In today’s Global Bulletin, Alex de la Iglesia is back on set with “El cuarto pasajero,” Laurine Garaude departs Reed Midem, Chinese video app Kuaishou stuns investors in Hong Kong, Tencent finalizes its Universal Music Group share increase, Mopar Studios hire Jessica Pope as creative director and Pluto TV launches six new networks in Latin America.
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Spanish genre master Álex de la Iglesia, hot off the heels of his hit HBO horror series “30 Coins,” is back on set to shoot road movie rom-com “El cuarto pasajero” (The Fourth Passenger), a Pokeepsie Films and Telecinco Cinema co-production. The companies will be looking to repeat the joint success they found with the filmmaker’s 2017 Spanish-language remake of “Perfect Strangers,” a top 10 all-time domestic box office hit that pulled a worldwide gross of $33 million in 2017-18.
“El cuarto pasajero” also sees de la Iglesia joined once again by regular co-writer...
Shooting
Spanish genre master Álex de la Iglesia, hot off the heels of his hit HBO horror series “30 Coins,” is back on set to shoot road movie rom-com “El cuarto pasajero” (The Fourth Passenger), a Pokeepsie Films and Telecinco Cinema co-production. The companies will be looking to repeat the joint success they found with the filmmaker’s 2017 Spanish-language remake of “Perfect Strangers,” a top 10 all-time domestic box office hit that pulled a worldwide gross of $33 million in 2017-18.
“El cuarto pasajero” also sees de la Iglesia joined once again by regular co-writer...
- 1/29/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Jessica Pope, the co-executive producer of Netflix’s The Last Kingdom at Carnival Films, has joined Sweden’s Mopar Studios as its creative director, drama.
Pope has worked at Carnival for the past four years, joining the NBCUniversal company from BBC Studios. During that time, she has worked on Season 4 and 5 of The Last Kingdom, while her previous credits include The Musketeers.
London-based Pope will join Mopar on February 1 and will report to COO William Diskay. She will be responsible for leading Mopar’s creative vision, as well as overseeing production.
Mopar’s credits include Viaplay original Rig 45, while Deadline understands that the company has recently been shooting on a project titled Red Election. It is making the series with Subotica and it is a co-production between Nordic Entertainment Group and A&e Networks. Described as a cunningly plotted, fast-paced thriller set in the UK and Denmark, Red Election...
Pope has worked at Carnival for the past four years, joining the NBCUniversal company from BBC Studios. During that time, she has worked on Season 4 and 5 of The Last Kingdom, while her previous credits include The Musketeers.
London-based Pope will join Mopar on February 1 and will report to COO William Diskay. She will be responsible for leading Mopar’s creative vision, as well as overseeing production.
Mopar’s credits include Viaplay original Rig 45, while Deadline understands that the company has recently been shooting on a project titled Red Election. It is making the series with Subotica and it is a co-production between Nordic Entertainment Group and A&e Networks. Described as a cunningly plotted, fast-paced thriller set in the UK and Denmark, Red Election...
- 1/29/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has commissioned a fifth season of The Last Kingdom, its adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling The Saxon Stories novels.
Made by Carnival Films, the Downton Abbey producer that is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, Season 5 will be based on Cornwell’s ninth and tenth novels: The Warriors of the Storm and The Flame Bearer.
The 10-part series will continue to follow the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England.
Charged with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s ambition will have an even higher purpose. But to achieve this destiny, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss.
Executive producer Nigel Marchant said: “We are really proud of The Last Kingdom, which continues to entertain audiences all over the world. We had...
Made by Carnival Films, the Downton Abbey producer that is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, Season 5 will be based on Cornwell’s ninth and tenth novels: The Warriors of the Storm and The Flame Bearer.
The 10-part series will continue to follow the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England.
Charged with training King Edward’s first-born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s ambition will have an even higher purpose. But to achieve this destiny, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss.
Executive producer Nigel Marchant said: “We are really proud of The Last Kingdom, which continues to entertain audiences all over the world. We had...
- 7/7/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Last Kingdom” has been renewed for a fifth season at Netflix. Time to celebrate, arselings!
The cast posted a video on social media making the announcement, which can be viewed below. The news comes just under three months after the release of Season 4 on April 26. Season 5 will consist of 10 episodes, as did Seasons 3 and 4.
The series is based on “The Saxon Stories” novels by Bernard Cornwell. It follows the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth century England. Uhtred becomes an unlikely ally of King Alfred of Wessex (David Dawson) and his family as the king seeks to unite all the kingdoms of England under one ruler as Vikings ravage the country.
