{"id":668343,"date":"2026-10-29T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:44:09","slug":"chinese-sci-fi-thriller-variant-lands-north-america-europe-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668343\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Variant’ Lands North America, Europe Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChinese film \u201cVariant<\/a>,\u201d a sci-fi action thriller from director Qilin Li, is headed to North America with International Media Network (IMN), which acquired U.S. and Canadian rights. <\/p>\n

\n\tSales company Cappu Films<\/a> unveiled that deal and others across Europe, Asia and Latin America at TIFFCOM<\/a>, the market of the Tokyo International Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMT Trading has taken Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Blue Swan Entertainment has Italy, in a deal that also covers Italian-speaking Switzerland, San Marino and Vatican City.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreat Movies has Latin America, and Media4Fun has picked up the film for Poland. Dimension Pictures takes the SAARC territories of South Asia, and San Chi Films has Taiwan. A deal for Japan was brokered by Bob Jones of IPA Asia.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cVariant\u201d follows Jamie, who lived through an alien creature\u2019s attack on board a spacecraft. Twenty years after fleeing to Earth, he comes face to face with a new variant of the creature and has to confront the threat that wiped out his family.<\/p>\n

\n\tJim Liu, whose credits include \u201cThe Farewell\u201d and \u201cIp Man 4: The Finale,\u201d leads the cast with Shuting Yang and Philippe Joly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to bring \u2018Variant\u2019 to audiences across a growing number of international markets,\u201d said Janice Woo of Cappu Films. \u201cWe had a great experience working with the director and production team on \u2018Mutant,\u2019 so it\u2019s a pleasure to work together again on \u2018Variant.\u2019 We like building relationships with filmmakers that continue from one film to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCappu Films is still talking to buyers about the territories that remain open. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company handles international sales and distribution, and focuses on independent filmmakers and genre titles that can travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese film \u201cVariant,\u201d a sci-fi action thriller from director Qilin Li, is headed to North America with International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[282313,93,61,60,270,67570,8169,72214],"class_list":["post-668343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cappu-films","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-tiffcom","tag-tokyo-international-film-festival","tag-variant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668343","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=668343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}