LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS - major dramatic motion-picture drama blockbuster portraying the lives of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin taking place at Europe’s top destinations featuring world’s greatest musicians and international cast filmed London, Rome, Berlin and Paris.
Introduction
Liszt & Chopin In Paris is the best classical music, historical film since "Amadeus" and “The Sound of Music”. In the days when orchestras are "folding" due to the lack of funds and when classical music is taught less and less in schools because people are less exposed to this genre of music here comes a movie that will all of change all that with amazing voyage into the classics from Paris to London to Russia. Liszt & Chopin In Paris will feature some of the best performances ever to be presented on big movie screen with participation of major Hollywood talent, breathtaking costumes, set design and high-end drama about the Romantic Age filmed at Europe’s top destinations.
Liszt & Chopin In Paris is targeted for a built-in audience of hundreds of millions of classical fans worldwide who have been waiting for this type of film all their lives. The film is a period epic drama with pround and commercial impact about the power of music in 19th Century Europe as seen through the eyes of two greatest piano icons Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin. The film is told in the context of Lisztomania – precursor to Jacksonmania, Presleymania and Beatlemania following in 20th Century.
Liszt & Chopin In Paris film has one of the best production teams in the world both in terms of scale, competency and credentials and is currently being set up with state-of-the-art, complete turnkey production facilities both in terms of co-production and distribution at Europe’s largest film studios tha includes international cast, soloists, design artists and the best music virtuosos in the world. It is the first major blockbuster movie of this about the lives Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt taking place in the authentic 19th century Romantic Age featuring superstar performers who were responsible for creating the modern era of classical piano we know today soon to be enjoyed by millions around the world.
Production Team/Crew
JOHN MARK FILM - Company Staff/Personnel
John Mark Ewa Kochanska Luigi Marchione
Dianna Liner James Siler Todd HicksStan Zielinski Daniel Szpilman Bettina Sadoux
Producer/Director Production Coordinator/Scenic Designer Production Designer
Executive Producer Co-Producer Co-Producer Music Coordinator Production Assistant Agent (Paris, France)
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Odette Hasenfratz Still Photographer [email protected] Giuseppe Rossi Co-Production Italy [email protected] Eugene Zykov Co-Production Russia [email protected] Livia Pascucci Costumes [email protected] David Nichols Line Producer [email protected] John Bernard Producer 2nd Unit [email protected] Pinar Toprak Composer [email protected]
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David Nichols, Producer
David Nichols is the co-producer of $100 million plus feature drama EVEREST starring Josh Broling, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhall with Baltasar Kormákur by Universal Studios, as well many high-end, large scale productions such as The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt, The Last Emperor with Bernardo Bertolucci, To Rome With Love with Woody Allen and many other features.
David Nichols is one of the most successful producers in the past two decades and his company Cineroma he runs with his partner Francesco Marras has a long long track record of producing highly successful marquee films and is one of the most respected production companies.
John Bernard, Producer
Jake Productions founded in 2004, by vastly experienced British Producer John Bernard based out in Monte Carlo and Paris works closely with David Nichols and his company producing many US blockbusters in Europe such as Hunger Games, Star Wars (presently) Inception, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Hunger Games Part I and II, Devil Wears Prada, The Bourne Ultimatum and many others.
The company’s raison d’être is to provide a vastly modernized and more competitive approach to US based productions in Europe.
Formed in 2004, Jake Productions already boasts a formidable list of credits which includes Munich, Devil Wears Prada, Iron Man 2, Entourage, Inception, Dom Hemingway, Edge of Tomorrow, Inglorious Basterds and Martin Scorsese's Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street, as well as numerous TV commercials for companies in US and UK.
Sonja Zimmer, Producer
Sonja Zimmer has done over 50 feature films ranging from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, Wes Anderson’s The Budapest Hotel to just completed latest Spielberg’s feature Bridge of Spies. Other films include The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 2) , Unfinished Busines, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1) Beauty and the Beast, The Book Thief, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Apparition, Anonymous, Roman Polanski’s Ghost, Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie, The Reader and also most recently The Monuments Men, The Reader, Point Break and The Lake.
