Ringier TV enters the feature film business
Ringier TV, the television division of the Zurich-based publishing house, is establishing a fiction department under the label «Ringier Film.» The first project is already underway: Together with the production company Lichtspiele, Ringier Film is producing a romantic comedy set in the world of ice hockey.
Ringier TV, the television division of the Zurich-based publishing house, is setting up a fiction department under the label "Ringier Film". Together with partners, the new department aims to develop and produce "financially interesting and audience-appealing film projects". This was announced by Marc Görtz, Member of the Executive Board of Ringier Publishing Switzerland and Head of Electronic Media, on Monday in Locarno on the occasion of the 60th Film Festival. According to the communiqué, the first feature film project has already been tackled. Ringier Film has entered into a co-production with the film production company Lichtspiele in Küsnacht (ZH): The film "Champions" by Riccardo Signorell is to be a romantic relationship comedy set in the world of ice hockey. The film will be produced at the beginning of next year and will be released in cinemas in fall 2008.
