Jury Duty
The jury for the 2023 edition of European Shooting Stars has been unveiled and it includes internationally-recognized directors, producers and actors as well as one of Variety‘s own editors, Leo Barraclough.
The jury, which was selected by European Film Promotion (Efp), will decide which of the 27 actors nominated for the European Shooting Stars will be selected to take part. Of the 27 who were nominated by their national Efp members, 10 will be chosen to go forward.
European Shooting Stars is set to run at the Berlin International Film Festival from Feb. 17-20, 2023. The Efp is made up of film promotion institutes and film centres across Europe.
As well as Variety‘s international features editor Leo Barraclough, the jury includes Oscar-nominated Polish director and screenwriter Jan Komasa, Oscar-nominated Norwegian producer Maria Ekerhovd, Goya-award winning Spanish actor and screenwriter (and former Shooting Star) Veronica Echegui and Dutch casting director Rebecca van Unen.
The jury for the 2023 edition of European Shooting Stars has been unveiled and it includes internationally-recognized directors, producers and actors as well as one of Variety‘s own editors, Leo Barraclough.
The jury, which was selected by European Film Promotion (Efp), will decide which of the 27 actors nominated for the European Shooting Stars will be selected to take part. Of the 27 who were nominated by their national Efp members, 10 will be chosen to go forward.
European Shooting Stars is set to run at the Berlin International Film Festival from Feb. 17-20, 2023. The Efp is made up of film promotion institutes and film centres across Europe.
As well as Variety‘s international features editor Leo Barraclough, the jury includes Oscar-nominated Polish director and screenwriter Jan Komasa, Oscar-nominated Norwegian producer Maria Ekerhovd, Goya-award winning Spanish actor and screenwriter (and former Shooting Star) Veronica Echegui and Dutch casting director Rebecca van Unen.
- 11/23/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures has struck a deal with ITV’s Our House author Louise Candlish and is seeking more work outside the UK, helped by new owner Asacha Media Group.
The company founded by lauded British screenwriter Tony Jordan, which also makes PBS Masterpiece/BritBox’s Sanditon, is working on a number of projects targeted at non-uk buyers.
Candlish will work with Red Planet’s Our House exec Tom Mullens on TV drama ideas while Red Planet has optioned two further Candlish novels, 2016’s The Swimming Pool and upcoming thriller The Only Suspect, the latter of which will be adapted by Simon Ashdown. The Swimming Pool is being produced by Ejk Productions’ Elizabeth Kesses- Delport.
Louise Candlish. Image: Johnny Ring
The Candlish deal comes fresh off the back of the success of ITV’s adaptation of the Martin Compston-starring Our House, which was watched...
The company founded by lauded British screenwriter Tony Jordan, which also makes PBS Masterpiece/BritBox’s Sanditon, is working on a number of projects targeted at non-uk buyers.
Candlish will work with Red Planet’s Our House exec Tom Mullens on TV drama ideas while Red Planet has optioned two further Candlish novels, 2016’s The Swimming Pool and upcoming thriller The Only Suspect, the latter of which will be adapted by Simon Ashdown. The Swimming Pool is being produced by Ejk Productions’ Elizabeth Kesses- Delport.
Louise Candlish. Image: Johnny Ring
The Candlish deal comes fresh off the back of the success of ITV’s adaptation of the Martin Compston-starring Our House, which was watched...
- 11/23/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read this story if you haven’t watched Episode 4 of “Our House.”
As London’s Machiavellian property market continues to feel like a real-life thriller, U.K. broadcaster ITV’s drama “Our House” capitalizes on every buyer’s worst fear of losing their hard-earned home.
Starring Tuppence Middleton (“Downton Abbey”) and Martin Compston (“Line of Duty”), the four-part Hitchcockian thriller from “Sanditon” producers Red Planet Pictures is adapted from Louise Candlish’s 2018 novel of the same name, and may actually be the only thing more anxiety-inducing than closing on anything larger than a garden shed within the M25.
Middleton stars as Fi Lawson, a woman who returns home after a weekend away to discover strangers moving into her house — and her husband Bram (Compston) and children nowhere in sight. The new owners insist that Bram and Fi have been across every part of the sale, but...
As London’s Machiavellian property market continues to feel like a real-life thriller, U.K. broadcaster ITV’s drama “Our House” capitalizes on every buyer’s worst fear of losing their hard-earned home.
Starring Tuppence Middleton (“Downton Abbey”) and Martin Compston (“Line of Duty”), the four-part Hitchcockian thriller from “Sanditon” producers Red Planet Pictures is adapted from Louise Candlish’s 2018 novel of the same name, and may actually be the only thing more anxiety-inducing than closing on anything larger than a garden shed within the M25.
