Exclusive: Beta Film has picked up distribution rights to French thriller Homejacking, which is co-created by Lupin writer Tigran Rosine, and will launch sales at Series Mania.
The German major has revealed its slate for the Lille confab that kicks off in two weeks, with Homejacking set to air in the French Competition Section.
Commissioned for French pay-tv network Ocs, Homejacking is set in an affluent suburban residence where one morning, a middle-class couple is the victim of an intrusion by a hooded assailant. No one know yet what he is looking for, but deep in their basement lies a secret that was hidden for decades.
The series is co-created by Rosine, who penned eight episodes of Netflix smash Lupin. Florent Meyer (Blackspot) is the other co-creator and show was made in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer.
Beta also has Latvia’s Soviet Jeans, Germany’s 30 Days of Lust and Herrhausen...
The German major has revealed its slate for the Lille confab that kicks off in two weeks, with Homejacking set to air in the French Competition Section.
Commissioned for French pay-tv network Ocs, Homejacking is set in an affluent suburban residence where one morning, a middle-class couple is the victim of an intrusion by a hooded assailant. No one know yet what he is looking for, but deep in their basement lies a secret that was hidden for decades.
The series is co-created by Rosine, who penned eight episodes of Netflix smash Lupin. Florent Meyer (Blackspot) is the other co-creator and show was made in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer.
Beta also has Latvia’s Soviet Jeans, Germany’s 30 Days of Lust and Herrhausen...
- 3/5/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the great things about streaming media platforms is that they offer access to entertainment from around the world. With just the click of a button, you can watch movies and shows in Polish, Thai, Dutch, Spanish, and more, all from the comfort of your couch! On top of that, streaming services tend to be more willing to take chances on fresh and foreign ideas, giving them the opportunity to flounder or flourish for audiences who might never have seen them otherwise. And for us horror fans, that means unlimited spooky, bloody, and downright scary content like the world's goriest buffet.
The gamble here is that horror as a genre has always been a perilous form of media, as it's often perceived as taboo-breaking and (occasionally) downright repugnant. Horror projects often portray things we don't want to face and yet somehow find ourselves inexorably drawn to. Streaming media has...
The gamble here is that horror as a genre has always been a perilous form of media, as it's often perceived as taboo-breaking and (occasionally) downright repugnant. Horror projects often portray things we don't want to face and yet somehow find ourselves inexorably drawn to. Streaming media has...
- 1/22/2023
- by Jessica Fisher
- Slash Film
After introducing the project at MipTV earlier this year, distributor Newen Connect is bringing its crime thriller series “Syndrome E” to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous, the international sales event for French shows in Biarritz, South-West France, which runs Sept. 4-8.
“Syndrome E” is the first TV series adapted from the work of international best-selling thriller writer and screenwriter Franck Thilliez. The French author was the fourth most read writer in France in 2020, with more than 7 million books sold in France and translated in more than 20 countries.
“Syndrome E” is the first TV series adapted from international best-selling thriller writer and screenwriter Franck Thilliez. The French author was the fourth most read writer in France in 2020, with more than 7 million books sold in France and translated in more than 20 countries.
“Syndrome E” is the first book of the Sharko and Hennebelle novels, one of Thilliez’s franchises. The adaptation was entrusted to screenwriter Mathieu Missoffe,...
“Syndrome E” is the first TV series adapted from the work of international best-selling thriller writer and screenwriter Franck Thilliez. The French author was the fourth most read writer in France in 2020, with more than 7 million books sold in France and translated in more than 20 countries.
“Syndrome E” is the first TV series adapted from international best-selling thriller writer and screenwriter Franck Thilliez. The French author was the fourth most read writer in France in 2020, with more than 7 million books sold in France and translated in more than 20 countries.
“Syndrome E” is the first book of the Sharko and Hennebelle novels, one of Thilliez’s franchises. The adaptation was entrusted to screenwriter Mathieu Missoffe,...
- 9/4/2022
- by Julie Vincent
- Variety Film + TV
Vincent Maël Cardona, whose 2021 pic “Magnetic Beats” won a prize at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and a Cesar Award for best first film, is set to direct “De Grâce,” a sprawling crime thriller unfolding in the northern French port city of Le Havre.
The series is being co-produced and commissioned by Arte France, and is produced by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin at Ego Productions, a Mediawan company. Belgium’s Savage Films is co-producing. Mediawan Rights is representing the show in international markets.
