Kung Fu Panda writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris have teamed with The Wire and House of Cards director Agnieszka Holland on a series about Napoleon that will be offered to TV buyers at the Berlin Film Festival. The show is the most high-profile drama to be presented as part of the Berlinale's Co-Pro Series 2019…

Netflix is prepping its first Polish-language original series with Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland helming, along with Kasia Adamik. The pair recently collaborated on Holland’s Spoor which is Poland’s submission this year for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize in…

EXCLUSIVE: Agnieszka Holland is attached to direct The Kind Worth Killing, an adaptation of the Peter Swanson thriller novel for Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions. Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz and Wechsler are producing; Roger Schwartz is  co-producer. The novel focuses on a particularly ruthless…

Agnieszka Holland To Direct Season 3 ‘House Of Cards’ Episodes Agnieszka Holland has signed to helm multiple episodes of the upcoming season of Netflix‘s signature drama House Of Cards. The veteran Polish director most recently helmed the NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby and European mini Burning Bush along with episode…

Led by chairwoman Agnieszka Holland, the European Film Academy is urging Russian officials to immediately release arrested Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. The Gaamer helmer has been involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev, and opposes the annexation of Crimea by Russia. On May 11, he is understood to…

Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to the Agnieszka Holland-directed film that follows the plight of Czech student Jan Palach, who set himself on fire to protest the the Soviet occupation of Prague in 1969, and his family's legal fight to clear his name. Having lived in Czechoslovakia at the time the events took…

Four months after NBC signaled a push in the longform arena with a development slate of several miniseries and event series, the network has greenlighted the first project from that slate, four-hour miniseries Rosemary’s Baby,  an adaptation of the 1967 best-selling suspense novel by Ira Levin. Agnieszka Holland, who…