Studiocanal has boarded “A Prophet,” a new television adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s acclaimed 2009 film. The eight-episode limited series started filming on July 3, with “Django” director Enrico Maria Artale and a diverse new cast led by Mamadou Sidibé.
The French-language series brings back the award-winning team behind the original film, including creators and writers Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit (“The Returned”), as well as producer Marco Cherqui (“Savages”), in agreement with “A Prophet” producers Why Not Productions and Page 114.
The show, which is filming in Marseille and Puglia, Italy, is produced by Cherqui and Sebastien Janin, former Apple exec and co-founder of Media Musketeers, and co-produced by Ugc, Orange Studio, Entourage Series and Savon Noir, with the participation of Ocs. The key crew includes “Gomorra” cinematographer Ferran Paredes Rubio. Veteran Italian producer Fabio Conversi (“Youth”) is exec producing the series.
The original movie won the grand jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
The French-language series brings back the award-winning team behind the original film, including creators and writers Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit (“The Returned”), as well as producer Marco Cherqui (“Savages”), in agreement with “A Prophet” producers Why Not Productions and Page 114.
The show, which is filming in Marseille and Puglia, Italy, is produced by Cherqui and Sebastien Janin, former Apple exec and co-founder of Media Musketeers, and co-produced by Ugc, Orange Studio, Entourage Series and Savon Noir, with the participation of Ocs. The key crew includes “Gomorra” cinematographer Ferran Paredes Rubio. Veteran Italian producer Fabio Conversi (“Youth”) is exec producing the series.
The original movie won the grand jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
- 7/10/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Zinc Media label Supercollider has partnered with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel on documentary series “Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback” (working title) for public broadcasters CBC and BBC.
The series (3 x 60′), produced in association with Catalyst, examines the exploitation of Black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for Black artists to receive reparations. It documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music. The series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past.
The series features contributions from author and filmmaker Mk Asante Jr and Lawrence Lartey, director of innovation, industry and enterprise at Ravensbourne University London who...
The series (3 x 60′), produced in association with Catalyst, examines the exploitation of Black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for Black artists to receive reparations. It documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music. The series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past.
The series features contributions from author and filmmaker Mk Asante Jr and Lawrence Lartey, director of innovation, industry and enterprise at Ravensbourne University London who...
- 5/22/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
French media group Mediawan Group, which grabbed headlines late last year with its acquisition of Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, has launched a €100 million (107 million) television development fund with backing from French private equity firm Entourage Ventures.
The fund, details of which were announced Monday, will see Mediawan and Entourage finance high-end television series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years. Investment and revenue on the projects will be shared 50/50 between the two partners. The fund will look to bankroll all forms of small-screen entertainment, from drama series to animation and documentaries.
Mediawan’s sales arm, Mediawan Rights, will handle distribution of the resulting series and will work with Entourage to co-develop and co-produce the projects.
“We are giving ourselves the tools to continue to invest massively in the most ambitious productions but also to support a greater number of projects,” said Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth d...
The fund, details of which were announced Monday, will see Mediawan and Entourage finance high-end television series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years. Investment and revenue on the projects will be shared 50/50 between the two partners. The fund will look to bankroll all forms of small-screen entertainment, from drama series to animation and documentaries.
Mediawan’s sales arm, Mediawan Rights, will handle distribution of the resulting series and will work with Entourage to co-develop and co-produce the projects.
“We are giving ourselves the tools to continue to invest massively in the most ambitious productions but also to support a greater number of projects,” said Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth d...
- 2/6/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“A Prophet,” the series adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 film, will be set in today’s France, in Marseille, with a young, Black protagonist. The original movie, which won Cannes’ grand jury prize and a BAFTA Award, and earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, starred Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”) as a 19-year-old French-Algerian sentenced to six years in prison who becomes involved with an organized crime ring in Paris.
The French-language series will reunite the Cesar-winning team behind the movie, notably its producer Marco Cherqui, and the screenwriters, Abdel Raouf Dafri — who made his directorial debut last year with “The Breitner Commando” — and Nicolas Peufaillit. Cherqui, producer at Paris-based Cpb Films, and Sebastien Janin, former Apple exec and co-founder of Media Musketeers, spoke to Variety about how “A Prophet” was being adapted to contemporary France. The show is expected to start production in France during the second half of 2021. Besides “A Prophet,...
