Gaumont sells 'Intouchables' worldwide

PARIS -- Gaumont has closed the final areas on comedy-drama "Intouchables," that has made a lot more than $50 million in France since its release on November. 2. Following an upbeat AFM, Gaumont has inked sales to Japan (Gaga), Latin America (Gussi), CIS (Daro), Korea (Bloomage), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Taiwan (Filmware) and Singapore (Cathay). Cecile Gaget, mind of worldwide sales at Gaumont, stated screening the film in the AFM was decisive in assisting the organization ink these final deals. The Weinstein Co. had formerly nabbed the privileges for The United States, the U.K., Australia, Nz, Scandinavia, Nigeria and China, and British-language remake privileges. Pic is going to be launched in Germany by Senator/Telepool, and can open the Berlin French Film Week on 12 ,. 2. Other marketers include Spain's A Contracorriente Films and Italy's Medusa. A friendship tale with different true story, "Intouchables" activates a quadriplegic aristocrat whose existence will get switched upside lower when he employs a youthful guy in the projects to consider proper care of him. Helmed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, and created by Quad Film, "Intouchables" toplines Francois Cluzet ("Little Whitened Lies") or more-and-comer Omar Sy, who starred in Toledano and Nakache's previous film, "So Happy Together." The $12.9 million pic has already established an extraordinary run in the French box office, and it has a go at surpassing Dany Boon's "Absolutely nothing to Declare" and using the box office top place. Gaget stated the film seemed to be popular in Europe and Belgium, where it had been launched by Frenetic and Victory, correspondingly. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com