Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield re-unite for White Circus and German director Christian Petzold prepares his new film Phoenix.
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski will direct Chloe Moretz, Asa Butterfield and Andrea Riseborough in White Circus, a dark fairy tale with elements of black comedy, which revolves around a young pilot who crashes his plane in a war-torn town where he befriends a talking circus bear, falls in love with a cabaret singer and challenges a maniacal despot.
The international co-production is a joint venture by Canada’s Silo Corporation, France’s Kinology, Germany’s X-Filme Creative Pool and Serbia’s Works in Progress. Terry Gilliam is executive producing. Shooting is scheduled for next February and Kinology has also acquired international sales rights.
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Phoenix, Christian Petzold’s follow up to his Silver Bear winning film Barbara, again stars Nina Hoss, who plays a woman who has survived the Holocaust and presumed dead returns home under a new identity to find out if her husband betrayed her. The drama is produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf and Michael Weber for Schramm Film Koerner & Weber. It received financial support from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the German Federal Film Board (FFA). The Match Factory holds international rights and has sold distribution rights to Benelux (A-Film), France (Diaphana), Italy (BIM) and Switzerland (Look Now!). Shooting is scheduled for this autumn.
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