Posted: Thurs., May 29, 2008, 6:37am PT

'Angel' flies to U.K.'s Metrodome

Celluloid Dreams is handling sales

LONDON — Metrodome has acquired all U.K. rights to Gallic helmer Safy Nebbou’s psychological thriller “Mark of an Angel.”

Celluloid Dreams is handling pic’s international sales.

Pic, which stars Catherine Frot and Sandrine Bonnaire, tells the true story of a woman who becomes convinced a 6-year-old girl she sees at a birthday party is the daughter she lost during a fire in a maternity ward years earlier.

Diaphana’s Michel Saint-Jean is producing the pic, which bows in France on Aug. 13.

No U.K. release date has been set yet.

Pic is latest acquisition by Metrodome following their takeover by Romanian media group Media Pro in a deal announced during Cannes that saw Media Pro buy a controlling 50.1% stake in the company from previous German owner TV-Loonland.

The distrib also announced the acquisition of Danish war thriller “Flame & Citron” last week.




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