‘Elsbeth’ Flies To France
Paramount Global Content Distribution has licensed the highly anticipated CBS Studios series “Elsbeth” to TF1 in France.
Starring Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston, “Elsbeth” is based on the popular character of Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute but unconventional attorney featured in “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight.” “The series has been highly sought after in the French territory and this agreement will provide TF1 viewers exclusive access to the series in the market,” Paramount Global Content Distribution said.
The new series finds Elsbeth in New York City tackling a new investigative role and working alongside the NYPD after leaving her successful legal career in Chicago.
“TF1 is delighted to welcome this new series, driven by the talent of the amazing Carrie Preston,” said Sophie Leveaux, Tfi’s artistic director of acquisitions and international drama development, noting that the “Good Wife” universe was adored by audiences. “‘Elsbeth...
Paramount Global Content Distribution has licensed the highly anticipated CBS Studios series “Elsbeth” to TF1 in France.
Starring Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston, “Elsbeth” is based on the popular character of Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute but unconventional attorney featured in “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight.” “The series has been highly sought after in the French territory and this agreement will provide TF1 viewers exclusive access to the series in the market,” Paramount Global Content Distribution said.
The new series finds Elsbeth in New York City tackling a new investigative role and working alongside the NYPD after leaving her successful legal career in Chicago.
“TF1 is delighted to welcome this new series, driven by the talent of the amazing Carrie Preston,” said Sophie Leveaux, Tfi’s artistic director of acquisitions and international drama development, noting that the “Good Wife” universe was adored by audiences. “‘Elsbeth...
- 10/16/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
World premiering in the main Canneseries competition, “El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid” marks the latest original series from Movistar Plus, the Spanish pay TV/SVOD arm of Telefonica, made with Banijay’s Dlo Producciones and Telemundo Streaming Studios. Beta Film handles international distribution.
It shows. A Movistar Plus hallmark, “El Inmortal” reflects a real-life Spanish reality, the rise and fall – or here, fall and rise, then maybe fall and rebound – of the founding leader of Los Miami, a gang which controlled Madrid’s insatiable ‘90s drug business. José Antonio’s real-life counterpart survived four attempts on his life, becoming a legend and gaining his epic sobriquet.
But it also nails other facets of high-end scripted fiction.
“El Inmortal” begins as quiet-spoken ‘90s Madrid drug lord José insists on living his life, driving his infant daughter to her posh primary school.
Just after dropping her off, a motorbike passes spraying bullets,...
It shows. A Movistar Plus hallmark, “El Inmortal” reflects a real-life Spanish reality, the rise and fall – or here, fall and rise, then maybe fall and rebound – of the founding leader of Los Miami, a gang which controlled Madrid’s insatiable ‘90s drug business. José Antonio’s real-life counterpart survived four attempts on his life, becoming a legend and gaining his epic sobriquet.
But it also nails other facets of high-end scripted fiction.
“El Inmortal” begins as quiet-spoken ‘90s Madrid drug lord José insists on living his life, driving his infant daughter to her posh primary school.
Just after dropping her off, a motorbike passes spraying bullets,...
- 4/4/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
European production-distribution-sales powerhouse Studiocanal is on board the Paris Bataclan attack feature “Un año, una noche,” with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, breakout star of “Bpm (Beats Per Minute),” set to topline.
A Spanish-French co-production, “Un año, una noche” is produced by Bambú Producciones, creator of hit Spanish drama series such as “Gran Hotel,” “Velvet” and “Cable Girls”; Mister Fields and Friends, Bambu’s movie production label; and La Termita, the shingle run by the film’s director, Isaki Lacuesta. Lacuesta is best-known for left-of-field features such as San Sebastian Golden Shell winners “The Double Steps” and “Between Two Waters.”
Jérôme Vidal and Julien Naveau’s Paris-based Noodles Production produces out of France in collaboration with Studiocanal, which will handle international sales and distribution.
Inspired in large part by the autobiographical book written by Ramon González, a survivor of the attack, “Un año, una noche” depicts the Bataclan terrorist attack but also...
A Spanish-French co-production, “Un año, una noche” is produced by Bambú Producciones, creator of hit Spanish drama series such as “Gran Hotel,” “Velvet” and “Cable Girls”; Mister Fields and Friends, Bambu’s movie production label; and La Termita, the shingle run by the film’s director, Isaki Lacuesta. Lacuesta is best-known for left-of-field features such as San Sebastian Golden Shell winners “The Double Steps” and “Between Two Waters.”
Jérôme Vidal and Julien Naveau’s Paris-based Noodles Production produces out of France in collaboration with Studiocanal, which will handle international sales and distribution.
Inspired in large part by the autobiographical book written by Ramon González, a survivor of the attack, “Un año, una noche” depicts the Bataclan terrorist attack but also...
- 11/6/2020
- by John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max, the streaming-video hub of WarnerMedia, has acquired anticipated Studiocanal title “Possessions,” a psychological thriller series created by Shachar Magen (“Sirens”) and directed by BAFTA-nominated Thomas Vincent (“Bodyguard”).
As an international Max Original, the series will be made available on the U.S. streaming platform in December.
Commissioned for Canal Plus’s Creation Original and Israel’s Yes TV, the series was shot in Israel in French, Hebrew and English. The show was produced by Caroline Benjo, Barbara Letellier, Simon Arnal and Carole Scotta from the leading Paris-based production company Haut et Court TV, whose credits include “No Man’s Land” and “The Returned.” Eilon Ratzkovsky, Osnat Nishri and Keren Misgav Ristvedt from Israel’s Quiddity (“Sirens”) co-produced the series.
“The demand for non-English language content continues to grow throughout the world and I am delighted that this exceptional drama will be available for a wide, global audience via HBO Max...
As an international Max Original, the series will be made available on the U.S. streaming platform in December.
Commissioned for Canal Plus’s Creation Original and Israel’s Yes TV, the series was shot in Israel in French, Hebrew and English. The show was produced by Caroline Benjo, Barbara Letellier, Simon Arnal and Carole Scotta from the leading Paris-based production company Haut et Court TV, whose credits include “No Man’s Land” and “The Returned.” Eilon Ratzkovsky, Osnat Nishri and Keren Misgav Ristvedt from Israel’s Quiddity (“Sirens”) co-produced the series.
“The demand for non-English language content continues to grow throughout the world and I am delighted that this exceptional drama will be available for a wide, global audience via HBO Max...
- 10/14/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
One of the major figures at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Academy Award-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino will serve as president of the main competition official jury at Spain’s 68th San Sebastian Festival.
The announcement comes as Guadagnino world premieres two films at Venice: the doc feature “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” about extraordinary Italian luxury shoe designer-entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo, and a more personal 122-minute short “Fiori, Fiori, Fiori,” in which Guadagnino looks up childhood friends to see how they’re faring during Covid-19.
At San Sebastian, Guadagnino will also be on double duty as he will also present out of the competition the world premiere of his series “We Are What We Are,” an HBO/Sky Italia production sold by Fremantle.
Acclaimed for his often glamorous movies directed with a high-style, and set in glorious locations and featuring marvelous houses – Guadagnino nevertheless maintains he has no style,...
The announcement comes as Guadagnino world premieres two films at Venice: the doc feature “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” about extraordinary Italian luxury shoe designer-entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo, and a more personal 122-minute short “Fiori, Fiori, Fiori,” in which Guadagnino looks up childhood friends to see how they’re faring during Covid-19.
