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Austria's ORF Joins Big Budget Central Europe Drama Series 'Rise Of The Raven' The shoot for big-budget Central European drama Rise of the Raven (working title) is underway near Budapest in Hungary, with Austrian pubcaster ORF the latest to join the series as a co-producer. Produced by Robert Lantos (Sunshine, Johnny M…

EXCLUSIVE: A sister company to The Incal Universe owner Humanoids named Sparkling is pushing into European drama, with Patrick Nebout at the helm, Deadline can reveal.  Cannes Confidential and Midnight Sun producer and European co-production specialist Nebout is exiting Beta-owned producer Dramacorp to lead the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first trailer for Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary) comedy-drama How To Please A Woman, which Beta is selling at the virtual AFM. In the Australian indie pic, Phillips plays a woman in middle age who feels she has become "invisible to everyone." The film follows her as she sets up a house…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's some welcome news for fans of hit mafia crime series Gomorrah: producers of the small-screen drama are lining up an origins story feature film based on cult character Ciro Di Marzio, aka 'l'Immortale'. Marco D'Amore, who plays Di Marzio in the series, will star in and direct the Cattleya-produced…

Beta Cinema has picked up sales rights to Sundance and Berlin entry Sand Storm by Israeli director Elite Zexer. The film is produced by 2-Team Productions, who won the Venice Public Choice award with The Farewell Party. Sand Storm, shot in Arabic, takes place in a Bedouin village in southern Israel. Jalila finds…