The French-language series will reunite the Cesar-winning team behind the movie, notably its producer Marco Cherqui, and the screenwriters, Abdel Raouf Dafri — who made his directorial debut last year with “The Breitner Commando” — and Nicolas Peufaillit. Cherqui, producer at Paris-based Cpb Films, and Sebastien Janin, former Apple exec and co-founder of Media Musketeers, spoke to Variety about how “A Prophet” was being adapted to contemporary France. The show is expected to start production in France during the second half of 2021. Besides “A Prophet,...
- 3/24/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Media Musketeers has boarded a pair of high-profile drama series, including “Pulse,” a survival thriller from The Mediapro Studio, and “Un Prophete,” the series adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 film that won Cannes’ Grand Jury Prize and a BAFTA, and earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Media Musketeers is set to co-produce “Un Prophete” with Paris-based Cpb Films. The show is now in development and is expected to start production in France during the second half of 2021.
The French-language series is reuniting the Cesar-winning writing team behind the critically acclaimed movie, notably Abdel Raouf, Nicolas Peufaillit, in addition to its producer, Marco Cherqui.
“I always thought the TV version of ‘Un Prophète’ should pick up the story of its hero Malik’s life after the end of the film. But what is interesting 12 years on is to ask how relevant the story is in contemporary France,” said Cherqui, who is...
Media Musketeers is set to co-produce “Un Prophete” with Paris-based Cpb Films. The show is now in development and is expected to start production in France during the second half of 2021.
The French-language series is reuniting the Cesar-winning writing team behind the critically acclaimed movie, notably Abdel Raouf, Nicolas Peufaillit, in addition to its producer, Marco Cherqui.
“I always thought the TV version of ‘Un Prophète’ should pick up the story of its hero Malik’s life after the end of the film. But what is interesting 12 years on is to ask how relevant the story is in contemporary France,” said Cherqui, who is...
- 3/12/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Media Musketeers, the European banner launched a year and a half ago by former Apple and Warner Bros. executives, is joining forces with France’s Alliance Entreprendre to bolster is ambitious TV production strategy over the next five years.
Media Musketeers, created by former Apple execs Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty and ex-Warner Bros. exec Chris Law, is welcoming Alliance Entreprendre as its new shareholder with a 20% stake in the company. With Alliance Entreprendre on board, Media Musketeers aims at developing and producing content for a value of up to €1 billion over the next five years.
Working in partnership with Alliance Entreprendre and their other investor Entourage Ventures, Media Musketeers plans to release up to eight TV series per year, kicking off with Stanley Kubrick’s “God Fearing Man,” and “Pulse,” an scripted series set in Africa. The producers told Variety they will soon be announcing the cast and attaching...
Media Musketeers, created by former Apple execs Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty and ex-Warner Bros. exec Chris Law, is welcoming Alliance Entreprendre as its new shareholder with a 20% stake in the company. With Alliance Entreprendre on board, Media Musketeers aims at developing and producing content for a value of up to €1 billion over the next five years.
Working in partnership with Alliance Entreprendre and their other investor Entourage Ventures, Media Musketeers plans to release up to eight TV series per year, kicking off with Stanley Kubrick’s “God Fearing Man,” and “Pulse,” an scripted series set in Africa. The producers told Variety they will soon be announcing the cast and attaching...
- 10/15/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy and Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Recently minted film and TV firm Media Musketeers has signed a slate finance deal with Paris-based investment outfit Entourage Ventures. It has also brought on Patrick Swiderski as its finance chief.
Former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty teamed with former Warner Bros. exec Chris Law to launch Media Musketeers earlier this year. Its first projects include ForLan Films-produced “God Fearing Man,” based on an original Stanley Kubrick screenplay.
The slate financing deal is of the kind more readily seen in the movie business. It will be used to fund a slate of up to eight premium series a year.
