Magnolia Pictures’ new genre arm, Magnet, has picked up North American rights to “
Let the Right One In.” The romantic horror pic, based on novel by Swedish scribe John Ajvide Lindqvist, involves a boy who befriends a girl who may be a vampire.
Pic screened at the European Film Market. Stefanie Zeitler, Thorsten Schaumann and Bianca Schartl of Bavaria Film Intl. negotiated North American rights with Magnolia’s Tom Quinn and Jason Janego.