Spooky 'Emergo' sells to major areas

Gregoire Melin's Kinology has folded out major territory sales on "Emergo," the newest genre pic from Rodrigo Cortes and Adrian Guerra, they behind "Hidden" and "Red-colored-colored Lights." Closing with topnotch entrepreneurs, "Emergo" has agreed to Alliance for U.K. and Canada, Universum in Germany and Australia's Hopscotch Films off a preliminary screening within the American Film Market. A U.S. purchase is becoming inside the works.Put together by Cortes, as well as the feature directorial debut of award-winning Catalan shorts helmer Carles Torrens, the British-language "Emergo" triggers a team of high-tech parapsychologists who investigate mysterious phenomena inside an old, eerie house. Toplining Kai Lennox and Michael O'Keefe, "Emergo" is defined at Guerra's new Barcelona-based production label Nostromo Pictures.Its makers acknowledge a debt to "The Blair Witch Project" and "Rec." Nonetheless they break new ground, it is said, in multiple cameras usage, different from HD lensing to 8mm, 16mm and 35mm familiar with capture the scientists' condition-in the-art technology -- infra-red-colored-colored filming, psychophonic tracks, movement sensors and magnetic area alteration meters -- along with the chilling phenomena they identify. "Emergo" has put together presales including Mexico (Cine Video y TV), Taiwan (Studio Solutions Group), Middle East (Gulf Film), Singapore (Cathay Keris Films), Indonesia (P.T. Rapi Films), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Argentina and Venezuela (Eastwood Holdings Intl.).Kinology is closing major territory presales on David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" off a promo examined within the AFM, Melin mentioned. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com