Fresh off last year’s bloody and disgusting horror movie Holy Shit! – now streaming on Screambox – director Lukas Rinker is back with the upcoming creature feature Paws.
Variety reports this week that “The Playmaker has signed with Neopol Film to handle international sales” on the project, but that’s not the most noteworthy aspect of their report.
The website teases that the upcoming Paws will feature “polar bear creature animatronics from the renowned studio behind Star Wars and Jurassic World“!
Check out early sales art below and read on for everything you need to know.
“The film tells the story of a climate researcher stranded in the Arctic who must forge an unlikely alliance with a polar bear in order to survive.”
Here’s the full plot synopsis: “A ship crashes in the Arctic, leaving climate researcher Tessa and her team stranded. Searching for help inside an abandoned tanker-wreckage, they...
Variety reports this week that “The Playmaker has signed with Neopol Film to handle international sales” on the project, but that’s not the most noteworthy aspect of their report.
The website teases that the upcoming Paws will feature “polar bear creature animatronics from the renowned studio behind Star Wars and Jurassic World“!
Check out early sales art below and read on for everything you need to know.
“The film tells the story of a climate researcher stranded in the Arctic who must forge an unlikely alliance with a polar bear in order to survive.”
Here’s the full plot synopsis: “A ship crashes in the Arctic, leaving climate researcher Tessa and her team stranded. Searching for help inside an abandoned tanker-wreckage, they...
- 5/8/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Writer/director Lukas Rinker made his feature debut with the comedic thriller Holy Shit! last year, and now he’s reteaming with his Holy Shit! collaborators Neopol Film and The Playmaker for the eco-horror movie Paws, about a killer polar bear! Variety reports that producers Tonio Kellner, Andrea Simml, and Jakob Zapf will be pitching Paws at Frontières, “a market and networking platform focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America”, next month. Loredana Rehekampff and Andreas Schmied are co-producing the project for Samsara Filmproduction.
Paws will tell the story of young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic. Reformed oil billionaire Fox is funding the crews’ efforts to fight climate change. Just when Nook learns that Fox’s interest is not so much in saving the planet but exploring and claiming fresh oil fields, their ship crashes. The crew search...
Paws will tell the story of young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic. Reformed oil billionaire Fox is funding the crews’ efforts to fight climate change. Just when Nook learns that Fox’s interest is not so much in saving the planet but exploring and claiming fresh oil fields, their ship crashes. The crew search...
- 4/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Fresh off this year’s bloody and disgusting horror movie Holy Shit! – now streaming on Screambox – director Lukas Rinker has set up a brand new horror movie titled Paws.
Variety reports, “Neopol Film, a production company based in Frankfurt, and Munich-based sales agency The Playmaker have teamed for a second time with writer and director Lukas Rinker, following their collaboration on his debut feature, black comedy Holy Shit!”
Rinker teases, “Being trapped on an ice-field with no help in sight, freezing temperatures and a looming hungry monster – seemed very horrifying to me. And from the bears’ perspective, having your habitat exploited and melted away, with nothing you can do against those greedy intruders, is horrific. Then there’s the climate angle. Horror all around!”
He also suggests the film’s bears will be animatronic rather than computer-generated!
“The film centers on young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic.
Variety reports, “Neopol Film, a production company based in Frankfurt, and Munich-based sales agency The Playmaker have teamed for a second time with writer and director Lukas Rinker, following their collaboration on his debut feature, black comedy Holy Shit!”
Rinker teases, “Being trapped on an ice-field with no help in sight, freezing temperatures and a looming hungry monster – seemed very horrifying to me. And from the bears’ perspective, having your habitat exploited and melted away, with nothing you can do against those greedy intruders, is horrific. Then there’s the climate angle. Horror all around!”
He also suggests the film’s bears will be animatronic rather than computer-generated!
“The film centers on young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic.
- 4/6/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neopol Film, a production company based in Frankfurt, and Munich-based sales agency The Playmaker have teamed for a second time with writer and director Lukas Rinker, following their collaboration on his debut feature, black comedy “Holy Shit!,” which was sold by The Playmaker to multiple territories last year.
Producers Tonio Kellner, Andrea Simml and Jakob Zapf will be pitching Rinker’s latest feature film project, eco-horror “Paws,” at Frontières, a market and networking platform focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America. Frontières is organized by the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, in partnership with the Cannes Film Market, and takes place on May 20 and 21 in Cannes.
Loredana Rehekampff and Andreas Schmied will co-produce the project for Austria’s Samsara Filmproduction.
