Splendid beefs up selection

BERLIN -- Splendid Film has acquired rights with a slew of high-profile photos, like the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner "Black Sands" and Stuart Beattie's monster actioner "I, Frankenstein" for German-speaking areas as well as the Benelux. Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh ("Act of Valor"), "Black Sands" follows a loner who wages war against a callous weapons manufacturer and also the private military. Schwarzenegger also stars in Splendid's "Last Stand." "I, Frankenstein" stars Aaron Eckhart and Bill Nighy inside an adaptation of Kevin Grevioux's graphic novel about Frankenstein's creature, which has managed to get to the present day and finds themselves in the war between humans and supernatural animals. Splendid, the distribution arm of Perfume-based Splendid Medien, also acquired Mark Steven Johnson's "Killing Season," in which a former Serbian soldier seeks vengeance against a U.S. vet inside the Appalachian Hills, and which pairs Travolta Qantas Video and Robert P Niro the first time round the silver screen. In Eric Heisserer's "Several hours," Paul Master stars just like a youthful father fighting to keep his newborn daughter alive inside an abandoned New Orleans hospital a direct consequence of Hurricane Katrina. Further purchases include Australian seventies-set sci-fi thriller "Skylab" from producer David Lightfoot Chinese historic actioner "Guillotines" from producers Peter Chan ("Warlords") and Andrew Lau ("Infernal Matters") and Adam Wingard's horror-thriller "The Following.In . Splendid expects to produce the movies theatrically in 2012 and 2013. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com