At San Sebastian, Guadagnino will also be on double duty as he will also present out of the competition the world premiere of his series “We Are What We Are,” an HBO/Sky Italia production sold by Fremantle.
Acclaimed for his often glamorous movies directed with a high-style, and set in glorious locations and featuring marvelous houses – Guadagnino nevertheless maintains he has no style,...
- 9/4/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire Ampere provides a post-covid forecast in France, “The Rookie” keeps selling for eOne, French content spend is analyzed in a new study, Arrow International Media’s software gets smarter, it’s all Greek to Studiocanal and Nent Studios gets a new CEO.
France Takes Two Covid-19 Hits, But Svod Bulwarks Numbers
France is reopening after, one hopes, the worst of Covid-19. But how much is it recovering? An Ampere Analysis study, French Content Market: Spend and Commissioning Strategies doubled down on Covid-19 Impact on TV Revenues, and fundamentals on the Gallic TV scene. Many will be echoed in other countries.
Linear TV advertising and theatrical revenues have been heavily impacted by the crisis, said Lea Cunat, the first dropping from €3.3 ($3.6 billion) billion in 2019, to an estimated €2.9 billion ($3.2 billion) for the year, the second from €1.3 billion ($) to a predicted €0.8 billion ($0.9 billion). In contrast, 2020 pay...
France Takes Two Covid-19 Hits, But Svod Bulwarks Numbers
France is reopening after, one hopes, the worst of Covid-19. But how much is it recovering? An Ampere Analysis study, French Content Market: Spend and Commissioning Strategies doubled down on Covid-19 Impact on TV Revenues, and fundamentals on the Gallic TV scene. Many will be echoed in other countries.
Linear TV advertising and theatrical revenues have been heavily impacted by the crisis, said Lea Cunat, the first dropping from €3.3 ($3.6 billion) billion in 2019, to an estimated €2.9 billion ($3.2 billion) for the year, the second from €1.3 billion ($) to a predicted €0.8 billion ($0.9 billion). In contrast, 2020 pay...
- 5/29/2020
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Giant network TF1, pubcaster France Televisions, upscale channel Arte France, free-to-air network M6 and European TV-film force Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, are among companies confirmed for June’s Conecta Fiction in Spain, where France has been chosen as its European Country Focus.
A much appreciated Europe-Latin America production forum and networking event, which allows companies far more time to meet, great and plan than May’s L.A. Screenings, the 4th Conecta Fiction will unspool for the second year running in Pamplona, northern Spain, over June 22-25, at the Baluarte Palace of Congress.
These combines will be joined by Mediawan Originals, Orange Studio, Lagardère Studios, Federation Entertainment, Elephant International, Banijay Group, Gaumont, Wild Horses Group and Newen, all companies with large ambitions in international: Banijay paid $2.2 billion last October to acquire the Endemol Shine Group.
The initiative is also backed by the might of French institutions,...
A much appreciated Europe-Latin America production forum and networking event, which allows companies far more time to meet, great and plan than May’s L.A. Screenings, the 4th Conecta Fiction will unspool for the second year running in Pamplona, northern Spain, over June 22-25, at the Baluarte Palace of Congress.
These combines will be joined by Mediawan Originals, Orange Studio, Lagardère Studios, Federation Entertainment, Elephant International, Banijay Group, Gaumont, Wild Horses Group and Newen, all companies with large ambitions in international: Banijay paid $2.2 billion last October to acquire the Endemol Shine Group.
The initiative is also backed by the might of French institutions,...
- 1/9/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Bambú Producciones, a key driving force behind the international boom in Spanish TV fiction, is entering into a phase of business expansion, tapping showrunners Josep Cister and Diego Sotelo and boosting film production brand Mr. Fields & Friends Cinema.
Founded in 2007 by Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés, and minority owned by Studiocanal, Bambú has produced a large list of high-profile TV dramas led by “Gran Hotel” and “Velvet,” whose success, especially in Latin America, proved that, for the first time ever, there was a mass audience abroad for original Spanish series.
“We are at a time when, given the market demand for Bambú content, we have decided to grow, incorporating names as important as Cister and Sotelo,” Campos told Variety.
A former TV fiction director at Lagardère’s Boomerang TV in Spain, Cister has been responsible for series such as “Old Bridge’s Secret,” “The Time In Between,” “Acacias 38” and “Presumed Guilty.
Founded in 2007 by Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés, and minority owned by Studiocanal, Bambú has produced a large list of high-profile TV dramas led by “Gran Hotel” and “Velvet,” whose success, especially in Latin America, proved that, for the first time ever, there was a mass audience abroad for original Spanish series.
“We are at a time when, given the market demand for Bambú content, we have decided to grow, incorporating names as important as Cister and Sotelo,” Campos told Variety.
A former TV fiction director at Lagardère’s Boomerang TV in Spain, Cister has been responsible for series such as “Old Bridge’s Secret,” “The Time In Between,” “Acacias 38” and “Presumed Guilty.
- 11/1/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Movistar Plus has screened at Cannes Mipcom trade fair “On Death Row,” produced Bambú Producciones and Studiocanal which also handled international distribution. The four-part mini series follows Pablo Ibar, a Cuban-Spanish convicted of triple homicide, and his battle to receive a fair trial and prove his innocence. Miguel Angel Silvestre who has broken out to international roles, plays Pablo, directed by Carlos Marqués-Marcet (“10.000 km”) in a series which jumps across follows Ibar down the years to show us the evolution of a man that has spent half his life in prison for a crime he maintains he never committed.
Based on the non-fiction work of the same title by journalist Nacho Carretero, a painstaking investigation of the case, the series was its heart on its sleeve. It not a question of whether Ibar is innocent or not, but rather, that he has been wrongfully convicted. Variety interviewed Silvestre in...
Based on the non-fiction work of the same title by journalist Nacho Carretero, a painstaking investigation of the case, the series was its heart on its sleeve. It not a question of whether Ibar is innocent or not, but rather, that he has been wrongfully convicted. Variety interviewed Silvestre in...
- 10/15/2019
- by Emiliano Granada and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
On June 27, 1994, the bodies of a nightclub owner and two dancers were found shot dead in Miramar, Florida. Pablo Ibar, a Spanish-American of Cuban descent was arrested on the basis of a blurry VHS tape, which showed the face of one of the assailants.
Despite a lack of conclusive evidence, in 2000, Ibar was convicted of triple homicide and sentenced to death. His story is now brought to the screen by Movistar Plus, Studiocanal and Bambu Producciones, in “On Death Row,” a four-part miniseries that is a Mipcom Market Screening.
The series, created by Bambu’s Ramon Campos and Gema R. Niera, and based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Spanish journalist Nacho Carretero and research by Olmo Figuredo at Spanish production house La Claqueta, the series charts Ibar’s legal battle to prove his innocence and the support of his family, which has never given up on him.
Despite a lack of conclusive evidence, in 2000, Ibar was convicted of triple homicide and sentenced to death. His story is now brought to the screen by Movistar Plus, Studiocanal and Bambu Producciones, in “On Death Row,” a four-part miniseries that is a Mipcom Market Screening.
The series, created by Bambu’s Ramon Campos and Gema R. Niera, and based on the non-fiction book of the same title by Spanish journalist Nacho Carretero and research by Olmo Figuredo at Spanish production house La Claqueta, the series charts Ibar’s legal battle to prove his innocence and the support of his family, which has never given up on him.
