Production of the first part of the “Strangers” trilogy, directed by Renee Harlin and produced by Lionsgate, has begun in Slovakia. Frame film Rastislav Kuril serves production in the country. Producers recorded a 33% cash discount on the Slovak Audiovisual Fund in June, New Europe movie reports.
Filming for the first part of the trilogy began in August at locations in and around Bratislava.
The trilogy is a remake of the 2008 film The Strangers, written and directed by Brian Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. Together with the 2018 sequel “Strangers: Prey at Night”, it became a horror classic.
Starring Madelaine Petsch, Fury Gutierrez, and Gabriel Basso, the film will follow Beach’s character as she drives through the countryside with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they are forced to spend the night in a secluded location, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.
‘Cross in the Desert’ tops Serbian charts
Hadži-Aleksandar Đurovi’s sophomore film “A Cross in the Desert,” released by Art Vista to 62 print on September 8, had 10,812 admissions in its opening weekend. The first co-production between Serbia and Jordan surpassed “Minions: The Rise of Gru”, “DC League of Superpets”, “Bullet Train” and “After Ever Happy”.
“A Cross in the Desert” earned €42,228 ($42,038), a good result for cinema distribution in early September.
The text “Cross in the Desert,” penned by Liliana Habyanovich Surovich and Hadzi Alexander Sorovich, follows the devout young woman Paraskeva’s journey from an ordinary girl to a beloved and respected saint in Orthodox Christianity. The director guides us through 40 years of experiences, deep inner struggles, and faith that is omnipresent too.
Among the main cast are Milena Pridych, Milica Stefanovic, Filip Hajdukovic, Jadranka Celik, Branislav Tomashevich, Danigel Sijic, Andrei Shepetkovsky and Mladen Soveli.
“A Cross in the Desert” was produced by Haji Aleksandrija Sorovic and Liliana Habianovic Sorovic through Aleksandrija Film in Belgrade, and co-produced by Khaled Haddad through Jordan Pioneers. The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia, the Film Center of Serbia, the Secretariat for Culture of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and the Royal Film Center of Jordan.
The film was shot primarily in Jordan, but also in Serbia and Romania.
The most expensive film in Czech history wins first place in local cinemas
The English-language historical drama Medieval by screenwriter, director and producer Peter Jakl is currently the most attended film in Czech cinemas. The film, released by Bioscop in 244 cinemas on September 8, became the fourth largest premiere in the Czech Republic in 2022 with 104,916 admissions and €716,474 (US$713,221) during its first weekend.
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It took 11 years from the first draft of the script to produce the film produced by Cassian Elwes with JBJ Film and Double Tree Entertainment, with a total budget of approximately €20.4 million ($20.3 million). Conceived as a domestic and international film, the project about Bohemian military leader Jan Szczka stars famous foreign actors such as Michael Caine, Ben Frost, Til Schweiger, Sophie Lowe and Matthew Goode.
The theatrical release of “Medieval” in 1,311 US cinemas did not turn out as expected, with a total of only €807,761 ($804,094). The film became one of the biggest box office lagging films in US history, scoring 28th for the lowest opening weekend ever.
This article was published in partnership with the online news service New Europe moviecovering film and television industry news from across Central and Eastern Europe.
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