Audiovisual from Spain, an umbrella brand created to support Spanish content producers and distributors, is organizing the first Brand New Spanish Content Breakfast, an invitation-only sales event for international buyers,
It’s unclear what’s being served but if it’s a typical Spanish breakfast, then expect some pinchos de tortilla, café con leche and some bollos (buns), at least. What is guaranteed is a widely diverse range of shows, from period dramas to thrillers, romcoms and children’s fare.
The Oct 17 event at the Seaview Producers Hub in Cannes will showcase the latest content from the most prominent Spanish distributors, led by such heavy hitters as Rtve, Moviestar +, Filmax, Atresmedia, Plano a Plano and Onza.
Acquisition execs attending will have pre-scheduled meetings based on their selections.
Audiovisual from Spain’s Mipcom participation is coordinated by Spanish trade institute Icex, with the support of the Spain Audiovisual Hub of the...
It’s unclear what’s being served but if it’s a typical Spanish breakfast, then expect some pinchos de tortilla, café con leche and some bollos (buns), at least. What is guaranteed is a widely diverse range of shows, from period dramas to thrillers, romcoms and children’s fare.
The Oct 17 event at the Seaview Producers Hub in Cannes will showcase the latest content from the most prominent Spanish distributors, led by such heavy hitters as Rtve, Moviestar +, Filmax, Atresmedia, Plano a Plano and Onza.
Acquisition execs attending will have pre-scheduled meetings based on their selections.
Audiovisual from Spain’s Mipcom participation is coordinated by Spanish trade institute Icex, with the support of the Spain Audiovisual Hub of the...
- 10/16/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente, Emiliano De Pablos and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: British author Lucy Clarke, who has had two novels adapted for TV by Paramount+, has seen rights to her latest thriller The Hike snapped up by Urban Myth Films.
The Hike will be made into a TV series by the Studiocanal-backed Lazarus Project producer, penned by Boiling Point’s Roanne Bardsley. No network is attached as of yet.
The Hike follows friends Maggie, Helena, Liz and Joni as they leave behind their everyday lives to hike out into the beautiful Norwegian wild. But there’s a darker side to the wilderness – and waiting on the trail is someone who’d do anything to stop the group walking away alive.
The move follows a busy couple of years for Clarke, who has seen her novels No Escape and The Castaways adapted for TV by Paramount+, although neither were produced by Urban Myth. The former starred Abigail Lawrie and Rhianne...
The Hike will be made into a TV series by the Studiocanal-backed Lazarus Project producer, penned by Boiling Point’s Roanne Bardsley. No network is attached as of yet.
The Hike follows friends Maggie, Helena, Liz and Joni as they leave behind their everyday lives to hike out into the beautiful Norwegian wild. But there’s a darker side to the wilderness – and waiting on the trail is someone who’d do anything to stop the group walking away alive.
The move follows a busy couple of years for Clarke, who has seen her novels No Escape and The Castaways adapted for TV by Paramount+, although neither were produced by Urban Myth. The former starred Abigail Lawrie and Rhianne...
- 9/27/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Woodcutter Story,” a Finnish drama with a surreal touch, has been sold to Australia (Palace Films), Baltics (Estinfilm), Sweden (Njuta), Germany (Eksystent) and France (Urban), Paris-based Totem Films shared exclusively with Variety.
Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high. Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival.
“It’s a very strange film,” said Myllylahti back in May. Also opening up about a real-life encounter – and real-life woodcutter – that inspired him.
“There was something very Finnish about the way he was dealing with his ordeals: sometimes,...
Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high. Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival.
“It’s a very strange film,” said Myllylahti back in May. Also opening up about a real-life encounter – and real-life woodcutter – that inspired him.
“There was something very Finnish about the way he was dealing with his ordeals: sometimes,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
As a director, Taika Waititi is capable of handling major shifts in tone, switching gears from irreverent to tragic or silly to serious in the blink of an eye. His fondness for balancing darkness with light has made some of his movies polarizing, whereas others have enjoyed almost universal praise. Among the examples of the latter is "Thor: Ragnarok," the 2017 film that turned the quirky Kiwi funnyman into a household name.
Just about every story thread in "Ragnarok" mixes hilarity with sadness. There's Thor and Loki, whose ongoing squabbles are both very funny yet tragic in the face of their shared personal losses. There's Valkyrie, whose heavy drinking is played for laughs until the film reveals it's a coping mechanism for her Ptsd. Even Karl Urban's Asgardian warrior Skurge, who starts off delivering a rib-tickling speech about the stuff he's collected acting as guardian of the Bifröst Bridge, evolves...
Just about every story thread in "Ragnarok" mixes hilarity with sadness. There's Thor and Loki, whose ongoing squabbles are both very funny yet tragic in the face of their shared personal losses. There's Valkyrie, whose heavy drinking is played for laughs until the film reveals it's a coping mechanism for her Ptsd. Even Karl Urban's Asgardian warrior Skurge, who starts off delivering a rib-tickling speech about the stuff he's collected acting as guardian of the Bifröst Bridge, evolves...
- 8/15/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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