ZDF Enterprises Racks up Gross sales for Pandemic Thriller ‘Sløborn’ (EXCLUSIVE)

ZDF Enterprises has struck additional offers for the primary season of post-apocalyptic catastrophe thriller “Sløborn,” together with gross sales within the U.Ok., Russia and Japan.

The eight-part collection is produced by Christian Alvart’s Berlin-based Syrreal Leisure in co-production with ZDF, Tobis, Nordisk Movie and ZDF Enterprises. Alvart, who additionally penned and helmed the Netflix collection “Canines of Berlin,” co-wrote and directed “Sløborn” together with Adolfo J. Kolmerer.

Season 1 of the ZDFneo unique collection offers with the outbreak of a deadly virus on the North Sea island of Sløborn and the inhabitants’ struggle to outlive the worldwide disaster. Alvart was in manufacturing with “Sløborn” nicely earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic however the storyline was eerily prescient: A group is slowly devastated when a lethal virus begins killing residents whereas being largely ignored by many of the inhabitants till it’s too late.

In Season 2, which premieres on ZDFneo on Feb. 21 and can quickly be obtainable for distribution, the island’s remaining residents wrestle to outlive the collapse of civilization as they face a blackout and battle for meals, safety and data.

Walter Presents licensed the collection for the U.Ok. following an earlier acquisition for Australian SVOD service Stan as a part of its programming take care of Stan father or mother 9 Digital.

International Collection Community likewise acquired it for Australia and its territories — Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands — in addition to New Zealand.

Through Moscow-based Russian Report TV Company, “Sløborn” can be heading to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Usbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Turkcell picked the collection up for Turkey, Vubiquity Administration Restricted for Israel and Trans World Associates Inc. for Japan.

Cinedigm Corp. final 12 months acquired all North American rights to “Sløborn” for its Screambox subscription-based video-on-demand service, one of many main streaming locations for horror films and TV collection within the U.S.

ZDF Enterprises, which co-produced each seasons, is dealing with world gross sales.