Exclusive: Financing company offers to cash-flow the 25% Icelandic tax incentive as well as the 24% Vat refund.
Iceland’s sole dedicated film and television financing boutique Isold Film & TV Financing has become the first company to cash-flow both the country’s film and TV tax incentive and Vat refund.
Reykjavik-based producer-director Thoromar Jonsson founded Isold earlier this year to capitalise on a sought-after location that has hosted shoots for HBO smash Game Of Thrones [pictured], Captain America: Civil War and upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, among others.
Former Studio Babelsberg managing director Thierry Potok serves as chairman, while former Screen International editor-in-chief Colin Brown is president; La-based strategy and media consultant Francis DellaVecchia is head of operations, and Mark Rabinowitz serves as head of acquisitions.
Effective immediately, Isold offers to cash-flow the 25% Icelandic tax incentive as well as the 24% Vat refund. Its services extend to producers of film and TV shows that want to take advantage of Iceland...
Iceland’s sole dedicated film and television financing boutique Isold Film & TV Financing has become the first company to cash-flow both the country’s film and TV tax incentive and Vat refund.
Reykjavik-based producer-director Thoromar Jonsson founded Isold earlier this year to capitalise on a sought-after location that has hosted shoots for HBO smash Game Of Thrones [pictured], Captain America: Civil War and upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, among others.
Former Studio Babelsberg managing director Thierry Potok serves as chairman, while former Screen International editor-in-chief Colin Brown is president; La-based strategy and media consultant Francis DellaVecchia is head of operations, and Mark Rabinowitz serves as head of acquisitions.
Effective immediately, Isold offers to cash-flow the 25% Icelandic tax incentive as well as the 24% Vat refund. Its services extend to producers of film and TV shows that want to take advantage of Iceland...
- 11/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Frost/Nixon star to be joined by Andrew Scott and Kelly Macdonald in a biopic of the 1920s British mountaineer.
Michael Sheen has signed on to play British climber George Mallory in upcoming biopic In High Places, billed as the first film to tell the full story of the tragic 1920s mountaineer.
Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) is attached to play Mallory’s wife, Ruth, while Andrew Scott, best known for playing the villainous Moriarty in BBC drama series Sherlock, will play his friend and fellow climber Noel Odell.
Writer/director James McEachen is due to begin shooting this September. Locations include South Tyrol, India, London and Cologne.
Mallory took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.
During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew “Sandy” Irvine both disappeared. They were last seen when they were about 800 feet from the summit. His body was...
Michael Sheen has signed on to play British climber George Mallory in upcoming biopic In High Places, billed as the first film to tell the full story of the tragic 1920s mountaineer.
Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) is attached to play Mallory’s wife, Ruth, while Andrew Scott, best known for playing the villainous Moriarty in BBC drama series Sherlock, will play his friend and fellow climber Noel Odell.
Writer/director James McEachen is due to begin shooting this September. Locations include South Tyrol, India, London and Cologne.
Mallory took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.
During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew “Sandy” Irvine both disappeared. They were last seen when they were about 800 feet from the summit. His body was...
- 4/7/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The studio said it will open the Jesse Owens film wide on April 8, 2016, and announced that William Hurt has joined the cast. Mister Smith handles international sales.
Hurt joins Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Carice van Houten and rising star Stephan James.
Stephen Hopkins directs the $32m drama and is about to wrap the Berlin segment at the Olympic Stadium, the site of Owens’ quadruple gold medal haul in 1936 that defied Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy at the Games.
Hurt will portray Jeremiah Mahoney, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, who led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel wrote the screenplay.
Jean Charles Lévy produces for Forecast Pictures with sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan for ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins for Totally Commercial Films, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin for Canada’s Solofilms and Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok for Germany’s Trinity Race GmbH.
Executive producers include Christopher Charlier, Ben Grass, [link...
Hurt joins Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Carice van Houten and rising star Stephan James.
Stephen Hopkins directs the $32m drama and is about to wrap the Berlin segment at the Olympic Stadium, the site of Owens’ quadruple gold medal haul in 1936 that defied Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy at the Games.
Hurt will portray Jeremiah Mahoney, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, who led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel wrote the screenplay.
