Exclusive: Andreas Prochaska has signed on to direct the climbing film White Out for Chockstone Pictures.
The action-adventure pic is based on a story from climbing legend Reinhold Messner. It follows a young man who’s grown up in the shadow of a famous father, known as the world’s greatest mountaineer. In the end, it will take a perilous climb on a sacred Himalayan peak for the pair to finally face each other.
Olivia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring), Sascha Arango (The Silent Guest) and Don Bohlinger (Elles) wrote the script for White Out. Chockstone partners Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce, alongside Boris Schönfelder of Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion. Reinhold Messner and Andreas Prochaska will exec produce; Simon Messner and Roger Schwartz are also on board as co-producers.
“White Out has every element for an immersive cinematic experience: Epic scale and personal drama,...
The action-adventure pic is based on a story from climbing legend Reinhold Messner. It follows a young man who’s grown up in the shadow of a famous father, known as the world’s greatest mountaineer. In the end, it will take a perilous climb on a sacred Himalayan peak for the pair to finally face each other.
Olivia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring), Sascha Arango (The Silent Guest) and Don Bohlinger (Elles) wrote the script for White Out. Chockstone partners Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce, alongside Boris Schönfelder of Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion. Reinhold Messner and Andreas Prochaska will exec produce; Simon Messner and Roger Schwartz are also on board as co-producers.
“White Out has every element for an immersive cinematic experience: Epic scale and personal drama,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Production underway in Africa on drama from Searching For Sugar Man executive.
Production is underway on commercials director Juergen Bollmeyer’s debut feature 3 Way Junction, starring Tom Sturridge (The Hollow Crown, Far From The Madding Crowd), Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons Of Anarchy).
The five-week shoot will include South Africa and Namibia.
Bollmeyer, who has directed adverts for Toyota, BMW and Coca-Cola, won a Cannes Silver Lion in 2014.
Inspired by real events, 3 Way Junction follows a London architect who travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. But when he finds himself stranded alone, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes, he must embark on a bitter rite of passage.
Writers are Don Bohlinger (The Experiment, Elles) and arts and travel writer Jessica Hundley.
Maggie Monteith (Searching For Sugar Man) produces for Dignity Films alongside Michael Auret for Spier Films (The Salvation) and Oliver Stoltz. Chris Reed, Thembisa Cochrane...
Production is underway on commercials director Juergen Bollmeyer’s debut feature 3 Way Junction, starring Tom Sturridge (The Hollow Crown, Far From The Madding Crowd), Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons Of Anarchy).
The five-week shoot will include South Africa and Namibia.
Bollmeyer, who has directed adverts for Toyota, BMW and Coca-Cola, won a Cannes Silver Lion in 2014.
Inspired by real events, 3 Way Junction follows a London architect who travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. But when he finds himself stranded alone, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes, he must embark on a bitter rite of passage.
Writers are Don Bohlinger (The Experiment, Elles) and arts and travel writer Jessica Hundley.
Maggie Monteith (Searching For Sugar Man) produces for Dignity Films alongside Michael Auret for Spier Films (The Salvation) and Oliver Stoltz. Chris Reed, Thembisa Cochrane...
- 5/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Directed by: Paul Scheuring
Written by: Paul Scheuring, Mario Giordano, Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt, Don Bohlinger, Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., Ethan Cohn, Fisher Stevens, Travis Fimmel, David Banner, Jason Lew, Damien Leake, Maggie Grace, Rod Maiorano
The Experiment, written and directed by Paul Scheuring, is the American remake of the 2001 German thriller/horror film Das Experiment. Oliver Hirschbeigal was behind the lens for the original with Mario Giordano having written both the screenplay and the novel it was based on, The Black Box. These works are based on true events that transpired during the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 at Stanford University under the charge of Psychology Professor Dr. Philip Zombardo, Ph.D. The goal of The Experiment was to study the psychological effects of becoming either a guard or a prisoner in prison.
The film opens with an all too familiar...
Written by: Paul Scheuring, Mario Giordano, Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstädt, Don Bohlinger, Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., Ethan Cohn, Fisher Stevens, Travis Fimmel, David Banner, Jason Lew, Damien Leake, Maggie Grace, Rod Maiorano
The Experiment, written and directed by Paul Scheuring, is the American remake of the 2001 German thriller/horror film Das Experiment. Oliver Hirschbeigal was behind the lens for the original with Mario Giordano having written both the screenplay and the novel it was based on, The Black Box. These works are based on true events that transpired during the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 at Stanford University under the charge of Psychology Professor Dr. Philip Zombardo, Ph.D. The goal of The Experiment was to study the psychological effects of becoming either a guard or a prisoner in prison.
The film opens with an all too familiar...
- 9/16/2010
- by Robert A. Newberry
- Planet Fury
The early favorite to win the grand prize at the 25th Montreal World Film Festival and a controversial boxoffice hit in Europe since it opened in March, "The Experiment" is a riveting but far from perfect directorial debut from German television director Oliver Hirschbiegel. With another excellent performance by rising star Moritz Bleibtreu ("Run Lola Run", "In July") and a strong appeal to young-adult audiences, it has at least a fighting chance to lock up a domestic distribution deal.
Evoking such recent violent flicks as "Fight Club" and "Battle Royale", as well as reality TV shows like "Big Brother", the scenario is based on co-screenwriter Mario Giordano's novel "Black Box", inspired by a real Stanford University test simulating the conditions of a prison in order to psychologically probe the roles adopted by guards and prisoners.
