Studio Canal Nabs Two At AFM

Studio Canal was able to nab two films at the AFM this year so far. The first film they picked up international rights to was Red Riding. The film is a three part "thriller" in which a six-year police investigation of Peter William Suttcliffe, aka "the Yorkshire Ripper," killed 12 women in Northern England in the 1970s. The three pics will be released separately and will be directed by three different helmers: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh and Anand Tucker.

The other pick up is either going to excite you or turn you off right away. Eli Roth is producing the next film called Cotton which is described as being in the same vein as Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project. It was directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland for Strike Entertainment. Story concerns an evangelical minister who turns against religion and decides to participate in a documentary in which he practices his last exorcism.