Following on its acquisition in May of “The Island of Thirty Coffins,” Munich-based Beta Film is doubling down on French production, acquiring international rights to the six-hour France 3 crime thriller “Presumed Guilty.”
Written by Franck Ollivier (“Zodiaque”), the limited series follows Lola, played by Garance Thenault (“La Mante”), who travels to a town on the Brittany coast for a job interview. She soon finds out that no such interview has been scheduled, and that she’s the dead ringer of a local woman who was murdered in the town 22 years earlier to the day.
Produced by Episode Productions for French public broadcaster channel France 3, “Presumed Guilty” is directed by directed by Grégory Ecale, and described by Beta Film as a “family saga set on Brittany’s wild coastline, conveying the authentic mysterious look and feel of the thriller series.”
As instanced by Beta Film’s pick up of “Thirty Coffins,...
Written by Franck Ollivier (“Zodiaque”), the limited series follows Lola, played by Garance Thenault (“La Mante”), who travels to a town on the Brittany coast for a job interview. She soon finds out that no such interview has been scheduled, and that she’s the dead ringer of a local woman who was murdered in the town 22 years earlier to the day.
Produced by Episode Productions for French public broadcaster channel France 3, “Presumed Guilty” is directed by directed by Grégory Ecale, and described by Beta Film as a “family saga set on Brittany’s wild coastline, conveying the authentic mysterious look and feel of the thriller series.”
As instanced by Beta Film’s pick up of “Thirty Coffins,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film, one of Europe’s biggest independent TV companies, has acquired worldwide distribution rights outside France to “The Island of Thirty Coffins,” a French series adaptation of a novel by “Lupin” author Maurice Leblanc.
An atmospheric crime thriller from Leblanc – whose Arsène Lupin character, created in 1905, inspired Netflix biggest foreign-language global hit “Lupin” – “The Island of Thirty Coffins” stars Virginie Ledoyen.
Directed by Frédéric Mermoud (“Les Revenants”) and written by Elsa Marpeau (“Capitaine Marleau”) and Florent Meyer (“Lupin”), its acquisition forms part of a planned far larger drive into French drama series by Beta Films.
“We shall try to acquire more and more French series in the upcoming months and years,” said Jérôme Vincendon, Beta Film exec VP international sales and acquisitions, French-speaking Europe. “We think it’s the right moment,” he added.
Once dominated in prime time by U.S. procedurals, France has seen its domestic TV...
An atmospheric crime thriller from Leblanc – whose Arsène Lupin character, created in 1905, inspired Netflix biggest foreign-language global hit “Lupin” – “The Island of Thirty Coffins” stars Virginie Ledoyen.
Directed by Frédéric Mermoud (“Les Revenants”) and written by Elsa Marpeau (“Capitaine Marleau”) and Florent Meyer (“Lupin”), its acquisition forms part of a planned far larger drive into French drama series by Beta Films.
“We shall try to acquire more and more French series in the upcoming months and years,” said Jérôme Vincendon, Beta Film exec VP international sales and acquisitions, French-speaking Europe. “We think it’s the right moment,” he added.
Once dominated in prime time by U.S. procedurals, France has seen its domestic TV...
- 5/21/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The romantic thriller is the latest production from acclaimed Spanish showrunner-duo Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato.
Beta Film has closed its first major European territory on Spanish Svod player Movistar+’s original series The Pier, striking a deal with French broadcaster TF1 on the eve of the Mipcom in Cannes.
The romantic thriller – set in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia and against spectacular scenery of the surrounding Albufera National Park – is the latest production from acclaimed Spanish showrunner-duo Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, best known for the hit show Money Heist ((Casa de Papel).
“After the excellent...
Beta Film has closed its first major European territory on Spanish Svod player Movistar+’s original series The Pier, striking a deal with French broadcaster TF1 on the eve of the Mipcom in Cannes.
The romantic thriller – set in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia and against spectacular scenery of the surrounding Albufera National Park – is the latest production from acclaimed Spanish showrunner-duo Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, best known for the hit show Money Heist ((Casa de Papel).
“After the excellent...
- 10/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Cannes — In one of the biggest deals to go on a major Mipcom title, involving some of Europe’s largest TV players, France’s TF1 has acquired Alex Pina’s Movistar + Original “The Pier,” sold by Beta Film, and produced with Atresmedia Studios.
Numerous additional deals are already in negotiation, Beta Film revealed Saturday.
Also produced by Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato’s Vancouver Media, “The Pier” marks the showrunner duo’s follow-up to “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”), declared by Netflix this April to be its most watched non English-language series ever.
Alvaro Monte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel” plays the male lead. Capturing a near futuristic Valencia, and the nearby Albufera National Park, an expanse of marshland and rice paddy fields where time seems to move at another race, Pina has commented, the cinematography looks stunning.
In other ways, this is a departure, a sensual...
Numerous additional deals are already in negotiation, Beta Film revealed Saturday.
Also produced by Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato’s Vancouver Media, “The Pier” marks the showrunner duo’s follow-up to “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”), declared by Netflix this April to be its most watched non English-language series ever.
Alvaro Monte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel” plays the male lead. Capturing a near futuristic Valencia, and the nearby Albufera National Park, an expanse of marshland and rice paddy fields where time seems to move at another race, Pina has commented, the cinematography looks stunning.
In other ways, this is a departure, a sensual...
- 10/14/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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