Flatiron, Variance partner for 'Elite'

New Video's Flatiron Film and Variance Films are joining up for your U.S. relieve Jos Padilha's crime thriller "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within," the finest-grosser ever in South usa more than $70 million. The follow-up will open in NY on November. 11 too as with La soon after, a platform expansion to top areas. The film is Brazil's official submission for the Academy awards and contains been examined round the festival circuit at Sundance, Berlinale, and Austin's Fantastic Fest. "Elite Squad: The Enemuy Within" is directed by Padilha and co-put together by Padilha and Brulio Mantovani. Story happens inside the sprawling slum that surrounds Rio p Janeiro and concentrates on your brain of Rio's Special Police Methods Battalion being billed having a massacre each time a pursuit to quell a jail riot finishes inside the violent dying from the gang leader. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com