- 10/14/2019
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
No company in the world has more market screenings at Mipcom, the biggest TV event in the world, than Telefonica pay TV unit Movistar Plus. It’s already Spain’s No. 1 content player, investing €841.1 million ($925.2 million) in programming this year, according to Ihs Markit estimates. Now, it looks set to get even bigger.
On Sept. 20, Telefonica and Spanish network Atresmedia announced a framework agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture production-distribution giant to produce both series and feature films, focusing on fiction.
The alliance, negotiated by Atresmedia CEO Silvio Gonzalez and Emilio Gayo, Telefonica España president, comes after the July 19 global launch of the season 3 launch of Atresmedia’s “La Casa de Papel,” which was watched by 35 million Netflix household accounts over its first seven days, a new all-time record for a Netflix non-English-language series.
“The demand for high-quality Spanish-language content has never been higher,” Movistar Plus president Sergio Oslé has said.
On Sept. 20, Telefonica and Spanish network Atresmedia announced a framework agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture production-distribution giant to produce both series and feature films, focusing on fiction.
The alliance, negotiated by Atresmedia CEO Silvio Gonzalez and Emilio Gayo, Telefonica España president, comes after the July 19 global launch of the season 3 launch of Atresmedia’s “La Casa de Papel,” which was watched by 35 million Netflix household accounts over its first seven days, a new all-time record for a Netflix non-English-language series.
“The demand for high-quality Spanish-language content has never been higher,” Movistar Plus president Sergio Oslé has said.
- 10/14/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
When Movistar Plus president Sergio Oslé moved into his office, there was a painting hanging on one of the walls. He’s replaced it with a dinky basketball hoop. Though born in Spain’s Bilbao, as Spanish newspaper El Mundo once noted, there’s something distinctly non-Spanish about Oslé, who’s worked in the U.K., Brazil, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. He is as much at home, maybe more so, talking business in English than Spanish. As befits a former McKinsey consultant, his interest is in the bigger picture as he steers Movistar Plus into the future.
That means breaking molds. Since its inception in 1990 as Canal Plus, which Movistar parent Telefonica acquired in 2014, the pay TV operator has been modeled on its French counterpart: high-priced and aimed at a large middle-class. But Spain’s middle classes are far smaller. So in June, Oslé broke with the past, launching Movistar Plus Lite,...
That means breaking molds. Since its inception in 1990 as Canal Plus, which Movistar parent Telefonica acquired in 2014, the pay TV operator has been modeled on its French counterpart: high-priced and aimed at a large middle-class. But Spain’s middle classes are far smaller. So in June, Oslé broke with the past, launching Movistar Plus Lite,...
- 9/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Three years ago, Spain’s independent TV production sector was heading toward a crisis with ever lower profit margins. Cut to 2019, and Spain is enjoying a golden age of drama series production, while consolidating as a global production center.
One major factor in the turnaround has been Movistar Plus, the pay TV unit of Telefonica. It has made the biggest push into high-end original production of any telecom in Europe — just as U.S. and European telcos scramble to compete for content with media companies.
The first results, at home and abroad, of Telefonica’s content drive are now in.
One is a turnaround. In the fourth quarter of 2016, Movistar Plus lost 54,000 pay-tv subscribers. After its first three original series had been released, Movistar Plus added 80,700 in Q4 2017. Since July 2017, releasing 22 original or returning series through September, Movistar Plus has posted eight consecutive quarters of steady pay TV household growth,...
One major factor in the turnaround has been Movistar Plus, the pay TV unit of Telefonica. It has made the biggest push into high-end original production of any telecom in Europe — just as U.S. and European telcos scramble to compete for content with media companies.
The first results, at home and abroad, of Telefonica’s content drive are now in.
One is a turnaround. In the fourth quarter of 2016, Movistar Plus lost 54,000 pay-tv subscribers. After its first three original series had been released, Movistar Plus added 80,700 in Q4 2017. Since July 2017, releasing 22 original or returning series through September, Movistar Plus has posted eight consecutive quarters of steady pay TV household growth,...
- 9/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Rolling off their partnership on “While at War,” one of the biggest and highest-profile Spanish movies of 2019, Academy Award winning director Alejandro Amenábar is now teaming with Movistar +, the pay TV division of Spain’s Telefonica, on the development of a drama series, inspired by the Spanish graphic novel “El tesoro del Cisne Negro.”
Created by comic book artist Paco Roca and Spanish diplomat Guillermo Corral, the six part series will turn on the the Black Swan Project: the Odyssey Marine Exploration’s discovery and recovery and transport to Florida of 17.1 tons of coins from the wreckage of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a 30-gun Spanish frigate sunk by the British Navy off the Portuguese coast in 1804. Beginning in 1807, the Spanish government fought a legal battle through U.S. courts to claim the treasure. claimed to be the biggest shipwreck booty in history, as its own.
An adventure...
Created by comic book artist Paco Roca and Spanish diplomat Guillermo Corral, the six part series will turn on the the Black Swan Project: the Odyssey Marine Exploration’s discovery and recovery and transport to Florida of 17.1 tons of coins from the wreckage of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a 30-gun Spanish frigate sunk by the British Navy off the Portuguese coast in 1804. Beginning in 1807, the Spanish government fought a legal battle through U.S. courts to claim the treasure. claimed to be the biggest shipwreck booty in history, as its own.
An adventure...
- 7/26/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Irun, Spain — When- and why – do people begin to kill for a cause?
Having created “What the Future Holds,” maybe the best reviewed to date of any Movistar + Original Series, Spain’s Mariano Barroso (“The Wolves of Washington”) tackles this question head on in “La Línea Invisible,” a six-part series, again from Movistar +, focusing on the first assassination perpetrated by Basque terrorist org Eta – of José Antonio Pardines, a humble civil guard, on June 7 1968. 828 further Eta murders were to follow.
“La línea Invisible” marks the second Movistar + Original Series to shoot this year, after “On Death Row,” based on true events, as Movistar +, the pay TV arm of Telefonica, Europe’ second biggest telecom, focuses ever more in its Original Sries on the recent – or contemporary – history of Spain, enrolling some of the greatest Spanish actors. The stars of “La Línea Invisible” are examples: Antonio de la Torre, a recent Spanish...
Having created “What the Future Holds,” maybe the best reviewed to date of any Movistar + Original Series, Spain’s Mariano Barroso (“The Wolves of Washington”) tackles this question head on in “La Línea Invisible,” a six-part series, again from Movistar +, focusing on the first assassination perpetrated by Basque terrorist org Eta – of José Antonio Pardines, a humble civil guard, on June 7 1968. 828 further Eta murders were to follow.
“La línea Invisible” marks the second Movistar + Original Series to shoot this year, after “On Death Row,” based on true events, as Movistar +, the pay TV arm of Telefonica, Europe’ second biggest telecom, focuses ever more in its Original Sries on the recent – or contemporary – history of Spain, enrolling some of the greatest Spanish actors. The stars of “La Línea Invisible” are examples: Antonio de la Torre, a recent Spanish...
- 7/17/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Freddie Highmore, star of ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” the top exported U.S. scripted series last year, has been joined on bank heist thriller “Way Down” by Liam Cunningham, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey and Sam Riley.
