Netflix has announced five new scripted series that it has commissioned out of the UK, all of which will shoot in the country in 2022. On the list is Supacell , a superhero drama following a group of seemingly ordinary people from South London who unexpectedly develop super powers, with no connection between them aside from them all being Black. The six-part show is written by Rapman (aka Andrew Onwubolu), of Blue Story fame, who will also direct. Mouktar Mohammed and Henrietta Lee of New Wave are executive producer and associate producer respectively. The streamer has also commissioned an adaptation of David Nicholls’s romance novel One Day. It will follow protagonists Em and Dex as they meet up on one particular day year after year. The show is a Drama Republic Production with Universal International Studios and Focus Features. One Day was previously made into a feature starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Abi Morgan is writing Eric , a thriller the …
‘Titane’s Agathe Rousselle On Her Psychopathic Breakout In Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Winner – Contenders International
Agathe Rousselle is at the center of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning film Titane , in which she plays a psychopathic serial killer experiencing a bizarre pregnancy—a job one might consider best left to the experienced actor. But, surprisingly, despite more than holding her own in the part, Rousselle is brand new to the game, having been plucked from Instagram to take on the role. “There was this casting director that DM’ed me one day and asked me if I wanted to audition for a feature movie,” Rousselle said during a panel discussion for the Neon movie at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event. Titane follows Alexia (Rousselle) as she evades capture for her crimes and hides her pregnancy. Pretending to be a man, she is taken in by Vincent (Vincent Lindon), who believes she is his long-lost son. Reading the script, Rousselle thought it was “like reading a good thriller,” she said. “I couldn’t stop reading. I was just so into it, I …
Amazon Hires Kelly Day To Lead Prime Video International
Amazon has hired Kelly Day to head up its international streaming business. Day joins from ViacomCBS, where she had been leading the company’s international streaming services including Paramount+ for the last year. At Amazon, she will take on the newly-created role of VP, Prime Video International and will oversee streaming activity outside of the U.S. from her base in Washington D.C. She will report into Mike Hopkins, SVP Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and will take up the role in January. Under her remit, Day will coordinate with regional leaders and country directors to curate local content strategies, covering all of Prime’s business and video offerings in international territories, across SVOD, TVOD and Channels, according to a note sent by Hopkins to Prime Video staff today. Day’s departure from ViacomCBS comes just eight months after the roll-out of Paramount+. During her tenure at Viacom she also managed the expansion of Pluto TV, following its launches in …
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Rose d’Or Awards: Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’ And Jack Thorne’s ‘Help’ Win Major Gongs
Bo Burnham’s Inside for Netflix and Jack Thorne’s Channel 4 drama Help took home the Comedy and Drama gongs at last night’s 60th Rose d’Or TV awards. UK shows performed well at the European Broadcasting Union event, which also saw long-running BBC1 entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing take home Studio Entertainment, ITV ’s Long Lost Family scoop Reality and Factual Entertainment and BBC1/AppleTV+’s 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room win for Documentary. The latter was one of three victories for director Adam Wishart’s Wish/Art Films, which also won both News and Current Affairs and the coveted Golden Rose for ITV’s Storming The Capital: The Inside Story, as correspondent Robert Moore was richly rewarded. Netflix’s French comedy/drama Call My Agent continued its success with the award for Comedy Drama & Sitcom and there was also a win for CBBC favourite Horrible Histories in Children and Youth. Help creator Jack Thorne would have been …
INSP Invests In John Morayniss’ Blink Studios
US entertainment network INSP has made a “significant investment” in John Morayniss’ Endeavor Content-backed Canadian producer Blink Studios . INSP COO Dale Ardizzone said the investment is “part of our commitment to expand our relationships in the international film and production community.” He did not reveal the amount INSP has invested in Blink. “Blink Studios is on the cutting edge of entertainment content development with a management team of experienced, forward-thinking creative minds,” he added. “We have been impressed by the Blink management team and their vision, and support their strategy to assemble a best-in-class team to develop quality and compelling content.” Former eOne Television chief Morayniss unveiled Blink Studios with a handful of former colleagues at the start of November and the outfit has since signed up former Netflix Director of Original Series Carolyn Newman and Transplant exec Virginia Rankin. Headquartered in Toronto with …
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Get in the Ring: How ‘GLOW’ Recreates the Golden Age of Lady-Wrestling TV
