World Films ?The Butcher? Nets International Distribution Deal with Boll AG

World Films, Inc., a California-based production company that´s

re-defining the action-drama genre, announced today the signing of a

major international distribution deal with Boll AG for their latest

thriller, The Butcher. Boll AG beat-out six top distributors to

win the rights, testament to the film´s

exceptional production quality and mass cross-cultural box-office appeal.
Headquartered in Germany, Boll AG is led by legendary German filmmaker

Dr. Uwe Boll, who discovered The Butcher himself while attending

the film´s world premiere at the Cinema City

International Film Festival (CCIF) in Los Angeles, September 2007. The

Butcher was nominated for the prestigious CCIF "Best

Picture" award, kicking off a successful

coast-to-coast film festival run, broadening the film´s

popularity with fans and the Hollywood cognoscenti.
A major international distributor with ties to Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Metrodome UK, Boll AG has released such

celebrated films as In the Name of the King (Jason Stratham, Ray

Liotta, Burt Reynolds), Alone in the Dark (Christian Slater, Tara

Reid) and Bloodrayne (Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen).
"This is a momentous step forward in our

company´s brief two-year history that

follows-up nicely on last year´s deal with

NBC/Universal for The Last Sentinel," said Thad Pryor, co-Chairman of World Films, Inc. "The

Butcher´s meteoric rise will no doubt

continue through this deal, further fueling our strong momentum and

confirming the bright future of World Films and the poets in our

production pipeline."
The Butcher is a tale of a washed up ex-prize fighter

turned mob enforcer, Merle Hench, who after a 20-year string of bad luck

has 48 golden hours. The film stars Eric Roberts, a twice Academy

Award-nominated actor "“ Runaway Train (1985) and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). Written and

directed by Jesse Johnson, The Butcher features Finnish actress

Irina Bjorklund, Keith David (Crash, Armageddon, Something About Mary)

Michael Ironside (The Perfect Storm, Starship Troopers, Total Recall)

and co-stars Robert Davi (License to Kill, Die Hard, The

Goonies).
The Butcher´s European premiere will

be celebrated at Cannes during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
For more information, visit www.worldfilms.com.