In today’s Global Bulletin, BBC Four snags “The Hunt for a Killer”; Curious Films and Picture Zero team on U.K. Climate Assembly doc; Nada Arnot joins Britbox North America; Rainmaker Content boards “Amy Winter” and Global Agency sells Turkish drama “The Phoenix” in several territories.
Acquisition
BBC Four has picked up Swedish crime thriller “The Hunt for a Killer” from Banijay Rights. The series is produced by Yellow Bird and will head to BBC iPlayer later this summer. Set in the south of Sweden in the late ’80s, “The Hunt for a Killer” dramatizes the real-life disappearance and murder of a 10-year-old girl and its subsequent 16-year long investigation. Banijay has also sold the series to Sbs in Australia, Rtl in Germany and NBCUniversal in France. The series is co-produced by Banijay’s Yellow Bird and Swedish broadcaster Svt and Film I Skåne.
Documentary
Curious Films and Picture Zero in the U.
Acquisition
BBC Four has picked up Swedish crime thriller “The Hunt for a Killer” from Banijay Rights. The series is produced by Yellow Bird and will head to BBC iPlayer later this summer. Set in the south of Sweden in the late ’80s, “The Hunt for a Killer” dramatizes the real-life disappearance and murder of a 10-year-old girl and its subsequent 16-year long investigation. Banijay has also sold the series to Sbs in Australia, Rtl in Germany and NBCUniversal in France. The series is co-produced by Banijay’s Yellow Bird and Swedish broadcaster Svt and Film I Skåne.
Documentary
Curious Films and Picture Zero in the U.
- 5/12/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Black Mirror and Peterloo star Maxine Peake is attached to front a British drama about the murder of a young woman and her mother’s fight to get the 800-year-old double jeopardy law revoked.
Peake, who recently starred in Hulu and Channel 4 comedy drama The Bisexual, is attached to star in Reasonable Doubt from Duchess Street Productions, the scripted production company run by former Fremantle worldwide drama chief Donna Wiffen.
Reasonable Doubt is the story of Ann Ming’s battle to change the double jeopardy law in the UK after her daughter Julie Hogg was killed by Billy Dunlop in 1989. She subsequently wrote a book, For The Love Of Julie, about the experience. Peake is set to star as Ming in the project, which is in development with Duchess Street. Susan Everett, who has previously written for BBC Welsh crime drama Hinterland, has penned a script.
The project...
Peake, who recently starred in Hulu and Channel 4 comedy drama The Bisexual, is attached to star in Reasonable Doubt from Duchess Street Productions, the scripted production company run by former Fremantle worldwide drama chief Donna Wiffen.
Reasonable Doubt is the story of Ann Ming’s battle to change the double jeopardy law in the UK after her daughter Julie Hogg was killed by Billy Dunlop in 1989. She subsequently wrote a book, For The Love Of Julie, about the experience. Peake is set to star as Ming in the project, which is in development with Duchess Street. Susan Everett, who has previously written for BBC Welsh crime drama Hinterland, has penned a script.
The project...
- 1/10/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran producers announce new slate with supernatural thriller and Bhopal doc.
Veteran industry executives Colin Vaines, Hamish McAlpine and Carole Siller are joining forces on production outfit Broadstairs Films.
The company’s first slate features include Lost Girl - a London-based supernatural thriller about a kidnapping that goes awry with horrifying consequences, based on a story by McAlpine and written by Susan Everett.
Also on the slate is documentary Bhopal, about the deadly man-made disaster in India which saw an American-owned pesticide plant leak deadly chemical gas over densely packed slums.
Splitting their time between the UK and La, the partners will be at the Afm to cement relationships.
Siller said: “The reason the three of us have come together is because we each bring something extremely valuable to the table.
“We complement each other brilliantly, with Hamish’s proficiency in bringing movies to audiences, Colin’s expertise in filmmaking having produced an array of critically acclaimed...
Veteran industry executives Colin Vaines, Hamish McAlpine and Carole Siller are joining forces on production outfit Broadstairs Films.
The company’s first slate features include Lost Girl - a London-based supernatural thriller about a kidnapping that goes awry with horrifying consequences, based on a story by McAlpine and written by Susan Everett.
Also on the slate is documentary Bhopal, about the deadly man-made disaster in India which saw an American-owned pesticide plant leak deadly chemical gas over densely packed slums.
Splitting their time between the UK and La, the partners will be at the Afm to cement relationships.
Siller said: “The reason the three of us have come together is because we each bring something extremely valuable to the table.
“We complement each other brilliantly, with Hamish’s proficiency in bringing movies to audiences, Colin’s expertise in filmmaking having produced an array of critically acclaimed...
- 10/29/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Veteran producers announce new slate with supernatural thriller and Bhopal doc.
Veteran industry executives Colin Vaines, Hamish McAlpine and Carole Siller are joining forces on production outfit Broadstairs Films.
The company’s first slate features include Lost Girl - a London-based supernatural thriller about a kidnapping that goes awry with horrifying consequences, based on a story by McAlpine and written by Susan Everett.
Also on the slate is documentary Bhopal, about the deadly man-made disaster in India which saw an American-owned pesticide plant leak deadly chemical gas over densely packed slums.
Splitting their time between the UK and La, the partners will be at the Afm to cement relationships.
Siller said: “The reason the three of us have come together is because we each bring something extremely valuable to the table.
“We complement each other brilliantly, with Hamish’s proficiency in bringing movies to audiences, Colin’s expertise in filmmaking having produced an array of critically acclaimed...
Veteran industry executives Colin Vaines, Hamish McAlpine and Carole Siller are joining forces on production outfit Broadstairs Films.
The company’s first slate features include Lost Girl - a London-based supernatural thriller about a kidnapping that goes awry with horrifying consequences, based on a story by McAlpine and written by Susan Everett.
Also on the slate is documentary Bhopal, about the deadly man-made disaster in India which saw an American-owned pesticide plant leak deadly chemical gas over densely packed slums.
Splitting their time between the UK and La, the partners will be at the Afm to cement relationships.
Siller said: “The reason the three of us have come together is because we each bring something extremely valuable to the table.
“We complement each other brilliantly, with Hamish’s proficiency in bringing movies to audiences, Colin’s expertise in filmmaking having produced an array of critically acclaimed...
- 10/29/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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