Exclusive: Walter Presents has stocked up on premium international drama and bought a trio of titles from Zdf Studios. The on-demand service is operated by Global Series Network and its lineup is curated by Walter Iuzzolino. It majors in the best of foreign-language drama from around the world and Iuzzolino has duly snapped up The Shadow, Suplex and more Sløborn.
The Shadow follows a female journalist embarking on a new life in Vienna. Once there, she meets a beggar who tells her she is going to kill a man, setting a dark prophecy in motion. The six-parter was for German streamer ZDFneo and scooped the Audience Choice Award at the German Seriencamp festival in 2023. It will be on Walter Presents services in the U.S. and the UK.
Danish series Suplex will also be on the U.S. service. The show is a whodunnit following events after a competitor is murdered at a wrestling tournament.
The Shadow follows a female journalist embarking on a new life in Vienna. Once there, she meets a beggar who tells her she is going to kill a man, setting a dark prophecy in motion. The six-parter was for German streamer ZDFneo and scooped the Audience Choice Award at the German Seriencamp festival in 2023. It will be on Walter Presents services in the U.S. and the UK.
Danish series Suplex will also be on the U.S. service. The show is a whodunnit following events after a competitor is murdered at a wrestling tournament.
- 9/12/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
The series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Faithless from Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson will debut in competition as part of the Primetime & Short Cuts line up at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list.
The series will screen on Wednesday 11th September at TIFF before hitting Svt and Arte France in 2025. Fremantle is handling international sales on the series. We shared the first look at the project and interviewed Alfredson back in February. You can check that out here.
Billed as a “searing tale of love and betrayal,” the project is a six-part TV series based on the 2000 feature Faithless, which Ingmar Bergman penned for his former partner Liv Ullmann. The original film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and starred Lena Endre and Erland Josephson. The entire series is directed by Alfredson from scripts adapted by Norwegian writer Sara Johnsen.
The series will screen on Wednesday 11th September at TIFF before hitting Svt and Arte France in 2025. Fremantle is handling international sales on the series. We shared the first look at the project and interviewed Alfredson back in February. You can check that out here.
Billed as a “searing tale of love and betrayal,” the project is a six-part TV series based on the 2000 feature Faithless, which Ingmar Bergman penned for his former partner Liv Ullmann. The original film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and starred Lena Endre and Erland Josephson. The entire series is directed by Alfredson from scripts adapted by Norwegian writer Sara Johnsen.
- 8/9/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Drehbuchautorin Annette Hess ist eine der starken Stimmen in der deutschen Film- und Serienbranche. Dafür erhielt sie jetzt auf dem Seriencamp einen neu geschaffenen Preis überreicht und sprach über Ungerechtigkeiten in der Branche und „Ku’damm 77“.
Annette Hess beim Seriencamp (Credit: Spot)
Der internationale Medienpartner des Seriencamp, das US-Branchenblatt Deadline, hat zum ersten Mal den German TV Disruptor Award am heutigen Donnerstag verliehen. Der Preis ging an die Drehbuchautorin Annette Hess, die für Serien wie „Deutsches Haus“ oder die „Ku’damm“-Reihe und eine starke Rolle für die Drehbuchschreibenden in der Produktion steht. „Wir wollten jemanden auszeichnen, der eine Meinung und Haltung zur Branche hat“, sagte Stewart Clarke von Deadline.
Annette Hess sprach auf der Bühne klar und mutig über heutige Missstände in der Branche und ihren eigenen Werdegang. „Den Pay Gap gibt es bis heute. Drehbuchautorinnen verdienen 20 Prozent weniger als ihre Kollegen.“ Ihrer Meinung nach verschlechtere sich sogar wieder die...
Annette Hess beim Seriencamp (Credit: Spot)
Der internationale Medienpartner des Seriencamp, das US-Branchenblatt Deadline, hat zum ersten Mal den German TV Disruptor Award am heutigen Donnerstag verliehen. Der Preis ging an die Drehbuchautorin Annette Hess, die für Serien wie „Deutsches Haus“ oder die „Ku’damm“-Reihe und eine starke Rolle für die Drehbuchschreibenden in der Produktion steht. „Wir wollten jemanden auszeichnen, der eine Meinung und Haltung zur Branche hat“, sagte Stewart Clarke von Deadline.
Annette Hess sprach auf der Bühne klar und mutig über heutige Missstände in der Branche und ihren eigenen Werdegang. „Den Pay Gap gibt es bis heute. Drehbuchautorinnen verdienen 20 Prozent weniger als ihre Kollegen.“ Ihrer Meinung nach verschlechtere sich sogar wieder die...
- 6/6/2024
- by Michael Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction’s latest period series “Disko 76” is set in a pivotal time in the industrial heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the airwaves and dance floors.
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the Rtl+ streaming platform on March 28 and on Rtl Group channel Nitro on April 1.
UFA Fiction quickly won over Rtl+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.
Boasting classic hits from the likes of Donna Summer, Abba, Kool and the Gang, Boney M. and many more, the series follows Doro (Luise Aschenbrenner), a rebellious young woman constricted by married life who finds freedom with the arrival of disco...
- 3/19/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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