the title role is played by Alexander Petrov.

The year is 1829. Nikolai Gogol, a law clerk and emerging gothic writer is introduced to the brilliant detective Yakov Guro. Together they set forth to a remote village to investigate a series of murders. Gogol discovers a supernatural connection allowing him to communicate with the otherworld. To defeat evil, Gogol must discover the origins of his dark gift.

Currently the Russian series with English subtitles is available on Amazon Prime Video, Tubi, and other major U.S. AVOD platforms. Croisette Films is in discussions with several Hollywood showrunners and producers to remake the series in English and adapt it for an American audience.

Read more on IMDb.

THE SNIFFER

 

Available

They call him The Sniffer. An extraordinary sense of smell gives this crime investigator unique insights into solving mysteries, but his gift takes a dreadful toll on his personal life. His oversensitive nose is as much a gift as it is a curse. There are no crimes he cannot solve, yet he fails completely at building relationships with people. It is impossible to surprise him, he cannot be deceived, yet any extraneous smell will push him away from the most romantic date. He has a complicated but interesting life.

Starring Kirill Käro, Ivan Oganesyan, Mariya Anikanova. Created by Artyom Litvinenko. Russian with English subtitles.

Originally launched in the Ukraine as Nyukhach, the series has now completed three seasons, and successful television releases in Finland (YLE), Japan (AXN Mystery), in the United States on streamers Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, as well as television Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain, and Lithuania. The series has won multiple international awards.

In partnership with Ukrainian distributor Film UA, we are seeking format deals to re-produce this inventive and entertaining drama series as an original English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin series. Scripts for three seasons (24 one-hour episodes) and a production bible are available.

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If you own the rights to a film script or to a production bible for a series and the movie or series has met with success in one or more territories, and seems well-suited to be re-made in another language and for a new viewership in another territory, then please let us know if we can help you. We do not evaluate scripts or treatments for projects which have not yet been produced.