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Der Samurai
Hennie fired up for Pyromaniac by Wendy Mitchell
Peccadillo picks up two By Andreas Wiseman
Peccadillo Pictures has picked up UK rights to Perspektive Deutsches Kino title Der Samurai and Panorama entry Test. Till Kleinert’s debut, Der Samurai, follows the story of a local police officer who is on the hunt for a mass murderer described as a wolf, who uses a samurai sword to carry out his killings in an isolated German village. Peccadillo inked the deal with producer Schattenkante. The UK LGBT specialist has also acquired Chris Mason Johnson’s Test from Reel Suspects. The drama charts a love story between two dancers in the early days of the AIDS crisis in 1980s San Francisco.
The Norwegian Film Institute has allocated $10.5m (¤7.7m) for seven new Norwegian feature productions, including Pyromaniac by Erik Skjoldbjaerg, which is being presented here in the Co-Production Market. Headhunters’ Aksel Hennie is set to star. Bjorn Olaf Johannessen is adapting from Gaute Heivoll’s novel about an arsonist posing as a fireman in 1970s small-town Norway. Pravda Film produces. Maipo Film is planning a sequel to Arild Fröhlich’s Doctor Proctor’s
Aksel Hennie
Fart Powder (sold here by TrustNordisk), with a script being written now for Doctor Proctor, Bubble In The Bathtub. A Thousand Times Good Night director Erik Poppe is planning The King’s Choice, set against Nazi Germany’s invasion of Norway in
EFP’s SHOOTING stars 2014 cosmina stratan (rom) beyond the hills What inspired you to become an actor? I was pleased with my journalism job, but still felt something was missing. I started to spend time in theatres. Six months later, I was at drama school. What attracts you to a role? The story and the character. If it
throws me outside my comfort zone, then it’s a good start. What advice would you give to aspiring young actors? Get a dog — it helps with the breaks between projects and keeps you active. What are you working on next? I have a feature to prepare this year.
1940. Jan Trygve Royneland and Harald Rosenlow Eeg are writing the script for producer Paradox. NFI is also backing three feature debuts: Charlotte Blom’s comedy Staying Alive with Maipo Film; Kjersti G Steinsbo’s psychological drama, The Doll In The Ceiling for producer Den Siste Skilling; and Thale Persen’s Julekongen — Full Rustning, a feature spin-off of popular holiday TV series The King Of Christmas, from a script by Rosenlow Eeg and produced by Frederick Howard for Storm Films.
berlin briefs Archstone gets Badassdom Archstone Distribution is to handle international sales on adventure comedy Knights Of Badassdom. The sales slate includes Road To Paloma directed by and starring Jason Momoa, The Echo Effect and The Elevator.
Tarr gets jury duty Hungarian director Bela Tarr will be the president of the Competition jury at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival. The festival honoured Tarr last year with its Honorary Heart of Sarajevo.
Wide kisses Darkness Wide Management has taken on sales for James Townsend’s Kissing Darkness, which stars Sean Paul Lockhart in the story of a group of gay college boys who unleash a spirit during a camping trip.
ZDF finds Pettson, Findus ZDF Enterprises have picked up international rights for the first liveaction film to be based on the Pettson and Findus books by Swedish writer Sven Nordqvist.
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