Viaplay Orders Crime Drama ‘A Class Apart’ from Banijay Nordic’s Jarowskij – Global Bulletin

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe white-hot moment of the Romanian new-wave film renaissance is long in the past. “The Death of Mr.

Jamie Lang Sky and London’s Tottenham Hotspur, featured in the 2020 edition of Amazon Prime Video’s hit “All or Nothing” documentary series, will work together to make the club’s Sept. 19 fixture against London rivals Chelsea Football Club the world’s first net zero carbon major soccer match, ahead of next month’s UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.The match, supported by COP26 and the English Premier League (EPL), is being branded as #GameZero.

Jamie Lang Abacus Media Rights (AMR) has picked up global distribution rights to BBC Two’s Joan Collins documentary, produced by Salon Pictures and commissioned by Mark Bell at BBC Arts. Promising to tell the life story of the Hollywood actor from her point of view, the 90-minute documentary will be narrated by Collins herself.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has revealed the first look for its upcoming six-part series “The Rig.” The series stars Martin Compston (“Line of Duty”), Emily Hampshire (“Schitt’s Creek”), Iain Glen (“Game of Thrones”), Calvin Demba (“Kingsman: The Golden Circle”) and Mark Bonnar (“Line of Duty”).“The Rig” follows the crew of the Kinloch Bravo oil rig stationed off the Scottish coast in the dangerous waters of the North Sea.

Jamie Lang FIRST-LOOKPathé has dropped a first-look image from “The Lost King,” the upcoming feature film about the astonishing 2012 discovery of King Richard III’s remains. In the film, Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Sally Hawkins will play Philippa Langley, the woman who uncovered the remains which had been lost for 500 years.An amateur historian, Langley spent years researching and searching for the ruins, in spite of skepticism from friends, family and academics.

Paramount+ released an all-new, first-look trailer for the upcoming drama Mayor Of Kingstown by Yellowstone writer Taylor Sheridan during the show’s virtual TCA presentation today.

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Three Scandinavian drama producers behind shows such as Modus and Occupied have set up a new production company backed by Endeavor Content.

Jamie Lang Sky will premiere its upcoming Sky Original documentary “Hawking: Can You Hear Me?”, described as the human story behind one of the 20th century’s best known scientific minds, Stephen Hawking, on Sept. 20.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJennifer Yu (“Sisterhood,” “Flying Tiger 2”) leads an all-star cast in “Forensic Psychologist,” a psychological crime series which starts shooting from September in Hong Kong.The 12×30 minute explores the work of a forensic psychologist who must assess the mental state of alleged criminals to determine whether they are mentally fit to stand trial.

Jamie Lang WestEnd Films has launched a global sales campaign for Guillem Morales’ (“The Miniaturist”) revenge thriller “The Duchess of Malfi,” produced by Miriam Segal’s Good Films Collective (“Postcard Killings”).

Naman Ramachandran The 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23-Oct.

BBC Orders Comedy-Thriller ‘Black Ops’ 

Annika Pham High-profile Norwegian movie, theatre and TV helmer Per-Olav Sørensen (“Nobel”, “The Saboteurs”) has turned into one of Netflix’s hottest Nordic collaborators and show-runners since 2019. After the hit Swedish thriller series “Quicksand,” Norwegian dramedy “Home for Christmas” 1 & 2, Sørensen is currently filming Yellow Bird U.K.’s untitled “Spotify” series for the U.S.

Jamie Lang Francis Ford Coppola’s classic 1983 coming-of-age drama “The Outsiders” is getting a new 4K restoration from Studiocanal, Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope. The remaster, titled “The Outsiders: The Complete Novel,” is designed to allow fans of the original film to see more of the world created in S.E. Hinton’s original novel.

In the world of television, certain genres are tried and true. Police and hospital procedurals, workplace dramas, and family comedies, for example, have all been iterated countless times since the medium’s inception.

Naman Ramachandran Taliban hostage drama “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead,” by Swiss filmmaker Michael Steiner (“The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch”) will open the 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23 – Oct.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is heading down under for its latest straight-to-series order.

Jamie Lang BFI London Film Festival (LFF) will host the European premiere of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” for its closing ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.