Marie Curie biopic heads to giant screen

BERLIN -- Marie Noelle is creating a biopic on Polish-French physicist Marie Curie.Setup like a German-Polish co-production between Noelle and Peter Sehr's Munich-based P'Artisan Filmproduktion and Warsaw-based Pokromski Studio, "Marie Curie" just guaranteed EUR 30,000 ($41,374) in support in the German-Polish Co-Development Fund.Noelle, who's also penning the script concerning the existence from the Noble Prize-winning investigator, and Sehr are presently co-pointing "Ludwig II," a historic drama concerning the 19th-century Bavarian king, which Warner Bros. is delivering in Germany and Austria in December 2012. Noelle and Sehr also helmed 2008's "The Anarchist's Wife."In the fifth year, the German-Polish Co-Development Fund has backed an overall total of 16 co-productions since its launch, including Johannes Schmid's "Winter's Daughter," a good 11-year-old girl who sparks to locate her biological father in Belgium, which will hit theaters here March. 20.The German-Polish Co-Development Fund is really a joint initiative between regional German funders Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM) and also the Polish Film Institute. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com