"Miramax has acquired US and four major Western international territories to "City of God" follow-up "City of Men". While dealing with the same setting as the first pic, it doesn't follow the same stories - rather featuring characters from Sundance Channel's "City of Men" series. Paulo Morelli, who has helmed some of the TV episodes, directed the film from a script by Elena Soarez. A 2007 release is set..." (full details)

"Koch Lorber Films has acquired North American theatrical and home video rights to the Argentinean Falklands War drama "Blessed by Fire," winner of this year's Tribeca Film Festival Founders Award for best narrative feature. Tristan Bauer's film, which also earned Spain's Goya Award for Spanish-language foreign film, centers on a 40-year-old journalist (Gaston Pauls) who is shaken by the suicide of a fellow soldier. He returns to the Malvinas Islands, where he fought more than two decades earlier, bringing disturbing wartime memories of him and his comrades to life in his mind and onscreen..." (full details)

"ThinkFilm has nabbed all domestic rights to "Avenue Montaigne" (aka "Fauteuils D'Orchestre"), France's official entry in this year's foreign-language film Oscar race. Daniele Thompson's $10 million comedy, set for a theatrical release in February, follows three main characters: a successful TV actress, a classical music prodigy and an art collector whose lives intersect at the eponymous Parisian cafe where a young waitress (Cecile de France) serves all of them. Thompson wrote the screenplay with her son, Christopher, who also appears in the film..." (full details)