The value of IP, franchise building and packaging was on the agenda at Seriencamp in Germany here today.
Europe-based execs from Paramount+, Warner Bros International Television Production, Nrk and Miso Film debated the merits of focusing on developing new projects based on well-known properties.
Susanne Schildknecht, SVP of MTV Entertainment Content & Brand, Europe & Middle East and Local Originals Gsa for Paramount International, said that Paramount+’s German business would move pitches with well known IP “to the top of the pile.”
“Consumers can choose from so much content, [so] an IP or triple-a talent makes the choice easier,” she said, but added: “The importance is the story is the most important part of it.”
Paramount+ Germany’s local originals include thriller series Chemie Des Todes, based on a popular Simon Beckett novel, The Chemisty of Death and One Trillion Dollar, also based on a popular book. “The common thread is they are locally relevant,...
Europe-based execs from Paramount+, Warner Bros International Television Production, Nrk and Miso Film debated the merits of focusing on developing new projects based on well-known properties.
Susanne Schildknecht, SVP of MTV Entertainment Content & Brand, Europe & Middle East and Local Originals Gsa for Paramount International, said that Paramount+’s German business would move pitches with well known IP “to the top of the pile.”
“Consumers can choose from so much content, [so] an IP or triple-a talent makes the choice easier,” she said, but added: “The importance is the story is the most important part of it.”
Paramount+ Germany’s local originals include thriller series Chemie Des Todes, based on a popular Simon Beckett novel, The Chemisty of Death and One Trillion Dollar, also based on a popular book. “The common thread is they are locally relevant,...
- 6/15/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Spanish streaming service Filmin has acquired Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom” trilogy, along with the full library of films by the director, from TrustNordisk.
Von Trier is currently completing the third and final instalment of “The Kingdom,” his cult 1990s TV show about the good, evil and paranormal inside the neurosurgical ward of Denmark’s main hospital.
Filmin is also acquiring the restored Seasons 1 and 2 of the show and will launch the complete series in Spain. The trilogy has already been acquired in several territories, including Germany and Austria (Koch Films), Japan (Synca Creations) and South Korea (AtNine).
“We are pleased to experience this high level of interest in the series among buyers, who are evidently intrigued and excited about the series’ epic story, director and cast, which of course comes as no surprise,” said Susan Wendt, TrustNordisk’s managing director.
Von Trier penned the script in collaboration with Niels Vørsel,...
Von Trier is currently completing the third and final instalment of “The Kingdom,” his cult 1990s TV show about the good, evil and paranormal inside the neurosurgical ward of Denmark’s main hospital.
Filmin is also acquiring the restored Seasons 1 and 2 of the show and will launch the complete series in Spain. The trilogy has already been acquired in several territories, including Germany and Austria (Koch Films), Japan (Synca Creations) and South Korea (AtNine).
“We are pleased to experience this high level of interest in the series among buyers, who are evidently intrigued and excited about the series’ epic story, director and cast, which of course comes as no surprise,” said Susan Wendt, TrustNordisk’s managing director.
Von Trier penned the script in collaboration with Niels Vørsel,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Viaplay has lightened the tone of its originals slate with the greenlight of R.S.V.P., a Swedish romcom featuring The Emigrants star Lisa Carlehed as lead.
Airing later this year and based on award-winning Danish feature Long Story Short, the Nent streamer’s latest spans four years and is structured around nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different holiday celebration. At the center of the narrative is Klara (Carlehed), a 37-year-old single nurse whose perpetual search for love is increasingly causing her to question whether it even exists.
Miso Film, who last week revealed it had signed former Dr Head of Drama Christian Rank, is producing, award-winning Jordskott actor Moa Gammel is directing and Ella Lemhagen is writing.
Alongside Carlehed, who was recently nominated for Best Actress at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards for Erik Poppe’s The Emigrants, the film features Oscar Töringe (Thin Blue Line...
Airing later this year and based on award-winning Danish feature Long Story Short, the Nent streamer’s latest spans four years and is structured around nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different holiday celebration. At the center of the narrative is Klara (Carlehed), a 37-year-old single nurse whose perpetual search for love is increasingly causing her to question whether it even exists.
Miso Film, who last week revealed it had signed former Dr Head of Drama Christian Rank, is producing, award-winning Jordskott actor Moa Gammel is directing and Ella Lemhagen is writing.
