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Gravitas Ventures Acquires North American Rights to Boneta’s Film “City of Dead Men”

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Diego Boneta is a Dead Man coming to America…

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to the psychological horror film City of Dead Men, starring the 25-year-old Mexican actor/singer.

Diego Boneta

Starring Boneta, Jackson Rathbone and newcomer Maria Mesa, City of Dead Men follows Michael (Boneta), an American tourist named recently arrived in Medellin, Colombia, where he discovers he’s run completely out of money. Desperate for a quick fix to the problem, he meets a young Colombian girl (Mesa), who introduces him to a group of misfits and their mysterious leader (Rathbone), who live in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. At first accepting their friendship and shelter, it soon becomes clear something terrible happened in the hospital. The group living there now only feel immortal, pulling Michael into a dangerous dynamic that might kill him.

Along with the acquisition, a new trailer for the film has been released exclusively to Deadline.

“I grew up with death and violence all around me — Medellín was tough back then,” said producer Alejo Arango. “This is where the dead men come from; growing up thinking that you are already dead, believe me, living life like that is intense.”

“We are delighted to be partnered with Latam Pictures, Blue Fox Entertainment and the talented City of Dead Men filmmaking team on this gripping thriller,” says Dan Fisher, senior director of acquisitions for Gravitas Ventures.

Gravitas plans to release the film in select theaters and on-demand set on December 16. Directed by Kirk Sullivan and written by Andrew Poston, the film already is available for presale on iTunes.

Garcia Launching Latino-Driven Fantasy/Horror-Themed Channel Morbido TV

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Alex Garcia is about to get morbido…

The Mexican producer, based in Los Angeles, is launching the multiplatform service AG Networks next year.

Alex Garcia

Garcia’s AG Networks will first launch fantasy/horror-themed Morbido TV in late 2015 as a way to reach the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, with other themed channels planned for the future.

“We hope to start with at least three distribution carriage deals (for Morbido TV),” said Garcia, who has a stake in the Morbido and Los Cabos film festivals in Mexico.

Talks are under way with other content delivery platforms.

Garcia is building vertically integrated operations that include production outposts in Brazil, New Orleans, Mexico City and Colombia, distribution outfit LatAm Pictures, film festivals and Internet start-ups,

Pablo Guisa, who runs the Morbido Fest, will serve as content director.

Garcia has tapped Eduardo Caso, a former partner and international sales director at LatAm Pictures, to head AG Networks. Caso built a network of contacts while at LatAm and at Turner Broadcasting, where he was involved in the negotiation, sales and distribution of 22 pay TV networks across Latin America, formulated marketing strategies for affiliates and led in the acquisition of new networks and media projects for Turner from February 2008 to March 2012.

Morbido TV 24-hour programming will comprise acquired films, festival pics, TV series and classic archival material from around the world, said Caso, adding, “We intend to air them in their original language, with subtitles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.”

In-house productions will include close-captioned interviews with filmmakers in their original language and full coverage of major fantasy-horror film festivals worldwide. “We will eventually be airing our own TV series and movies on Morbido TV in the long term,” he said. “We want to be at the forefront of new distribution methods, such as TV everywhere.”