According to the site LeMatin.ch, the Swiss branch of Constantin Film is putting 3.4 million francs into Roxane’s 2008 film “Sennentuntschi” to take care of some of the film’s outstanding debts. I’m unsure exactly how good this news is for eventual release, but we’ll see!
Cinéma suisse: le film “Sennentuntschi” est sauvé
Le film suisse “Sennentuntschi” de Michael Steiner (”Mein Name ist Eugen”) est sauvé. La filiale suisse de la société allemande Constantin Film va injecter 3,4 millions de francs dans le projet fortement endetté.
Marty Says:
According to that article, it looks like that company is allowing the director to pay everybody off who worked on the movie right away – before it gets released to the theaters. That’s not good news for any of the cast or crew at all. That just basically means if the movie makes any kind of profit at the box office, the cast and crew will not get a penny from it (as they will be already paid). The money will go directly to the company that bailed this director out.
Hopefully this will not affect Roxane’s career. But I think that director better look for a new one.