28/05/2013 - Michael Werner sets up international sales outfit with a new concept – no more than 5 film projects annually, primarily related to TV, with a commercial potential and a defined target audience

Three Nymphs – contemporary descendants from the Greek mythology, with a monthly and killing appetite for men at full moon – are the travel companions of Sweden’s Eyewell, a new international sales outfit making its market debut at Cannes, with Finnish Fisher King Production’s television series and upcoming feature spin-off on its initial line-up.

After the first season of the 12x44-minute fantasy drama concerning the deadly Didi, Kati and Nadia has been completed, UK-Swedish writer William Aldridge is now scripting a movie that will shoot next year on a €4.6-5 million budget. Next TV season is also in preparation. Nymphs comes with a ‘cook book’, allowing local television stations to add their own sets or product placements by CGI.

Managing director Michael Werner (photo) – former sales director at Sweden’s NonStop Sales, which Turner Broadcasting Systems (Time-Warner) closed earlier this year – set op Eyewell just prior to the festival with management consultant Stein Markussen, new to the film business, and IT manager Carl-Frederik Östlund, also with NonStop past.

“In the constantly changing media landscape, we have decided to work with only three-to-five projects annually, primarily related to TV, so producers know they have our full attention. The films must have an international commercial potential, a strictly defined target audience, and we will concentrate on selling the world’s 30 key territories,” Werner said.

Eyewell is also marketing Land of Giants, a 9-or-12x45-minute TV series and feature film from Germany actor-producer Mathis Landwehr (Lasko, Sascha Girndt) and producer-stunt coordinator Sascha Girndt’s Roundhousefilm. The Swedish sales company will co-produce the €8-10 million action sci-fi- fantasy adventure which is due to shoot next year.

Third project in the catalogue is Swedish director Fredrik Hiller’s Zone 261, a€2.3 million Kruthuset action drama which will film this autumn for delivery at next year’s Cannes. Hiller, whose suspense thriller Psalm 21 (2009) was an international bestseller for Werner, will now slam a submarine into the Swedish city of Landskrona, infecting people with a virus that turns them into monsters.