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Dutch sales outfit also agrees South Korean and German deals.

Dutch outfit Dfw International has agreed a North American sale on Thomas Nauw and Dennis Bots’ war drama Betrayal with Epic Pictures.

The film has its market premiere at the European Film Market this week.

It tells the dark story of a German-Dutch Nazi officer who, after his wife and daughter are killed in a bombing, makes a drastic decision. Transferred to the Netherlands, he helps a Dutch farming family take people into hiding.

The cast is headed by Dirk Gunther Mohr Dennis van Ooyen and Berit van de Wouw.

With an app that triggers additional content during the movie, App is coming making its way to Us theaters and VOD today, and we have an exclusive clip for Daily Dead readers to check out:

“Anna lives with her best friend Sophie, and balances psychology classes with supporting her brother and his recovery following a traumatic motorcycle accident. She’s never far from her cellphone, and after a night of partying in the dorms, Anna wakes up groggy and hungover only to find that a new app has been inexplicably added to it. Initially helpful and clever, Iris soon begins behaving mysteriously, answering personal questions it shouldn’t know the answers to, and sending inappropriate images to her contacts. When it becomes clear she can’t simply delete the unwanted, evil app, Anna’s efforts to confront it will set in motion a fearful series of events that will put her life,...

Whilst encouraging those selfish enough to sit using their mobile phones in cinemas isn't something we usually adhere to at the Horror Asylum it seems that Bobby Boermans' new Dutch horror 'App' will be. The movie has been made along with an accompanying app, Iris, which is equipped with sonic technology that triggers additional content during the showing. Content that includes off-screen text messages between characters, an alternative angle in a scene, and more. J-horror sequel 'Sadako 3D 2' tried something similar last year which turned phones into vibrating, flashing and noisy little accompaniments to the main feature. 'App' stars the sexy Hannah Hoekstra, Isis Cabolet, Robert de Hoog, Alex Hendrickx and Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen. Check out the poster and new trailer below....

Let's throw some focus to the Netherlands where a film called App is set to open February 2013.  Audiences attending the film - moreover, those with smartphones - will receive an interactive experience "as codes and cryptic texts that the film's heroine receives will also appear on audience members' small screens throughout the theater," says Thompson on Hollywood.

Beyond the synopsis we've had translated, you can check out a teaser.

After a traffic accident in which her younger brother Stijn (Alex Hendrickx) is paralyzed, psychology student Anna Rijnders (Hannah Hoekstra) fully envelops herself in her virtual world. She is addicted to apps, social media and her smart phone. Student Sophie (Isis Cabolet) is her best friend and she has a relationship with Daan (Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen).  After a wild party, of which she can't remember much, Anna discovers that an unknown has installed a mysterious app on her smart phone,...