Key Highlights
- The longtime SF Studios exec launched his production banner in 2023, after working on breakout success A Man Called Otto with SF, with an aim to prioritize optimistic stories with strong IP.
- Hope Studios has just wrapped Anxious People with Angelina Jolie and The Night House with Aaron Paul.
- As Hollywood studios brace for more consolidation and foreign presales continue to move at a glacial pace for the indie sector, it’s a tough time for the film industry.
- But Hope Studios founder Fredrik Wikström Nicastro remains an optimist.
- Related Stories News Aimee Lou Wood Reveals How Angelina Jolie Backed Her When She "Spoke Up" On 'Anxious People' Set News 'Tom Jones' Star Solly McLeod Joins Angelina Jolie Pic 'Anxious People' The former SF Studios exec, who produced Swedish Oscar nominee A Man Called Ove as well as its English-language remake A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, is barely two years into his new banner but has already wrapped shooting two ambitious indie films in tandem: Anxious People, an uplifting comedy starring Angelina Jolie, Aimee Lou Wood and Jason Segel, and Aaron Paul and Jacob Tremblay horror The Night House.
