Sola Media Boards CGI Animation ‘Rufus – The Sea Serpent Who Couldn’t Swim’ – AFM
Exclusive: Sola Media has acquired international sales rights to $10M Norwegian-produced feature animation Rufus – The Sea Serpent Who Couldn’t Swim ahead of the AFM next week.
Revolving around a community of sea serpents living on a secret island in the middle of the ocean, the feature is based on the children’s book series by Tor Åge Bringsværd and illustrator Thore Hansen, which ran across nine books from 1972 to 2019, creating a cross-generational brand.
The film is produced by Cornelia Boysen at Oslo-based Maipo Film, whose credits include the Louis and Luca stop motion trilogy and WW2 family film The Crossing, with co-producer Peter Voelkle at Belgian company NeXtFrames.
It will be ready for delivery in Q3 2025, with Nordisk Film due to release the film in Norway in the fall of that year.
The studios behind the film are NeXtFrames (Mistfall) and Finland’s award-winning studio Anima Vitae, known for...
Revolving around a community of sea serpents living on a secret island in the middle of the ocean, the feature is based on the children’s book series by Tor Åge Bringsværd and illustrator Thore Hansen, which ran across nine books from 1972 to 2019, creating a cross-generational brand.
The film is produced by Cornelia Boysen at Oslo-based Maipo Film, whose credits include the Louis and Luca stop motion trilogy and WW2 family film The Crossing, with co-producer Peter Voelkle at Belgian company NeXtFrames.
It will be ready for delivery in Q3 2025, with Nordisk Film due to release the film in Norway in the fall of that year.
The studios behind the film are NeXtFrames (Mistfall) and Finland’s award-winning studio Anima Vitae, known for...
- 10/28/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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