John Mark, Producer/Director
John Mark is the producer and director of Liszt & Chopin In Paris feature based on the lives of two iconic piano virtuosos Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt in 19th Century Paris.
John Mark has completed film directing and cinematography education in Paris and Rome, namely at IDHEC (Paris) and at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Rome).
IDHEC since 1988 is known as École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son. John Mark has received and keeps receiving numerous letters of acknowledgement and recognition for his contributions to classical music and for Liszt & Chopin In Paris film. His primary genres are historical and contemporary drama and science-fiction.
John Mark is the creator and director of Liszt & Chopin In Paris feature film based on the lives of two iconic piano virtuosos Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt in 19th Century Paris. As filmmaker John Mark has trained with many prominent filmmakers among them Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Costa Gavras, Arnaud Desplechin, Pascale Ferran and others. Besides being a filmmaker John Mark is also accomplished musician and classical music expert who who began playing piano at the age of 5 and has studied music composition with Prof. Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatory.
Prof. Boulanger's students were Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Philip Glass, Ástor Piazzolla and Marta Ptaszynska, also John Mark’s teacher who is currently head of Music Department at University of Chicago.
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Dianna Liner, Co-Producer, Co-Executive Producer Dianna Liner’s company Liner Entertainment Group, LLC is a talent management and executive film production firm located in Atlanta Ga, and Houston Texas focused on managing careers of recording artists, actors and producers as well as talent casting, public relations, celebrity liaison, and film finance. The company executive produces major indie films.
Liner Films has a successful production and music production company working with many top level clients in the music industry in US and Dianna Line is the Co-Executive Producer with SNA Films in Liszt & Chopin In Paris as co-producing partners.
http://www.linerfilms.com/home.html
Luigi Marchione, Production Design Luigi Marchione recent production is Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, and most recently The Huntsman starring Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain to be released in 2016.
Based in Rome he works almost exclusively at Pinewood/London and at present he is also working on large scale theater production with Paolo Sorrentino.
Luigi Marchione’s theatrical design work with Franco Zeffirelli places him as one of the top art directors and production designers.
http://www.luigimarchione.com/p/concept-art.html
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1.0 Scene drawing by Luigi Marchione for Liszt & Chopin In Paris
2.0 Scene drawing by Luigi Marchione for Liszt & Chopin In Paris
Ewa Kochanska, Concept Illustrator, Scenic Designer Ewa Kochanska has a PhD in graphic design and fine arts and is one of the most sought after graphic artist and teacher in large-scale theatrical and historic productions and feature film design.
1.0 Character drawing by Dr. Ewa Kochanska
Liszt & Chopin In Paris.
1.0 Scene drawing by Dr. Ewa Kochanska
2.0 Scene drawing by Dr. Ewa Kochanska
Liszt & Chopin In Paris.
Livia Pascucci, Costumes Livia Pascucci-Righi, based in both London and Rome has worked with Anthony Minghella (Play, Comic Relief, English Patient), Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast, James Bond production Tomorrow Never Dies, and in numerous theatrical and fashion productions in both Italy and UK. Excellent communicator with a degree from London School of Fashion she is a sought after costume designer and fashion consultant.
Pinar Toprak, Composer Pinar Toprak is credited with more than 70 productions as film composer, producer and executive producer. She is currently finishing Geostorm, an action adventure Sc-Fi blockbuster produced and directed by Dean Devlin (Stargate, Independence Day, Universal Soldier,) produced by Dean Devlin and David Ellison to be released by Warner Bros. in 2016.
Among Pinar Toprak’s films are: Behind The Enemy Lines, The River Murdesr, The Wind Gods, Last Will, Girls, Girls, Grils, How to Have A Happy Marriage, The Light Keepers, The Crimson Mask, Ocean of Pearls, In The Name of the Son and Geostorm, a 100 million+ Sci-Fi action adventure blockbuster starring Andy Garcia, Ed Harris produced by Warner Bros.
