Crusade in Jeans

Crusade in EU Coproduction
After Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott, a new crusader epic is in the making: the large-scale production by a Dutch director started its 50-day shooting on June 18. The English-speaking Crusade in Jeans is produced by Kasander Film, which was behind Greenaway’s movies. The EUR 10.5 million project is a joint effort by Dutch,  German, Belgian, British, Luxemburg-based and Hungarian partners. 

Real problems and imagination

Nyócker! Wins Grand Prize in Annecy
Nyócker! By director Áron Gauder and  producer Erik Novák won the grand prize in the feature film category at the International Animation Festival in Annecy. The Festival is the largest annual gathering of  animation films in Europe, held between June 6-11 in France.

Zsolt Nagy instead of Johnny Depp

Not a Cautionary Tale – The Whiskey Robber
HBO interviewed him, Discovery Channel made a documentary about him. An American journalist,  Julian Rubinstein wrote a non-fiction novel about his story, and Warner intends to make a Hollywood movie starring Johnny Depp out of it. But the film rights of the life of Attila Ambrus are with director György Dobray, so he’ll be the first to shoot a feature film about the Whiskey Robber.

Studio Portraits: Cinema Film

Jancsó is Waiting, Edelényi Starts Shooting Next Year
Cinema Film is the producer of Miklós Jancsó’s sixth and last Kapa-Pepe movie; the story by János Edelényi about a 55-year-old man with the mind of a child; and Mario by Tamás Almási may also find asylum at the studio. 

Investment support

Preferential Loans for Filmmakers
Upon the initiative of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Hungarian Development Bank will support the financing of film industry investments with a separate loan within the framework of the Loan Program for a Successful Hungary.