In a deal first set in motion at November's American Film Market, Arclight Films subsidiary Easternlight Films has announced that it has sold the rights to "Nightmare Detective" for an undisclosed fee after the movie screened at the Pusan and Rome film festivals. Written and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando and singer Hitomi, the movie is the tale of a female detective investigating a pair of suicides mysteriously connected by the fact that both victims dialed zero on their mobile phones just seconds before they died. Easternlight focuses on bringing Asian titles to audiences in the U.S. and Europe and has done business with the Weinsteins for several years, said Jonathan Deckter, president of international sales for Arclight Films.

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