Slugger news

We are happy to share the news that Michael Ekblad’s new feature BEST BIRTHDAY EVER has been awarded the Audience Choice Award.

Our new animated feature BEST BIRTHDAY EVER is one of 15 films nominated in the competition category ”Best Children’s Film” at CINEKID International Children’s Film Festival in Amsterdam, 13-31 October.

Christian Ryltenius!

No more hush hush! We are proud to announce that we are working on Pelle "No tail"!

We won awards in three categories at the Golden Elephant Film Festival 2017!
Best Director and Special Jury Award for Bamse and the Witch’s Daughter
and 2nd Best Feature for Molly Monster.

Hoooray! 300 000 tickets sold for Bamse and the Witch’s Daughter!
..and more good news! Now it has been launched in Norway – alle snakker norsk!

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The colourful and exciting adventure hits cinemas on September 9!

This past weekend the new Molly Monster feature was awarded with the Golden Goblet Award for best animated feature at The Shanghai Internationa Film and TV Festival. Producer Dieter Reinhold was there to accept the award.

Based on the popular TV series Molly Monster, the film is a coproduction between Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. SluggerFilm contributes creatively by director Michael Ekblad. Swedish voices: Stina Rautelin, Johannes Brost, Björn Gedda, Claes Ljungmark, Özz Nöjjen...

From left to right on the picture on top; Christian Ryltenius - Director, David Menken – voice for Bamse, Louis Elman - Voice Director, Bob Saker – voice for Shellman and Martin T. Sherman – voice for Little Hop. Left to right on the picture below; Jon Nohrstedt –...

‘Bamse and the Witch’s daughter’ receive support from the Swedish Film board, and we are on our way for the 2nd Bamse Feature. To join our crew at Slugger is Adam Blomgren, Hedvig-Häggman-Sund, Alicja Björk and Jenn Chang. They will all work with Character Design and...

‘Molly Monster – The Movie’ is presented at the Cartoon-Movies in Lyon in the category ‘In Production’.
We are showing new material and even some footage in Colour.

All the Films nominated for the Guldbaggen award will be screened for free, this weekend February 20-22. ‘Bamse och Tjuvstaden’ will be screened on Saturday the 21st of February at the Swedish Filmhouse in Stockholm. Please follow this link for tickets and location;...

We are proud to announce that ‘Bamse and the City of Thieves’ is nominated for the prestigious Swedish film Award ‘Guldbaggen’ for one out of three most popular Films in Swedish Cinemas, in terms of tickets sold, during 2014....

The Sand Wolf receives support from Creative Media as a feature in Development. Script writer Ulf Stark will be signed on for a 2nd draft and we will continue our development on the Character and Set Design. The Sand Wolf is a well known Swedish book series by author...

Development is starting on the Bamse sequel that will be titled ‘Bamse and the Witch’s Daughter’. We are very pleased to sign on Lars Bällsten, Thomas Holm and Peter Jando for the Conceptual Art, Story Sketches and Inspirational Drawings. Lars and Thomas worked on...

We are happy to announce that we’ve now passed 300 000 tickets sold in Sweden, for ‘Bamse and the City of Thieves’ – The Popcorn party continues!

We are on our way with the Molly Monster feature, that receives funding from the Swedish Filmboard. Molly Monster is a co-production between Germany, Switzerland and Sweden and will be directed by Michael Ekblad, Ted Sieger and Matthias Bruhn....

At the Cartoon Movies in Lyon, to present our new project ‘the Sand Wolf’, as an Animated feature in Concept. The Sand Wolf is a co-production between Alexandra Schatz FilmProduktion and Sluggerfilm and we are still in development with script and design.

‘Bamse and the City of Thieves’ opened this weekend with a stunning box office of  67 000 sold tickets. That is a new record in Swedish Cinemas for a Swedish Children’s Matinée film. We also received some amazing reviews from the critics.

‘Bamse and the City of Thieves’ opens GIFF at Draken. Our talented background artists Ulf Sandberg and Ola Larsson joined us for the grand opening.

23 december 2013 kl 19.00 i SVT2 25 december 2013 kl 00.30 i SVT2 29 december 2013 kl 9.30 i SVT2 26 december 2013 kl 02.00 i SVT24 1 januari 2014 kl 23.00 i SVT24 

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra with Composer Henrik Lörstad recording the score for ‘Bamse and the City of Thieves’.

Reinard Fox and Bamse, featuring Magnus Härenstam and Peter Haber in the recording studio for the Swedish voice track. Two legends in the Swedish film industry.

From left to right: Johan Kindblom – Writer, Edith Enberg-Salibi – Katta-Lo, Tomas Tivemark – Writer, Tea Stjärne – Nalle-Maja, Maria Bolme – Brummelisa, Dan Andréasson – Co-Producer, Tomas Bolme – Narrator, Peter Haber – Bamse, Magnus Härenstam – Reinard Räv, Ola...

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/imse-vimse-kaffe-med-dopp!/id616114756?mt=8  http://www.imseochvimse.se

New report about the process behind our current project ”Bamse och Tjuvstaden”.
A reprint with drawings and sketches is also available.