Based on books nine and ten – “The Warriors of the Storm” and “The Flame Bearer” – the fifth season will see Uhtred realize his...
The cast posted a video on social media making the announcement, which can be viewed below. The news comes just under three months after the release of Season 4 on April 26. Season 5 will consist of 10 episodes, as did Seasons 3 and 4.
The series is based on “The Saxon Stories” novels by Bernard Cornwell. It follows the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth century England. Uhtred becomes an unlikely ally of King Alfred of Wessex (David Dawson) and his family as the king seeks to unite all the kingdoms of England under one ruler as Vikings ravage the country.
Based on books nine and ten – “The Warriors of the Storm” and “The Flame Bearer” – the fifth season will see Uhtred realize his...
- 7/7/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Filming has commenced on the fourth season of The Last Kingdom for Netflix, the hit historical drama based on Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling novel series The Saxon Stories.
Alexander Dreymon reprises his role as Uhtred, joined by new cast Stefanie Martini who takes on the role of Eadith, Aethelred’s new love conquest, and Aethelred’s new right-hand man Eardwulf, played by Jamie Blackley.
After the death of Alfred, the alliances between the kingdoms are fractured. Uhtred believes the timing is right to challenge his uncle Aelfric, played by Joseph Millson, and take back his ancestral home, Bebbanburg. However fate shifts in a different direction, leading Uhtred to realize that his destiny is tied to Alfred’s dream of a united land. This, and Uhtred’s feelings for Aethelflaed, drive him back into the politics that threaten to break out into war.
Returning cast includes Ian Hart (Father Beocca), Toby Regbo...
Alexander Dreymon reprises his role as Uhtred, joined by new cast Stefanie Martini who takes on the role of Eadith, Aethelred’s new love conquest, and Aethelred’s new right-hand man Eardwulf, played by Jamie Blackley.
After the death of Alfred, the alliances between the kingdoms are fractured. Uhtred believes the timing is right to challenge his uncle Aelfric, played by Joseph Millson, and take back his ancestral home, Bebbanburg. However fate shifts in a different direction, leading Uhtred to realize that his destiny is tied to Alfred’s dream of a united land. This, and Uhtred’s feelings for Aethelflaed, drive him back into the politics that threaten to break out into war.
Returning cast includes Ian Hart (Father Beocca), Toby Regbo...
- 4/15/2019
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Drama veteran Jessica Pope has joined NBCUniversal’s Carnival Films as Executive Producer. Based in London, she will report to Carnival Managing Director Gareth Neame and will develop her own programming as well as working with fellow exec producers Nigel Marchant and Richard Fell on the company's growing production slate. Pope joins Downton Abbey maker Carnival from her role as Exec Producer at BBC Studios. Prior to that, Pope held roles at BBC Drama London and then…...
- 1/23/2017
- Deadline TV
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Executive producer Jessica Pope has been talking up the final episode of The Musketeers, calling it “something extraordinary”...
The third and final series of The Musketeers is now underway on BBC One, and the show’s executive producer Jessica Pope is very enthusiastic about the show’s upcoming conclusion.
Speaking to CultBox at a launch event, Pope discussed the behind-the-scenes feeling about the final series. “I think things do have a natural lifespan, and I think, you know, 30 hours in this particular climate is a huge amount of episodic TV to deliver”, she said.
“And we did want to go out on a high,” she added, “we wanted to just prove to ourselves we’d done all the biggest stories we could do without then sort of filtering out into something that just repeated itself, really.
“[T]he big thing for these guys [the writers] is that we did know it was the last season,...
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Executive producer Jessica Pope has been talking up the final episode of The Musketeers, calling it “something extraordinary”...
The third and final series of The Musketeers is now underway on BBC One, and the show’s executive producer Jessica Pope is very enthusiastic about the show’s upcoming conclusion.
Speaking to CultBox at a launch event, Pope discussed the behind-the-scenes feeling about the final series. “I think things do have a natural lifespan, and I think, you know, 30 hours in this particular climate is a huge amount of episodic TV to deliver”, she said.
“And we did want to go out on a high,” she added, “we wanted to just prove to ourselves we’d done all the biggest stories we could do without then sort of filtering out into something that just repeated itself, really.
“[T]he big thing for these guys [the writers] is that we did know it was the last season,...
- 6/6/2016
- Den of Geek
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The BBC won't make any more series of The Musketeers after the third and final ten-episode run, it's been confirmed...
Following creator and showrunner Adrian Hodges' candidly worded departure ("I was totally knackered") from The Musketeers after series two, it's been confirmed that Porthos, Aramis, Athos and D'Artagnan will be hanging up their swords following the third run.
