This is how the infrastructure of Bulgaria’s Boyana film studio should look like after an overhaul by buyer Nu Image. Photo by Nu Image Bulgaria
Al Pacino and Scarlett Johansson will star together in a love drama shot in Bulgaria.
Napoleon And Betsy is a project of Nu Image Bulgaria, a subsidiary of the US movie company Nu Image, which stepped in Bulgaria in 1998.
This year, the company is planning to produce 12 films, five of which will be made in Bulgaria - including the Rin Tin Tin family drama, the Day of The Dead thriller, and The Code, a thriller with Morgan Freeman.
While announcing its plans for 2006, Nu Image Bulgaria also opened a casting for Bulgarian actors to enter a special catalogue.
The actors must have good command of the English language, and some of them will be invited to take part in Nu Image projects.
Nu Image Bulgaria has won the privatisation contest for the Boyana firm studio, formerly state-owned.
They pitched the highest bid, a total of EUR 6.250 M (BGN 12.2 M) and vowed first-year investments of EUR 11.4 M out of the whole of EUR 15.6 M in investment plans. Compensation instruments are to be paid for 30% of the shares.
Over the next three years, Nu Image Bulgaria will invest more than 15.5 million euros, of which some will be spend for modernization of Boyana's buildings.