Middleton stars as Fi Lawson, a woman who returns home after a weekend away to discover strangers moving into her house — and her husband Bram (Compston) and children nowhere in sight. The new owners insist that Bram and Fi have been across every part of the sale, but...
- 3/11/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Distribution
Beyond Rights has kept the momentum going in distributing the popular property show “Love It or List It,” announcing two new versions being produced in Finland and France. In France, M6 licensed the format and is now in pre-production on its own version, while Finland’s Rabbit Films is producing an initial 10-episode run for broadcaster Nelonen, set to premiere Aug. 26. The Scandinavian broadcaster also scooped season four of “Love It or List It: Australia” and “Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds.” Beyond Rights also closed deals on more than 1000 hours of “Love it or List It” franchise programming in the UK (Channel 4), Norway (TV2), Netherlands (Talpa TV), Turkey (Discovery), Portugal (Sic), Spain (Mediaset), Poland, New Zealand (Discovery), Australia (Foxtel) and Latin America (Discovery).
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Dubai-based distribution and production company SynProNize has picked up a pair of Arabic drama series, “Beirut Bride” and “Al Nihaya,” and will distribute...
Beyond Rights has kept the momentum going in distributing the popular property show “Love It or List It,” announcing two new versions being produced in Finland and France. In France, M6 licensed the format and is now in pre-production on its own version, while Finland’s Rabbit Films is producing an initial 10-episode run for broadcaster Nelonen, set to premiere Aug. 26. The Scandinavian broadcaster also scooped season four of “Love It or List It: Australia” and “Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds.” Beyond Rights also closed deals on more than 1000 hours of “Love it or List It” franchise programming in the UK (Channel 4), Norway (TV2), Netherlands (Talpa TV), Turkey (Discovery), Portugal (Sic), Spain (Mediaset), Poland, New Zealand (Discovery), Australia (Foxtel) and Latin America (Discovery).
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Dubai-based distribution and production company SynProNize has picked up a pair of Arabic drama series, “Beirut Bride” and “Al Nihaya,” and will distribute...
- 7/19/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: ITV’s adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate novel Our House has cast Martin Compston (Line Of Duty), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey), and Rupert Penry-Jones (The Drowning) in headline roles.
Our House tells the four-part story of Fi Lawson (Middleton), who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram (Compston), has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
Produced by Death In Paradise outfit Red Planet Pictures, Penry-Jones features as the enigmatic Toby, who is in a relationship with Fi. Buket Komur (Honour) plays Bram’s new partner, the mysterious and alluring Wendy. Also joining the cast is Weruche Opia, who broke out in Emmy-nominated BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You,...
Our House tells the four-part story of Fi Lawson (Middleton), who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram (Compston), has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
Produced by Death In Paradise outfit Red Planet Pictures, Penry-Jones features as the enigmatic Toby, who is in a relationship with Fi. Buket Komur (Honour) plays Bram’s new partner, the mysterious and alluring Wendy. Also joining the cast is Weruche Opia, who broke out in Emmy-nominated BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-headquartered content creator Asacha Media Group (Amg) has acquired a majority stake in the U.K.’s Red Planet Pictures, producers of hit shows “Sanditon” and “Death in Paradise.”
Red Planet, led by joint MDs, Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones, was founded in 2006 by showrunner Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chair. The deal will see Red Planet Pictures tap into Amg’s pan-European network of leading producers to further pursue local adaptations and co-productions, and also grow their business in emerging markets like the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where Jordan has created long running dramas “Besa” for Serbian Television and “Al Mirath” for Mbc.
Jordan, Campbell and Jones will become minority shareholders in Amg alongside funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., founders and other managers of Amg’s production companies who also reinvested in the group.
With this investment, Amg is steadily increasing its U.
Red Planet, led by joint MDs, Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones, was founded in 2006 by showrunner Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chair. The deal will see Red Planet Pictures tap into Amg’s pan-European network of leading producers to further pursue local adaptations and co-productions, and also grow their business in emerging markets like the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where Jordan has created long running dramas “Besa” for Serbian Television and “Al Mirath” for Mbc.
Jordan, Campbell and Jones will become minority shareholders in Amg alongside funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., founders and other managers of Amg’s production companies who also reinvested in the group.
With this investment, Amg is steadily increasing its U.
- 6/21/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, Telepool’s Global Screen consolidates sales and acquisitions and puts Julia Weber in charge, Izzy snags six series for streaming, ITV will adapt “Our House,” Abacus Media Rights will distribute Canadian Comedy “Sort Of,” and Zdfe and taglicht team on historical cold cases.
Appointment
Telepool’s international distribution division Global Screen is consolidating its sales and acquisition activities for both film and TV content and has appointed Julia Weber as the company’s new head of international acquisitions and sales, effective January 2021. Alexandra Heidrich, who previously held the role, will exit Telepool before the end of 2020.