Cunningham plays Sir Davos Seaworth in “Game of Thrones”; Astrid Bergès-Frisbey embodied mermaid Syrena in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”; Riley portrayed Ian Curtis in “Control,” and Diaval in Disney‘s “Maleficent,” alongside Angelina Jolie.
Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the ambitious English-language heist thriller partners two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset España and France’s TF1 Group. Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustín, at Telecinco Cinema, Mediaset España’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sánchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga), in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1 Group.
Highmore himself will take a producer credit. “Way Down” will be sold at...
Cunningham plays Sir Davos Seaworth in “Game of Thrones”; Astrid Bergès-Frisbey embodied mermaid Syrena in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”; Riley portrayed Ian Curtis in “Control,” and Diaval in Disney‘s “Maleficent,” alongside Angelina Jolie.
Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the ambitious English-language heist thriller partners two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset España and France’s TF1 Group. Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustín, at Telecinco Cinema, Mediaset España’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sánchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga), in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1 Group.
Highmore himself will take a producer credit. “Way Down” will be sold at...
- 4/15/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Travel Channel has named veteran TV exec Jane Latman as General Manager, expanding her current role with Discovery. Latman now will be responsible for the creative leadership and programming strategy for the 83 million subscriber network.
Latman will remain in Silver Spring, MD and continue to serve as Evp, development and research for Investigation Discovery and American Heroes Channel and general manager of Destination America. She will continue to report to Henry Schleiff, Group President.
The move is part of the restructuring following the company’s acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, in which Travel Channel was added to Schleiff’s portfolio.
A 15-year veteran of programming and development at Discovery, Latman has been credited as the creative leader behind ID’srise from the #50 network a decade ago to the #1 network for W25-54, today.
“Jane is an unrivaled force in the television industry whose visionary creativity, natural leadership skills and passionate...
Latman will remain in Silver Spring, MD and continue to serve as Evp, development and research for Investigation Discovery and American Heroes Channel and general manager of Destination America. She will continue to report to Henry Schleiff, Group President.
The move is part of the restructuring following the company’s acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive, in which Travel Channel was added to Schleiff’s portfolio.
A 15-year veteran of programming and development at Discovery, Latman has been credited as the creative leader behind ID’srise from the #50 network a decade ago to the #1 network for W25-54, today.
“Jane is an unrivaled force in the television industry whose visionary creativity, natural leadership skills and passionate...
- 4/19/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jane Latman has been named general manager of Travel Channel. She carries the same title at Destination America.
“Jane is an unrivaled force in the television industry whose visionary creativity, natural leadership skills and passionate belief in collaboration make her one of the most, deservedly, respected executives in the industry,” said her boss, Henry Schleiff. “I’m continually impressed by her ability to cultivate content that converts viewers into passionate fans – and, move a brand forward — a trait that will undoubtedly make her a successful steward at Travel Channel.”
Latman is also an executive vice president of Development and Research at Discovery’s ID and American Heroes Channel. She’ll continue to work in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Also Read: Animal Planet Orders 'Wolves & Warriors,' Which Pairs Combat Vets With, Well, Wolves (Exclusive)
Below is Latman’s full bio, per Discovery, Inc.:
Jane Latman has worked in non-fiction television for more than 20 years and has been at Discovery, Inc. since 2003, when she joined the programming department for what was then the Discovery Times Channel. After a stint in development for the Military Channel, Latman was tapped to help transition Discovery Times to Investigation Discovery, giving her the challenging privilege of designing content for the network that would ultimately propel it to astounding growth. Many of her series have become the network’s top hits, including “Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda,” “On the Case with Paula Zahn,” “A Crime to Remember,” the “American Murder Mystery” franchise, “Web of Lies,” “Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen,” “Vanity Fair Confidential,” “Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall” and “Disappeared.” Latman also developed the critically acclaimed documentary film Into the Abyss and subsequent television series “On Death Row” with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.
As general manager of Destination America, Latman oversees the development, production, scheduling, research, marketing, communications, and online efforts for this growing brand. Under her stewardship, the network successfully launched paranormal programming hits such as “Paranormal Lockdown,” “Ghost Brothers,” and “Ghosts of Shepherdstown.”
Previously, Latman was general manager at Discovery Life Channel where she championed the network’s transition from Discovery Fit & Health and oversaw a diverse slate of lifestyle and medical programming, including the groundbreaking series “New Girls on the Block,” the first television series to embed with a group of friends within the transgender community.
Prior to joining Discovery, Latman was a freelance producer, director, and writer for projects that included the award-winning series “Nurses” for Discovery Health Channel and “Understanding Obesity” for The Learning Channel’s acclaimed “Understanding” series. She also did development work for a variety of ventures including PBS’s miniseries “Stealing Time: The Science of Aging.”
Before launching her television career, Latman was a freelance theater director in Washington, D.C. An adventure-seeker at heart, Latman travels often with her husband and son.
Read original story Jane Latman Named Travel Channel Gm At TheWrap...
“Jane is an unrivaled force in the television industry whose visionary creativity, natural leadership skills and passionate belief in collaboration make her one of the most, deservedly, respected executives in the industry,” said her boss, Henry Schleiff. “I’m continually impressed by her ability to cultivate content that converts viewers into passionate fans – and, move a brand forward — a trait that will undoubtedly make her a successful steward at Travel Channel.”
Latman is also an executive vice president of Development and Research at Discovery’s ID and American Heroes Channel. She’ll continue to work in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Also Read: Animal Planet Orders 'Wolves & Warriors,' Which Pairs Combat Vets With, Well, Wolves (Exclusive)
Below is Latman’s full bio, per Discovery, Inc.:
Jane Latman has worked in non-fiction television for more than 20 years and has been at Discovery, Inc. since 2003, when she joined the programming department for what was then the Discovery Times Channel. After a stint in development for the Military Channel, Latman was tapped to help transition Discovery Times to Investigation Discovery, giving her the challenging privilege of designing content for the network that would ultimately propel it to astounding growth. Many of her series have become the network’s top hits, including “Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda,” “On the Case with Paula Zahn,” “A Crime to Remember,” the “American Murder Mystery” franchise, “Web of Lies,” “Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen,” “Vanity Fair Confidential,” “Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall” and “Disappeared.” Latman also developed the critically acclaimed documentary film Into the Abyss and subsequent television series “On Death Row” with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.
As general manager of Destination America, Latman oversees the development, production, scheduling, research, marketing, communications, and online efforts for this growing brand. Under her stewardship, the network successfully launched paranormal programming hits such as “Paranormal Lockdown,” “Ghost Brothers,” and “Ghosts of Shepherdstown.”
Previously, Latman was general manager at Discovery Life Channel where she championed the network’s transition from Discovery Fit & Health and oversaw a diverse slate of lifestyle and medical programming, including the groundbreaking series “New Girls on the Block,” the first television series to embed with a group of friends within the transgender community.
Prior to joining Discovery, Latman was a freelance producer, director, and writer for projects that included the award-winning series “Nurses” for Discovery Health Channel and “Understanding Obesity” for The Learning Channel’s acclaimed “Understanding” series. She also did development work for a variety of ventures including PBS’s miniseries “Stealing Time: The Science of Aging.”
Before launching her television career, Latman was a freelance theater director in Washington, D.C. An adventure-seeker at heart, Latman travels often with her husband and son.
Read original story Jane Latman Named Travel Channel Gm At TheWrap...
