EXCLUSIVE: Bernd Schlotterer’s German outfit Palatin Media is launching world gross sales on Richard Armitage thriller The Man From Rome. Moonstone Leisure’s Etchie Stroh is serving as a gross sales advisor.

The thriller options options an ensemble forged led by Armitage (The Hobbit), Amaia Salamanca (Gran Lodge), Fionnula Flanagan (The Others), Franco Nero (Django Unchained) and Paul Guilfoyle (Don’t Look Up).

Based mostly on the novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte, whose works embrace the Queen of the South and the Captain Alatriste collection, the movie has wrapped principal pictures in Rome and Spain.

Directed and co-written by Sergio Dow (The Day You Love Me), the movie unspools towards the backdrop of a neighborhood beset by a pair of mysterious killings at a condemned church in Sevilla, Spain, sparking an investigation. On the case is Father Lorenzo Quart (Armitage), dispatched by the Pope to uncover the reality concerning the murders. Quart’s appreciable investigative prowess and data of Vatican intrigue set him in good stead as he encounters an unsavory forged of characters in Sevilla with their very own long-standing and sophisticated conflicts and ignoble histories.

Palatin Media was based in Munich in 2011 by long-time TMG Managing Director and shareholder Bernd Schlötterer. Palatin owns stakes in a raft of corporations together with theatrical distributor Kinostar, Swiss Leisure Programm AG (former Teleclub Programm AG), movie and TV manufacturing firm Aventin, AVOD/SVOD-platform Watch4 energetic in German talking Europe and the UK (Video Options), Rocket Rights, and VOD specialist Rights Booster. In Might 2021 Palatin launched CRACTION TV, a FAST channel centered on motion and crime content material.