“I kicked off my career in TV sales and have also spent years dedicating myself to the film business,” said Webber in a release. “This move allows me to bring it all together just as the lines between cinema, TV and VOD are becoming increasingly blurred.”
“The traditional international...
Appointment
Telepool’s international distribution division Global Screen is consolidating its sales and acquisition activities for both film and TV content and has appointed Julia Weber as the company’s new head of international acquisitions and sales, effective January 2021. Alexandra Heidrich, who previously held the role, will exit Telepool before the end of 2020.
“I kicked off my career in TV sales and have also spent years dedicating myself to the film business,” said Webber in a release. “This move allows me to bring it all together just as the lines between cinema, TV and VOD are becoming increasingly blurred.”
“The traditional international...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures’ adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate book Our House has been picked up by British broadcaster ITV.
Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
The show is slated to shoot during summer next year and casting will be announced closer to when cameras get rolling. Red Planet’s joint...
Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
The show is slated to shoot during summer next year and casting will be announced closer to when cameras get rolling. Red Planet’s joint...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hollywood Music in Media Awards, recognizing music in film, TV, video games, commercials, and trailers, today announced nominees for its 2018 edition. Among the nominates films are Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Quincy,” and more.
The ceremony will feature presentations, performances, and a special achievement award. Past honorees include Diane Warren, Smokey Robinson, and Glen Campbell.
Hmma nominations are selected by an advisory board and selection committee which includes journalists, music executives, music-media industry professionals comprised of select members of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, The Television Academy, the AMPAS Music Branch, Naras, and performing rights organizations.
The awards will be held at the Avalon Hollywood on Wednesday, Nov. 14. A portion of proceeds benefit Education Through Music – Los Angeles.
A list of the visual media nominees are below:
Original Score – Feature Film
Alexandre Desplat – “The Sisters Brothers” (Annapurna)
Carter Burwell – “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs...
The ceremony will feature presentations, performances, and a special achievement award. Past honorees include Diane Warren, Smokey Robinson, and Glen Campbell.
Hmma nominations are selected by an advisory board and selection committee which includes journalists, music executives, music-media industry professionals comprised of select members of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, The Television Academy, the AMPAS Music Branch, Naras, and performing rights organizations.
The awards will be held at the Avalon Hollywood on Wednesday, Nov. 14. A portion of proceeds benefit Education Through Music – Los Angeles.
A list of the visual media nominees are below:
Original Score – Feature Film
Alexandre Desplat – “The Sisters Brothers” (Annapurna)
Carter Burwell – “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs...
- 10/16/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
EastEnders newcomer Kierston Wareing has spoken about her top-secret role on the soap for the first time. The BBC One show's hour-long Christmas Day episode saw Wareing arrive on screen as Kirsty Branning, who is the secret wife of established regular Max (Jake Wood). The actress has been filming with EastEnders since October, but show bosses kept her casting well under wraps so that fans would be surprised by the storyline twist. Wareing explained: "I first knew about the role when I was filming in Morocco. I was checking my emails and I had one from my agent saying, 'EastEnders want to see you when you get back'. "I went for a meeting with [executive producer] Lorraine Newman and [series consultant] Simon Ashdown, and they offered me the role there and then. I was ecstatic, I was like, 'Yes, yes, yes!' So I knew (more)...
- 12/25/2012
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
The winners of this years British Soap Awards 2012 have been announced. The ceremony held on Saturday night (28th April) was hosted by Phillip Schofield and the usual war between Eastenders and Coronation Street ended in a tie this year with both soaps taking home seven awards.
However, Eastenders got the biggest gong as it was named Best Soap again. Pam St Clement (Pat) was given the Lifetime Achievement Award and Eastenders writer Simon Ashdown got the Special Achievement Award.
The full list can be found below, the winners are highlighted red. The ceremony can be seen in full on ITV1 on Wednesday 2nd May.
Sexiest Female (Last year’s winner was Michelle Keegan, Coronation Street)
Coronation Street: Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre)
EastEnders: Jacqueline Jossa (Lauren Branning)
EastEnders: Preeya Kalidas (Amira Masood)
Hollyoaks: Jorgie Porter (Theresa McQueen)
Sexiest Male (Last year’s winner was Scott Maslen, EastEnders...
However, Eastenders got the biggest gong as it was named Best Soap again. Pam St Clement (Pat) was given the Lifetime Achievement Award and Eastenders writer Simon Ashdown got the Special Achievement Award.
The full list can be found below, the winners are highlighted red. The ceremony can be seen in full on ITV1 on Wednesday 2nd May.
Sexiest Female (Last year’s winner was Michelle Keegan, Coronation Street)
Coronation Street: Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre)
EastEnders: Jacqueline Jossa (Lauren Branning)
EastEnders: Preeya Kalidas (Amira Masood)
Hollyoaks: Jorgie Porter (Theresa McQueen)
Sexiest Male (Last year’s winner was Scott Maslen, EastEnders...
