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Embracing Pulpy Genre, Germany’s Hnywood Aims for the Stars (EXCLUSIVE)
Hnywood, an ambitious new production company, is eager to bring back classic genre movies, from erotic thrillers to swashbuckling space adventures.
Launched in 2020 by Andreas Kröneck and Antonio Fernandes Lopes in the southwestern Baden-Württemberg city of Heilbronn, Hnywood is aiming high with plans to recapture the cinematic magic of yesteryear, including Edgar Wallace masked-killer mysteries and sexy swashbuckling space operas. “Steal Her Breath” stars Luisa Binger as the elusive thief, Christina Lopes (“Faustdick”) as the policewoman on her tail, and Katy Karrenbauer (“Cloud Atlas,” “Eldorado KaDeWe”) as the “queenpin” Bernie. Kröneck is also eager to use the area’s impressive local VFX talent for a classic “old-fashioned, unconstrained and sexy” sci-fi adventure that takes a page from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter pulp novels, replete with scantily clad heroes.
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