Entertainment One’s Maximum International and Seville Pictures have this week inked a series of deal memos at the American Film Market, including presales for David Michod’s Australian crime saga Animal Kingdom and Ruba Nadda’s Cairo Time.

Maximum sold the Middle East rights for Animal Kingdom to Prime Pictures, while Shooting Stars grabbed the Middle East rights to Cairo Time, which was shot in Egypt. This follows a deal last week that saw Australian distributor Transmission Films scoop the Australian and New Zealand rights to Nadda’s romantic drama.

‘We saw footage during the Toronto film festival and we were very impressed,’ Transmission’s Andrew Mackie said after inking the deal in Santa Monica.

‘It’s simply gorgeous,’ he said in a statement, adding that stars Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddiq ‘have real magic together. We haven’t seen a real on-screen romance like this in some time.’

Maximum also did deals at AFM for Benoît Pilon’s The Necessities of Life, a French-language Inuit drama that was picked up by Isaan Films in Spain, Cineart for the Benelux countries and Kino Swiat in Poland.