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Gabriella Carriere has joined Fremantle as group head of strategy, reporting into Andrea Scrosati, group COO and CEO continental Europe. Carriere joins from Sky Italia where she held the positions of Sky Wifi marketing senior director, media and commercial partnerships director and strategy director since joining in 2016. She replaces Van Truong, who held the position for five years and is now head of special projects, reporting into Scrosati and working closely with CEO Jennifer Mullin and the rest of the leadership team.

Scrosati said: “Gabriella is an exceptional talent. I had the great opportunity to work with her in the past and she always struck me for her unique analytical and business skills and understanding of the media market. Her experience and innovative approach will help us continue to define a strategy that will be key to Fremantle’s very ambitious global growth plans.

Carriere added: ““Fremantle is home...

Cineflix Rights Goes On Scripted Sales Spree

UK-based Cineflix Rights has unveiled a batch of scripted library series sales. Mx Player in India and Filmin (Spain) have acquired seasons one and two of Israeli police corruption thriller Manayek, which was originally for Yoav Gross Productions for Kan 11 Network, Israel). Mx Player has also bought the Syfy and Sci-Fi Channel Canada supernatural drama Wynonna Earp. Israel’s Hot is a buyer of dark comedy crime caper Happily Married and Icelandic political drama The Minister. Elsewhere, Talpa Network (Netherlands), Sky Italia and Rai (Italy) have acquired the latest season of CBC drama Coroner, while Acorn TV (India), Sky Italia, and BritBox (Africa) have bought Whitstable Pearl. Ireland’s TG4 has acquired French crime drama Rebecca, while Scotland’s Stv took UK and Ireland rights to Australian suburban psychological thriller Secrets and Lies.

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Studiocanal has sold a raft of global territories on four-part thriller drama series “Ridley Road.” Created by Studiocanal’s Red Production Company, commissioned for BBC One and co-produced with Masterpiece, the series will air in the U.S. on PBS Masterpiece, in France on Canal Plus, and has also been acquired by Now Studio Hong Kong, ABC Australia, Nova Greece, Yle Finland, Svt Sweden, Nrk Norway, Dr Denmark, Rte Ireland, Hot Israel, Canal Plus Poland and Disney Plus Benelux. A sale to Mola Indonesia was agreed earlier this year.

Based on Jo Bloom’s book, the series follows a young Jewish woman who falls in love with a member of the ’62 Group. She rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fights against fascism in London, risking everything for her beliefs for the man she loves.

The drama adaption is written, and executive produced by Sarah Solemani...

Kaludjercic has worked at leading festivals and at top sales and distribution outfits.

Growing up in her native Croatia against the backdrop of the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia, Vanja Kaludjercic had limited access to cinema, let alone auteur filmmaking.

“I’d always been interested in cinema and culture but there wasn’t much going on at all for many years after the war,” says Kaludjercic, who kicks-off her maiden edition as artistic director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) this week.

Rotterdam is the latest chapter in a remarkable 20-year career that has encompassed roles in the...

BiopicReports are that the biopic, titled 'Mr', is being directed by Ravi Srivatsa. Digital NativeReports about a biopic on reformed underworld don Muthappa Rai made it to the headlines several years ago, but the project failed to take off for various reasons. Now, we hear that the biopic, titled Mr has gone on the floors without creating any buzz. Reports are that the biopic, titled Mr, is being directed by Ravi Srivatsa of Ganda Hendathi and Deadly Soma fame with producer Shubharajanna's son Deekshith playing the title role. Incidentally, the film is being bankrolled by Shubharajanna under his banner Soubhagya Lakshmi Films. Mr will be made into a three-part series focussing on the life of the late underworld don /businessman Muthappa Rai’s life. The director has done a lot of research for this biopic, we hear. On the progress of Mr, we hear that the intro scene has been...

Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, during which millions of self-isolating individuals are tuning into home entertainment, the trends shaping global content have never been more evident.

Recent findings by London-based media research firm Ampere Analysis, which delivered a presentation as part of virtual event Miptv Plus, reveals an unscripted boom among streamers, as well as hot topics in drama and the go-to broadcasters for co-production.

Read on for key takeaways:

1) Unscripted delivers for global streamers

While drama remains the top genre across projects commissioned globally, with more than 500 projects in the works, documentary is not far behind, with 350 titles. A breakdown of Netflix’s TV acquisition run rate from June to December 2019 shows consistent volumes of documentary acquisitions (32 hours) and entertainment (16 hours) month to month, versus high-volume and high-variability acquisitions in genres such as children’s content (172 hours) and romance (182 hours), which indicate just a handful of package deals.

Paradise (Ray) Film Movement Director: Andrey Konchalovsky Written by: Andrey Konchalovsky, Elena Kiseleva Cast: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Peter Kurth, Viktor Sukhorukov, Philippe Duquesne, Thomas Darchinger Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/2/17 Opens: October 6, 2017 In the final paragraph of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” Sidney Carton does a far, far better thing than […]

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Exclusive: Stephan Komandarev’s film is playing in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

French distributer Rezo Films has boarded Un Certain Regard selection Directions (Posoki), directed by Stephan Komandarev and being sold by Arri Media International.

Directions marks Komandarev’s return to Cannes after he co-produced Bogdan Mirica’s Dogs, which won the 2016 Fipresci Prize in Un Certain Regard.

“We are excited to take the French audience on this edgy Bulgarian Taxi Driver-like ride,” a Rezo spokesman commented on the pick-up, announced this week in Cannes.

Directions opens with an ambitious man taking his daughter to school in the taxi he drives as he sets up a new small business. After a short meeting with his crooked banker, he grasps the full extent of systemic corruption and injustice that will destroy his life. His way out is to shoot the banker and then himself. The incident becomes the subject of national debate held on call-in...

Andrei Konchalovsky's Rai (Paradise) won best film at the Russian film awards, the Nikas, held at Moscow's Mossovet theater on Tuesday.

The Holocaust-themed drama also won Konchalovsky the best director award, while the film's star, Yulia Vysotskaya, was awarded best actress.

Last year, the film collected the best director Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and was later Russia's entry for the Academy Awards' best foreign-language film long list, but failed to make the final nominations.

The best actor award went to Timofey Tribuntsev for his role in Nikolai Dostal's Monakh i bes (Monk and Devil). The film's...