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
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
There’s something comforting about the predictability of a period piece novel adaptation in the Masterpiece Theater tradition. Knowing the story, or even just the rhythms of the genre, there are rarely many surprises. The women will toss off witticisms and cry careful, pretty tears; the men will steel their jaws and declare their love, ideally after reluctantly falling for a woman they hadn’t considered before. There will be romance, heartbreak, births, deaths. Even when it’s not a great adaptation, it’s at least familiar, and that can go a long way.
“Vanity Fair” is counting on just such leniency. It’s neither terrible nor amazing, but at the very least, it’s efficient.
In seven episodes spanning years of social climbing, devastating warfare, and undulating class dynamics, this latest version of William Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” enlists a game cast to follow Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke), an...
“Vanity Fair” is counting on just such leniency. It’s neither terrible nor amazing, but at the very least, it’s efficient.
In seven episodes spanning years of social climbing, devastating warfare, and undulating class dynamics, this latest version of William Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” enlists a game cast to follow Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke), an...
- 12/14/2018
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
“Stranger Things” star Charlie Heaton will take the lead in the BBC’s new two-part drama “The Elephant Man,” the U.K. public broadcaster announced Wednesday. Heaton will star as Joseph Merrick, and the show will span two 90-minute episodes to air on flagship channel BBC One in 2019.
Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, also announced a trio of new drama series from female writers. The new commissions see dramas for BBC One and BBC Two from BAFTA winners Nicole Taylor and Michaela Coel. Oscar-nominated Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson will direct an adaptation of author Sally Rooney’s “Normal People.”
Taylor, who won a BAFTA this year for best miniseries with “Three Girls,” will write six-part thriller “The Nest” for BBC One. Exploring the consequences of a pact between a wealthy couple and a teenage girl that changes all of their lives forever, “The Nest” is produced by Studio Lambert.
Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, also announced a trio of new drama series from female writers. The new commissions see dramas for BBC One and BBC Two from BAFTA winners Nicole Taylor and Michaela Coel. Oscar-nominated Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson will direct an adaptation of author Sally Rooney’s “Normal People.”
Taylor, who won a BAFTA this year for best miniseries with “Three Girls,” will write six-part thriller “The Nest” for BBC One. Exploring the consequences of a pact between a wealthy couple and a teenage girl that changes all of their lives forever, “The Nest” is produced by Studio Lambert.
- 8/22/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Stranger Things breakout Charlie Heaton is to star as Joseph Merrick in new two-part BBC One drama The Elephant Man, I can reveal.
The 2×90 minute drama bio-pic, from The Missing and Requiem producer New Pictures, will chart Merrick’s extraordinary story from his working-class beginnings in Leicestershire, through the work-houses, music halls and freak shows that punctuated 19th Century culture to his time at the London Hospital and his friendship with Dr Frederick Treves.
Commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, and written by Neil McKay (Moorside), the series will be directed by Richard Laxton (Mum). Executive producers are Elaine Pyke and Charlie Pattinson for New Pictures and Tommy Bulfin for BBC. Producer is Tom Mullens (Poldark). all3media will handle international distribution and is associate producer.
The series will be filmed in Wales with transmission due next year with additional casting under way.
The 2×90 minute drama bio-pic, from The Missing and Requiem producer New Pictures, will chart Merrick’s extraordinary story from his working-class beginnings in Leicestershire, through the work-houses, music halls and freak shows that punctuated 19th Century culture to his time at the London Hospital and his friendship with Dr Frederick Treves.
Commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, and written by Neil McKay (Moorside), the series will be directed by Richard Laxton (Mum). Executive producers are Elaine Pyke and Charlie Pattinson for New Pictures and Tommy Bulfin for BBC. Producer is Tom Mullens (Poldark). all3media will handle international distribution and is associate producer.
The series will be filmed in Wales with transmission due next year with additional casting under way.
- 8/21/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
ITV and Amazon have unveiled a first-look at the forthcoming adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic 1848 novel Vanity Fair.
The partners have debuted a short trailer that features Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke with her foot all over a globe, as the seven-part drama is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Mammoth Screen-produced series sees Cooke play Becky Sharp, as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes along the way.
It is the latest adaptation of the classic novel and follows a 2004 feature with Reese Witherspoon as Becky, and a 1998 BBC version. Vanity Fair is produced by Julia Stannard (War & Peace...
The partners have debuted a short trailer that features Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke with her foot all over a globe, as the seven-part drama is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Mammoth Screen-produced series sees Cooke play Becky Sharp, as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes along the way.
It is the latest adaptation of the classic novel and follows a 2004 feature with Reese Witherspoon as Becky, and a 1998 BBC version. Vanity Fair is produced by Julia Stannard (War & Peace...
- 6/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ready Player One star lines up alongside Johnny Flynn and Michael Palin in Thackeray adaptation.
Vanity Fair, the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, has pre-sold into eight territories at Miptv.
Deals have been struck for Australia (BBC First), New Zealand (Tvnz), Spain (Movistar+), Canada (CBC), the Netherlands (Npo 2), Sweden (Svt), Norway (Nrk) and Finland (Yle).
Produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark) and Amazon Studios (who produced the upcoming BBC version of King Lear), the series stars Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One) as heroine Becky Sharp, who navigates through the pitfalls of early 19th century British society.
Vanity Fair, the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, has pre-sold into eight territories at Miptv.
Deals have been struck for Australia (BBC First), New Zealand (Tvnz), Spain (Movistar+), Canada (CBC), the Netherlands (Npo 2), Sweden (Svt), Norway (Nrk) and Finland (Yle).
Produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark) and Amazon Studios (who produced the upcoming BBC version of King Lear), the series stars Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One) as heroine Becky Sharp, who navigates through the pitfalls of early 19th century British society.
- 4/9/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ready Player One star lines up alongside Johnny Flynn and Michael Palin in Thackeray adaptation.
Vanity Fair, the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, has pre-sold into eight territories at Miptv.
Deals have been struck for Australia (BBC First), New Zealand (Tvnz), Spain (Movistar+), Canada (CBC), the Netherlands (Npo 2), Sweden (Svt), Norway (Nrk) and Finland (Yle).
Produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark) and Amazon Studios (who produced the upcoming BBC version of King Lear), the series stars Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One) as heroine Becky Sharp, who navigates through the pitfalls of early 19th century British society.
Vanity Fair, the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, has pre-sold into eight territories at Miptv.
Deals have been struck for Australia (BBC First), New Zealand (Tvnz), Spain (Movistar+), Canada (CBC), the Netherlands (Npo 2), Sweden (Svt), Norway (Nrk) and Finland (Yle).
Produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark) and Amazon Studios (who produced the upcoming BBC version of King Lear), the series stars Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One) as heroine Becky Sharp, who navigates through the pitfalls of early 19th century British society.
- 4/9/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Mammoth Screen to produce seven-part series.
ITV has tied with Amazon for the first time – commissioning a seven-part adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
Mammoth Screen, the company behind ITV’s Victoria, and Amazon Studios will co-produce the 7x60-minute drama which is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and will star Olivia Cooke will star as the social climbing heroine Becky Sharp.
Thackeray’s novel, which was published as a serialisation from 1848, is to be adapted by Gwyneth Hughes.
Mammoth Screen managing director Damien Timmer will executive produce the series alongside Hughes, James Strong and Tom Mullens.
Vanity Fair was ordered by head of drama Polly Hill, who told Screen’s sister publication Broadcast earlier this month that she was open to signing more international co-production deals.
“We want to be in the market for those bigger, global facing dramas because the audience has become an international one,” she said. “What...
ITV has tied with Amazon for the first time – commissioning a seven-part adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
Mammoth Screen, the company behind ITV’s Victoria, and Amazon Studios will co-produce the 7x60-minute drama which is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and will star Olivia Cooke will star as the social climbing heroine Becky Sharp.
Thackeray’s novel, which was published as a serialisation from 1848, is to be adapted by Gwyneth Hughes.
Mammoth Screen managing director Damien Timmer will executive produce the series alongside Hughes, James Strong and Tom Mullens.
Vanity Fair was ordered by head of drama Polly Hill, who told Screen’s sister publication Broadcast earlier this month that she was open to signing more international co-production deals.
“We want to be in the market for those bigger, global facing dramas because the audience has become an international one,” she said. “What...
- 6/28/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Helen McCrory will star as Emma Blunt in the new Fearless TV show coming to ITV. Series creator Patrick Harbinson, a Homeland TV series writer and Ep, describes the new drama as a "legal thriller," adding that Fearless is, "...written in the crash zone where law and politics collide." Filming is set to being in London and East Anglia, in September 2016.Fearless will be produced by Houdini & Doyle's Adrian Sturges and executive produced by Mammoth Screen’s Managing Director, Damien Timmer, Tom Mullens, and Harbinson. Pete Travis is directing the first season, which consists of six one-hour episodes. The series will be distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global. Get the details after the jump, from the ITV press release.Read More…...
- 8/17/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Fortissimo Films has acquired a slate of films it plans to launch at the Venice, Toronto or San Sebastian film festivals. The pics include , a Venice premiere from director Naji Abu Nowar about a boy’s journey to adulthood after the death of his father, which includes a treacherous journey across the Arabian Desert. Also on the slate is Toronto debutant Ned Rifle, the third film in director Hal Hartley’s trilogy that began with Henry Fool and Fay Grim. This one follows Henry and Fay’s teenage son Ned, who emerges from a witness-protection program with a single purpose: to kill his father for ruining his mother’s life. The company also will present Atlantic, windsurfing-themed romantic road movie from Jan-Willem van Ewijk, also bowing at Toronto, and San Sebastian premiere Foodies, a documentary from co-directors, Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius and Henrik Stockare, which focuses on the world of great food,...
- 8/16/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
BBC New Tricks
The popular BBC crime drama New Tricks is set to return for an eleventh season this Fall. At the end of the last season, Tamzin Outhwaite (Eastenders) and Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses) joined the ensemble cast and they’ll be back for the new season alongside regulars such as Dennis Waterman (Minder) and Denis Lawson. Outhwaite and Lyndhurst will attempt to fill the void left by the departures of Amanda Redman and James Bolam.
With regard to the new arrivals Producer, Tom Mullens, said: “There’s definitely a new dynamic within the team, the format is still the same with three unruly boys running rings around their boss. Tamzin’s character brings something slightly different to the dynamic and so do the guys and there are different relationships to explore between them all.”
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The popular BBC crime drama New Tricks is set to return for an eleventh season this Fall. At the end of the last season, Tamzin Outhwaite (Eastenders) and Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses) joined the ensemble cast and they’ll be back for the new season alongside regulars such as Dennis Waterman (Minder) and Denis Lawson. Outhwaite and Lyndhurst will attempt to fill the void left by the departures of Amanda Redman and James Bolam.
With regard to the new arrivals Producer, Tom Mullens, said: “There’s definitely a new dynamic within the team, the format is still the same with three unruly boys running rings around their boss. Tamzin’s character brings something slightly different to the dynamic and so do the guys and there are different relationships to explore between them all.”
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- 8/3/2014
- by Edited by K Kinsella
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