Germany’s Beta Film, a prime mover of this and next week’s virtual TV marketplace, has sold “Cryptid,” produced by Dramacorp for the Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay Svod service, to Joyn, the new German Avod venture launched in 2019 by Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1.
Underscoring how regional and big national streaming services are now energizing production and distribution in Europe, the sale also marks a first cornerstone licensing pact on “Cryptid” which in its high-school Ya horror tropes and comic book aesthetics, plus short format narrative, aims to break new ground in Europe.
The series is also eliciting “strong interest from other big European territories,” said Beta Film’s Justus Riesenkampff.
“Cryptid” is also the first project within a new specialized pan-European genre production brand which Dramacorp is launching later this year. Currently in final post-production, which is continuing under Dramacorp founder Patrick Nebout despite Covid-19, “Cryptid” will world premiere in competition,...
Underscoring how regional and big national streaming services are now energizing production and distribution in Europe, the sale also marks a first cornerstone licensing pact on “Cryptid” which in its high-school Ya horror tropes and comic book aesthetics, plus short format narrative, aims to break new ground in Europe.
The series is also eliciting “strong interest from other big European territories,” said Beta Film’s Justus Riesenkampff.
“Cryptid” is also the first project within a new specialized pan-European genre production brand which Dramacorp is launching later this year. Currently in final post-production, which is continuing under Dramacorp founder Patrick Nebout despite Covid-19, “Cryptid” will world premiere in competition,...
- 3/23/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
If you're looking to camp out on your couch instead of under the stars, Shudder has plenty of horror movies to keep you entertained in the air-conditioned comforts of your own home this month, with Phantom of the Paradise, Knife+Heart, Boar, Hagazussa, The Exorcist, and more horror films joining the streaming service's eclectic lineup (which also includes a new podcast Queer Horror curated collection this month).
You can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this month below, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Things get wild this month, starting off with the Shudder exclusive big bad pig pic, Boar; a Pride Month collection headlined by the streaming premiere of Knife+Heart; our latest original podcast, Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah; a tour through some of our favorite sub-genres with Sam Zimmerman’s Shudder Guides videos, and new additions...
You can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this month below, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Things get wild this month, starting off with the Shudder exclusive big bad pig pic, Boar; a Pride Month collection headlined by the streaming premiere of Knife+Heart; our latest original podcast, Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah; a tour through some of our favorite sub-genres with Sam Zimmerman’s Shudder Guides videos, and new additions...
- 6/7/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
From VancouverFilm.Net, take a look at the new "Arrow" episode "Spartan", directed by Avi Youabian, guest-starring Ernie Hudson ("Ghostbusters") airing April 22, 2019 on The CW:
"...after the 'Ninth Circle' delivers a major setback for 'Team Arrow', 'Diggle' (David Ramsey) reluctantly reaches out to a Four-Star General of the 'Defense Intelligence Agency' (Ernie Hudson) for help, despite unresolved tension from their past.
"Meanwhile, 'Oliver' (Stephen Amell) discovers a piece of information that he believes will turn 'Emiko' (Sea Shimooka) against the Ninth Circle. Then 'Alena' (Kacey Rohl) returns with an interesting proposal for 'Felicity' (Emily Bett Rickards)..."
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"...after the 'Ninth Circle' delivers a major setback for 'Team Arrow', 'Diggle' (David Ramsey) reluctantly reaches out to a Four-Star General of the 'Defense Intelligence Agency' (Ernie Hudson) for help, despite unresolved tension from their past.
"Meanwhile, 'Oliver' (Stephen Amell) discovers a piece of information that he believes will turn 'Emiko' (Sea Shimooka) against the Ninth Circle. Then 'Alena' (Kacey Rohl) returns with an interesting proposal for 'Felicity' (Emily Bett Rickards)..."
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- 4/16/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Ovid.TV, the newly launched streaming platform created by eight independent-film distributors, is expanding its library. The service has made 10 new titles available to watch, most notably Ben Rivers & Ben Russell’s “A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness” — a Locarno 2013 premiere that travels from an Estonian commune to a Norwegian black-metal show without losing a beat.