Jean Charles Lévy produces for Forecast Pictures with sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan for ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins for Totally Commercial Films, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin for Canada’s Solofilms and Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok for Germany’s Trinity Race GmbH.
Executive producers include Christopher Charlier, Ben Grass, [link...
- 10/1/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Four producers on Stephen Hopkins’ Jesse Owens biopic Race have joined forces to produce English-language features in the future for the international market.
Jean-Charles Lévy, sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan, Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok are partners in the Berlin-based production house Trinity Race GmbH, which has served as the German producer on Race.
The film wraps principal photography in the German capital’s historic Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Stephan James plays Owens.
Trinity’s partners on the $31.6m German-Canadian co-production are Lévy’s Forecast Pictures, Dayan’s ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins’ Totally Commercial Films, and Canadian producers Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin of Solofilms.
David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is handling international distribution and now only has sales deal pending for Japan, France and the UK. Square One Entertainment will distribute theatrically in Germany and eOne in Canada. Focus Features will release the film in the Us.
“Originally, it had been...
Jean-Charles Lévy, sports entrepreneur Luc Dayan, Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok are partners in the Berlin-based production house Trinity Race GmbH, which has served as the German producer on Race.
The film wraps principal photography in the German capital’s historic Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Stephan James plays Owens.
Trinity’s partners on the $31.6m German-Canadian co-production are Lévy’s Forecast Pictures, Dayan’s ID+, Kate Garwood and Hopkins’ Totally Commercial Films, and Canadian producers Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin of Solofilms.
David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is handling international distribution and now only has sales deal pending for Japan, France and the UK. Square One Entertainment will distribute theatrically in Germany and eOne in Canada. Focus Features will release the film in the Us.
“Originally, it had been...
- 10/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
20th Century Fox released Jorge Ramírez Suárez’s latest film "Guten Tag, Ramón" in Mexico on August 21 and became season’s surprise hit. The warmhearted drama-comedy was also for 3 weeks in a raw 2nd place in screen average only behind "Hercules" (first week) and then "Lucy" (on its second and third week). The film is running its 5th week and became a 'sleeper', keeping 210 screens so far. Admissions today passed 1,150,000
"Guten Tag, Ramón" tells the story of Ramón (Kristyan Ferrer), a young man from a small northern Mexican town that has tried unsuccessfully five times to cross the U.S. border. Back home he refuses to become a criminal. He decides instead to look for a friend's aunt in Germany. He travels to Germany and he never finds the aunt. He survives in the streets until he meets Ruth (Ingeborg Schöner), a retired and lonely woman. Beyond language barriers and prejudices they develop an amazing friendship.
"Guten Tag, Ramón" is a Beanca Films’s co-production with Germany’s Mpn Cologne Film 3 (MedienParks) in association with Fox International Productions. It is written, directed and produced by Mexican-German helmer Jorge Ramírez-Suárez and co-produced by Thierry Potok and Jorge Eduardo Ramírez. Starring Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Héctor Kotsifakis, Arcelia Ramírez, Adriana Barraza. The film was shot in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in Germany and Durango, Mexico.
The film will open in several territories in South and Central America in October. The release in Germany and the U.S. is set on January 22, 2015 also by 20th Century Fox. Other territories will follow.
"Guten Tag, Ramón" tells the story of Ramón (Kristyan Ferrer), a young man from a small northern Mexican town that has tried unsuccessfully five times to cross the U.S. border. Back home he refuses to become a criminal. He decides instead to look for a friend's aunt in Germany. He travels to Germany and he never finds the aunt. He survives in the streets until he meets Ruth (Ingeborg Schöner), a retired and lonely woman. Beyond language barriers and prejudices they develop an amazing friendship.
"Guten Tag, Ramón" is a Beanca Films’s co-production with Germany’s Mpn Cologne Film 3 (MedienParks) in association with Fox International Productions. It is written, directed and produced by Mexican-German helmer Jorge Ramírez-Suárez and co-produced by Thierry Potok and Jorge Eduardo Ramírez. Starring Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Héctor Kotsifakis, Arcelia Ramírez, Adriana Barraza. The film was shot in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in Germany and Durango, Mexico.