Krzysztof Penderecki, Special Music Advisor
Krzysztof Penderecki is considered the greatest living classical composer today who is famous for his “Threnody for Victims of Hiroshima” and hundreds of classical works, including the music score for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining plus many famous symphonies, choral works, violin concerto written for Anne Sophie-Mutter and many other famous works.
Maestro Penderecki is a special advisor to this production. He has also offered his multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art European Centre for Music built for him by European Union for Liszt & Chopin In Paris production to be used for cutting-edge recordings with world’s best piano virtuosos, vocal, violin, organ music performers including various, promotional shoots and documentary coverage.
Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music (Cracow) Recording of the Passion.
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Bettina Sadoux, Agent (Paris)
Bettina Sadoux’s agency BS Artist Management based in Paris participates in representation of various talents, artists and productions in Europe and worldwide.
In France for 25-years Ms. Sadoux worked with Jessye Norman, Margaret Price, Alexis Weissenberg, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Christoph Eschenbach as independent producer in France and Germany in charge of many soloists and ensembles such as the Orchestra Pops Hamburg Philharmonics and others. She received musical and pianistic training at the Conservatory of Music in Lübeck (Germany) and her musicological training at the University of Hamburg.
Contact Info:
Liszt & Chopin In Paris has one of the best production teams in the world in terms of scale, competency and credentials. Below you will find direct contact information to some of the individuals comprising the crew and staff. There are many more, we cannot list them all however, complete listing is continuously updated at our 24x7 production database at https://pmp.productionminds.com
Production Team/Crew
JOHN MARK FILM - Company Staff/Personnel
John Mark Ewa Kochanska Luigi Marchione Dianna Liner James Siler Todd Hicks Stan Zielinski Daniel Szpilman Bettina Sadoux Odette Hasenfratz Giuseppe Rossi Eugene Zykov Livia Pascucci David Nichols John Bernard Pinar Toprak Regina Schrecker
Producer/Director Production Coordinator/Scenic Designer Production Designer Co-Producer/Executive Producer Co-ProducerCo-ProducerMusic Coordinator Production Assistant Agent (Paris, France) Still Photographer Co-Production Italy Co-Production Russia Costumes Line Producer Producer 2nd Unit Composer Costumes
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Production and Studio locations:
Production/Filming will be at Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and Pinewood Studios in London after ten (10) month pre-production period. There will also be work done in Italy (Cinecitta’) during pre-production, design and preparation stage as well as during filming in Rome and Milan. Production services and studio locations for Liszt & Chopin In Paris will be primarily UK, France, Italy, Germany and Russia.
Studio Babelsberg – Berlin:
Dr. Carl L. Woebcken (Studio Babelsberg) Producer Christoph L. Fisser, Production Executive
Babelsberg Studios – Europe’s oldest motion picture studio.
Carl L. Woebcken – Studio Babelsberg. Dr. Carl Weobcken is the President/CEO of Studio Babelsberg AG and the Managing Director of production services at Studio Babelsberg as well as Babelsberg Film. Together with his partner Christoph Fisser from they produced many features at Babelsberg over the past decade.
Studio Babelsberg – Berlin (Main Gate) Europe’s oldest and largest movie studio.
Studio Executives/Producers – Christoph Fisser and Dr. Carl L. Woebcken
The two production executives have combined 50-years experience in motion picture production as co-owners and in charge of Babelsberg Studio, the oldest full turnkey studio in Europe on outskirts of Berlin. The legendary studio is where Alfred Hitchock has worked as the apprentice, and where legendary filmmakers such as Fritz Lang have made their mark on cinema worldwide.
John Mark, Producer/Director Studio Babelsberg Berlin.
CINECITTTA’ (ROME) CINECITTA’ (ROME) S.p.A. one of three (3) production studios for Liszt & Chopin In Paris C i n e c i t t a ’ (Rome) is one of three oldest and largest legendary motion picture studios in Europe, home of Sophia Loren, Dino de Laurentiis, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini and a favorite studio of such acclaimed directors as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and many others.
