Alexander Rodnyansky’s Ar Content is developing a slate of new series as the two-time Oscar-nominated producer continues his push into high-end episodic content.
Rodnyansky revealed details of two new projects to Variety during the Berlinale Series Market, just days after Fox Entertainment acquired U.S. rights to Ar Content’s upcoming epic action show “Khan: The Series,” as Variety previously reported.
“The Doghead” is a series loosely based on the book of the same name by best-selling author Alexey Ivanov, whose previous works adapted for the big screen include Cannes Un Certain Regard prize winner “Tsar.”
The series follows Kirill, a homebody historian who prefers stability to change or adventure, but who travels to a remote village to look for his lost girlfriend. Her disappearance is just the first in a chain of mysterious events that started in the 17th century around an enigmatic fresco of an ancient spirit known as the Doghead.
Rodnyansky revealed details of two new projects to Variety during the Berlinale Series Market, just days after Fox Entertainment acquired U.S. rights to Ar Content’s upcoming epic action show “Khan: The Series,” as Variety previously reported.
“The Doghead” is a series loosely based on the book of the same name by best-selling author Alexey Ivanov, whose previous works adapted for the big screen include Cannes Un Certain Regard prize winner “Tsar.”
The series follows Kirill, a homebody historian who prefers stability to change or adventure, but who travels to a remote village to look for his lost girlfriend. Her disappearance is just the first in a chain of mysterious events that started in the 17th century around an enigmatic fresco of an ancient spirit known as the Doghead.
- 2/16/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has set Ziad Doueiri to direct an adaptation of Debriefing the President. Daniel Stiepleman, who scripted the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg drama On the Basis of Sex, will adapt former CIA analyst John Nixon’s non-fiction book about his experience being the first American to identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein following his 2003 capture. The Lebanese-born Doueiri’s The Insult was last year nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. His first film, West Beirut, won the Prix Francois Chalais at Cannes and he also directed The Attack.
Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998-2011 who regularly wrote for and briefed those at the most senior levels of the U.S. government and later taught leadership analysis to the new generation of analysts coming at the Sherman Kent School, the agency’s in-house analytic training center.
After confirming the prisoner was indeed the...
Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998-2011 who regularly wrote for and briefed those at the most senior levels of the U.S. government and later taught leadership analysis to the new generation of analysts coming at the Sherman Kent School, the agency’s in-house analytic training center.
After confirming the prisoner was indeed the...
- 9/28/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
As Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and leading Republican legislators hammer out a budget for the coming fiscal year, they've made the surprising decision to reinvest in the state's film industry, partially backtracking on last year's cuts to incentives.
In a target spending agreement announced Wednesday, an additional $25 million of one-time funding was put aside in the fiscal year 2013 budget for film industry subsidies, doubling the current allotment. According to MLive, the one-time funding is not expected to be renewed in coming years.
It's a surprising move for Snyder, who last year pushed extensive cuts to Michigan's film incentive program.
Started in 2008 under Gov. Jennifer Granholm in a move to attract studios and production crews, the state offered rebates of up to 42 percent of expenditures for movies made in Michigan. But last year, Snyder implemented a cap of just $25 million on the program for fiscal year 2012, small potatoes to large productions.
In a target spending agreement announced Wednesday, an additional $25 million of one-time funding was put aside in the fiscal year 2013 budget for film industry subsidies, doubling the current allotment. According to MLive, the one-time funding is not expected to be renewed in coming years.
It's a surprising move for Snyder, who last year pushed extensive cuts to Michigan's film incentive program.
Started in 2008 under Gov. Jennifer Granholm in a move to attract studios and production crews, the state offered rebates of up to 42 percent of expenditures for movies made in Michigan. But last year, Snyder implemented a cap of just $25 million on the program for fiscal year 2012, small potatoes to large productions.
- 5/24/2012
- by Kate Abbey-Lambertz
- Huffington Post
Though American independence is obviously commemorated on the Fourth of July, a very significant symbolic event happened several days after the Second Continental Congress signed their names to the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On this day in 1776, Colonel John Nixon sounded the Liberty Bell, which called together citizens of Philadelphia for the first public reading of that historic document (which had just been returned from the printers). The bell, which at the time was housed in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House (which came to be known as Independence Hall), bore the inscription "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof."
The bell was originally cast in 1751 to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of Pennsylvania's constitution. It was used regularly to summon locals for important announcements and celebrations (up until 1776, the most notorious ringing of the Liberty Bell was in 1765, when it was rung to...
The bell was originally cast in 1751 to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of Pennsylvania's constitution. It was used regularly to summon locals for important announcements and celebrations (up until 1776, the most notorious ringing of the Liberty Bell was in 1765, when it was rung to...
- 7/8/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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