- 4/29/2012
- by Amarpal Biring
- Obsessed with Film
EastEnders' executive producer Bryan Kirkwood is leaving the soap, it has been announced. The show's boss will stand down from his position next month after two years in charge. EastEnders' experienced series producer Lorraine Newman will then take over his role on an acting basis. Kirkwood commented: "Being the executive producer of EastEnders is one of the most exciting jobs in TV, but it's also the most exhausting - so after two years, I've decided it's time to leave Walford. "It's been a thrill to work with such talented people such as John Yorke, Simon Ashdown and our amazing cast and crew. Most of all it's been a privilege to tell stories that have genuinely had the nation talking. I'm going to take with me some brilliant friends and memories." He continued: "I'm (more)...
- 3/12/2012
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders scribe Simon Ashdown has offered some hints as to what viewers can expect from his Christmas Day edition of the soap. The series consultant has penned the episode which will see Stacey Branning (Lacey Turner) leave Albert Square after six and a half years. Speaking to Walford Web, Ashdown teased some of the other plots that will feature in the hour-long special. "A bit of festive fun, but not too much," he revealed. "Some bad table manners at the (more)...
- 12/23/2010
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
EastEnders series consultant Simon Ashdown has revealed that he wants the soap to broadcast another live episode. The BBC drama went live earlier this year to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The dramatic episode, written by Ashdown, saw Stacey Branning reveal that she was Archie Mitchell's killer - moments after the death of her husband Bradley. Speaking to Walford Web, the writer admitted that he knows what he wants to happen in the episode, should it get the go-ahead from executive producer (more)...
- 12/23/2010
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown has revealed that Peggy Mitchell was meant to be the culprit in Archie's murder. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Ashdown said that Barbara Windsor's decision to quit the serial last year meant that there would have been no aftermath. He explained: "We had a list of the cast and went down it to create that 'shiver' moment. Janine could have (more)...
- 8/28/2010
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
Peggy Mitchell is going have an ''epic'' exit from 'EastEnders'. The soap's story producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins insists fans won't be disappointed by the Walford matriarch's departure later this year, following Barbara Windsor's decision to quit the BBC One series. Simon Ashdown, the show's lead writer and consultant, is set to pen the storyline and Peggy will leave Albert Square with a bang. Speaking to website Walford Web, Dominic confirmed: ''We've storylined Barbara's exit and that's going to be epic and moving - Simon's already chomping at the bit to write those episodes.'' Dominic also revealed the end of Peggy won't mean the end of the ..
- 4/29/2010
- Virgin Media - TV
EastEnders' series story producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has revealed that Peggy Mitchell's final storyline will be "epic and moving". The Albert Square icon will make her final Walford appearance later this year following Barbara Windsor's decision to quit the role. Plans for Peggy's exit plot have now been finalised and her swan song episodes are expected to be penned by the BBC soap's lead writer and series consultant Simon Ashdown. Speaking to Walford Web, Treadwell-Collins confirmed: "We've storylined Barbara's (more)...
- 4/29/2010
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders star Jake Wood has revealed that he is thrilled with the quality of tonight's two-hander episode focusing on Max and Stacey Branning. In this evening's much-anticipated instalment of the Walford soap, Wood's character Max will come face-to-face with Stacey (Lacey Turner) for their first proper meeting since she told him that she killed Archie Mitchell. Stacey has been hiding out away from her family in recent weeks, leaving Max to ponder over the role her crime played in the death of his son Bradley, who police now believe was Archie's murderer. Speaking to Digital Spy about tonight's episode, Wood promised: "It's amazing. Simon Ashdown's written yet another amazing script. He knows Max and Stacey inside out, so from that point of view, you just want to do the script justice. Hopefully we've (more)...
- 3/26/2010
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
EastEnders bosses this afternoon released the top secret live episode script to all the cast involved in the 25th anniversary production. Until today, cast members were in the dark over whether they would be appearing - or even speaking - in the episode. The script, written by series consultant and lead show writer Simon Ashdown, was delivered to the cast ahead of the first read-through on Monday. Producers, however, have held back the most important page - the 'Who Killed Archie?' reveal scene. The killer's identity will remain under lock and key until the night of the live episode and the actor playing the culprit will reportedly be informed (more)...
- 2/5/2010
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
As you probably read yesterday, EastEnders' Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) is on a downward spiral as unbeknown to her, she's suffering from bipolar disorder, the same condition as her mother Jean (Gillian Wright). The whole of tonight's episode - written by the superb Simon Ashdown - follows Stacey from her point of view as she ricochets around the Square, clashing with anyone and everyone she bumps into. (more)...
- 5/15/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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