Ten new episodes of the BBC One action and adventure series, due to return to screens shortly, will bring the story to a conclusion. Executive Producer Jessica Pope promises that series three "will delight its fans and pay off everything they have come to love about the show." No chance of a shock-cancellation cliff-hanger there then, at least.
Digital Spy has some goodbye messages from castmembers Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles, Tom Burke and Santiago Cabrera, all of whom express their thanks to fans and appreciation at having been part of the show.
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The BBC won't make any more series of The Musketeers after the third and final ten-episode run, it's been confirmed...
Following creator and showrunner Adrian Hodges' candidly worded departure ("I was totally knackered") from The Musketeers after series two, it's been confirmed that Porthos, Aramis, Athos and D'Artagnan will be hanging up their swords following the third run.
Ten new episodes of the BBC One action and adventure series, due to return to screens shortly, will bring the story to a conclusion. Executive Producer Jessica Pope promises that series three "will delight its fans and pay off everything they have come to love about the show." No chance of a shock-cancellation cliff-hanger there then, at least.
Digital Spy has some goodbye messages from castmembers Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles, Tom Burke and Santiago Cabrera, all of whom express their thanks to fans and appreciation at having been part of the show.
- 4/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Antonia Thomas has joined the cast of The Musketeers for its second series.
The Misfits actress will guest star in the upcoming run of the BBC One period drama alongside Colin Salmon, who first announced his involvement in the show last month.
The Resident Evil actor will play Tariq, a mysterious man on the run from Spain, while Thomas will portray his daughter Samara, who finds her own life in danger.
Executive producers Adrian Hodges and Jessica Pope said: "We're excited to welcome an actor of Colin's reputation to The Musketeers. He will bring wonderful charisma and a sense of mystery to the role.
"We've also been aware for some time of Antonia's wonderful work in films and TV series such as Sunshine on Leith and Misfits, among numerous others.
"She brings such intelligence and vibrancy to every role she plays and we are thrilled to have her as Samara.
The Misfits actress will guest star in the upcoming run of the BBC One period drama alongside Colin Salmon, who first announced his involvement in the show last month.
The Resident Evil actor will play Tariq, a mysterious man on the run from Spain, while Thomas will portray his daughter Samara, who finds her own life in danger.
Executive producers Adrian Hodges and Jessica Pope said: "We're excited to welcome an actor of Colin's reputation to The Musketeers. He will bring wonderful charisma and a sense of mystery to the role.
"We've also been aware for some time of Antonia's wonderful work in films and TV series such as Sunshine on Leith and Misfits, among numerous others.
"She brings such intelligence and vibrancy to every role she plays and we are thrilled to have her as Samara.
- 6/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Marc Warren has joined the cast of The Musketeers for its second series.
The Mad Dogs actor will play the Comte De Rochefort - a dashing aristocrat with a very dark past.
Warren's casting follows the news that Peter Capaldi will not reprise his role of Cardinal Richelieu, due to commitments to Doctor Who.
The star said: "I'm delighted to be part of the BBC's stylish and exciting take on the Dumas classic. Once I've overcome my fear of horses, I'm sure it'll be a walk in the park."
BBC executive producer Jessica Pope added: "[Series creator] Adrian [Hodges] and I were thrilled to welcome Marc to the cast. He's a clever and mercurial actor who will bring danger and charm to the role of Rochefort in equal measure."
Bar Capaldi, all of the show's central cast - including Luke Pasqualino, Maimie McCoy and Tom Burke - will return for series two.
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The Mad Dogs actor will play the Comte De Rochefort - a dashing aristocrat with a very dark past.
Warren's casting follows the news that Peter Capaldi will not reprise his role of Cardinal Richelieu, due to commitments to Doctor Who.
The star said: "I'm delighted to be part of the BBC's stylish and exciting take on the Dumas classic. Once I've overcome my fear of horses, I'm sure it'll be a walk in the park."
BBC executive producer Jessica Pope added: "[Series creator] Adrian [Hodges] and I were thrilled to welcome Marc to the cast. He's a clever and mercurial actor who will bring danger and charm to the role of Rochefort in equal measure."
Bar Capaldi, all of the show's central cast - including Luke Pasqualino, Maimie McCoy and Tom Burke - will return for series two.
The...
- 4/10/2014
- Digital Spy
Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter biopic is last BBC4 film as homegrown drama axed as part of £700m BBC cuts
The TV biopic starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will be a bittersweet affair for BBC4.
Burton and Taylor, which will air on the channel on Monday will be the last of BBC4's homegrown dramas, as it absorbs its share of the £700m of cuts being made across the corporation.