- 4/19/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Alfred Hitchcock's true-life saga of a man wrongly accused may be Hitchcock's most troublesome movie -- all the parts work, but does it even begin to come together? Henry Fonda is the 'ordinary victim of fate' and an excellent Vera Miles is haunting as the wife who responds to the guilt and stress by withdrawing from reality. The Wrong Man Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1956 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date January 26, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, John Heldabrand, Doreen Lang, Norma Connolly, Lola D'Annunzio, Robert Essen, Dayton Lummis, Charles Cooper, Esther Minciotti, Laurinda Barrett, Nehemiah Persoff. Cinematography Robert Burks Art Direction Paul Sylbert Film Editor George Tomasini Original Music Bernard Herrmann Written by Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The Wrong Man sees Alfred Hitchcock at the end of...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The Wrong Man sees Alfred Hitchcock at the end of...
- 1/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Scott Peterson, who received a death sentence for the murder of his 8-months-pregnant wife Lacy Peterson, reportedly has it easy at San Quentin State Penitentiary in California. Scott Peterson On Death Row Nancy Mulane, author of Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption, visited San Quentin recently and was taken aback by the […]
The post Scott Peterson’s Death Row Life Is ‘Cushy’ – Report appeared first on uInterview.
The post Scott Peterson’s Death Row Life Is ‘Cushy’ – Report appeared first on uInterview.
- 3/23/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Breaking Bad," "The Newsroom," "Low Winter Sun," "Dexter," "Ray Donovan" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" Monday, September 2 at 10pm on TCM Mark Cousins' 15-episode documentary series about the history of film comes to the U.S. via Turner Classic Movies, where it'll air weekly on Monday nights through December. The series originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2011 and aired on the UK's More4, and has earned intense critical praise. Sam Adams at Criticwire will provide a guide to the series each week. "On Death Row": Season Premiere Tuesday, September 3 at 9pm on Investigation Discovery True-crime network "Investigation Discovery" continues to seem like an odd fit for Werner Herzog,...
- 9/3/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Below you will find an index for all of our 66th Locarno Film Festival coverage by Adam Cook, Marie-Pierre Duhamel, and Celluloid Liberation Front.
Films
What Now? Remind Me by Joaquim Pinto (x two)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Corneliu Poromboiu
Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton
Manakamana by Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez
Une autre vie by Emmanuel Mouret
Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest) by Lionel Baier
A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-b, Monologue 02) by Norbert Pfaffenbilcher
On Death Row II by Werner Herzog
It Should Happen to You by George Cukor
Interviews
Abel Ferrara
Ben Rivers & Ben Russell...
Films
What Now? Remind Me by Joaquim Pinto (x two)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Corneliu Poromboiu
Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton
Manakamana by Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez
Une autre vie by Emmanuel Mouret
Les grandes ondes (à l'ouest) by Lionel Baier
A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-b, Monologue 02) by Norbert Pfaffenbilcher
On Death Row II by Werner Herzog
It Should Happen to You by George Cukor
Interviews
Abel Ferrara
Ben Rivers & Ben Russell...
- 8/29/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
It’s our two year anniversary which means two things: 1. the return of the Make You Watchathon, where Simon and Kate each assign the other required viewing they probably wouldn’t watch otherwise, and 2. it’s gonna be a long show. Thankfully, the week in TV was fairly streamlined, but we still talk through our regular shows and spotlight this week’s intense Breaking Bad, “Confessions”. Then it’s time for the Watchathon. This year, Kate assigned Simon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a little seen HBO series from 2008 and Simon assigned Kate both On Death Row, a 2012 four-episode documentary series about death row inmates by Werner Herzog and First Person, a documentary/interview series by Errol Morris from 2000. Thank you for hanging out with us over the past two years, and here’s to at least that many more!
Our Week in Comedy and Reality (9:31-22:24): Wilfred,...
Our Week in Comedy and Reality (9:31-22:24): Wilfred,...
- 8/28/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
It’s our two year anniversary which means two things: 1. the return of the Make You Watchathon, where Simon and Kate each assign the other required viewing they probably wouldn’t watch otherwise, and 2. it’s gonna be a long show. Thankfully, the week in TV was fairly streamlined, but we still talk through our regular shows and spotlight this week’s intense Breaking Bad, “Confessions”. Then it’s time for the Watchathon. This year, Kate assigned Simon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a little seen HBO series from 2008 and Simon assigned Kate both On Death Row, a 2012 four-episode documentary series about death row inmates by Werner Herzog and First Person, a documentary/interview series by Errol Morris from 2000. Thank you for hanging out with us over the past two years, and here’s to at least that many more!
Our Week in Comedy and Reality (9:31-22:24): Wilfred,...
Our Week in Comedy and Reality (9:31-22:24): Wilfred,...
- 8/27/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Expanding further on a project that began with the feature film Into the Abyss two years ago, Werner Herzog has added another set of four hour-long entries to his On Death Row mini-series. The initial film focused on a single murder case in Conroe, Texas, the two criminals, various loved ones of the victims, and even employees of the state involved in acting out the death penalty. Without playing down the horror—and absurdity—of the crimes, indeed emphasizing the meaninglessness of the murders, Herzog created rich human portraits of the "killers", arguing not for their innocence but simply against the primitive death penalty. By carefully tracing the reverberating pain caused by the crimes, and the trauma inflicted on everyone it reaches, the film's empathy lay equally with everyone on screen. As beautifully restrained and convincing the film was, the TV spin-off, is, in some ways, even more successful, and...
- 8/23/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Tags: The KillingAMCtelevisionTV recapsIMDb
This week’s episode of The Killing is a true example of the show’s ability to captivate. From the opening sequence, to the unsettling reveal in the last moments, the episode was a tense and taut ride. The episode begins with a car driving down a lonely, dark road. From seemingly out of nowhere, a young woman runs out in front of the car and is hit. The driver, a fresh faced young guy, slams on the breaks and runs to her aid. The girl is badly hurt, but like a wounded deer, uses her last bit of adrenaline to pick herself up and flee into the woods. The driver sees someone else in the distance and calls out to them. There is no response and the shadowy figure steps away and disappears into the woods after his prey.
Back in the Trailer of Perpetually Negligent Parenting,...
This week’s episode of The Killing is a true example of the show’s ability to captivate. From the opening sequence, to the unsettling reveal in the last moments, the episode was a tense and taut ride. The episode begins with a car driving down a lonely, dark road. From seemingly out of nowhere, a young woman runs out in front of the car and is hit. The driver, a fresh faced young guy, slams on the breaks and runs to her aid. The girl is badly hurt, but like a wounded deer, uses her last bit of adrenaline to pick herself up and flee into the woods. The driver sees someone else in the distance and calls out to them. There is no response and the shadowy figure steps away and disappears into the woods after his prey.
Back in the Trailer of Perpetually Negligent Parenting,...
- 6/24/2013
- by DanaPiccoli
- AfterEllen.com
I don't know about you, but I love listening to Werner Herzog narrate the documentaries that he makes. We've got the first trailer for the next doc that he wrote and directed called Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. It's packed full of some amazingly beautiful visuals. Here's the synopsis...
With Happy People, Werner Herzog takes viewers on yet another unforgettable journey into remote and extreme natural landscapes. The acclaimed filmmaker presents this visually stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga.
Deep in the Siberian wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhta at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There‘s no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions.
