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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…

Actor and activist Cara Delevingne will play a daredevil climber in The Climb, which follows six ordinary women who, as part of Greenpeace-led protest action against Shell Oil's plans to drill in the Arctic, scale the tallest building in Europe, London's Shard. Hayley Easton Street has written and will direct the…

BBC Royal Family & The Press Doc The BBC has ordered a new 2x60min BBC Two series about the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the media. The program will be accompanied by a Radio 4 podcast for BBC Sounds. Both programs will be fronted by the BBC’s Media Editor…

EXCLUSIVE: German sales firm Beta Cinema has revealed multiple deals for BIFA-nominated psychological-thriller Kindred. The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland…

Beta Film has appointed Koby Gal-Raday to the management board in the newly created post of Chief Content Officer. Based in Munich, Gal-Raday will spearhead Beta's international production strategy and activities, starting in July of this year. Gal-Raday joins Gomorrah outfit Beta from Yes, the Israeli satellite and…

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Oscar-winner Caroline Link's feature adaptation of the novel by Judith Kerr, has been boarded for U.S. rights by Greenwich Entertainment. German sales agent Beta Cinema brokered the deal at EFM. Pic was a local hit in German when it was released last year, grossing $5.8M. The movie is a…

Red Arrow Studios International has sold neo-noir crime drama Stella Blómkvist to AMC Networks' Sundance Now. The series has also been recommissioned for a second season by Síminn in Iceland. Produced by Sagafilm for Síminn and Viaplay, the series has been picked up by AMC Networks' Sundance Now SVOD platform for…

The Lives Of Others writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck returns to Venice, the setting for his second film The Tourist, with the world premiere of big-canvas European co-production Never Look Away (Werk Ohne Autor). Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch and Saskia Rosendahl star in the period epic…

EXCLUSIVE: One day after the acquisition of Nadine Labaki’s Cannes Competition entry Capernaum, UK buyer Picturehouse Entertainment has scored another of the festival’s best-reviewed movies in the shape of Critics’ Week hit Woman At War. Picturehouse’s Clare Binns and Paul Ridd negotiated the deal with Thorsten Ritter…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the handsome first trailer for Cannes Un Certain Regard entry The Gentle Indifference Of The World, which German sales force Beta is launching in Cannes. Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov's movie follows two young villagers, Saltanat (Dinara Baktybayeva), and her impoverished admirer Kuandyk…

Germany’s Beta Cinema has taken a minority stake in Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder's London- and Los-Angeles based international sales outfit, Cornerstone Films. The strategic alliance between the companies aims to provide both entities with a stronger foothold in the global marketplace. They will partner on…

Look Who’s Back found box office success in Germany when it released last October, ultimately grossing about $22M. Netflix has now taken world rights outside Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan and Taiwan, for a rollout on April 9. The adaptation of Timur Vermes’ bestselling novel…