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EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Flute Film will operate as Flimmer going forwards, after Christopher Zwickler reacquired rights to the Flimmer brand. Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner, who co-founded Flimmer with Zwickler, have joined its advisory board.
Zwickler, who is Managing Director and producer at Berlin-based Flimmer, bought the rights back from France’s Webedia for an undisclosed fee. He had originally launched Flimmer as a marketing agency and film trailer maker with director Emmerich and Kreuzpaintner.
Flimmer will now unite film and TV production with the marketing and audience engagement operation under one roof. Independence Day director Emmerich and Kreuzpaintner, who recently co-directed Emmerich’s Sky and Peacock Roman Empire drama epic Those About to Die, are rejoining the fray.
Furthermore, Zwickler has hired as filmmaker Solmaz Sohrabi, who spent the past eight years collaborating with Gabriela Sperl, as a producer in the TV and film division. Charlotte Marie-Claire Kretschmer, who had worked as Flimmer when it was a start-up, will oversee the marketing unit, focused on in-house and external projects.
“Since my first feature film, Down The Escalator, I have viewed filmmaking as something holistic that includes marketing as well as production,” said Zwickler. “I am particularly happy that Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner will continue to accompany me on this journey.”
Flimmer/Flute is best know as the producer of 2022 musical fantasy film The Magic Flute, based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera of the same name.
On the Flimmer slate is an upcoming Netflix film based on German NGO Jugend Rettet and its ship, the Iuventa, which rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 before being impounded by Italian authorities. Louis Hofmann is leading the cast, with Markus Goller the director. It’s currently in post-production.
The film adaptation of Édouard Louis’ novel ‘History of Violence’ is also scheduled to release late summer.
