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CANNES ? Dutch kids film producers Lemming Film and new German financing group Film House have set up a new joint venture, Hamster Film, to produce children?s films in Germany.
Lemming toppers Leontine Petit?and Joost de Vries?will run Hamster together with?Dorothe Beinemeier, formerly a producer at Berlin-based Egoli Tossell.
The first titles out of Hamster?s cage include Boy 7, a boys? adventure thriller, which Mario Giordano?(The Experiment) and Andreas Schluter?(Level4) are adapting for the screen and The Heirs of the Night ? Nosferas, the first in a planned series of fantasy features based on the novels by Ulrike Schweikert. Heirs of?the Night?is being planned as an English-language franchise together with?Philipp Kreuzer?of co-producer Bavaria and is currently in development.
Hamster will be the third production group in Film House?s growing stable. The Frankfurt-based financier acquired a majority stake in Carlos?producers Egoli Tossell earlier this year and has a minority stake in Munich firm Summer Storm Entertainment, headed by director Markus Kreuzpainter.
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