EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Wachsberger, former Co-Chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and the man behind the international success of features such as Twilight, La La Land and John Wick, is moving into TV after teaming with Marseille producer Federation Entertainment. Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Entertainment has…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) is set to star in and executive produce The Banker’s Wife, a high stakes international thriller drama series based on Cristina Alger's book. The project, from Federation Entertainment (Marseille) and producer Sherry Marsh (Pose), also has brought on board top TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Pose and Vikings exec producer Sherry Marsh has teamed up with Federation Entertainment, the producer of Netflix's Gérard Depardieu-fronted original Marseille, to develop a drama based on Cristina Alger's forthcoming novel The Banker's Wife. The company, which has bases in the U.S. and France, has optioned…

Welsh drama Hidden is heading to the U.S. after Acorn TV struck a deal with All3Media International to pick up the eight-part series. The drama, which is produced by Severn Screen for S4C and BBC Wales, stars Hinterland and Requiem's Sian Reese-William as DCI Cadi John, as she is drawn back to her childhood home by…

Paris- and LA-based Federation Entertainment and Israel’s Drama-Team are partnering to co-produce mystery drama The Grave. The series hails from Omri Givon whose When Heroes Fly won the inaugural Canneseries top prize last week. Givon’s previous credits include Hostages, also produced by Drama-Team’s Chaim Sharir and…

France’s Federation Entertainment, maker of The Bureau and Marseille, is teaming with Italian indie Palomar to co-produce That Dirty Black Bag. Currently in development, the western steampunk series is created by Mauro Aragoni who is co-scripting with Silvia Ebreul and Marcello Izzo. The eight-episode project will be…

Expanding its international offerings, Netflix has set its first original series from Turkey. The untitled 10-episode action drama weaves together Ottoman and Turkish legend and history and is expected to launch in 2018. The story focuses on a young man who discovers he has special powers. When dark forces that…

Paramount TV and Federation Entertainment, a European independent studio and production company, are stepping up their international development and production efforts, with a first-look deal to co-create, co-produce and co-distribute original content worldwide. Under the pact, Paramount TV also will create series…