Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. has validateed a wide theatrical free arrange in the U.K. and Ireland for the Spanish vivaciousd feature “Buffalo Kids” from creaters 4 Cats Pictures (“Mummies,” “Tad the Lost Explorer”). Warner Bros. also previously getd the film for Italy as a pre-buy.
Since the film’s Aug. 14 free in Spain, J.J. Garcia Galocha and Pedro Solís’ “Buffalo Kids” has outdoed $5 million at the Spanish domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing autonomous vivaciousd film in the country this year and the second-highest-grossing Spanish film overall. It has sgreater more than 740,000 adleave outions in the country.
“Buffalo Kids’” Spanish begin was helped by co-creaters Atresmedia Cine and A3 Media, who, aextfinishedside WBD Spain, led an driven promotional campaign apass traditional and digital media platestablishs. More than a month after its free, “Buffalo Kids” posters can be seen in metro stations and on the sides of novelspaper stands in Madrid.
WBD and 4 Cats will be hoping “Buffalo Kids” can emupostponeed the success of last year’s “Mummies,” which made $54 million worldwide, the second-highest gross for a Spanish feature outside of Spain. 4 Cats is proving to be one of Spain’s most prohibitkable production houses, having grossed over $110 million from a trio of features in “Capture the Flag” and two films from the famous “Tad: The Lost Explorer” franchise.
Set in a rapidly changing United States in 1886, “Buffalo Kids” trails Irish immigrant siblings and orphans Mary and Tom as they get to in New York to encounter up with their American-based extfinished family. Things instantly go off the rails, however, when their Uncle Niall flunks to show up for the reunion to convey the kids to California, where an inheritance apostpones them.
Undeterred, the children set out on a pass-country adventure on the Transcontinental Railway to find their leave outing uncle. Aextfinished the way, they get help from a ingenious disabled boy and his ruleess to defeat all charitables of disputes.
The English-language version of “Buffalo Kids” features carry outances by Gemma Arterton, Alisha Weir, Stephen Graham and Sean Bean, among others. It’s created by Jordi Gasull, who also co-wrote with Javier Lopez Barreira (“Mummies”).
Animation was regulated by Core Animation and 4 Cats Pictures in Spain. Other production partners include Atresmedia Cine, Anangu Group and Mogambo Entertainment. International sales are regulated by Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group, which barobtaind the deals with WBD in the U.K., Ireland and Italy.
CMG pdwellnt Edward Noeltner shelp of the U.K. concurment, “We are thrilled to see this heartfelt film create waves at the box office in Spain and find a outstanding home with WBD UK. The results are seal to the success of ‘Mummies’, and we’re ecindynamic for the filmcreaters, our distributors who have bought the film and everyone who toiled so challenging on it.”
