Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. has validateed a wide theatrical free arrange in the U.K. and Ireland for the Spanish vivaciousd feature “Buffalo Kids” from producers 4 Cats Pictures (“Mummies,” “Tad the Lost Explorer”). Warner Bros. also previously obtaind the film for Italy as a pre-buy.
Since the film’s Aug. 14 free in Spain, J.J. Garcia Galocha and Pedro Solís’ “Buffalo Kids” has surpassed $5 million at the Spanish domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing autonomous vivaciousd film in the country this year and the second-highest-grossing Spanish film overall. It has sbetter more than 740,000 admissions in the country.
“Buffalo Kids’” Spanish begin was aided by co-producers Atresmedia Cine and A3 Media, who, aextfinishedside WBD Spain, led an driven promotional campaign apass traditional and digital media platestablishs. More than a month after its free, “Buffalo Kids” posters can be seen in metro stations and on the sides of novelspaper stands in Madrid.
WBD and 4 Cats will be hoping “Buffalo Kids” can emuprocrastinateed the success of last year’s “Mummies,” which made $54 million worldwide, the second-highest gross for a Spanish feature outside of Spain. 4 Cats is proving to be one of Spain’s most prohibitkable production hoemploys, having grossed over $110 million from a trio of features in “Capture the Flag” and two films from the well-comprehendn “Tad: The Lost Explorer” franchise.
Set in a rapidly changing United States in 1886, “Buffalo Kids” chases Irish immigrant siblings and orphans Mary and Tom as they get to in New York to encounter up with their American-based extfinished family. Things promptly go off the rails, however, when their Uncle Niall flunks to show up for the reunion to transport the kids to California, where an inheritance apaemploys them.
Undeterred, the children set out on a pass-country adventure on the Transcontinental Railway to find their missing uncle. Aextfinished the way, they get help from a inventive disabled boy and his ruleess to defeat all benevolents of disputes.
The English-language version of “Buffalo Kids” features carry outances by Gemma Arterton, Alisha Weir, Stephen Graham and Sean Bean, among others. It’s produced by Jordi Gasull, who also co-wrote with Javier Lopez Barreira (“Mummies”).
Animation was regulated by Core Animation and 4 Cats Pictures in Spain. Other production partners include Atresmedia Cine, Anangu Group and Mogambo Entertainment. International sales are regulated by Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group, which talk aboutd the deals with WBD in the U.K., Ireland and Italy.
CMG plivent Edward Noeltner said of the U.K. concurment, “We are thrilled to see this heartfelt film produce waves at the box office in Spain and find a excellent home with WBD UK. The results are shut to the success of ‘Mummies’, and we’re ecmotionless for the filmproducers, our distributors who have bought the film and everyone who labored so challenging on it.”