With Happy People, Werner Herzog takes viewers on yet another unforgettable journey into remote and extreme natural landscapes. The acclaimed filmmaker presents this visually stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga.
Deep in the Siberian wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhta at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There‘s no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions.
- 1/12/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
On June 3rd, 1993, three teenagers from West Memphis, Arkansas were arrested for the murders of three eight year old boys. Despite their innocence, and a complete lack of evidence, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley became targets for the police investigation, and eventually convicted for the brutal slayings of Christopher Byers, Steven Branch and Michael Moore.
18 years later, Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley were finally released from prison. With his newly found freedom, Damien Echols (along with his wife Lorri Davis and supporters of the West Memphis Three) is determined to find the person behind the murders, and finally gain closure. Recently, at a small press conference in Beverly Hills, California, Wamg got the chance to speak with Damien Echols, his wife Lorri Davis, and Director Amy Berg about their new documentary that follows Damien’s fight to save his own life, and their search for the truth. You can read the complete transcript below.
18 years later, Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley were finally released from prison. With his newly found freedom, Damien Echols (along with his wife Lorri Davis and supporters of the West Memphis Three) is determined to find the person behind the murders, and finally gain closure. Recently, at a small press conference in Beverly Hills, California, Wamg got the chance to speak with Damien Echols, his wife Lorri Davis, and Director Amy Berg about their new documentary that follows Damien’s fight to save his own life, and their search for the truth. You can read the complete transcript below.
- 12/27/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of my favorite documentaries this year, "Searching for Sugar Man," received top honors at the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards winning the Best Feature prize. The documentary about the search for the elusive musician, Rodriguez, is truly a brilliant film illuminating failed dreams and eventual redemption.
Here's the complete winners list of the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards:
Career Achievement Award
Arnold Shapiro
Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
David France
Pioneer Award
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program And Fund
Best Feature Award
Searching For Sugar Man
Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul
Producer: Simon Chinn
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics
Best Short Award
Saving Face
Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar
Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam
Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC
Best Limited Series Award...
Here's the complete winners list of the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards:
Career Achievement Award
Arnold Shapiro
Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
David France
Pioneer Award
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program And Fund
Best Feature Award
Searching For Sugar Man
Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul
Producer: Simon Chinn
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics
Best Short Award
Saving Face
Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar
Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam
Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC
Best Limited Series Award...
- 12/8/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
"Searching for Sugar Man," Malik Bendjelloul's film about lost '70s singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, was the big winner at the International Documentary Association's 2012 Ida Documentary Awards Friday, taking both Best Feature and Creative Recognition Award for Best Music honors. Other prizes went to Werner Herzog's Investigation Discovery limited series "On Death Row" and filmmaker David France, whose debut feature "How to Survive a Plague" was awarded best first feature by the New York Film Critics' Circle and is shortlisted for the Oscar along with "Sugar Man." The Ida's Best Short Award went to HBO’s "Saving Face," directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, while the Ida Career Achievement Award was presented to Oscar-winning producer Arnold Shapiro ("Scared Straight") and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund was given...
- 12/8/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
The International Documentary Association announced its 2012 Ida Documentary Awards Friday evening at a ceremony at the Director's Guild, with Swedish music documentarian Malik Bendjelloul's five-year labor of love "Searching for Sugar Man" taking home the Best Feature prize, as well as Best Music. Werner Herzog's brilliant "On Death Row," a multi-episode extension of last year's "Into the Abyss," took home the Best Limited Series award. Full list below. Host Penn Jillette, who introduced himself as "carny trash" and an aetheist, described documentary films as "his church." He laid out his original plan to juggle three flaming torches for the audience, but settled on an even dicier goal: Juggling an Ida award (which is pointy and made of glass) and two apples. Upon receiving the award for Best Limited Series for "On Death Row," legendary German director Werner Herzog noted that, despite having...
- 12/8/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Though he is playing the villain opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher later this year, Werner Herzog is heading back behind the camera very soon. Variety reports that the multi-hyphenate's next project will be directing Vernon God Little, a satire based on D.B.C. Pierre's novel of the same name. After a high school shooting in which sixteen people are killed, a boy named Vernon Little—whose best friend was the shooter, but turned the gun on himself after the deed—is blamed for the crime. With the press out for blood, he bails to Mexico in what Amazon calls "a riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media." This sounds like a perfect fit for German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who certainly isn't afraid to take on provocative material. Considering his recent output as a director, specifically Into the Abyss and On Death Row (both of which involved explorations of injustice,...
- 10/22/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
Following his feature documentary "Into the Abyss" and its companion piece, the docuseries "On Death Row," Werner Herzog is set to return to narrative filmmaking for his next project, Variety reports. Herzog will direct an adaptation of D.B.C. Pierre's 2003 Man Booker Prize winner "Vernon God Little" scripted by Andrew Birkin ("The Name of the Rose," "The Cement Garden"). The novel centers on the titular character, a teenager who flees to Mexico after authorities link him to a high school shooting perpetrated by his best friend. Read More: Werner Herzog Challenges Young Cinematographers at Icg Event: 'Be Bold, Develop Your Vision, and Stick to It' What this means for Herzog's other brewing narrative project, the Gertrude Bell biopic "Queen of the Dessert" set to star Naomi Watts and Robert Pattinson, remains to be seen. Herzog will next be in theaters acting as Tom Cruise's nemesis in...
- 10/22/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
News.
The Venice Film Festival is well underway, and for in-depth roundups of coverage, it's best to head over and take a look at David Hudson's Daily index. Among the films to have screened are Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Terrence Malick's To The Wonder (a warning: the latter was received with boos). Werner Herzog is—believe it or not—teaming up with The Killers (of all bands, really?) for a "live concert webcast" on September 18th. Check out the Rolling Stone article; it sounds like the Bavarian auteur will unsurprisingly be imbuing the show with his eccentricity. That's not all for Herzog news: characteristic of the director, he has several projects coming down the pipeline. If I understand this Indiewire report correctly, he'll be expanding on his On Death Row miniseries he did for Investigation Discovery with another series of interviews. Additionally, Herzog will be making Hate in America,...
The Venice Film Festival is well underway, and for in-depth roundups of coverage, it's best to head over and take a look at David Hudson's Daily index. Among the films to have screened are Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Terrence Malick's To The Wonder (a warning: the latter was received with boos). Werner Herzog is—believe it or not—teaming up with The Killers (of all bands, really?) for a "live concert webcast" on September 18th. Check out the Rolling Stone article; it sounds like the Bavarian auteur will unsurprisingly be imbuing the show with his eccentricity. That's not all for Herzog news: characteristic of the director, he has several projects coming down the pipeline. If I understand this Indiewire report correctly, he'll be expanding on his On Death Row miniseries he did for Investigation Discovery with another series of interviews. Additionally, Herzog will be making Hate in America,...
- 9/6/2012
- MUBI
In the last few years, filmmaker Werner Herzog's documentary output has garnered more critical acclaim and commercial attention than his narrative efforts. Just last year, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," Herzog's nearly catatonic 3D movie about ancient cave paintings, was a critics' darling and became the highest-grossing documentary of 2011, earning nearly $4 million at the domestic box office despite offering almost no entertainment or information value whatsoever. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Herzog will be returning to the documentary field with two new limited series – "On Death Row," a three-part follow-up to his "Death Row" series of interviews with convicted felons awaiting execution, and "Hate in America," an all-new four-part look at hate crime in America. You might want to make sure your prescriptions for antidepressants are filled before watching either. According to the report Zdf Enterprises, the...