Set to start shooting on location in Le Havre on Aug. 8, “De Grâce” features a strong ensemble cast including Olivier Gourmet (“The Minister”), Margot Bancilhon (“Five”), Panayotis Pascot (“Mon chien stupide”), Pierre Lottin (“Notre-Dame on Fire”), Astrid Whettnall (“Baron noir”), Philippe Rebbot.(“L’amour flou”) and French rapper Gringe.
“De Grâce,” penned by Maxime Crupaux (“Cherif”) and Baptiste Fillon, tells the story of Pierre Leprieur (Gourmet), a native of Le Havre who...
The series is being co-produced and commissioned by Arte France, and is produced by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin at Ego Productions, a Mediawan company. Belgium’s Savage Films is co-producing. Mediawan Rights is representing the show in international markets.
Set to start shooting on location in Le Havre on Aug. 8, “De Grâce” features a strong ensemble cast including Olivier Gourmet (“The Minister”), Margot Bancilhon (“Five”), Panayotis Pascot (“Mon chien stupide”), Pierre Lottin (“Notre-Dame on Fire”), Astrid Whettnall (“Baron noir”), Philippe Rebbot.(“L’amour flou”) and French rapper Gringe.
“De Grâce,” penned by Maxime Crupaux (“Cherif”) and Baptiste Fillon, tells the story of Pierre Leprieur (Gourmet), a native of Le Havre who...
- 8/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Black Spot Books announces a new anthology, Into The Forest: Tales Of The Baba Yaga [Black Spot Books, November 8, 2022], featuring new and exclusive stories inspired by the Baba Yaga—the witch of Slavic folklore—written by some of today’s leading women-in-horror. Edited by Lindy Ryan [Under Her Skin], Into The Forest includes twenty-three original stories [...]
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- 5/14/2022
- by Michael Joy
- Horror Asylum
Disney Plus has unveiled the trailer and key art for “Parallels,” its new French Original series which has been described as a fantasy sci-fi series in the vein of “Stranger Things.” All six episodes will launch on March 23 on Disney Plus’ platform worldwide.
“Parallels” tells the story of four friends — Bilal, Romane, Samuel and Victor — whose lives are turned upside down when a mysterious event scatters the group into different timelines. The four teenagers will do all they can to understand what has happened and try to get back to the carefree innocence of their former lives.
The series is headlined by teenagers and features many fresh faces, including Thomas Chomel (“Clem”), Omar Mebrouk, Jules Houplain (“Hpi”), Jade Pedri (“Ils étaient dix”), Naidra Ayadi and Guillaume Labbé. Other cast members include Gil Alma (“César Wagner”), Elise Diamant (“Mensonges”), Dimitri Storoge, Agnès Miguras (“Askip”), Maxime Bergeron, Victoria Eber (“Beyond Appearances”) and Timoté Rigault.
“Parallels” tells the story of four friends — Bilal, Romane, Samuel and Victor — whose lives are turned upside down when a mysterious event scatters the group into different timelines. The four teenagers will do all they can to understand what has happened and try to get back to the carefree innocence of their former lives.
The series is headlined by teenagers and features many fresh faces, including Thomas Chomel (“Clem”), Omar Mebrouk, Jules Houplain (“Hpi”), Jade Pedri (“Ils étaient dix”), Naidra Ayadi and Guillaume Labbé. Other cast members include Gil Alma (“César Wagner”), Elise Diamant (“Mensonges”), Dimitri Storoge, Agnès Miguras (“Askip”), Maxime Bergeron, Victoria Eber (“Beyond Appearances”) and Timoté Rigault.
- 3/14/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
From out of the Golden Age of Horror Cinema and Gothic Literature, comes Classic Monsters Unleashed [July 12, 2022] an anthology starring Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Invisible Man, and The Phantom of the Opera, among many other sinister characters. Launched as a Kickstarter project, Classic Monsters Unleashed quickly became the number one highest funded prose [...]
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- 1/29/2022
- by Michael Joy
- Horror Asylum
Sometimes a creator’s different instincts and plans don’t always play nice with each other. For example, a costumed-hero story has certain standard tropes: the hero can always leave the bad guys tied up with a nice note for the authorities and the reader knows that means justice has and will be done.
But if the same creator wants to do a story about corrupt cops in what seems to be a deeply corrupt city, tying up those cops will not have the same expected result: it just means their compatriots will untie them, maybe make fun of them, maybe get angry on their behalf. Frankly, it would just annoy Certain People even more: that’s an event for the middle of the story, not the end.