The film will open in several territories in South and Central America in October. The release in Germany and the U.S. is set on January 22, 2015 also by 20th Century Fox. Other territories will follow.
- 9/24/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...
- 8/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jason Sudeikis has joined Jeremy Irons and Stephan James in the true story of the Olympic legend. Focus acquired Us rights in a deal with world sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment.
Director Stephen Hopkins is scheduled to begin principal photography on July 24 in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Square One will distribute in Germany and is a co-producer. eOne will release Race in Canada.
Owens claimed a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Games in Germany, much to the chagrin of German Chancellor Adolph Hitler and his cohorts who had intended the event to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.
The project has the support of the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group.
Sudeikis will play Owens’ obsessive coach and mentor Larry Snyder, while Irons will portray Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic committee who fought to stage the Games in Berlin...
Director Stephen Hopkins is scheduled to begin principal photography on July 24 in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Square One will distribute in Germany and is a co-producer. eOne will release Race in Canada.
Owens claimed a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Games in Germany, much to the chagrin of German Chancellor Adolph Hitler and his cohorts who had intended the event to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy.
The project has the support of the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group.
Sudeikis will play Owens’ obsessive coach and mentor Larry Snyder, while Irons will portray Avery Brundage, head of the American Olympic committee who fought to stage the Games in Berlin...
- 7/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Shooting on first English language film from Arsen A Ostojic [pictured] starts in September.
Parkland Pictures has boarded The Man in the Box.
An adaptation of Thomas Moran’s international bestseller, the coming-of-age tale is Croatian director Arsen A Ostojic’s first English language film. Dan and Nuria Wicksman adapted for the screen.
Set in Tirol at the end of WWII, The Man in the Box focuses on a teenage boy whose family hides a Jewish doctor who had saved the boy’s life before the war.
Cast currently includes Thomas Kretschmann, Martina Gedeck and Götz Otto.
Producer Steve Walsh, executive producers Thierry Potok and François Lesterlin and Parkland Pictures’ John Cairns have put the final pieces of finance together in Cannes.
Shooting is scheduled for Sept 8.
Also on Parkland’s Cannes slate is thriller Pharmacide, romance Secret Love, WWII action film Allies and marijuana legalisation documentary California High.
Parkland Pictures has boarded The Man in the Box.
An adaptation of Thomas Moran’s international bestseller, the coming-of-age tale is Croatian director Arsen A Ostojic’s first English language film. Dan and Nuria Wicksman adapted for the screen.
Set in Tirol at the end of WWII, The Man in the Box focuses on a teenage boy whose family hides a Jewish doctor who had saved the boy’s life before the war.
Cast currently includes Thomas Kretschmann, Martina Gedeck and Götz Otto.
Producer Steve Walsh, executive producers Thierry Potok and François Lesterlin and Parkland Pictures’ John Cairns have put the final pieces of finance together in Cannes.
Shooting is scheduled for Sept 8.
Also on Parkland’s Cannes slate is thriller Pharmacide, romance Secret Love, WWII action film Allies and marijuana legalisation documentary California High.
- 5/19/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne, Germany -- Veteran TV producer Thilo Kleine has been named co-managing director at VIP Medienfonds joining Tilo Seiffert to run the German private equity fund.
VIP has invested nearly $1 billion in over 50 feature films since its founding in 1989, including Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There."
But when German tax authorities took aim at the country's film funds, VIP, the largest private fund, became a poster child for corporate malfeasance. One of the fund's founders, Andreas Schmidt, was imprisoned for tax evasion and other crimes.
Since then, VIP has gone through several bosses. Seiffert took up the reigns last year, replacing Thierry Potok. Potok in turn took over in 2008 from Peter H. Riedel, who replaced Dirk Specht and held the job for less than a year.
VIP has invested nearly $1 billion in over 50 feature films since its founding in 1989, including Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There."
But when German tax authorities took aim at the country's film funds, VIP, the largest private fund, became a poster child for corporate malfeasance. One of the fund's founders, Andreas Schmidt, was imprisoned for tax evasion and other crimes.