- 8/29/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Werner Herzog's TV documentary project "On Death Row," a series of interviews with death row inmates, served as a kind of continuation of the themes in his 2011 film "Into the Abyss," and aired in four parts in the Us on the Investigation Discovery channel. Now Herzog's got two new small screen projects ready to go, according to The Hollywood Reporter -- "Hate in America" and "On Death Row." Read More: 'The Happy Worm Bait Shop in the holy land': 5 Great Herzogian Moments in 'On Death Row' Despite the title confusion, "On Death Row" is reportedly a follow-up to the first death row interview series, this one a three-part project looking at a trio of new cases -- a guy who hired killers to assassinate his ex-wife; another who shot down truck drivers from his motorcycle and a man who beat his girlfriend’s baby to death, believing it to be possessed by demons.
- 8/29/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
The truth is: I'm an ordinary man. Some interesting casting news courtesy of Variety today. Werner Herzog is developing a new independent project called Queen of the Desert, about English writer Gertrude Bell, who is already set to be played by Naomi Watts. While the film will focus on Gertrude Bell's life "as a writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political attache for the British Empire", one of her good friends was Thomas Edward Lawrence, or T.E. Lawrence, the author who wrote Lawrence of Arabia and whom that story is based. Herzog has now cast Robert Pattinson to play Lawrence in the film. Read on! Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert is being produced by veteran indie producers Cassian Elwes (The Chase, Frank & Jesse, The Paperboy) and Nick Raslan (Rescue Dawn, On Death Row) and is looking to start production in the late fall later this year. This may just...
- 8/14/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The prologue of each of the four episodes of “Death Row” is the same: a restless camera prowls through the dismal ante-room, holding cell and injection chamber of an unnamed execution facility, while director Werner Herzog tells us in his familiar teutonic monotone that, as a German and a guest of the United States, he “respectfully disagree[s]” with the death penalty, legal in 34 states, and performed regularly in 16.
And so he sets out his position up front. What's perhaps surprising, however, is that what he then delivers is neither polemical nor propagandistic in its approach; Herzog's storytelling instincts trump his didactic ones here, to compelling effect. Having already tackled this subject in his feature-length “Into The Abyss” (the central figure of which makes a fleeting appearance here in the "Joseph Garcia and George Rivas" section), it's clear that in exploring the stories of these condemned men and women, Herzog has...
And so he sets out his position up front. What's perhaps surprising, however, is that what he then delivers is neither polemical nor propagandistic in its approach; Herzog's storytelling instincts trump his didactic ones here, to compelling effect. Having already tackled this subject in his feature-length “Into The Abyss” (the central figure of which makes a fleeting appearance here in the "Joseph Garcia and George Rivas" section), it's clear that in exploring the stories of these condemned men and women, Herzog has...
- 4/26/2012
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
It’s a light week this episode as Simon and Kate skip the spotlight in favor of an extended DVD Shelf. After talking through the week’s TV, with particular focus on Justified, Awake, the Spartacus finale, Mad Men, and, once again, Smash, we welcome Eric Mendoza from Sound on Sight’s Doctor Who podcast on to talk about that seminal sci-fi relaunch, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Other shows discussed this week include New Girl, Happy Endings, Community, 30 Rock, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Fringe, Bob’s Burgers, Lost Girl, the first live round of The Voice, and Werner Herzog’s On Death Row.
Download the chaptered m4a version in a new window
Download the unchaptered mp3 version in a new window
- Listen to the m4a version on iTunes Listen to the mp3 version on iTunes m4a RSS feed mp3 RSS feed Twitter...
Other shows discussed this week include New Girl, Happy Endings, Community, 30 Rock, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Fringe, Bob’s Burgers, Lost Girl, the first live round of The Voice, and Werner Herzog’s On Death Row.
Download the chaptered m4a version in a new window
Download the unchaptered mp3 version in a new window
- Listen to the m4a version on iTunes Listen to the mp3 version on iTunes m4a RSS feed mp3 RSS feed Twitter...
- 4/3/2012
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
The Hunger Games holds on at the UK box office as schools break up, but will Mirror Mirror take the holiday prize?
The Easter battle
With schools breaking up for the Easter holiday last Friday, box office was always going to be a prize worth fighting for, and several major films entered a market already dominated by The Hunger Games. The Suzanne Collins adaptation experienced a relatively modest 33% drop from the previous weekend, holding on to the top spot with a solid £2.99m. In the Us, the drop was a steeper 62%, albeit falling from a towering $153m opening that was always going to see a large decline. With £9.85m so far, The Hunger Games is well positioned to build a solid total over the holiday period.
Top new entrant is Wrath of the Titans, but with box-office less than half the debut achieved by predecessor Clash of the Titans two Easters ago.
The Easter battle
With schools breaking up for the Easter holiday last Friday, box office was always going to be a prize worth fighting for, and several major films entered a market already dominated by The Hunger Games. The Suzanne Collins adaptation experienced a relatively modest 33% drop from the previous weekend, holding on to the top spot with a solid £2.99m. In the Us, the drop was a steeper 62%, albeit falling from a towering $153m opening that was always going to see a large decline. With £9.85m so far, The Hunger Games is well positioned to build a solid total over the holiday period.
Top new entrant is Wrath of the Titans, but with box-office less than half the debut achieved by predecessor Clash of the Titans two Easters ago.
- 4/3/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Prolific is barely the word for Werner Herzog, whose latest profound, existentialist documentary, Into the Abyss, is released in UK cinemas today. Meanwhile, a four-part companion television series (the more pragmatically titled Death Row) is midway through its airing on Channel 4. Add to that the fact that he’s narrated an upcoming, and slightly surreal, dinosaur documentary (Dinotasia) and recently filmed his role as the main villain in an upcoming Tom Cruise movie (cheerfully describing himself as a “paid stooge”). It’s a fact that almost (if not quite) makes it understandable that the veteran filmmaker has most certainly made more films than he’s ever seen.
“I’m a working man, let’s face it. I’ve done six films last year and I’ve acted in a movie and I run my Rogue Film School and all sorts of other things as well,” says the man who...
“I’m a working man, let’s face it. I’ve done six films last year and I’ve acted in a movie and I run my Rogue Film School and all sorts of other things as well,” says the man who...
- 3/30/2012
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Yes, Werner Herzog's film about men on death row is bleak – but it's about life, too
For Hank Skinner's final meal, he had three pieces of spicy fried chicken, two catfish fillets (pronounced feelays, this is Texas), a bacon cheeseburger, a larger order of fries, a salad with ranch dressing and little bowls of ground-up hardboiled egg and shredded cheddar cheese, onions and tomato sauce. All washed down with a pitcher of chocolate milkshake.
Maybe he thought he could block up his arteries completely and stop the poison getting through. Because Skinner, a convicted triple murderer, was going to be executed after dinner. By lethal injection. He could see the room a few feet from his cell, the gurney (that's a horrible thing, isn't it?), the armboards and straps, the microphone, the window through which the witnesses watch. "I was literally looking at my death while I was sitting there eating,...
For Hank Skinner's final meal, he had three pieces of spicy fried chicken, two catfish fillets (pronounced feelays, this is Texas), a bacon cheeseburger, a larger order of fries, a salad with ranch dressing and little bowls of ground-up hardboiled egg and shredded cheddar cheese, onions and tomato sauce. All washed down with a pitcher of chocolate milkshake.