Even in the wake of FilmStruck’s closure, the streaming space for film is increasingly crowded. The Criterion Channel officially launches next Monday, April 8, with considerably larger ventures from Disney, Apple, and WarnerMedia forthcoming; even so, Ovid fills such a particular niche that its offerings are unlikely to be found elsewhere. Full information on the 10 new titles:
“A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness” (dir. Ben Rivers & Ben Russell): This festival favorite follows a mysterious character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life.
“Alena” (dir. Daniel di Grado): A transfer...
Even in the wake of FilmStruck’s closure, the streaming space for film is increasingly crowded. The Criterion Channel officially launches next Monday, April 8, with considerably larger ventures from Disney, Apple, and WarnerMedia forthcoming; even so, Ovid fills such a particular niche that its offerings are unlikely to be found elsewhere. Full information on the 10 new titles:
“A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness” (dir. Ben Rivers & Ben Russell): This festival favorite follows a mysterious character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life.
“Alena” (dir. Daniel di Grado): A transfer...
- 4/5/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Sweden’s Dramacorp, the Patrick Nebout-Beta Film joint venture, has come on board “Cyptid,” a Swedish horror thriller series created by up-and-coming Swedish director Daniel Di Grado and French-Belgian comicbook writer Sylvain Runberg.
The 10-part half-hour series will be helmed by Di Grado, who previously directed “Alena,” the series based on Kim W. Andersson’s award winning comic which played at Sitges, and most recently directed an episode of the fantasy series “Jordskott.” Runberg, who co-created “Cyptid,” is best known for adapting the three opus of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” into popular graphic novels and just co-wrote “Millennium: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.”
“Cyptid” takes place in a high school located a Northern Scandinavian village in the aftermath of the horrific murder of a student. The crime reveals the presence of strange creatures lurking in the nearby lake.
Nebout, who is producing “Cyptid” at Dramacorp, said...
The 10-part half-hour series will be helmed by Di Grado, who previously directed “Alena,” the series based on Kim W. Andersson’s award winning comic which played at Sitges, and most recently directed an episode of the fantasy series “Jordskott.” Runberg, who co-created “Cyptid,” is best known for adapting the three opus of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” into popular graphic novels and just co-wrote “Millennium: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.”
“Cyptid” takes place in a high school located a Northern Scandinavian village in the aftermath of the horrific murder of a student. The crime reveals the presence of strange creatures lurking in the nearby lake.
Nebout, who is producing “Cyptid” at Dramacorp, said...
- 4/8/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Based on Kim W. Andersson's internationally acclaimed graphic novel, director Daniel di Grado's Alena premiered in late 2015 at Sitges before making a short festival run that ended late last year.
It didn't play a lot of fests but it garnered enough attention that it was picked up by Icarus Films which will release the thriller next month.
Amalia Holm stars as the titular Alena, a troubled teen who finds herself at an all-girls private school partway through a difficult school year. She's a bit of a loner and used to being bullied but she finds a friend in classmate Josefin who, when Alena starts being bullied, goes out of her way to stand up for Alena when she won't stand up for herself.
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It didn't play a lot of fests but it garnered enough attention that it was picked up by Icarus Films which will release the thriller next month.
Amalia Holm stars as the titular Alena, a troubled teen who finds herself at an all-girls private school partway through a difficult school year. She's a bit of a loner and used to being bullied but she finds a friend in classmate Josefin who, when Alena starts being bullied, goes out of her way to stand up for Alena when she won't stand up for herself.
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- 4/10/2017
- QuietEarth.us
Why do you do it? If you're rich and in power, why don't you just enjoy your privileged position and leave the rest of us alone? Nope. That's not good enough for you. You've got to make the less privileged actively aware that their life will never be as good as yours is, by chance. So don't be surprised if a less-privileged person strikes back. That is the premise of Alena, which is set at an elite school for girls. Synopsis: Based on the internationally acclaimed graphic novel by Kim W. Andersson, Alena is a psychological thriller that combines the revenge themes of Carrie with the tough love of Let the Right One In. With a traumatic event in her recent past, Alena transfers to...
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- 4/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
With the Swedish boarding school horror film Alena arriving in theaters in its native country last week, Dark Horse Comics will proudly make the original graphic novel from writer and illustrator Kim W. Andersson, on which the film is based,… Continue Reading →
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- 8/26/2016
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
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