Ron Howard's 'Rush' shelves up sales

Ron Howard's racing drama "Hurry" is showing lots of traction in worldwide marketplaces, annually before its expected release. Exclusive Media Group introduced Wednesday, the ultimate day's the American Film Market, it had offered the pic to marketers for 30 marketplaces including Alliance Films for Canada, Aurum for The country, Universum/RTL for Germany, E1 for New zealand and australia, MisLabel for Scandinavia and Independent in Benelux. Variety reported Monday that StudioCanal had acquired U.K. privileges. Alex Walton, leader of Exclusive Films Intl., told Variety that putting in a bid have been highly competitive with strong prices. "We feel this film is a major event title for that finish of 2012, and that we possess the most powerful worldwide partners to understand that worldwide," he added. Universal's handling the U.S. release. Walton stated the chances are the domestic launch is going to be associated with the November. 16-18 F1 race in Austin, Texas. Exclusive came on throughout the Toronto Film Festival to co-finance "Hurry" with Mix Creek Pictures. Project, which sports identifiable talents for example Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl and Olivia Wilde, sometimes appears included in the growing efforts through the indie sector to consider advantage because the large Hollywood galleries escape from mid-budget projects. Story concentrates on the competition between James Search (Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Bruhl) as well as their F1 racing teams, McLaren and Ferrari, as both were pressed towards the breaking reason for their physical and mental endurance. Shooting will begin in Feb around F1 tracks in Silverstone, England, and Nurburgring, Germany. Exclusive's deals for "Hurry" include California Filmes for Latin America Ascot Elite for Europe NuMetro for Nigeria Noori Pictures for Columbia Lusomundo for Portugal Golden Scene for Hong Kong Audiovisual for A holiday in greece Mike Film for Iceland Tanweer Film for Poultry Tandem for Bulgaria Blitz for Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia AQS for that Czech Republic and also the Slovak Republic Media Professional for Hungary and Romania ITI for Belgium U . s . King for Israel Front Row for that Middle East Apsara/Reliance for India and Pakistan PT Amero for Indonesia Media Films for Malaysia and Thailand Cathay Keris Films for Singapore Star TV for East Asian TV and Blockbuster for Taiwan. Producers are Howard, John Oliver, John Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan and Andrew Eaton. Exclusive co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East professional produce with Exclusive mind of production Tobin Armbrust. Imagine's Todd Hallowell also professional produces. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com