Shoreline takes "Chance" on Panama hit (Reuters)

MEXICO CITY (Hollywood Reporter) – Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Panamanian administrator Abner Benaim's impact feature "Chance."

The comedy, co-written by Benaim, centers on digit mistreated live-in housekeepers who verify their employers' families hostage.

Co-produced by Benaim's Apertura Films and Matthias Ehrenberg's Colombian creation limb metropolis Negro Producciones, "Chance" has enjoyed unexampled success in its autochthonous Panama. Freshman helmer Benaim said that in its ordinal week, "Chance" was retentive on to the No. 1 blot above "Avatar."

"It's a signaling win, of course," Benaim said. "I don't conceive (James) Cameron is feat to retrograde rest over this, but comparatively it's an essential figure."

United International Pictures free the represent on 20 prints in the tiny Panamanian market, a super promulgation by topical standards, and it marks the prototypal instance that a husbandly creation there has successfully competed with tone fare. UIP also module promulgation the flick in Colombia and individual Central dweller and sea nations.

For Shoreline, "Chance" joins its ontogeny listing of Spanish-language titles, including past Sundance premieres "Undertow" (Contracorriente) and "Southern District" (Zona Sur), as substantially as Chilean administrator Sebastian Silva's award-winning episode "The Maid" (La Nana). "Undertow" was oversubscribed to Wolf Releasing presently after its Sundance release.

Shoreline CEO moneyman Ruskin is impressed with the brawny inaugural of "Chance" in Panama and the results of his company's another dweller dweller acquisitions.

"After the worldwide success of 'The Maid' terminal assemblage and the six-figure care on 'Undertow' at Sundance this year, as substantially as the awards, Shoreline is ontogeny ever more overconfident in our selection to division discover as a consort and delude Spanish-language films around the world," he said.