The digital channel, which celebrated its 10th birthday last year, has won a string of awards and some of its biggest audiences for biopics about Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenny Everett, Fanny Craddock and Enid Blyton (coincidentally also played by Bonham Carter).
Burton and Taylor is likely to be no exception with West and Bonham Carter – in particular – impeccable portraying the 20th century's most famous celebrity couple during their ill-fated 1983 revival...
The TV biopic starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor will be a bittersweet affair for BBC4.
Burton and Taylor, which will air on the channel on Monday will be the last of BBC4's homegrown dramas, as it absorbs its share of the £700m of cuts being made across the corporation.
The digital channel, which celebrated its 10th birthday last year, has won a string of awards and some of its biggest audiences for biopics about Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenny Everett, Fanny Craddock and Enid Blyton (coincidentally also played by Bonham Carter).
Burton and Taylor is likely to be no exception with West and Bonham Carter – in particular – impeccable portraying the 20th century's most famous celebrity couple during their ill-fated 1983 revival...
- 7/21/2013
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
Move over Lindsay Lohan, there’s a new Elizabath Taylor in town. BBC America today released the first pic of Helena Bonham Carter as the Oscar-winning actress alongside two-time husband Richard Burton as played by Dominic West. Unlike last year’s Lifetime biopic Liz & Dick, where Lohan co-starred with Grant Bowler’s Burton, all the drama in Burton And Taylor seems to be on screen as the film traces the divorced pair’s onstage reunion in a 1983 revival of the Noel Coward play, Private Lives. It ran for just 63 performances on Broadway. The BBC Drama Productions project will be co-produced by BBC America for its Dramaville block. In the UK, it will air on BBC Four, though no date is yet set. BBC Worldwide is distributing internationally. Jessica Pope exec produces and Lachlan McKinnon is producer with Richard Laxton directing from a screenplay by Made In Dagenham‘s William Ivory.
- 6/5/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter are starring in one-off movie Burton And Taylor as legendary, volatile ex-lovers Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC Drama Productions project will be co-produced by BBC America for its Dramaville block. The story charts the pair’s ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of the Noel Coward play, Private Lives, which ran for 63 performances on Broadway. In the UK, it will air on BBC Four, though no date is yet set. BBC Worldwide is distributing internationally. Jessica Pope exec produces and Lachlan McKinnon is producer with Richard Laxton directing from a screenplay by Made In Dagenham‘s William Ivory.
- 3/25/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
The BBC has ordered a one-off movie to star Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as legendary, volatile ex-lovers Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Burton & Taylor is a 90-minute film that will air on BBC Four and chart the pair’s ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of the Noel Coward play, Private Lives, which ran for 63 performances on Broadway. Burton and Taylor were famously married twice, from 1964-1974 and again from 1975-1976. Most recently, Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler starred in a Lifetime biopic about the tumultuous couple. Burton & Taylor is an in-house project from BBC Drama Productions and will be exec produced by Jessica Pope. Richard Laxton, who’s helming the Emma Thompson-penned feature Effie starring Dakota Fanning, directs. The screenplay is by Made In Dagenham‘s William Ivory. Lachlan McKinnon (Silent Witness) is producer.
- 2/12/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Cannes -- MGM is shifting gears in the TV biz, greenlighting a number of fictional series in hopes of jump-starting mainstream small-screen production and feeding its distribution pipeline with fresh content.
In the next few weeks, the team at the Lion led by Jim Packer and Gary Marenzi will be talking up adaptations of two projects based on MGM-owned catalog titles: the Robert De Niro crime thriller "Ronin," which will be reconfigured as a series and probably shot in Europe, and the Meryl Streep/Jeremy Irons romancer "The French Lieutenant's Woman," which will be expanded into a miniseries.
Both movie-to-series projects will be co-produced with the BBC in London.
In addition, the Lion's TV team is in discussions with the Los Angeles-based indie production outfit Level One -- the company behind Paramount's 2009 "Star Trek" film -- and its creative head Gerard Boccaccio about developing several series. And in August the...
In the next few weeks, the team at the Lion led by Jim Packer and Gary Marenzi will be talking up adaptations of two projects based on MGM-owned catalog titles: the Robert De Niro crime thriller "Ronin," which will be reconfigured as a series and probably shot in Europe, and the Meryl Streep/Jeremy Irons romancer "The French Lieutenant's Woman," which will be expanded into a miniseries.
Both movie-to-series projects will be co-produced with the BBC in London.
In addition, the Lion's TV team is in discussions with the Los Angeles-based indie production outfit Level One -- the company behind Paramount's 2009 "Star Trek" film -- and its creative head Gerard Boccaccio about developing several series. And in August the...
- 10/14/2008
- by By Elizabeth Guider
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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