EXCLUSIVE: European gross sales, manufacturing and financing firm mk2 Films and worldwide fund supervisor IPR.VC have confirmed their first funding collaboration on Marie Kreutzer’s upcoming characteristic Gentle Monster, her follow-up to critically acclaimed historic drama Corsage.
It marks the primary joint operation underneath the companions’ multi-year slate financing deal, which was introduced last September.
“Our joint slate was impressed to assist daring, authored cinema with international resonance. Marie Kreutzer’s Mild Monster is the proper embodiment of that inspiration,” mentioned mk2 movies Managing Director Fionnuala Jamison.
Paris-based mk2 Movies may even handle worldwide gross sales on Mild Monster, in a transfer that continues the corporate’s collaboration with Austrian director Kreutzer following its profitable gross sales, pageant and awards marketing campaign for Corsage in 2022.
“We’re extremely excited to assist Mild Monster as the primary mission in our collaboration with mk2 movies,” mentioned Andrea Scarso, Companion at Helsinki and London-based IPR.VC.
“This partnership is constructed round a shared perception in championing distinctive storytelling, primarily from European voices, that may resonate with audiences world wide. It displays our ambition to work with inventive abilities who carry recent views and robust creative identities.”
Kreutzer’s Mild Monster, which is produced by Alexander Gehr and Johanna Scherz, will take the spectator on the unsettling journey of an internationally famend pianist who strikes her household from Munich to the countryside and uncovers life-shattering truths about her associate. Casting for the A-list feminine lead is at present underway.
Following on from this primary collaboration, mk2 Movies and IPR.VC say they’re “actively trying to assist extra audacious, globally distinctive voices, whether or not from European auteurs or worldwide and US-driven initiatives.”
Cannes common mk2 Movies might be out in drive on the pageant this yr. It’ll current six movies in Official Competitors: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, the follow-up to The Worst Particular person within the World; Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller The Secret Agent; Mascha Schilinski’s haunting debut Sound of Falling; Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister; and Carla Simón’s Romería.
Based in 2014, IPR.VC has helped finance greater than 50 productions to this point throughout North America, the UK, and Europe.
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with an workplace in London, it has raised greater than $200 million throughout three content material funds launched in 2015, 2019, and 2023, with backing from institutional traders, pension funds, household places of work, and non-profit organisations.
In early 2025, The European Funding Fund dedicated €25M ($28.4M) to the newest of those, consolidating IPR.VC’s place as the most important unbiased Movie and TV funding fund supervisor working in Europe.
Following preliminary success with Nordic scripted initiatives, together with Netflix collection Bordertown, IPR.VC has broadened its scope in recent times, forming long-term strategic alliances with U.S. and European manufacturing corporations, comparable to A24 (Civil Conflict, The Legend of Ochi, Materialists, Eddington, Mom Mary, Marty Supreme), XYZ Movies (Blackberry, Skywalkers: A Love Story, The Wasp), and European studios mk2 Movies and Gigglebug Leisure.
