Former HBO Europe executives Jonathan Young and Ioannina Pavel have launched a new production company, May One, aiming to develop and produce high-end TV drama in Romania for local and international audiences.
The veteran TV execs have been involved in several high-profile HBO productions shot in Eastern Europe, including the award-winning Polish series Wataha (The Pack), the Romanian-German
thriller Hackerville and HBO Max’s Cold War espionage drama Spy/Master, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year.
Spy/Master
As vp original production at HBO Europe, Young oversaw HBO’s slate of original local language series in the region. Pavel began as a development executive at HBO Romania, working on such series as the gangster drama Umbre and Hackerville, before going on to produce a variety of shows, from the romantic drama Ruxx to Spy/Master.
May One will be based in Bucharest and plans to develop, produce and co-produce high-end series to shoot in Romania,...
The veteran TV execs have been involved in several high-profile HBO productions shot in Eastern Europe, including the award-winning Polish series Wataha (The Pack), the Romanian-German
thriller Hackerville and HBO Max’s Cold War espionage drama Spy/Master, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year.
Spy/Master
As vp original production at HBO Europe, Young oversaw HBO’s slate of original local language series in the region. Pavel began as a development executive at HBO Romania, working on such series as the gangster drama Umbre and Hackerville, before going on to produce a variety of shows, from the romantic drama Ruxx to Spy/Master.
May One will be based in Bucharest and plans to develop, produce and co-produce high-end series to shoot in Romania,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Max Original international series Spy/Master debuts Friday, May 19 with the first two episodes, which had their world premiere at Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Series in February. Created by Adina Sădeanu and Kirsten Peters, the six-part espionage drama series starring Alec Secăreanu continues with one new episode debuting weekly leading up to the season finale on June 16.
Logline: Spy/Master is set during the height of the Cold War and covers a week in the life of fictional character Victor Godeanu, played by Secăreanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. However, Godeanu is also a secret agent for the Kgb and must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. With only one shot at staying alive, he uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to the United States. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and former flame played by Svenja Jung (“Deutschland...
Logline: Spy/Master is set during the height of the Cold War and covers a week in the life of fictional character Victor Godeanu, played by Secăreanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. However, Godeanu is also a secret agent for the Kgb and must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. With only one shot at staying alive, he uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to the United States. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and former flame played by Svenja Jung (“Deutschland...
- 4/19/2023
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Deal struck ahead of film’s world premiere in Cannes competition
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. from Wild Bunch International ahead of its premiere in competition at Cannes.
The acquisition marks the fifth time IFC Films and Mungiu have partnered on distribution. IFC picked up rights to 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in 2007, and has worked with Mungiu on his subsequent films Tales From The Golden Age, Beyond The Hills and Graduation.
R.M.N. is produced by Cristian Mungiu with Mobra Films and executive produced by Tudor Reu.
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. from Wild Bunch International ahead of its premiere in competition at Cannes.
The acquisition marks the fifth time IFC Films and Mungiu have partnered on distribution. IFC picked up rights to 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in 2007, and has worked with Mungiu on his subsequent films Tales From The Golden Age, Beyond The Hills and Graduation.
R.M.N. is produced by Cristian Mungiu with Mobra Films and executive produced by Tudor Reu.
- 5/17/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to “R.M.N.,” the latest film from Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu ahead of its Cannes debut.
Mungiu is the director of the sensational Palme D’Or winner “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and “R.M.N.” now marks the fifth collaboration between Mungiu and IFC Films. IFC plans to release “R.M.N.” in theaters later this year.
“R.M.N.” is playing in the main competition at Cannes and stars Marin Grigore and Judith State.
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid the boy of the unresolved fears that have taken hold of him. He’s preoccupied with his old father,...
Mungiu is the director of the sensational Palme D’Or winner “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and “R.M.N.” now marks the fifth collaboration between Mungiu and IFC Films. IFC plans to release “R.M.N.” in theaters later this year.
“R.M.N.” is playing in the main competition at Cannes and stars Marin Grigore and Judith State.
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid the boy of the unresolved fears that have taken hold of him. He’s preoccupied with his old father,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to “R.M.N.,” the new film from acclaimed writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes this week.
It’s a grand reunion for the indie studio and the director, marking their fifth distribution collaboration. IFC Films will release “R.M.N.” theatrically in 2022. It may have been a wise preemptive buy. The director’s films tend to get an award-winning reception in the South of France. Mungiu previously won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a drama about abortion that was set in waning days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era in Romania.
Here’s the official description of “R.M.N.”: “A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son,...
It’s a grand reunion for the indie studio and the director, marking their fifth distribution collaboration. IFC Films will release “R.M.N.” theatrically in 2022. It may have been a wise preemptive buy. The director’s films tend to get an award-winning reception in the South of France. Mungiu previously won the Palme d’Or in 2007 for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a drama about abortion that was set in waning days of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era in Romania.
Here’s the official description of “R.M.N.”: “A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Europe and German broadcaster TNT Serie have released the first trailer for their six-part cyber drama Hackerville, which will also be available in the U.S.
The two broadcasters are launching the show, produced by Deutschland 83 producer Ufa Fiction and Mobra Films in November with HBO Europe airing the show in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain on Sunday 4 November and TNT Serie premiering the series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Thursday 8 November. It will also be available to U.S. HBO subscribers across HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, although a premiere date has not been set.
