Spain’s Movistar Plus+, the pay TV/SVOD service of telco giant Telefónica, has picked up the Sky and Peacock original series “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” starring Harvey Keitel and based on the bestselling novel by Heather Morris.
The six-part limited series is one of the key draws on the sales slate of All3Media International, which hosts a showcase at the London TV Screenings on Feb. 29.
It is produced by Synchronicity Films in association with Sky Studios and All3Media International, tells the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met while prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.
Harvey Keitel in “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”
Keitel plays Lali, a Slovakian Jew who, in his 80s, meets aspiring writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) and finds the courage to tell his story. As a young man in 1942, Lali (Jonah Hauer-King) is deported to Auschwitz,...
The six-part limited series is one of the key draws on the sales slate of All3Media International, which hosts a showcase at the London TV Screenings on Feb. 29.
It is produced by Synchronicity Films in association with Sky Studios and All3Media International, tells the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met while prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.
Harvey Keitel in “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”
Keitel plays Lali, a Slovakian Jew who, in his 80s, meets aspiring writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey) and finds the courage to tell his story. As a young man in 1942, Lali (Jonah Hauer-King) is deported to Auschwitz,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film is deepening its cooperation with Spanish telco Telefonica’s Movistar+.
Going into this year’s Miptv, the two firms have closed a multi-year pact on “a substantial, annual number of productions” which Beta will co-produce and distribute, often coming aboard at an earlier stage.
Beta has recently closed a string of sales for Movistar+ original series, among them Alex Pina’s (Money Heist) well-sold romance-thriller The Pier and post-apocalypse thriller La Zona. On the former, Beta has closed new deals with Rai/Italy, Orf/Austria, HBO for the Baltics, Sbs/Australia, Mbc/Middle East and U-Next/Japan.
La Zona bows to German Free TV audiences this June on pubcaster and co-producer ZDFneo after hefty global sales in the last two years. The drama was most recently picked up by Amazon Italy, Canal Plus France, Vrt Benelux and throughout Eastern Europe by Canal Plus Poland, Yandex Russia/Cis,...
Going into this year’s Miptv, the two firms have closed a multi-year pact on “a substantial, annual number of productions” which Beta will co-produce and distribute, often coming aboard at an earlier stage.
Beta has recently closed a string of sales for Movistar+ original series, among them Alex Pina’s (Money Heist) well-sold romance-thriller The Pier and post-apocalypse thriller La Zona. On the former, Beta has closed new deals with Rai/Italy, Orf/Austria, HBO for the Baltics, Sbs/Australia, Mbc/Middle East and U-Next/Japan.
La Zona bows to German Free TV audiences this June on pubcaster and co-producer ZDFneo after hefty global sales in the last two years. The drama was most recently picked up by Amazon Italy, Canal Plus France, Vrt Benelux and throughout Eastern Europe by Canal Plus Poland, Yandex Russia/Cis,...
- 4/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes — Powering up an enhanced production-distribution axis in Europe, Movistar +, the pay TV unit of Telefonica, Europe’s second biggest telco, have closed a multi-year distribution-production alliance with Germany’s Beta Film, one of the continent’s biggest independent production-distribution companies.
Beta Film already distributed Movistar + series on a title-by-title basis. Made by Christian Gockel, Beta pre-Mip TV dinner, and Ismael Calleja, Movistar + head of production & business affairs, on Sunday night the new deal allows for far deeper collaboration.
Deal announcement came as, distributed by Beta Film, Leticia Dolera’s Movistar + Original Series “Perfect Life” world premiered on Sunday in Official Competition at Cannes. A further Movistar + title, also sold by Beta Film, Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” will receive an international premiere screening at MipTV on Monday.
In essence, the new deal transforms a title-by-title distribution arrangement, where Beta Film’s involvement sometimes came on finished product,...
Beta Film already distributed Movistar + series on a title-by-title basis. Made by Christian Gockel, Beta pre-Mip TV dinner, and Ismael Calleja, Movistar + head of production & business affairs, on Sunday night the new deal allows for far deeper collaboration.
Deal announcement came as, distributed by Beta Film, Leticia Dolera’s Movistar + Original Series “Perfect Life” world premiered on Sunday in Official Competition at Cannes. A further Movistar + title, also sold by Beta Film, Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” will receive an international premiere screening at MipTV on Monday.
In essence, the new deal transforms a title-by-title distribution arrangement, where Beta Film’s involvement sometimes came on finished product,...
