Exclusive: Maipo Film is now readying the third film in the animated Louis & Nolan franchise, Louis & Nolan: Mission To The Moon.
The film is now in production for release in 2018. Rasmus A Sivertsen again directs from a screenplay by Karsten Fullu. Cornelia Boysen and Synnove Horsdal produce, and the co-producers are Qvisten Animation and The Kari and Kjell Aukrust Foundation. The plot will see the titular hedgehog and magpie try to save the moon from commercialization. Sola Media will again handle sales.
The second film in the puppet animation trilogy, Louis & Nolan: The Big Cheese Race, is competing in the Generation Kplus section here after already becoming a box-office hit at home in Norway.
Maipo is also planning an April shoot for another family film, live action The Ash Lad: In The Hall Of The Mountain King. Horsdal told Screen that the project is based on classic Norwegian mythology and is “an action adventure with humour in it.” The...
The film is now in production for release in 2018. Rasmus A Sivertsen again directs from a screenplay by Karsten Fullu. Cornelia Boysen and Synnove Horsdal produce, and the co-producers are Qvisten Animation and The Kari and Kjell Aukrust Foundation. The plot will see the titular hedgehog and magpie try to save the moon from commercialization. Sola Media will again handle sales.
The second film in the puppet animation trilogy, Louis & Nolan: The Big Cheese Race, is competing in the Generation Kplus section here after already becoming a box-office hit at home in Norway.
Maipo is also planning an April shoot for another family film, live action The Ash Lad: In The Hall Of The Mountain King. Horsdal told Screen that the project is based on classic Norwegian mythology and is “an action adventure with humour in it.” The...
- 2/16/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
If you've not heard of magpie and hedgehog duo Solan and Ludvig before now then you're almost certainly not Norwegian. Based on the hugely popular works of Kjell Aukrust, the duo first appeared on Norwegian screens in 1975 in Pinchcliffe Grand Prix - a film that proved so popular and enduring that it appeared on a big screen somewhere in Norway every single day for over 28 years, eventually selling more tickets than the entire population of the Nordic nation before the streak was broken.The duo returned to the big screen back in late 2013 with Solan And Ludvig: Christmas In Pinchcliffe - a stop motion animated effort from director Rasmus Sivertsen that posted the second best Norwegian opening of the past decade. So, yes,...
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- 6/29/2015
- Screen Anarchy
A stop motion hedgehog and magpie own the box office in Norway this week, where Rasmus Sivertsen's Solan And Ludvig: Christmas In Pinchcliffe has posted Norway's second best opening weekend in a decade. How strong was it? If you include paid previews, Solan And Ludvig sold one hundred and seventy four thousand tickets. Compare that to Iron Man 3, which had been the year's top opener until now with just under ninety nine thousand. Sivertsen did have a slight leg up, however, in that his film is a return to the big screen of a pair of enormously popular characters based on the works of Kjell Aukrust - characters so popular that previous 1975 big screen adaptation Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was shown on the big...
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- 11/12/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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