No doubt about it: The 1980s was a strange time to channel surf. Those neon-tinted, big-haired, irony-free days have provided Internet curio-seekers with fodder for infinite terabytes of grainy, colorful ephemera. And one of the cornerstones of weird Eighties television was “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling ” (G.L.O.W. for short), an all-female pro-wrestling league whose exploits were filmed in Las Vegas and syndicated nationwide. It’s the type of retro-kitsch from the Reagan era could have vanished down the YouTube black hole – until Netflix resurrected it, sort of. The cult grappling-females show from yesteryear is monkey-flipping its way back to the surface in GLOW, the new series created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch and executive produced by Orange Is the New Black ‘s Jenji Kohan. Starring Community and Mad Men alum Alison Brie , the ensemble dramedy features a diverse cast of ass-kicking actresses — and enough hairspray and spandex to send you straight back to 1985. …
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Snap In UK Originals Drive Following Anthony Joshua Commission
EXCLUSIVE : Following October’s unveiling of an Anthony Joshua special, Snapchat -owner Snap has kicked off a UK commissioning drive, holding a briefing with producers earlier this month. Deadline understands Snap execs led a virtual session with factual and entertainment producers in the UK in early November, as the UK becomes only the second non-U.S. nation to produce Snap Originals locally, alongside India. UK indie Barcroft Studios (now Future Studios) has produced Snap shows in the past but they have all been global in perspective. The briefing came just a couple of weeks after Snap unveiled its debut UK original, A Fighting Chance with Anthony Joshua , a show centered on the British professional boxer’s mission to give the younger generation of his community in Watford the mentor he never had. Airing next year, the show is produced by Joshua’s SBX Studios. A Fighting Chance With Anthony Joshua , which was revealed alongside U.S. offerings with Stephen …
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Richard Jenkins On His Failing Patriarch In ‘The Humans’, Shooting ‘Nightmare Alley’ & “Literally Going Mad” In Quarantine
Every actor knows where they were when the pandemic hit in 2020. Some were lucky enough to finish up before the hammer came down, some were in the middle of production, but it’s unlikely that many, like Richard Jenkins , were about to shoot their last scene. Jenkins was in Toronto at the time, preparing to wrap his role as Ezra Grindle in Guillermo del Toro’s remake of Nightmare Alley . “We stopped in March,” he recalls. “I had one scene left, and we pulled the plug.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, when he returned in October, he was forced to quarantine in his hotel for two weeks. “By that I mean I couldn’t go out,” he says. “At all. Try that sometime. Somebody said, ‘How are you doing?’ and I said, ‘Well, I’m marking the days on the wall in my own feces.’ That’s how I was doing: I was literally going mad. I wore a path in the carpet, walking in circles like those animals in the zoo that just keep going around and around.” That sense of claustrophobia would have …
‘Generation Ecstasy’: History Of Club Drug Explored In Six-Part Docuseries From ‘Undone’ Producer Submarine
EXCLUSIVE : Submarine , the company behind Amazon’s animated drama Undone , is to explore the history of ecstasy in a new docuseries. The company, which is also behind Richard Linklater’s Netflix feature film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure , has optioned upcoming book XTC: A Biography , from journalists Philippus Zandstra and Wietse Pottjewijd, and is developing a non-fiction series. The six-part series, known as Generation Ecstasy , will explore how a failed German medicine found its way into the Netherlands, going on to become both a cultural phenomenon and a major societal issue. Charting the international story of ecstasy through the recent social and cultural history of the Netherlands, it explores the vast popularity, power and destructive force of this beloved party drug. It will look at how the Netherlands, which has always been at the forefront of legalising drugs is on the brink of becoming a narco-state as the biggest global producer and …
‘Women Is Losers’ Star Lorenza Izzo Signs With M88
EXCLUSIVE : Actress and producer Lorenza Izzo ( Hacks , Women Is Losers ) has signed with M88 and its sister company Uncmmn for representation. The Chilean performer will next be seen in Greg Mottola’s Miramax comedy, Confess, Fletch , opposite Jon Hamm. She can currently be seen in HBO Max’s Emmy-winning comedy series Hacks , and in Lissette Feliciano’s award-winning film Women Is Losers , which was released by HBO Max after premiering in competition at SXSW. Izzo also produced the latter title, in which she stars opposite Shang-Chi ‘s Simu Liu. The actress has previously appeared on the film side in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar winner Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood ; Universal and Amblin’s The House with a Clock in Its Walls , opposite Jack Black and Cate Blanchett; and writer-director Dan Fogelman’s multigenerational Amazon drama, Life Itself , opposite Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde. She also starred opposite Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas in the Lionsgate …
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