2007. július. 03.
Filmpartners is enjoying a productive period: hardly had Ferenc Török's
Overnight, co-produced with Katapultfilm and Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv from Germany, premiered at this year's Titanic Film Festival, when Béla Paczolay's
Kalandorok began production, work on
Delta resumed, and shooting for Szabolcs Hajdú's new feature film begins in August. We talked to Gábor Kovács, head of Filmpartners, about the company's plans, and opportunities for Hungarian producers.
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After two weeks of intense reading and deliberation the list of participants of the 2007 Central European Pitch Forum has been decided upon. The panel of readers were stunned by not only the unexpectedly large number of submissions but the incredibly high overall quality of the submitted scripts as well. This made for a tough decision.
As we reported earlier, Andrey Konchalovsky's Nutcracker adaptation is being made in Hungary, with John Turturro cast in the role of the evil Mouse King. The 65 million dollar project, originally set to kick off at the beginning of April, was postponed until July because the producers were unable to reach an agreement with the actors, Hungarian co-producer József Cirkó revealed. Hellboy and Good are underway.
Szabolcs Hajdu is working on two projects. Films in the making in 2007. Part Three. We won't be left without films.
Of the films made at Új Budapest Film Studio, producer László Kántor is managing the afterlife of the Serbian–German–Hungarian co-production The Trap after its screening at the Berlinale.
