The €5m project will be produced by Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth for Zentropa, using the company's European production network and usual regional and national film funds. The director has described the project with one of his typically enigmatic and catchy one-liners: "No more happy endings."
Rikke Ennis, CEO for sales company TrustNordisk said she was ‘very excited' about Melancholia. The film will be discussed for pre-sales at the AFM in Los Angeles and European Film Market in Berlin. Trier's controversial thriller Antichrist is the Danish entry for the Nordic Council Film Prize 2009. The award-winner will be announced in Stockholm on October 21.