‘Earth’s’ Sophisticated Movies Handles ‘Tale of the Sleeping Giants’
After the BBC’s “Deep Blue,” “Earth” and Terence Malick’s “Voyage of Time,” Berlin-based Sophisticated Films is partnering Finland’s MRP Matila Röhr Productions on their mythological normal record feature “Tale of the Sleeping Giants.” Complex Films’ controlling director Sophokles Tasioulis will provide as associate producer, in charge of marketing and revenue exterior Finland.
“Tale of the Sleeping Giant” is the third standalone mother nature movie created by MPR Matila Röhr Productions after “Tale of a Forest” (2013) and “Tale of a Lake” (2016), the major Finnish documentary ever with 188,000 ticket income.
Shot more than a few a long time in Lapland’s wilderness, from the Arctic Circle to the Arctic Ocean, Marko Röhr’s “Tale of the Sleeping Giants” is centered on screenwriter Antti Tuuri’s eyesight of fells as sleeping giants. “It’s pure drama, which is why we have received aid from the Finnish Film Foundation’s drama -not documentary-department,” pointed out Röhr.
The story tracks the oldest myths from human kind, the a few billion-12 months previous mountains or fells, and the exceptional species that live in the magical Arctic setting – wolverines, reindeers, foxes, weasels, bears, and humpback whales between other individuals.
Whilst the two 1st tales grabbed environment consideration through gross sales agent Degree K, which shut offers in more than 30 territories, Röhr experienced even bigger ambitions for “Tale of the Sleeping Giants.”
“Story-clever, it was usually intended for an global audience, a lot more than the to start with two films about Finnish lakes and forests,” commented Röhr. The helmer-producer hooked up with his very long-time mate Tasioulis, identified for his skills in creating theatrical functions out of wildlife and all-natural heritage documentaries, these as “Earth” which grossed about $130 million around the globe.
“We are so grateful to collaborate with Subtle Films. They are very creative with character motion pictures and boast a exceptional expertise in exploiting all windows and formats, from Imax, function movie and Television set to educational, employing their direct back links to international distributors,” said Röhr.
“Marko’s nature movies are of the maximum high-quality he has a legitimate cinema frame of mind and understands the visible necessities to fill the massive display screen,” Tasioulis claimed.
He added: “Beyond the movie alone, there is a substantial concealed treasure of uncooked material. As Marko has retained all legal rights for the movie, as perfectly as the former two tales, it provides us unlimited options to seize the biggest audience feasible, from traditional cinemagoers to environmentally-conscious more youthful generations, where ever they are.”
“Tale of the Sleeping Giants” is because of to open very first in Finland on March 12 by Nordisk Film Distribution.
MRP Matila Röhr Productions have been also associates to French Borsalino Productions and Gaumont Intercontinental on the Arctic-established documentary “Ailo’s Journey,” which bought to additional than 100,000 tickets in Italy and Poland and rated No. 7 among the nearby films at the Finnish box business office in 2019.