CINECITTA’ (ROME) S.p.A. one of three (3) production studios for Liszt & Chopin In Paris C i n e c i t t a (Rome) is one of three oldest and largest legendary motion picture studios in Europe, home of Sophia Loren, Dino de Laurentiis, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini and a favorite studio of such acclaimed directors as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and many others.
JAKE PRODUCTIONS PINEWOOD BERLIN TELDEX PENDERECKI CENTRE FOR MUSIC
CINEROMA (Italy) owned by David Nichols, Producer known for many successful films such as Woody Allen’s film “To Rome With Love” “Seven Years In Tibet” with Brad Pitt, The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, and recent Universal Studio production EVEREST and many other successful films will co-produce Liszt & Chopin In Paris at Cinecitta’ (Rome) including Cineroma’s production team and the legendary craftsmen and filmmakers in Rome with David Nichols, Producer .
Cineroma started in 1998 by American producer David Nichols specifically for international production working in Europe making the process simple and straightforward.
Cineroma is a state-of-the-art production service company for film, television and commercials. Based in Rome and working throughout Italy Cineroma s.l.r. provides full production services, including budgeting, location scouting, casting and cast negotiation, and all other requirements through shooting and post production.
Production in visual and sound effects mixing and post-production at Pinewood Studios (London) Sony and Universal (Los Angeles) and/or at other locations that include Cinecitta’ (Umbria) and Jake Productions working on locations in France, Germany, Italy and Russia.
http://cineroma.com/
Other Production Personnel:
The personnel and production crew listed below is known for some of the greatest movies produced in last few decades.
Enzo Sisti
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The English Patient, The American, Mission Impossible III
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0803141/
Marco Valerio Pugini
(Letters to Juliet, Bright Star, Angels & Demons, Eat Pray Love)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0700081/
Guido Cerasuolo
(Casino Royal, Quantum Solace, Star Wars – The Phantom Menace)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0148..
Riccardo Neri
(Gangs of New York, The Bourne Supremacy, The Legend of 1900)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0626218/ Francesco Frigeri
(Passion of the Christ, The Entrepreneur, Twice Born)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0295698/
Stefano Maria Ortolani
(The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean’s Twelve, Exorcist – The Beginning)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0651338/ Maurizio Millenotti
(The Passion of Christ, Malena, Legend of 1900)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0587818/
Gabriella Pescucci
(Death In Venice, Beowulf, La Nuit de Varennes, City of Women)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0675951/
Nicoletta Ercole
(Under The Tuscan Sun, Letter to Juliet, The Unknown Woman)
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0258708/
JAKE PRODUCTIONS (France)
Jake Productions is the leading film production company in France. It was founded in 2004, by vastly experienced British Producer John Bernard.
Jake Productions has excellent list of credits which includes Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Devil Wears Prada, Iron Man 2, Entourage, Inception, Dom Hemingway, Edge of Tomorrow Inglorious Basterds (Babelsberg Studio) and Martin Scorsese's “Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street, as well as numerous TV commercials for UK companies such as Partizan, RSA and Mad Cow Films. The company works in close liaison with CINEROMA s.r.l. in Rome.
Production heads of the company are John Bernard and Xavier Wakefield who’s careers have spanned over 20 years, and who for many years have worked internationally in the ranks of Assistant Director and Location Manager culminating in an exceptional film production.
http://www.jakeprods.com/motion-pictures.php
Europe’s cutting-edge recording facilities Teldex/Berlin
Background of Liszt & Chopin In Paris:
Two previous and highly successful films in this genre with direct reference to Liszt & Chopin In Paris film are “Song To Remember ”with Cornell Wilde (c. 1945) about Chopin and “Song Without End” with Dirk Bogarde and Capucine (c. 1965) about Liszt. Both were released by Columbia and Sony Classics.
Budget:
The project is budgeted at $75 million usd with $45 million usd (below-the-line) and $30 million usd (above-the-line) with financing being completed now and major production groundwork put in place right now.
Production Information/Key Dates:
Pre-Production: (10) months Production/Filming: (4) months Post-Production: (10) months Production cycle: 24 months. Promotion & Global Market Awareness: (6-9) months
Worldwide Release: Christmas 2017
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