Fremantle’s Fiction Valley Ties With ‘Dirty Lines’ Creator Pieter Bart Korthuis; Beta Cinema Sales; NENT Rebrand; Channel 4 Entertainment Pilots; Doc Fest – Global Briefs
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Fremantle’s Fiction Valley Ties With ‘Dirty Lines’ Creator Pieter Bart Korthuis
Fremantle label Fiction Valley has struck a three-year deal with Netflix’s Dirty Lines creator and showrunner Pieter Bart Korthuis. The agreement will see Fiction Valley, which is run by Annemike van Vliet, develop and produce a slate of scripted drama series from Korthuis, one of Holland’s leading creatives. The pair have already tied on Dirty Lines, Netflix’s series about late-1980s Amsterdam and Korthuis’ other work includes political series The Year of Fortuyn and Penoza. Fiction Valley’s credits include Suspects and a remake of The A-Word. “Pieter’s extraordinary talent as creator, writer, director and showrunner is unique and beyond limits,” said van Vliet. Striking talent deals and acquiring labels is a key plank of Fremantle’s strategy at the moment and the group signed a landmark deal with Angelina Jolie earlier this year.
Beta Cinema strikes UK and North American pre-sales for tragicomedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf’
Germany’s Beta Cinema has had a solid start to the Cannes Films Festival by pre-selling rights to English-language tragicomedy My Neighbour Adolf to several buyers. Cohen Media Group has taken North American rights, Signature Entertainment picked up the UK and Ireland, I Wonder took Italy, Lumix Media snapped up rights in South Korea and Tohokushinsha grabbed them in Japan. The film, set in Colombia in May 1960, follows a grumpy Holocaust survivor who suspects his new neighbor is Adolf Hitler. Leon Prudovsky (Five Hours From Paris) is director, with David Hayman and Udo Kier starring.
NENT Group Rebrands To Viaplay Group
Scandi content player NENT Group has officially changed its name to Viaplay Group. The move was rubberstamped by
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