The SF drama “Melancholia” by the Danish director Lars von Trier had its world premiere on 18 May 2011, at the Cannes Film Festival, after which it was designed to turn the Moscow Film Festival, the Festival Film in Yerevan Film Festival in Groningen and the Toronto Film Festival, on the big screen in the United States can be observed only on 11 November.

North American audiences from Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center had the opportunity to watch this film about the end of the world on 03 October 2011, the Film Festival in New York, in the presence of stars like Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Alexander Skarsgård, who posed on the red carpet for journalists accredited to the cinema event.

Alexander Skarsgård, star of TV series “True Blood”, left home its vampire teeth and came with rather a protective attitude towards the two colleagues from the distribution, framed by two beautiful partner. Kirsten Dunst chose a long dress and stylish black, which really gave an air of melancholy, according to which they promote the film title, while Charlotte Gainsbourg preferred to wear a black shirt, long sleeves and a pair of shiny gold-colored pants.

“Melancholia” is the story of Justine (Kirsten Dunst), who faithfully celebrate her marriage with Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) with a party organized sumptuous in the luxury villa owned by her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the brother of John (Kiefer Sutherland), while a planet called symbolic Melancholia, which was hidden behind the Sun, will collide with Earth and generate the apocalypse. Although the bride’s sister is working for the wedding to be perfect, the party is a failure because of tensions between family members who come into sight and because of the fragility of their relations.

Find out more about “Melancholia” from IMDB.

“Nymphomaniac”, the new film by Lars von Trier, which will explore women’s sexuality, has aroused the interest of buyers from Toronto. Danish film rights to distribute were already purchased for cinemas in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Benelux and Russia, although the film is only in pre-production stage.

Filming for “Nymphomaniac” will begin next summer, Lars Von Trier is working on the script this time. The male lead role the director asked Stellan Skarsgård to play, with whom he collaborated in “melancholic”.

The film “Nymphomaniac” will have two versions, Lars Von Trier in one make a montage showing a softer film, which can be viewed by a wide audience. A second version of the film that explores women’s sexuality explicit in 0-50 years will be a hardcore, even porn, according to THR.

Lars Von Trier said that “Nymphomaniac” will have real sex scenes. “As a cultural radical cannot make a film about sexual development from 0 to 50 years without showing penetration. I know it’s something very European”, said Lars Von Trier, who immediately added that his film will not be pornographic. “Basically, it’s a film with more sex, but with much philosophy”, said the Danish director.

Lars Von Trier also has filmed sexual penetration even in the first scene of “Antichrist”, for which he hired porn actors to replace the actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Find out more about “Nymphomaniac” from IMDB.

The SF drama “melancholia” of the director Lars von Trier will be released in cinemas in the U.S. only on 11.11.2011, although in cinemas in Denmark and the Czech Republic is running from 26.05.2011, but the controversial filmmaker who scandalized the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival with his pro-Nazi remarks, already has a new project called “Nymphomaniac” and intend to start filming in summer 2012.

Moviegoers familiar with previous works of Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”, “Dogville”, “Dancer in the Dark”) will not be surprised by his decision to address the issue of compulsive sexual disturbance known as nymphomania and will not raise eyebrows when they see sexually explicit material containing graphic and exaggerated because it is the line that he usually takes, who shared with Björk and Sigurdsson Sjón an Oscar nomination in 2001 for the original song “I’ve Seen It All” from the soundtrack of the drama “Dancer in the Dark”.

Journalists from Screen Daily discussed the project “Nymphomaniac” with producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, his business partner Lars von Trier, who said that the film in question is most likely that it will address the first filmmaker in the near future and will be spoken in English and will be at the heart of a woman’s erotic life from the age of 0 years and ending 50 years of age. Peter Aalbæk Jensen added that “Nymphomaniac” will have two different versions, the first showing graphic sex and forcing the hand of censorship, and the second being edited so as not to go beyond the restrictive censorship to be projected on a large scale in the cinema.

“Nymphomaniac” shall consist of eight chapters and will focus specifically on dialogue and Peter Aalbæk Jensen assured the journalists that will be a very funny movie, although it has many erotic scenes.

Find out more about “Nymphomaniac” from IMDB.

The actor John Hurt (seen in Outlander, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, V for Vendetta and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) will play in Melancholia, the new film of the Danish director Lars von Trier (who directed Antichrist, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves).

He joined a distribution already made up of Kirsten Dunst (seen in Land of the Lost, Spider-Man 2 & 3 and Elizabethtown), Charlotte Rampling (seen in Babylon A.D.), Kiefer Sutherland, Udo Kier, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard and Stellan.

The filming must start on July 19th in the municipality of Trollhättan, in Sweden.

Melancholia will be the first incursion of Lars von Trier into the universe of the science fiction. Peter A. Jensen, president de Zentropa, the production company of Von Trier, described the project like a splendid film on the end of the world. The details of the scenario remain secret for the moment but Jensen however slipped that the story line would relate to a broad object coming from the space which approaches the Earth and which assigns the inhabitants of planet.

Zentropa Denmark will produce the project in partnership with the French company Slot Machine, Zentropa International in Cologne and the Swedish companies Memfis Film and Trollhattan Film.

Released from the Spider-Man franchise, the 27 years-old actress Kirsten Dunst benefits from new opportunities which are offered to her. She has just been recruited to play the main role in Melancholia, the new film directed by Danish director Lars von Trier (Antichrist, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves).

Penélope Cruz was before in negotiations for this role but she rather preferred to join the distribution for the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth title in the Walt Disney Pictures franchise.

The film Melancholia, the first incursion of Lars von Trier into the science fiction universe, will be filmed from July to September in the south of Sweden.

Kiefer Sutherland (whose voice was heard in Monsters vs. Aliens and who can be seen in the TV series 24), Charlotte Gainsbourg (recently seen in Antichrist), Alexander Skarsgaard, Charlotte Rampling (seen in Babylon A.D.), Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgaard are also attached to the distribution of the feature film.

Dunst recently worked in Montreal with the English actor Jim Sturgess in the film Upside Down.

Bastard, a short movie which she carried out and co-wrote, will be presented in first at the Tribeca Film Festiva. Her film will be also projected in Cannes.