Maybe he thought he could block up his arteries completely and stop the poison getting through. Because Skinner, a convicted triple murderer, was going to be executed after dinner. By lethal injection. He could see the room a few feet from his cell, the gurney (that's a horrible thing, isn't it?), the armboards and straps, the microphone, the window through which the witnesses watch. "I was literally looking at my death while I was sitting there eating,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
Werner Herzog's "On Death Row," which starts March 9 on the Investigation Discovery channel, is a strange creation, half a continuation of ideas explored in "Into the Abyss" and half a true-crime special. The work screened as a single three-hour piece at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, but on TV will play out over four weeks in hour-long installments with introductions by Paula Zahn. Each installment is built around an interview (or in one case, a pair of interviews) with a death row inmate in Texas or Florida. One of these subjects, George Rivas, was executed last week; the others await the setting of dates or news of appeals. Each episode begins with Herzog intoning that "as a German coming from a different historical background, and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment." But the show could never be...
- 3/9/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Having delved into the deep end of the prison system, interviewing a man awaiting execution and the family members of his victims in his outstanding 2011 doc "Into The Abyss." Werner Herzog is set to continue the conversation about the death penalty and those to whom it's been given in "On Death Row," a four-part companion series to last year's film that premieres on the Investigation Discovery channel on March 9th at 10pm. In an unfortunate instance of timeliness, one of the five inmates he interviews in the series has just been executed. George Rivas, 41, was the leader of the Texas 7, a gang that escaped from a maximum-security prison and went on a crime spree that left one policeman dead, ultimately getting caught after someone spotted them on "America's Most Wanted." He was serving multiple life sentences for kidnapping, robbery and burglary charges at the time of the breakout. In the clip from.
- 3/2/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Werner Herzog's new documentary mini-series, "On Death Row," got even more real yesterday when interview subject George Rivas was executed by lethal injection in Texas. Rivas, who was 41-years-old, was known as the ringleader of the Texas 7 gang, which organized the state's biggest prison break. While on the run, the group committed a robbery that led to the death of a police officer. All of the escapees were ultimately sentenced to death, including another man Herzog features in the program. In one of his final interviews at the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas, Rivas recounted the decisions that led to the police officer's death....
- 3/2/2012
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
Revision
There'll be more notes and roundups over the next few days, but before tonight's presentation of the Bears, I thought I'd rank the films I managed to see at this year's Berlinale. Note that these are not awards predictions but rather personal preferences, for what they're worth. In order (for the moment):
Outstanding
1. Barbara (Christian Petzold), Competition (see the notes and roundup).
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes), Competition (notes and roundup).
3. Revision (Philip Scheffner), Forum.
Very Good
4. Bestiaire (Denis Côté), Forum (notes and roundup).
Good
5. Sister (Ursula Meier), Competition.
6. Death Row (Werner Herzog), Berlinale Special.
7. War Witch (Kim Nguyen), Competition.
8. Aujourd'hui (Alain Gomis), Competition.
9. Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude), Forum.
10. Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers), Panorama Dokumente.
11. Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou), Forum.
Just Above The Middle Line
12. Mercy (Matthias Glasner), Competition.
13. Captive (Brillante Mendoza), Competition (notes and roundup).
14. Francine (Brian M Cassidy and Melani Shatzky), Forum.
There'll be more notes and roundups over the next few days, but before tonight's presentation of the Bears, I thought I'd rank the films I managed to see at this year's Berlinale. Note that these are not awards predictions but rather personal preferences, for what they're worth. In order (for the moment):
Outstanding
1. Barbara (Christian Petzold), Competition (see the notes and roundup).
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes), Competition (notes and roundup).
3. Revision (Philip Scheffner), Forum.
Very Good
4. Bestiaire (Denis Côté), Forum (notes and roundup).
Good
5. Sister (Ursula Meier), Competition.
6. Death Row (Werner Herzog), Berlinale Special.
7. War Witch (Kim Nguyen), Competition.
8. Aujourd'hui (Alain Gomis), Competition.
9. Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude), Forum.
10. Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers), Panorama Dokumente.
11. Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou), Forum.
Just Above The Middle Line
12. Mercy (Matthias Glasner), Competition.
13. Captive (Brillante Mendoza), Competition (notes and roundup).
14. Francine (Brian M Cassidy and Melani Shatzky), Forum.
- 2/19/2012
- MUBI
“I love the rain, I love when I can hear the rain on the roof,” Florida inmate James Barnes, on death row for murder, tells Werner Herzog in the premiere of his new television series, On Death Row. It reminds him that there is a world outside. If you’ve heard of Werner Herzog before, this sentence may seems a bit strange, but it’s true: with a career spanning more than three decades as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Herzog—the director of such classics as Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, and Grizzly Man— has teamed up with Investigation Discovery to make a series out of his latest documentary.
- 2/15/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Finally! It took a ski-stealing kid to raise the bar for films selected to be in competition. Ursula Meier’s L’enfant D’en Haut (Sister) tells an intriguing story with well-composed twists, starring brilliant actors Kacey Mottet Klein and Léa Seydoux (who really gets to show how talented she is) as Simon and Louise. Twelve year old Simon spends the winter days up on the mountain snatching skis and other sports equipment to sell in order to make a living. When asked about the whereabouts of his parents, he explains how they died in a car accident and that he now lives with his sister. Simon and Louise’s relationship constantly shifts between battle and tenderness. Meier captures her story full of contradictions and struggle with a narrative and visual ease going into great depth. (I purposefully choose to be a little cryptic with this description, as spoiling too...
- 2/15/2012
- by Merle Fischer
- SoundOnSight
The prologue of each of the four episodes of “Death Row” is the same: a restless camera prowls through the dismal ante-room, holding cell and injection chamber of an unnamed execution facility, while director Werner Herzog tells us in his familiar teutonic monotone that, as a German and a guest of the United States, he “respectfully disagree[s]” with the death penalty, legal in 34 states, and performed regularly in 16. And so he sets out his stall up front. What's perhaps surprising, however, is that what he then delivers is neither polemical nor propagandistic in its approach; Herzog's storytelling instincts trump his didactic ones here, to compelling effect. Having already tackled this subject in his feature-length “Into The Abyss” (the central figure of which makes a fleeting appearance here in the "Joseph Garcia and George Rivas" section), it's clear that in exploring the stories of these condemned men and women,...
- 2/9/2012
- The Playlist
The festival circus of Germany‘s big A-film festival is little less then a week away and it‘s been four days since the whole programme of this year‘s Berlinale was released. With almost 400 films the list of title‘s comprises of about as many films as the studio system blasted out annually during its golden age. For ten days Berlin‘s movie theatres will host films from around the globe, and since it is an absolute impossibility to get a grip on everything that will be shown I‘ve decided to be more than happy if by the end of the festival I‘ve gotten the gist of this list.
While some might welcome the sudden start of winter in Berlin I am already dreading the freezing cold while waiting in line at the accreditation’s counter only to find out that the films I‘ve carefully selected to watch are already out.
While some might welcome the sudden start of winter in Berlin I am already dreading the freezing cold while waiting in line at the accreditation’s counter only to find out that the films I‘ve carefully selected to watch are already out.
- 2/5/2012
- by Merle Fischer
- SoundOnSight
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.