Alongside Carlehed, who was recently nominated for Best Actress at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards for Erik Poppe’s The Emigrants, the film features Oscar Töringe (Thin Blue Line...
- 5/9/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Fremantle-Owner Rtl Group Boosts Revenues By 11.3
Fremantle-owner Rtl Group increased revenues by 11.3 to €1.5Bn (1.6Bn) in the first quarter of 2022, with streaming revenues for Rtl+ and Videoland shooting up by 23. Around 4.4 of the overall turnover boost was reported to be organic, coming in a quarter when Fremantle acquired 70 of Italian Devils producer Lux Vide. American Gods producer-distributor Fremantle’s turnover went up by 6.5 across the quarter to €461M (487M), which the group put down to positive foreign exchange rate effects, the acquisitions of This is Nice Group and Eureka and deliveries of season one of AppleTV+’s The Mosquito Coast and season three of Starz’ American Gods. Rtl Group is targeting €7.4Bn (7.8Bn) for full year 2022 and €1.15Bn (1.22Bn) adjusted Ebita, with closure on the sale of Rtl Croatia expected imminently along with “major consolidation moves in France and The Netherlands,” according to Group CEO Thomas Rabe. “Rtl Group...
Fremantle-owner Rtl Group increased revenues by 11.3 to €1.5Bn (1.6Bn) in the first quarter of 2022, with streaming revenues for Rtl+ and Videoland shooting up by 23. Around 4.4 of the overall turnover boost was reported to be organic, coming in a quarter when Fremantle acquired 70 of Italian Devils producer Lux Vide. American Gods producer-distributor Fremantle’s turnover went up by 6.5 across the quarter to €461M (487M), which the group put down to positive foreign exchange rate effects, the acquisitions of This is Nice Group and Eureka and deliveries of season one of AppleTV+’s The Mosquito Coast and season three of Starz’ American Gods. Rtl Group is targeting €7.4Bn (7.8Bn) for full year 2022 and €1.15Bn (1.22Bn) adjusted Ebita, with closure on the sale of Rtl Croatia expected imminently along with “major consolidation moves in France and The Netherlands,” according to Group CEO Thomas Rabe. “Rtl Group...
- 5/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Lars von Trier is set to direct “Kingdom Exodus,” the third and final season of “The Kingdom,” his cult 1990s TV show about the good, evil and paranormal inside the neurosurgical ward of Denmark’s main hospital.
Louise Vesth at Zentropa Entertainments is producing the five-episode season, which will start shooting next year. TrustNordisk handles international sales on the show, which is expected to be delivered in 2022. “The Kingdom Exodus” is a collaboration between Viaplay, Dr and Zentropa, with financial support from Film i Väst and Nordisk Film & TV Fond, among others.
Von Trier penned the script in collaboration with Niels Vørsel, as for the first two runs. A third season was being planned in the late 1990s before being abandoned followed the death of two cast members, Ernst-Hugo Järegård and Kirsten Rolffes.
“The Kingdom” was adapted by Stephen King in the U.S. as a 13-episode drama titled...
Louise Vesth at Zentropa Entertainments is producing the five-episode season, which will start shooting next year. TrustNordisk handles international sales on the show, which is expected to be delivered in 2022. “The Kingdom Exodus” is a collaboration between Viaplay, Dr and Zentropa, with financial support from Film i Väst and Nordisk Film & TV Fond, among others.
Von Trier penned the script in collaboration with Niels Vørsel, as for the first two runs. A third season was being planned in the late 1990s before being abandoned followed the death of two cast members, Ernst-Hugo Järegård and Kirsten Rolffes.
“The Kingdom” was adapted by Stephen King in the U.S. as a 13-episode drama titled...
- 12/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix and Danish broadcaster Dr are partnering to revive political drama Borgen after it was last on television in 2013.
Sidse Babett Knudsen will reprise her role as Danish politician Birgitte Nyborg in the new series, which is slated to premiere in 2022 on Dr before dropping on Netflix internationally.
Netflix has also secured the rights to the first three seasons of the BAFTA-winning show and is planning to launch them globally later this year.
Borgen will be produced by Sam Productions and will reunite its creative team, including creator Adam Price, who will pen Season 4. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen also returns as Katrine Fønsmark.
