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MOSCOW -- Russian horror movie Dead Daughters -- which screened at the European Film Market in Berlin in February and is due for local release here in the fall -- has sold to U.S. producers Gold Circle Films for an English-language remake, filmmakers Praktika Pictures and commissioning producers Central Partnership said Thursday. The U.S. company, headed by Paul Brooks, has optioned the remake rights for an adaptation of writer-director Pavel Ruminov's dark thriller by U.S. genre screenwriter Jared Rivet. Yelena Vernikovskaya of Praktika Pictures said the deal boded well for the success of Ruminov's film, which tells the story of three girls murdered by their mad mother who reappear as ghosts in Moscow hell-bent on revenge.