Sola Media and Atrix score with kids' movies
by Annika Pham
Germany Sola Media and Atrix Films have closed several territories on Norwegian kids’ movie Twigson [+see also:
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Twigson has sold to seven territories, including Germany, the Middle East, Estonia, Poland and Hungary. Solveig Langeland and Beatrix Wesle are negotiating rights from their Cannes Market stand with France. Last year’s second biggest local hit in Norway had its world premiere in the 2009 Berlinale Generation section. A second film based on the same character has almost completed filming and a third film will follow.
Langeland and Wesle are also showing in Cannes a 3D promo-reel of their upcoming Freddy Frogface by Peter Dood and Gerd Fredholm, based on the book Orla Frösnapper by Ole Lund Kirkegaard. The initial animation work – design, 3D-layout, editing, sound and voices – will be done in Denmark, while animation and compositing will be done in Beijing studios. The delivery date is set for late 2010. Two more films based on Freddy Frogface are in the works.
Sola Media and Atrix are also screening at the Market the Austrian documentary film In the Beginning There Was Light (sold to Germany’s Movienet and Switzerland’s Xenis); German thriller Black Forest; and Two Horses of Genghis Kahn [+see also:
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