Netflix’s remarkable international growth will continue apace, a packed industry event heard at the European Film Market in Berlin this morning. It was standing room only at the buzzy session titled ‘From Idea to Screen: Developing European Content for and with Netflix’, which gave industry an insight into the…

The duo behind Netflix’s first German original have set up their next project at the streamer. Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar said today that 1899 will follow a migrant steamship heading west to leave the old continent from London to New York. The original series will follow the boat’s passengers, a…

The Bridge producer Lars Blomgren is looking to crack remakes of the hit Scandi crime drama in China and India as he moves into a new role at Endemol Shine Group designed to bolster its foreign-language drama slate. In a wide-ranging interview with Deadline, Blomgren, who previously headed ESG-owned Swedish producer…

Netflix has boarded Freud, a German-language period crime thriller that sees the young eponymous psychoanalyst involved in a nerve-racking investigation into a murderous conspiracy. The co-production from Satel Film/Bavaria Fiction for ORF and Netflix is set in Vienna and is the streaming service’s first Austrian…

Netflix has signed its first European overall series deal. The streamer has signed with Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the German duo behind Dark, which the company says is one of its most-watched entirely non-English shows. The pair will produce new series and projects for Netflix's 125 million members…

David Wells, CFO at Netflix, offered a two-word explanation for the streaming giant’s decision to fork over up to $300 million to elite showrunner Ryan Murphy earlier this month: “customer joy.” Speaking at the Morgan Stanley media and telecom conference in San Francisco, Wells elaborated, “These deals are going to be…

Netflix has picked up a second season of its praised German mystery thriller Dark, which bowed at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Dark is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships…

“Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive. They are connected in a never-ending circle.” Ahead of its December 1 premiere, Netflix has released the official trailer for Dark, its 10-part German mystery thriller that bowed at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. Written by Jantje Friese and directed by Baran bo…

Netflix has set a December 1 launch date for Dark, the 10-part German mystery thriller that bowed at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. In the meantime, this new teaser trailer might stoke your curiosity. The sinister mystery, we learn, is not really whodunnit, or even where or how: It’s all about when – which seems to…

Things are about to get Dark for Netflix. One of the most consistent and enthusiastic distributors of foreign language content since its inception, the streaming service has only just now taken on its first German-language production, in the form of this series from creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. As Friese…

Netflix has set its first original German series Dark for premiere in 2017. Described as a family saga with a supernatural twist, Dark is set in a present-day German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. In ten hour-long episodes…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired U.S. rights to the Nick Basile-directed Dark, and plans to release the psychological thriller executive produced by Joe Dante later this year. Whitney Able, Alexandra Breckenridge, Michael Eklund and Brendan Sexton III star in the pic, which chronicles one night in the life of a…