The new season follows Nyborg in her role as Foreign Minister, as well as her staff and the media tasked with covering her. Fønsmark was her head of press, but returns to journalism in the new season.
Lina Brouneus, director of co-production and acquisition at Netflix, said: “Ten...
Sidse Babett Knudsen will reprise her role as Danish politician Birgitte Nyborg in the new series, which is slated to premiere in 2022 on Dr before dropping on Netflix internationally.
Netflix has also secured the rights to the first three seasons of the BAFTA-winning show and is planning to launch them globally later this year.
Borgen will be produced by Sam Productions and will reunite its creative team, including creator Adam Price, who will pen Season 4. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen also returns as Katrine Fønsmark.
The new season follows Nyborg in her role as Foreign Minister, as well as her staff and the media tasked with covering her. Fønsmark was her head of press, but returns to journalism in the new season.
Lina Brouneus, director of co-production and acquisition at Netflix, said: “Ten...
- 4/29/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Hit political drama “Borgen” is not only gearing up for a fourth outing, but all seasons are coming to Netflix.
Following a deal between the streaming giant and Danish public broadcaster Dr, all three seasons of the show, which originally aired from 2010-2013, will land on Netflix later this year, followed by a new fourth season of the hit drama in 2022.
While terms of the co-production deal have not been disclosed, it is likely Netflix is contributing to some of the costs for the fourth season, and getting involved in the creative direction.
Dr revealed Wednesday that a new season will debut on the broadcaster, followed by a global premiere on Netflix. The show — which follows a centrist politician’s journey to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark — reunites creator Adam Price as well as lead actresses Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Katrine Fønsmark.
Following a deal between the streaming giant and Danish public broadcaster Dr, all three seasons of the show, which originally aired from 2010-2013, will land on Netflix later this year, followed by a new fourth season of the hit drama in 2022.
While terms of the co-production deal have not been disclosed, it is likely Netflix is contributing to some of the costs for the fourth season, and getting involved in the creative direction.
Dr revealed Wednesday that a new season will debut on the broadcaster, followed by a global premiere on Netflix. The show — which follows a centrist politician’s journey to become the first female Prime Minister of Denmark — reunites creator Adam Price as well as lead actresses Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Katrine Fønsmark.
- 4/29/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire, Enders Analysis’ report casts shadow over European soccer rights, Netflix primes its Spanish-language star system, landing Manolo Caro for a new thriller, Denmark prepares a new series TV fest, and Spain’s Movistar Plus primes female voices.
European Soccer Faces ‘Post Boom’ – Report
Pele popularized the phrase “the beautiful game.” He never said that soccer was profitable. For broadcasters, it is often a loss leader, a must have for dominant pay-tv services, or networks looking to retain market share. Over this decade, as the prices TV operators were prepared to pay for soccer rose, soccer clubs never had it so good. Between the 2012/13 and 2017/18 seasons, revenues for the top five European leagues rose 7.7% in compound annual growth rate according to an Enders Analysis report published Friday, driven by broadcasting (up 9.9%), sponsorship (up 8.5%), match day (a 3.3% rise). But that may be as good as it gets.
European Soccer Faces ‘Post Boom’ – Report
Pele popularized the phrase “the beautiful game.” He never said that soccer was profitable. For broadcasters, it is often a loss leader, a must have for dominant pay-tv services, or networks looking to retain market share. Over this decade, as the prices TV operators were prepared to pay for soccer rose, soccer clubs never had it so good. Between the 2012/13 and 2017/18 seasons, revenues for the top five European leagues rose 7.7% in compound annual growth rate according to an Enders Analysis report published Friday, driven by broadcasting (up 9.9%), sponsorship (up 8.5%), match day (a 3.3% rise). But that may be as good as it gets.
- 10/25/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — André and Maria Jacquemetton, the Emmy and WGA Award-winning writer-producers of AMC’s “Mad Men” and consulting producers on Amazon Studios’ “The Romanoffs,” will serve as Guests of Honor at Series Mania’s Ugc Writers Campus, a workshop whose participants include Denmark’s Christina Miller-Harris and Israel’s Noy Carmel.
