Keshet International Boards Norwegian Dramedy Series ‘Porni’

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorInternational sales agency Sola Media, which is taking part in Hong Kong’s Filmart this week, has boarded the Norwegian remake of Czech classic film “Three Wishes for Cinderella,” with pop music star Astrid Smeplass, better known as Astrid S, playing Cinderella.

Sam Heughan has proven he's a real Scotsman despite revealing he has French, German and Norwegian ancestry. And as Sam talked about growing up in Scotland and his roots he told of his plans to extend his tweed and tartan line to kilts and skirts as well as shawls.

EXCLUSIVE: Midori Francis (Dash & Lily), Gavin Leatherwood (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Christopher Meyer (Tell Me A Story), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (Queenpins), Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (Give Me Liberty) and Renika Williams (Modern Love) are set as series regulars in The Sex Lives of College Girls, Mindy Kaling’s upcoming comedy series at HBO Max.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMedia 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.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. production funding and distribution agency Drive has sold two-part documentary series “The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess” to Channel Nine in Australia, REELZ in the U.S., TV 2 in Norway, Servus TV in Austria, RTL Netherlands and TVNOW in Germany, to broadcast this year.Produced by Minnow Films for U.K.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Ipcress File,” a spy series based on the popular Len Deighton novel, has kicked off filming in Liverpool and Croatia with a stellar cast including Joe Cole (“Peaky Blinders), Lucy Boynton (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) and Tom Hollander (“The Night Manager”). The series is being produced by Altitude Television for ITV.

Naman Ramachandran Deborah Turness, president of NBC News International, the global arm of U.S. news network NBC News, will join the U.K.’s ITN as CEO from April 19.Turness replaces Anna Mallett who joined as CEO in 2019 from BBC Studios, and will now join Netflix as VP of physical production for the U.K.

Emilio Mayorga Sébastien Onomo, producer of 2018 Annecy Crystal winner “Funan,” has teamed with Romanian animator Anca Damian to co-produce her new project “Starseed.” Damian’s first feature, “Crulic,” similarly topped Annecy, in 2011.

Unless you believe all those ridiculous conspiracy theories on social media, as of right now, there aren’t any tech billionaires secretly trying to put monitoring devices into our brains. But in the upcoming HBO Max series, “Made for Love,” that’s a very real consequence in the failing marriage of a tech billionaire and his wife.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpanish director and screenwriter Rodrigo Sorogoyen, fresh off large acclaim, prizes and recording-breaking viewership on Movistar Plus for “Riot Police,” is preparing a follow-up series for the Telefonica Spanish pay TV/SVOD service in Spain, which will deliver Sorogoyen’s personal take on the Spanish Civil War.The untitled series will be co-written by Isabel Peña and Eduardo Villanueva, Sorogoyen’s regular co-scribes.

There’s no shortage of movies about kids who discover they possess special powers. Most of these, however — from The Incredibles to the Harry Potter franchise to the Razzie-nominated Tim Allen-starring Zoom: Academy for Superheroes(no, we didn't bother either) — are very much aimed at a younger audience.

EXCLUSIVE: Eros STX and Amazon Prime Video have closed a multi-year first window output deal in the Nordics effective immediately.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPopular French theater director Jean-Christophe Meurisse is making his sophomore film outing with “Bloody Oranges,” a black comedy headlined by Denis Podalydès (“La Belle Epoque”), Blanche Gardin (“Delete History”) and Christophe Paou (“Synonyms”).Brussels-based outfit Best Friend Forever has acquired international sales rights to the film, which is produced by Rectangle Prods.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorInternational sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment has boarded comedy horror whodunnit “Werewolves Within,” which will be released by IFC Films in the U.S.The movie, which is completed, is directed by Josh Ruben, and is written by Mishna Wolff. The cast includes Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil and Sarah Burns.In the pic, a proposed gas pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield.

Rose Leslie and Theo James have been tapped as the leads in The Time Traveler’s Wife, HBO’s drama series based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.

Guy Lodge Film CriticPhilippe Lacôte’s career in film began at the end, rather than the beginning, of the cinematic life cycle: as a projectionist in a small regional theater in Toulouse, France, where the Ivory Coast-born director had moved to study linguistics.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBritBox executive Reemah Sakaan has been handed the reins to the SVOD service’s international roll-out.Sakaan will be CEO of BritBox International, overseeing the expansion of the service into 25 countries worldwide.Sakaan will start in April, leading a team of around 100.