Hackerville follows a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down. It is both broadcasters’ first moves into co-productions.
It was created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction and will be produced by Cristian Mungiu and Tudor Reu and exec produced by Winger and Johnathan Young.
The two broadcasters are launching the show, produced by Deutschland 83 producer Ufa Fiction and Mobra Films in November with HBO Europe airing the show in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain on Sunday 4 November and TNT Serie premiering the series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Thursday 8 November. It will also be available to U.S. HBO subscribers across HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, although a premiere date has not been set.
Hackerville follows a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down. It is both broadcasters’ first moves into co-productions.
It was created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction and will be produced by Cristian Mungiu and Tudor Reu and exec produced by Winger and Johnathan Young.
- 9/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Cable company HBO Europe has started to shoot cyber-crime thriller series “Hackerville” in Transilvania, a region of Romania, as its first international co-production, building on a string of locally shot productions, including Romania-set detective series “Umbre” (pictured).
“It will put Romania on the map of the international TV drama scene,” says co-creator and executive producer Joerg Winger (“Deutschland 83”), adding he was won over by the location “as a dynamic and colorful place with a vastly unexplored history and present.”
The project was “created in a truly multi-cultural process, with great Romanian talent attached,” Winger adds, with music a key component, as it was in “Deutschland 83,” the Cold War-set spy series for AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Rtl Television.
The original six-part “Hackerville,” about a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down, co-produced with TNT Serie, was created by Ralph Martin and Winger for Ufa Fiction,...
“It will put Romania on the map of the international TV drama scene,” says co-creator and executive producer Joerg Winger (“Deutschland 83”), adding he was won over by the location “as a dynamic and colorful place with a vastly unexplored history and present.”
The project was “created in a truly multi-cultural process, with great Romanian talent attached,” Winger adds, with music a key component, as it was in “Deutschland 83,” the Cold War-set spy series for AMC Networks’ SundanceTV and Rtl Television.
The original six-part “Hackerville,” about a network of hackers and the investigators tasked with tracking them down, co-produced with TNT Serie, was created by Ralph Martin and Winger for Ufa Fiction,...
- 6/2/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Six-part thriller follows the hunt for a network of hackers.
HBO Europe has revealed its first international co-production, Hackerville, which it is making with German company TNT Serie.
The six-part thriller is a Germany-Romania co-production and is about a network of hackers and the investigators tracking them down.
Created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction, the series will be produced by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and Beyond The Hills) and Tudor Reu through Mobra Films.
The story will open with the hacking of a major German bank and will follow cyber crime expert Lisa Metz as she works with investigators in her hometown of Timisoara in an attempt to catch the perpetrators. Igor Cobileanski (Umbre) and Anca Miruna Lazarescu (That Trip We Took With Dad) will direct, with Winger and Johnathan Young amongst the executive producers.
HBO Europe will premiere Hackerville across its territories in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain, with...
HBO Europe has revealed its first international co-production, Hackerville, which it is making with German company TNT Serie.
The six-part thriller is a Germany-Romania co-production and is about a network of hackers and the investigators tracking them down.
Created by Ralph Martin and Joerg Winger from Ufa Fiction, the series will be produced by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and Beyond The Hills) and Tudor Reu through Mobra Films.
The story will open with the hacking of a major German bank and will follow cyber crime expert Lisa Metz as she works with investigators in her hometown of Timisoara in an attempt to catch the perpetrators. Igor Cobileanski (Umbre) and Anca Miruna Lazarescu (That Trip We Took With Dad) will direct, with Winger and Johnathan Young amongst the executive producers.
HBO Europe will premiere Hackerville across its territories in Central Europe, Scandinavia and Spain, with...
- 2/16/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has picked up Us rights to newly announced Cannes selections Graduation and The Unknown Girl.
Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation (aka Bacalaureat) is a family drama that takes place in small Romanian town where everybody knows everybody.
Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus and Lia Bugnar star. Mungiu’s Mobra Films produced with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne of Films du Fleuve; Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat of Why Not Productions; Vincent Maraval of Wild Bunch; and Jean Labadie of Le Pacte. Tudor Reu is executive producer.
Sundance Selects negotiated with Wild Bunch for The Unknown Girl – also known as The Son Of Joseph (La Fille Unconnue) – from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Adele Haenel, Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione and Thomas Doret star in the story about a young doctor who investigates the identity of a mysterious dead body. Denis Freyd and the Dardennes produced.
The buys bring to four the number of Cannes competition selections in the...
Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation (aka Bacalaureat) is a family drama that takes place in small Romanian town where everybody knows everybody.
Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus and Lia Bugnar star. Mungiu’s Mobra Films produced with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne of Films du Fleuve; Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat of Why Not Productions; Vincent Maraval of Wild Bunch; and Jean Labadie of Le Pacte. Tudor Reu is executive producer.
Sundance Selects negotiated with Wild Bunch for The Unknown Girl – also known as The Son Of Joseph (La Fille Unconnue) – from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Adele Haenel, Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione and Thomas Doret star in the story about a young doctor who investigates the identity of a mysterious dead body. Denis Freyd and the Dardennes produced.
The buys bring to four the number of Cannes competition selections in the...
- 4/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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