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Barcelona-based Film Factory Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to horror-thriller “El Cuco” (“The Cuckoo’s Curse”), the latest film by “The Photographer of Mauthausen” and “Two” producer-director Mar Targarona, set up at top Spanish genre auteur house Rodar y Rodar.

Vicente Canales’ Film Factory, one of the biggest sales forces in the Spanish-speaking world, is presenting “The Cuckoo’s Curse” to international buyers with a first promo at this week’s Cannes Film Market.

Just finished shooting in Barcelona and Germany’s The Black Forest, “The Cuckoo’s Curse” is a Spain-Germany co-production that teams Rodar y Rodar with Barry Films, a Berlin, L.A. and Zurich-based company led by producers Benito and Wolfgang Mueller.

“The Cuckoo’s Curse” toplines Belén Cuesta, Rainer Reiners, Jorge Suquet and Hildegard Schroedter (“Babylon Berlin”).

Written by Alfred Pérez-Fargas and Robert Danès narrates a thriller story with supernatural horror touches.

The film follows Sebas and Anna,...

While it didn't win, The Book Thief was up for best score at this year's Academy Awards. The drama is heading to Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11, and to celebrate, we have a new featurette from the special features which takes a look at how John Williams came to compose the music for this WWII based tale.

A young girl living with foster parents in Nazi Germany begins collecting forbidden books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee hiding in her home in this war drama.

The Book Thief was released November 8th, 2013 and stars Roger Allam, Sophie Nélisse, Heike Makatsch, Julian Lehmann, Gotthard Lange, Rainer Reiners, Kirsten Block, Geoffrey Rush. The film is directed by Brian Percival.

Following its critically-acclaimed theatrical release, Fox Home Entertainment is releasing The Book Thief on Blu-ray and DVD March 25. Fans will be able to purchase the World War II drama on Digital HD two weeks early, starting on February 25. Sophie N&#233lisse stars as a young woman who is adopted by a German couple (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson) during World War II, as she befriends a young Jewish runaway (Ben Schnetzer). We don't have any pricing details at this time, but you can take a look at the cover art and special features details below.

Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an "extremely moving" (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie N&#233lisse) is adopted by a German couple (Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush and Oscar...