- 4/8/2019
- by John Hopewell and Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
In the first scene of “El Embarcadero” (“The Pier”), from “Money Heist” creators Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato, Oscar vidcams his lover, Veronica, naked in bed, getting up, popping on a dress and walking out in dazzling sun onto her patio, the stunning L’Albufera freshwater lagoon beyond.
“The Pier’s” opening captures in a nutshell much of Movistar Plus’ major wager as an original series producer, the biggest of any telecom in Europe, having bowed 11 series from “Velvet Collection” in late September last year. Series is co-produced with Atresmedia Series and Vancouver Media.
It’s a just one-minute scene, filmed, however in 20 shots, with incisive style and the money that only a big-budget series can bring. But Movistar + is willing to put large resources at its creators’ disposal. Recreating c.1580 Seville, serial killer thriller “The Plague’s” six episodes cost €10 million ($11.6 million).
One of Mipcom’s only two World Premiere TV Screenings,...
“The Pier’s” opening captures in a nutshell much of Movistar Plus’ major wager as an original series producer, the biggest of any telecom in Europe, having bowed 11 series from “Velvet Collection” in late September last year. Series is co-produced with Atresmedia Series and Vancouver Media.
It’s a just one-minute scene, filmed, however in 20 shots, with incisive style and the money that only a big-budget series can bring. But Movistar + is willing to put large resources at its creators’ disposal. Recreating c.1580 Seville, serial killer thriller “The Plague’s” six episodes cost €10 million ($11.6 million).
One of Mipcom’s only two World Premiere TV Screenings,...
- 10/16/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Telefonica’s Movistar +, the biggest drive into original series production by any telecom in Europe, hinted at some of its gameplay to attract millennials at a MipTV presentation Tuesday of “Virtual Hero,” an anime series adapting the same-named 2015-17 comic book saga of El Rubius, Spain’s most popular YouTuber.
From an original idea by Ruben Doblas – El Rubius – produced by Movistar +’s Domingo Corral and Pilar Blasco, directed by Alexis Barroso and written by Barroso and El Torres, “Virtual Hero” pictures the fantasy action adventures of El Rubies navigating through game worlds to save the 100 best gamers trapped in a vital world by dastardly villain Trollmask.
Displayed via a trailer at the presentation, El Rubius’ motley support includes say warrior Sakura, zombie girl Zombirella, who carries a candle for the hero, Slimmer, a gentlemanly, faceless spirit, and A.I. aide G4tO.
Speaking on stage at MipTV,...
From an original idea by Ruben Doblas – El Rubius – produced by Movistar +’s Domingo Corral and Pilar Blasco, directed by Alexis Barroso and written by Barroso and El Torres, “Virtual Hero” pictures the fantasy action adventures of El Rubies navigating through game worlds to save the 100 best gamers trapped in a vital world by dastardly villain Trollmask.
Displayed via a trailer at the presentation, El Rubius’ motley support includes say warrior Sakura, zombie girl Zombirella, who carries a candle for the hero, Slimmer, a gentlemanly, faceless spirit, and A.I. aide G4tO.
Speaking on stage at MipTV,...
- 4/11/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish drama production has evolved quickly in the past few years, while the proliferation of Svod platforms is revolutionizing the sector. Ott distribution has helped push some Spanish series onto not only continental screens, but also global TVs.
Take, for example, Alex Pina’s “La Casa de Papel,” produced by Vancouver Media for Atresmedia, and acquired worldwide by Netflix. Its Dalí-inspired aesthetic has been celebrated at Brazil’s Carnival and Saudi soccer matches.
Netflix has now commissioned Spanish drama series (such as Bambú’s “The Cable Girls”) and made early investments in others (such as Rtve’s “The Department of Time,” Atresmedia’s “The Cathedral of the Sea”).
Spanish fiction has “always been a quality product,” says Mediapro head of content Javier Méndez. Now, “the world is discovering Spanish fiction through its presence on new global platforms.”
Beyond Spain, the main target is Latin America.
In February, Movistar Plus — Telefonica...
Take, for example, Alex Pina’s “La Casa de Papel,” produced by Vancouver Media for Atresmedia, and acquired worldwide by Netflix. Its Dalí-inspired aesthetic has been celebrated at Brazil’s Carnival and Saudi soccer matches.
Netflix has now commissioned Spanish drama series (such as Bambú’s “The Cable Girls”) and made early investments in others (such as Rtve’s “The Department of Time,” Atresmedia’s “The Cathedral of the Sea”).
Spanish fiction has “always been a quality product,” says Mediapro head of content Javier Méndez. Now, “the world is discovering Spanish fiction through its presence on new global platforms.”
Beyond Spain, the main target is Latin America.
In February, Movistar Plus — Telefonica...
- 4/7/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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