Toronto 2011: Hot Indonesian Action Movie 'The Raid' Sells The World (Exclusive)

Within the wake of the rousing Night time Madness premiere at Toronto, Celluloid Nightmare has offered out all remaining areas because of its Indonesian action movie The Raid. Russia along with other Slavic areas, Scandinavia, Benelux, Iceland, and Italia were the ecu zone deals closed because the screening, which happened about the opening evening of TIFF a week ago. Deals were also made its Latin America and also East Asia, Korea and India. Raid informs the storyline of the SWAT team that becomes held in a tenement run with a callous mobster, equipped with two highly violent fighting techinques murders as well as an military of machete-swinging, machine gun-carrying sellers and thugs. The film set a dark tone and bar with this year's Night time Madness TIFF sidebar, producing buzz because of its inventive action sequences and also the little-known (but very awesome) Indonesian fighting form known as silat. Gareth Huw Evans authored and directed the film and it is now being chased by Hollywood agencies and mangers, although he's yet to sign with anybody. The new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases smartly preemptively acquired the domestic privileges towards the movie, along with other areas were presold by Nate Bolotin and Sarah Gabriel of Celluloid Bad dreams. The film was created by PT. Merantau Films and Abc Films. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Worldwide