While the filmmaking is steely and the performances by the ensemble cast believable enough given the escalating nastiness, the story hinges on several unbelievable acts of negligence by the experimenters. Consequently, one leaves the theater with little to ponder except the obvious: Going to prison can be like going to hell, and voluntarily doing so -- even under controlled circumstances -- is a heck of a way to earn a buck.
But that's what lures most of the participants in Cologne, who answer newspaper ads and undergo tests and seemingly minimal training for the two-week experiment. Tarek (Bleibtreu) is a taxi driver who walked away from a reporter's gig. For him, the opportunity is a good story in the making, and his former boss agrees. Equipped with glasses that contain a tiny camera, Tarek takes the plunge with his own agenda and becomes one of the "prisoners."
One of his cellmates (Christian Berkel) also is there not by accident, but these two good guys are almost done in by the guards, who become far too serious in their approach to a power struggle that ensues. Tarek, in jerk mode, inflames the situation by humiliating the wrong sadist, Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), but the academics in charge are guilty of changing the rules that allow anyone to leave at any time they request.
With the prisoners sinking into depressed and caged-animal states of mind, the guards become intoxicated, break rules and vindictively start asserting their authority. At first, they find nonviolent ways (per the rules) to discipline rabble-rousers like Tarek and a prisoner who refuses to drink milk for medical reasons. But one thing leads to another, and Berus makes several absurd leaps of logic to cause the "experiment" to spin murderously out of control.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers find no way to reach the bloody final act except by sending away the responsible project monitors (Edgar Selge, Andrea Sawatzki) at the exact wrong moment. Likewise, one of the crucial players is a woman (Maren Eggert) whom Tarek met when she crashed her car into his taxi early in the film. Their instant love affair is recounted in flashbacks, and she is inserted awkwardly into the mock prison at two points, including the vicious climax.
There are some deliciously ironic touches -- like the use of The Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" in decided counterpoint to what appears onscreen -- and one feels much sympathy for the oppressed among the prisoners. But only in Germany, perhaps, would it be possible for a tough case like Berus to inspire instant barbarism on the part of the other guards. In that way, the film plays into cultural stereotypes and further distances the audience from whatever universal truths it is trying to mirror.
THE EXPERIMENT
Senator Entertainment
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriters: Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstadt
Based on the novel by: Mario Giordano
Producers: Norbert Preuss, Marc Conrad, Fritz Wildfeuer
Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann
Production designers: Uli Hanisch, Andrea Kessler
Editor: Hans Funck
Costume designer: Claudia Bobsin
Music: Alexander Van Bubenheim
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tarek Fahd: Moritz Bleibtreu
Berus: Justus von Dohnanyi
Steinhoff: Christian Berkel
Dora: Maren Eggert
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Evoking such recent violent flicks as "Fight Club" and "Battle Royale", as well as reality TV shows like "Big Brother", the scenario is based on co-screenwriter Mario Giordano's novel "Black Box", inspired by a real Stanford University test simulating the conditions of a prison in order to psychologically probe the roles adopted by guards and prisoners.
While the filmmaking is steely and the performances by the ensemble cast believable enough given the escalating nastiness, the story hinges on several unbelievable acts of negligence by the experimenters. Consequently, one leaves the theater with little to ponder except the obvious: Going to prison can be like going to hell, and voluntarily doing so -- even under controlled circumstances -- is a heck of a way to earn a buck.
But that's what lures most of the participants in Cologne, who answer newspaper ads and undergo tests and seemingly minimal training for the two-week experiment. Tarek (Bleibtreu) is a taxi driver who walked away from a reporter's gig. For him, the opportunity is a good story in the making, and his former boss agrees. Equipped with glasses that contain a tiny camera, Tarek takes the plunge with his own agenda and becomes one of the "prisoners."
One of his cellmates (Christian Berkel) also is there not by accident, but these two good guys are almost done in by the guards, who become far too serious in their approach to a power struggle that ensues. Tarek, in jerk mode, inflames the situation by humiliating the wrong sadist, Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), but the academics in charge are guilty of changing the rules that allow anyone to leave at any time they request.
With the prisoners sinking into depressed and caged-animal states of mind, the guards become intoxicated, break rules and vindictively start asserting their authority. At first, they find nonviolent ways (per the rules) to discipline rabble-rousers like Tarek and a prisoner who refuses to drink milk for medical reasons. But one thing leads to another, and Berus makes several absurd leaps of logic to cause the "experiment" to spin murderously out of control.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers find no way to reach the bloody final act except by sending away the responsible project monitors (Edgar Selge, Andrea Sawatzki) at the exact wrong moment. Likewise, one of the crucial players is a woman (Maren Eggert) whom Tarek met when she crashed her car into his taxi early in the film. Their instant love affair is recounted in flashbacks, and she is inserted awkwardly into the mock prison at two points, including the vicious climax.
There are some deliciously ironic touches -- like the use of The Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" in decided counterpoint to what appears onscreen -- and one feels much sympathy for the oppressed among the prisoners. But only in Germany, perhaps, would it be possible for a tough case like Berus to inspire instant barbarism on the part of the other guards. In that way, the film plays into cultural stereotypes and further distances the audience from whatever universal truths it is trying to mirror.
THE EXPERIMENT
Senator Entertainment
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriters: Mario Giordano, Don Bohlinger, Christoph Darnstadt
Based on the novel by: Mario Giordano
Producers: Norbert Preuss, Marc Conrad, Fritz Wildfeuer
Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann
Production designers: Uli Hanisch, Andrea Kessler
Editor: Hans Funck
Costume designer: Claudia Bobsin
Music: Alexander Van Bubenheim
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tarek Fahd: Moritz Bleibtreu
Berus: Justus von Dohnanyi
Steinhoff: Christian Berkel
Dora: Maren Eggert
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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