Neon has taken U.S. rights to Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature Pleasure, which debuted to strong reviews at Sundance Film Festival this year. The distributor will release stateside in 2022.
The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
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The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
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- 10/7/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Thyberg “happy and relieved” to find US distributor that will release “raw and uncut” version of porn industry drama.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
- 10/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Neon has taken the U.S. rights to Pleasure, a drama set in the porn industry that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The debut feature from Ninja Thyberg is based on their 2013 short that premiered at Cannes. It follows Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), a newcomer in the Los Angeles porn industry, who believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs.
Pleasure, which was an official selection at this year’s Cannes, will also screen at AFI Fest, with Neon planning a release for 2022.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones produced the film with Markus Walta and ...
The debut feature from Ninja Thyberg is based on their 2013 short that premiered at Cannes. It follows Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), a newcomer in the Los Angeles porn industry, who believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs.
Pleasure, which was an official selection at this year’s Cannes, will also screen at AFI Fest, with Neon planning a release for 2022.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones produced the film with Markus Walta and ...
- 10/7/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Goteborg Film Festival has unveiled the first post-production grantees from its new film fund.
Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival has unveiled the first three features to benefit from a new film fund, created to support cultural expression in areas of the world threatened by economic or political instability.
At a presentation in Cannes, Goteborg Film Fund manager Camilla Larsson and Goteborg Film Festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg announced the titles that would receive post-production grants of $40,000 each. They include:
La Palisiada, directed by Ukraine’s Philip Sotnychenko and produced by Sashko Chubko, Valeria Sochyvets and Halyna Kryvorchuk, which explores a...
Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival has unveiled the first three features to benefit from a new film fund, created to support cultural expression in areas of the world threatened by economic or political instability.
At a presentation in Cannes, Goteborg Film Fund manager Camilla Larsson and Goteborg Film Festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg announced the titles that would receive post-production grants of $40,000 each. They include:
La Palisiada, directed by Ukraine’s Philip Sotnychenko and produced by Sashko Chubko, Valeria Sochyvets and Halyna Kryvorchuk, which explores a...
- 7/13/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Haugesund, Norway — Paris-based Versatile has announced a raft of pre-sales on Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature “Jessica,” set in the adult entertainment industry in L.A.
World distributors that have pre-bought the Swedish drama take in Weltkino for Germany/Austria, Xenix for Switzerland, MK2/Mile End for Canada, Kth for South Korea and Movie Could for Taïwan. Several other territories are being negotiated, said Versatile co-founder Pape Boye.
The latest feature offer from Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff’s Platfform Produktion is one of the most anticipated projects to be pitched at Haugesund’s Nordic Film Market, running Aug. 20-23, and among six contenders for the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award.
Pic is a feature-length version of Thyberg’s short film “Pleasure,” winner of the Canal Plus Critics’ Week Award in 2013 and Sundance foreign short film entry. Jessica is a 20-year-old girl who leaves her native Sweden for L.A. to...
World distributors that have pre-bought the Swedish drama take in Weltkino for Germany/Austria, Xenix for Switzerland, MK2/Mile End for Canada, Kth for South Korea and Movie Could for Taïwan. Several other territories are being negotiated, said Versatile co-founder Pape Boye.
The latest feature offer from Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff’s Platfform Produktion is one of the most anticipated projects to be pitched at Haugesund’s Nordic Film Market, running Aug. 20-23, and among six contenders for the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award.
Pic is a feature-length version of Thyberg’s short film “Pleasure,” winner of the Canal Plus Critics’ Week Award in 2013 and Sundance foreign short film entry. Jessica is a 20-year-old girl who leaves her native Sweden for L.A. to...
- 8/21/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
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