Since then, VIP has gone through several bosses. Seiffert took up the reigns last year, replacing Thierry Potok. Potok in turn took over in 2008 from Peter H. Riedel, who replaced Dirk Specht and held the job for less than a year.
- 10/11/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The private German media fund VIP Medienfonds which relaunched in 2008 has a new head, Tilo Seiffert who has been running a VIP division since September 2007. He is replacing Thierry Potok, who will return to producing through his company Polaris Film Production and Finance, which co-produced Julie Delpy’s internationally successful Two Days In Paris. Since its establishment in 1989, the VIP Group had invested around $1 billion (€75.2m) in over 50 film projects including the Oscar-winning Monster, Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, Tom Tykwer’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Todd Haynes' I'm Not There and Taylor Hackford's Love Ranch which is being sold by David Bergstein's Capitol Films and has no US distribution as yet, and films by Egoli Tossel and Baldwin Entertainment Group.
- 5/7/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
The private German media fund VIP Medienfonds which relaunched in 2008 has a new head, Tilo Seiffert who has been running a VIP division since September 2007. He is replacing Thierry Potok who will return to producing through his company Polaris Film Production and Finance, which co-produced Julie Delpy’s internationally successful Two Days In Paris. Since its establishment in 1989, the VIP Group had invested around $1bn (€75.2m) in over 50 film projects including the Oscar-winning Monster, Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, Tom Tykwer’s Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and Taylor Hackford’s Love Ranch which is being sold by David Bergstein's Capitol Films and has no Us distribution as yet, and films by Egoli Tossel and Baldwin Entertainment Group.
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
Cologne, Germany -- Thierry Potok has stepped down as head of German film fund VIP less than a year after taking up the post.
Potok will return to producing through his Polaris banner, which co-produced Julie Delpy's "2 Days in Paris." He will be replaced at VIP by Tilo Seiffert, who has been at the fund since 2007.
Once Germany's most successful private fund, VIP has invested about $1 billion in more than 50 film projects since 1989, including Oscar-winner "Monster," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer."
But VIP's dodgy banking practices caught the attention of German tax authorities. Fund founder Andreas Schmid was eventually found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to six years in prison.
Now VIP's main activities involve chasing down earnings from films it invested in and managing the few funds remaining in its portfolio.
Potok will return to producing through his Polaris banner, which co-produced Julie Delpy's "2 Days in Paris." He will be replaced at VIP by Tilo Seiffert, who has been at the fund since 2007.
Once Germany's most successful private fund, VIP has invested about $1 billion in more than 50 film projects since 1989, including Oscar-winner "Monster," Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer."
But VIP's dodgy banking practices caught the attention of German tax authorities. Fund founder Andreas Schmid was eventually found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to six years in prison.
Now VIP's main activities involve chasing down earnings from films it invested in and managing the few funds remaining in its portfolio.
- 5/1/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Vivendi Universal finalized its sale of money-losing German production center Studio Babelsberg to investors Carl Woebcken and Christoph Fisser on Wednesday, handing over the studio for a symbolic €1 ($1.22). In addition, Vivendi Uni has agreed to a payout of €18 million ($21.9 million) over the next three years to cover restructuring and overhead costs. Woebcken, who runs Berlin production fund BAF, and Fisser, head of Munich-based production studios Studio Atelierbetriebe Schwabing, beat out several competitors to win the Babelsberg bid, including an offer from German production giant Studio Hamburg and a management buyout proposal from outgoing studio boss Thierry Potok.
COLOGNE, Germany -- Studio Hamburg has ended talks with Vivendi Universal about taking over Vivendi Uni's money-losing German-based studio Studio Babelsberg, Studio Hamburg announced on Thursday. "After five months of good negotiations in which we reached agreement on most points, (Vivendi Uni) has now developed a new agenda that we can neither understand nor accept," Studio Hamburg managing director Martin Willich said in a statement to the German media Thursday. "We see no basis to continue talks with Vivendi Uni." Studio Hamburg's exit could open the door for a management buyout of Babelsberg led by the studio's production head, Thierry Potok. Potok has helped to bring some of the sparkle back to Babelsberg by attracting big-budget productions such as Mission: Impossible 3 and Around the World in 80 Days to shoot at the studio.
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