So I’m not as happy with Ben Sears’s new graphic novel Young Shadow as I was with the last book of his I read,...
But if the same creator wants to do a story about corrupt cops in what seems to be a deeply corrupt city, tying up those cops will not have the same expected result: it just means their compatriots will untie them, maybe make fun of them, maybe get angry on their behalf. Frankly, it would just annoy Certain People even more: that’s an event for the middle of the story, not the end.
So I’m not as happy with Ben Sears’s new graphic novel Young Shadow as I was with the last book of his I read,...
- 8/17/2021
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Reda Kateb and Naidra Ayadi also star in the cast of Thomas Kruithof’s second feature film, which is produced by 24 25 Films and sold by Elle Driver. Thomas Kruithof has kicked off filming in the Paris region on his second full-length work: Promises. Discovered via The Eavesdropper (2017), the filmmaker has drawn together a cast composed of Isabelle Huppert (recently well-received in Mama Weed and whom we’ll be seeing next year in Joan and Caravaggio’s Shadow), Reda Kateb and Naidra Ayadi (crowned Best Female New Hope at the 2012 Césars thanks to Poliss; likewise drawing attention in the series Black Spot). Written by Thomas Kruithof and Jean-Baptiste Delafon (of the series Baron...
- 11/26/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The director’s feature debut stars Ana Girardot, among others; the Gloria Films and 2.4.7 Films production is being sold abroad by Playtime. After kicking off on 2 March, and then grinding to a halt on 16 March because of the health crisis, the shoot for Arnaud Malherbe’s feature debut, the fantasy tale Ogre, resumed on 15 June in the Morvan, where it is slated to wrap on 18 July. The cast includes Ana Girardot, young actor Giovanni Pucci and Samuel Jouy.Malherbe has short films such as Macadam Peau-rouge (in the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2009) and Dans...
Slate also features directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine’s comedy drama Delete History.
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
- 10/30/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker, Patrick Pineau and Sofian Khammes star. An Agat Films production sold by mk2. Filming is set to begin on 22 October for Un Triomphe (translation: A Triumph), Emmanuel Courcol’s second feature after Ceasefire (unveiled on the Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2016). The cast includes Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker (winner of the Best Newcomer César award in 2008 for Hunting and Gathering; appreciated in Miss and the Doctors,...
The Black Spot actress will be flanked by Sofiane Khammes among the cast of Just Philippot’s feature debut, a Capricci and The Jokers production that is being sold by Wild Bunch. 19 August will mark the start of the shoot for the feature debut by Just Philippot, La Nuée (lit. “The Swarm”). Having turned heads with his short films, such as Acid (in the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2018 and in the international competition at this year’s Sundance) and Ses souffles (shortlisted for a nomination for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2016), the director belongs to the first batch of auteurs selected with their feature-length projects to benefit from the Cnc’s support scheme in favour of genre films. Standing out among the cast are Suliane Brahim (a Comédie Française pensionnaire who played the role of major Laurène Weiss in the series Black Spot, initially aired on.
This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings.
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable, streaming and whatever “Quibi” is, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
This week, you’ll find over 30 premieres (including America’s Got Talent and Good Omens), 13 finales (including Killing Eve and Fosse/Verdon) and so much more.
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable, streaming and whatever “Quibi” is, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
This week, you’ll find over 30 premieres (including America’s Got Talent and Good Omens), 13 finales (including Killing Eve and Fosse/Verdon) and so much more.
- 5/25/2019
- TVLine.com
Returning 10-part series takes place in near future in world where oxygen is in short supply.
Bron Studios continues its push into the international TV arena and is teaming up with Beta Film’s production companies Dramacorp and Isolani Pictures to co-produce the sci-fi TV series Rare.
Bron is financing the returning 10-part series based on an original idea by Thierry Poiraud, who directed the French series Black Spot, about a world in the near future where oxygen is in short supply.
Rare centres on Hanna, who rises up to break the cycle of miserable existence where people inhabit pockets...
Bron Studios continues its push into the international TV arena and is teaming up with Beta Film’s production companies Dramacorp and Isolani Pictures to co-produce the sci-fi TV series Rare.
Bron is financing the returning 10-part series based on an original idea by Thierry Poiraud, who directed the French series Black Spot, about a world in the near future where oxygen is in short supply.
Rare centres on Hanna, who rises up to break the cycle of miserable existence where people inhabit pockets...
- 10/15/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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