Global box office smash Intouchables (2011) is set for an Arabic-language remake after Yalla Yalla, the recently announced JV between Dubai-based Middle East distributor Front Row and sales outfit …
will handle all Middle East and North African rights and Rocket Science will handle all international sales. The deal was negotiated by Ian Cooper of Cooper Law for Yalla Yalla and Cecile Gaget for Gaumont., about a paraplegic billionaire who strikes an unlikely friendship with his street smart ex-con caretaker, grossed more than $425M at the global box office, and was recently remade into U.S.
Thorsten Schumacher, CEO of Rocket Science added, “It is a very exciting proposition to be able to bring such a globally recognizable property to the territory – the first of many.”
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