The partnership news comes as Swiderski joins Media Musketeers as managing partner for finance. “We are delighted to be partnering with Entourage,” he said. “Their investment capability, expertise and connections will enable us to build properties around innovative production, distribution and financing, bringing our ambitious plans to fruition.
Former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty teamed with former Warner Bros. exec Chris Law to launch Media Musketeers earlier this year. Its first projects include ForLan Films-produced “God Fearing Man,” based on an original Stanley Kubrick screenplay.
The slate financing deal is of the kind more readily seen in the movie business. It will be used to fund a slate of up to eight premium series a year.
The partnership news comes as Swiderski joins Media Musketeers as managing partner for finance. “We are delighted to be partnering with Entourage,” he said. “Their investment capability, expertise and connections will enable us to build properties around innovative production, distribution and financing, bringing our ambitious plans to fruition.
- 5/18/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly seven years after first being announced as a hot new television project to watch out for, Stanley Kubrick’s fact-based unproduced original screenplay “God Fearing Man” is finally set for the small screen. Variety reports that the new European media company Media Musketeers — formed earlier this year by former Warner Bros. executive Chris Law and former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty — will produce a “high-end television drama” based on Kubrick’s screenplay. The project was initially announced in 2012 as an eOne series, and news remained scarce until Michael C. Hall signed on to star in the series in August of 2014, though this appears to be an all-new deal that will not feature Hall.
Following the exploits of Hebert Emerson Wilson, billed as “a Canadian church minister-turned-safecracker who became one of the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history,” the series will be based on both Wilson...
Following the exploits of Hebert Emerson Wilson, billed as “a Canadian church minister-turned-safecracker who became one of the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history,” the series will be based on both Wilson...
- 5/14/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A high-end television drama based on an original screenplay by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has been set as a first scripted project for new European production company Media Musketeers. “God Fearing Man” was one of two initial projects announced Tuesday by the company, which was officially launched in April by former Warner Bros executive Chris Law and former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty.
“God Fearing Man” is based on a book by Herbert Emerson Wilson and Kubrick’s original screenplay which tell the true story of a Canadian church minister-turned-safecracker who became one of the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history.
Media Musketeers will collaborate with U.K. independent producer ForLan Films on the project. ForLan has developed the project as a four-hour TV drama, working with Philip Hobbs, who served as co-producer on Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War classic “Full Metal Jacket.” Hobbs will produce alongside ForLan’s Steve Lanning.
“God Fearing Man” is based on a book by Herbert Emerson Wilson and Kubrick’s original screenplay which tell the true story of a Canadian church minister-turned-safecracker who became one of the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history.
Media Musketeers will collaborate with U.K. independent producer ForLan Films on the project. ForLan has developed the project as a four-hour TV drama, working with Philip Hobbs, who served as co-producer on Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War classic “Full Metal Jacket.” Hobbs will produce alongside ForLan’s Steve Lanning.
- 5/14/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Recently departed Warner Bros executive Chris Law and former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty have teamed to launch a new European production company, the trio announced this week. Media Musketeers will develop and put together finance packaging for high-end television and feature films, with an initial investment in scripted TV projects.
Media Musketeers plans an ambitious slate of up to eight high-end scripted series each year, forecasting an aggregate production spend of €1 billion ($1.1 billion) over the first five years. Janin said the company would be a “truly international venture, with local partnerships and presence in key markets.” The company already boasts a presence in the U.K., France (where Janin is based) and the Netherlands (where Docherty is based).
“As content remains king in driving user engagement and digital connectivity transforms the rules underpinning the media industry, we are keen to ensure that, in addition to delivering mass market entertainment,...
Media Musketeers plans an ambitious slate of up to eight high-end scripted series each year, forecasting an aggregate production spend of €1 billion ($1.1 billion) over the first five years. Janin said the company would be a “truly international venture, with local partnerships and presence in key markets.” The company already boasts a presence in the U.K., France (where Janin is based) and the Netherlands (where Docherty is based).
“As content remains king in driving user engagement and digital connectivity transforms the rules underpinning the media industry, we are keen to ensure that, in addition to delivering mass market entertainment,...
- 4/11/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
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