{"id":582821,"date":"2026-08-04T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582821\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:28:10","slug":"bloody-tennis-scores-international-sales-ahead-of-locarno-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582821\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bloody Tennis’ Scores International Sales Ahead of Locarno Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNikias Chryssos<\/a>\u2018 English-language horror film \u201cBloody Tennis\u201d has secured several international deals, including to Shudder<\/a> in the U.S., ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other deals are for Australia (Umbrella Entertainment), Baltics (BestFilm.eu), Italy (Plaion Pictures), Japan (Extreme Film), Poland (9th Plan), and Scandinavia (Njutafilms).<\/p>\n

\n\tU.S. rights were handled by CAA on behalf of Augenschein<\/a> Sales, while Augenschein Sales sold the Australian rights directly. The Playmaker Munich closed the deals for Poland, the Baltics, Japan, Scandinavia and Italy on behalf of Augenschein Sales, and is handling the remaining open territories.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBloody Tennis\u201d stars Sandra Guldberg Kampp (\u201cFoundation\u201d), Golden Globe nominee Helena Zengel (\u201cNews of the World,\u201d \u201cThe Legend of Ochi\u201d), Tracy Gotoas (\u201cSafe House\u201d), Lucie Zhang (\u201cParis,\u201d \u201c13th District\u201d), Lily Taieb (\u201cThe French Dispatch,\u201d \u201cBergman Island\u201d), Elina L\u00f6wensohn (\u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d) and Zlatko Buri\u0107 (\u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe score is by Jim Williams, known for \u201cTitane,\u201d \u201cRaw\u201d and \u201cPossessor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film takes the world of elite sports to disturbing new extremes<\/a>, filled with brutal ambition, blood-sucking leeches and hard-hitting serves. After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in Southern Europe, Sophie (Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates but with the school\u2019s increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are taken to their painful limits and only the hungriest survive.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo (\u201cThe Weight,\u201d \u201cThe Assessment,\u201d \u201cMother Mary\u201d) of Augenschein in co-production with Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion and ZDF. The film was shot in Gran Canaria, Spain and NRW, Germany, with Volcano Films having rendered the Spanish production services. The production was supported by Film-und Medienstiftung NRW and German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) as well as the tax incentive program of the Canary Islands. The German distributor will be Port au Prince. Its first release is set for the U.S. via Shudder.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdam Koehler, director, acquisitions and productions at IFC Entertainment Group, said, \u201c \u2018Bloody Tennis\u2019 serves up an unexpectedly wild ride that will keep viewers exhilarated from start to finish. Distinctive, elegant, and gleefully offbeat, it\u2019s exactly the kind of bold, boundary-pushing horror we strive to champion at Shudder. We\u2019re thrilled to give this unforgettable film a home on our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSylvia Edelmann, head of sales at The Playmaker Munich, said the world premiere in Locarno will give the film \u201cthe attention it deserves and help us showcase it to buyers in the remaining open territories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKatzenstein said, \u201cAfter years of hard work, we\u2019re incredibly excited to finally bring \u2018Bloody Tennis\u2019 to audiences with its world premiere in Locarno. This film would not exist without the extraordinary vision of Nikias, our wonderful cast and the dedication of everyone involved. Knowing that it has already found partners in so many territories\u2014and that it will begin its journey with Shudder in North America\u2014makes this moment even more special. We can\u2019t wait for audiences to finally enter the strange and unsettling world we have created together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChryssos is an alumnus of the R\u00e9sidence du Festival de Cannes, the Berlinale Talents, the Saatchi & Saatchi New German Directors Showcase and the Masterclass \u201cThe Hollywood Perspective\u201d at UCLA.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2012, he founded the production company Kataskop Film, and produced and directed his first feature film, \u201cDer Bunker,\u201d in co-production with Gei\u00dfend\u00f6rfer Film, which premiered at the 65th Berlin Intl. Film Festival, and won the Next Wave Award for best feature at Fantastic Fest in Austin. His second feature film, \u201cA Pure Place,\u201d was developed in the R\u00e9sidence du Festival de Cannes, and premiered at the Munich Film Festival, where it won the award for best director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikias Chryssos\u2018 English-language horror film \u201cBloody Tennis\u201d has secured several international deals, including to Shudder in the U.S.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[66161,93,61,60,3428,270,66162,28635],"class_list":["post-582821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-augenschein","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-locarno-film-festival","tag-movies","tag-nikias-chryssos","tag-shudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}