The Jacquemettons will deliver a masterclass and help steer workshops. Lorraine Sullivan, the former director of the Berlin Film School’s Serial Eyes, serves as head of studies, Nicola Lusuardi, a story editor and creative producer for Sky Italy, and Christian Rank, head of drama at Denmark’s Dr, serve as tutors. Trainers are Donna Sharpe, a screenwriter on Zdf/Svt’s ambitious English-Language espionage thriller “West of Liberty,” which received a Berlin Drama Series Days Market Screening, and Michaela Sabo.
Made by France’s Series Mania and Ugc Series, the TV production arm of the Ugc Group, the...
The Jacquemettons will deliver a masterclass and help steer workshops. Lorraine Sullivan, the former director of the Berlin Film School’s Serial Eyes, serves as head of studies, Nicola Lusuardi, a story editor and creative producer for Sky Italy, and Christian Rank, head of drama at Denmark’s Dr, serve as tutors. Trainers are Donna Sharpe, a screenwriter on Zdf/Svt’s ambitious English-Language espionage thriller “West of Liberty,” which received a Berlin Drama Series Days Market Screening, and Michaela Sabo.
Made by France’s Series Mania and Ugc Series, the TV production arm of the Ugc Group, the...
- 2/18/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Controversial director makes rare appearance and speeches at Danish film awards.
Lars von Trier has once more broken his “vow of silence” to accept an armful of prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards.
The controversial Danish filmmaker’s Nymphomaniac: Director’s Cut scooped eight trophies including best feature and best director at the Danish Film Academy’s awards last night (Feb 1) – and von Trier was in attendance at the ceremony for the first time.
Accepting the Robert for best feature, von Trier said: “From Peter Aalbæk Jensen (his producing partner at Zentropa Entertainments), I know that some of the Robert awards are won by five votes, so I would like to thank those five persons in the auditorium. Thank you very much.”
The director of Antichrist and Dancer in the Dark has rarely spoken in public after being expelled from the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where he brought Melancholia, after publicly joking that he was a Nazi...
Lars von Trier has once more broken his “vow of silence” to accept an armful of prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards.
The controversial Danish filmmaker’s Nymphomaniac: Director’s Cut scooped eight trophies including best feature and best director at the Danish Film Academy’s awards last night (Feb 1) – and von Trier was in attendance at the ceremony for the first time.
Accepting the Robert for best feature, von Trier said: “From Peter Aalbæk Jensen (his producing partner at Zentropa Entertainments), I know that some of the Robert awards are won by five votes, so I would like to thank those five persons in the auditorium. Thank you very much.”
The director of Antichrist and Dancer in the Dark has rarely spoken in public after being expelled from the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where he brought Melancholia, after publicly joking that he was a Nazi...
- 2/2/2015
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen) michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne, Germany -- French producer Lauranne Bourrachot ("A Prophet"), Greece's Yorgos Tsourgiannis ("Dogtooth") and Alvaro Alonso of Spain ("The Orange Girl") are among the 23 up-and-comers named for this year's Producers on the Move program in Cannes.
Producers on the Move runs May 15-18 during the Cannes Film Festival and brings together some of Europe's most promising behind-the-scenes talent with an eye to creating cross-border networking opportunities.
This year's top 23 (each European country picks its own up-and-comer) includes Kamen Kalev, the Bulgarian director/producer of Tokyo Film Fest winner "Eastern Plays;" Serbia's Jelena Mitrovic, whose credits include Antonio Nuic's "Donkey" and upcoming World War I drama "Besa" and Isabelle Stead, the Brit producer of Sundance entry "Son of Babylon."
Organizers European Film Promotion claim nearly 50% of Producers on the Move participants over the past 11 years have set up co-pros together. Recent success stories include Bettina Brokemper of Germany (Producer on...
Producers on the Move runs May 15-18 during the Cannes Film Festival and brings together some of Europe's most promising behind-the-scenes talent with an eye to creating cross-border networking opportunities.
This year's top 23 (each European country picks its own up-and-comer) includes Kamen Kalev, the Bulgarian director/producer of Tokyo Film Fest winner "Eastern Plays;" Serbia's Jelena Mitrovic, whose credits include Antonio Nuic's "Donkey" and upcoming World War I drama "Besa" and Isabelle Stead, the Brit producer of Sundance entry "Son of Babylon."
Organizers European Film Promotion claim nearly 50% of Producers on the Move participants over the past 11 years have set up co-pros together. Recent success stories include Bettina Brokemper of Germany (Producer on...
- 4/20/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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