Warp X produces low budget innovative UK independent films with backing from the UK Film Council and Film4. Previous Warp X titles acquired by Nonstop include Shane Meadow's This is England which sold over 120,000 tickets in Sweden in 2007. For Scheynius, the partnership with Warp X is "the starting point for something new" as NonStop is moving into the production field to secure at an earlier stage quality films for its various distribution platforms, part of the diversified Millennium Media Group (MMG).
Other Berlin films acquired by NonStop for the Nordic and Baltic region include Armando Iannucci's In the Loop, Rachid Bouchareb's competition entry London River, the documentary The September Issue, about Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, Jon S Baird's Cass, about football hooligan Cass Pennant, and The Sicilian Girl by Marco Amento. Action film Largo Winch based on a comic superhero and Andrei Kravchuk's epic film Admiral, Russia's most expensive and successful film ever, were acquired for the Nordic region only.
Those fresh acquisitions will be released in the Nordic region through NonStop's own Swedish arm, via its ad hoc arrangements with Arthaus in Norway, Cinema Mondo in Finland, Camera or Angel in Denmark, and Myndform in Iceland with whom NonStop just signed a new deal for the next three years.
The new titles reflect NonStop's current editorial line, consisting of 40% of US independent films, 40% of titles from Europe, 10% from Asia, and 10% local. However, in the future, NonStop intends to increase its Nordic pick ups, to have a bigger slice of the growing local Nordic markets.