The film centers on young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic. Reformed oil billionaire Fox is funding the crews’ efforts to fight climate change.
Producers Tonio Kellner, Andrea Simml and Jakob Zapf will be pitching Rinker’s latest feature film project, eco-horror “Paws,” at Frontières, a market and networking platform focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America. Frontières is organized by the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, in partnership with the Cannes Film Market, and takes place on May 20 and 21 in Cannes.
Loredana Rehekampff and Andreas Schmied will co-produce the project for Austria’s Samsara Filmproduction.
The film centers on young scientist Nook, who’s on board a research ship in the Arctic. Reformed oil billionaire Fox is funding the crews’ efforts to fight climate change.
- 4/5/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
In telling the story of champion alpine ski racer Franz Klammer, one of Austria’s most revered and beloved sports heroes, director Andreas Schmied forewent the usual biopic tropes, focusing instead on a few fateful days that culminated in his victory at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck. It was that focus that ultimately convinced Klammer to give the film, “Chasing the Line,” a thumbs up. The movie world premieres at the Zurich Film Festival, which opens Thursday.
Other attempts had been made at telling Klammer’s story on film over the years, but none had succeeded. When producer Jakob Pochlatko of Vienna-based Epo-Film approached Schmied with the project, the director embraced the opportunity.
“I grew up with Franz Klammer – everybody in Austria did,” Schmied says, stressing Klammer’s enduring popularity in the country. “I knew what a big deal Franz is.”
Schmied and his wife and writing partner Elisabeth Schmied met...
Other attempts had been made at telling Klammer’s story on film over the years, but none had succeeded. When producer Jakob Pochlatko of Vienna-based Epo-Film approached Schmied with the project, the director embraced the opportunity.
“I grew up with Franz Klammer – everybody in Austria did,” Schmied says, stressing Klammer’s enduring popularity in the country. “I knew what a big deal Franz is.”
Schmied and his wife and writing partner Elisabeth Schmied met...
- 9/22/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Playmaker Munich has released the first teaser for upcoming sci-fi movie “Rubikon,” which is one of seven international genre projects selected for this year’s Frontières Buyers Showcase, which is running during the Cannes Film Festival.
“Rubikon,” directed by Magdalena Lauritsch and written by Jessica Lind and Lauritsch, is in post-production. Johannes Mücke, a longtime collaborator of Roland Emmerich, is responsible for the production design.
In the film, following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a mysterious toxic fog. The crew of the space station known as Rubikon – Hannah (Julia Franz Richter), Gavin (George Blagden) and Dimitri (Mark Ivanir) – must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the sophisticated station’s “algae symbiosis system,” which makes them fully self-sufficient.
The Playmaker Munich described “Rubikon” as “a highly entertaining science-fiction feature and at the same time a...
“Rubikon,” directed by Magdalena Lauritsch and written by Jessica Lind and Lauritsch, is in post-production. Johannes Mücke, a longtime collaborator of Roland Emmerich, is responsible for the production design.
In the film, following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a mysterious toxic fog. The crew of the space station known as Rubikon – Hannah (Julia Franz Richter), Gavin (George Blagden) and Dimitri (Mark Ivanir) – must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the sophisticated station’s “algae symbiosis system,” which makes them fully self-sufficient.
The Playmaker Munich described “Rubikon” as “a highly entertaining science-fiction feature and at the same time a...
- 7/12/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Frontières Platform, the genre-focused event run by Fantasia and Cannes’ Marche du Film, returns to the French fest for another edition this year, with 13 projects selected to take part in the showcase, running July 10-11. Scroll down for the full list.
The event is technically taking place physically, as per Cannes’ commitment to staging an in-person industry event in July, but Frontières has informed participants that it does not encourage them to travel during a pandemic and that all pitches will be screened online. If participants do wish to travel to Cannes, however, the event will allow them to do so, and a representative of Frontières will be in attendance, restrictions allowing.
Activities will include the Proof of Concept presentations for projects in the advanced stages of financing, and the Buyers Showcase for films that are in post-production or have recently been completed. Footage will be screened from seven projects,...
The event is technically taking place physically, as per Cannes’ commitment to staging an in-person industry event in July, but Frontières has informed participants that it does not encourage them to travel during a pandemic and that all pitches will be screened online. If participants do wish to travel to Cannes, however, the event will allow them to do so, and a representative of Frontières will be in attendance, restrictions allowing.
Activities will include the Proof of Concept presentations for projects in the advanced stages of financing, and the Buyers Showcase for films that are in post-production or have recently been completed. Footage will be screened from seven projects,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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