{"id":544415,"date":"2026-03-18T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544415\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:51:14","slug":"soccer-drama-heysel-85-racks-up-international-sales-led-by-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544415\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Drama &#8216;Heysel 85&#8217; Racks up International Sales, Led by U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFrench sales outfit Salaud Morisset has inked multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international<\/a> territory deals for Teodora Ana Mihai\u2019s Heysel 85, lead by Icon Film Distribution, which picked up rights for the U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe feature tells the inside story of the Heysel Stadium disaster, at the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool Football Club and Juventus in Brussels, in which 39 soccer fans were killed. The disaster played out on live TV to an estimated audience of some 400 million viewers. Many of the deaths occurred before kick-off and the match was allowed to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat made the tragedy all the more grim is that events were broadcast on live TV to an estimated audience of 400 million viewers. Even after the deaths, many of which happened before kick-off, the match went ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeysel 85 focuses on the events from the point of view of Marie (Violet Braeckman), press attach\u00e9 of the mayor of Brussels, and Luca (Matteo Simoni), a young journalist covering the match for the Italian media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlongside the U.K. and Ireland, Salaud Morisset signed deals for the film with Portugal (Films4You), the Baltics (Latvian Theatrical Distribution), Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia (Cinestar), and Uruguay (Cinematica Uruguaya).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeysel 85 racked up a slate of sales shortly after its world premiere in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/berlin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_berlin_1\" data-tag=\"berlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a> last month, including deals with Plaion for Italy and Smile Entertainment for the Nordic territories. Kinepolis Film Distribution will release the film theatrically in Benelux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSalaud Morisset said it is in negotiations with Japanese and South Korean buyers for the film and is hoping to spark further interest from other Asian distributors at this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/filmart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_filmart_1\" data-tag=\"filmart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filmart<\/a> in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French sales outfit Salaud Morisset has inked multiple international territory deals for Teodora Ana Mihai\u2019s Heysel 85, lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[12268,191587,49,48,212300,212301,77,561,82],"class_list":["post-544415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-2026","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-filmart","tag-filmart-2026","tag-international","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}