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Katrina Kaif On Salman Khan Casting Zarine Khan In Veer(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif were in a relationship between 2005 and 2010. However, despite parting ways, they chose to remain good friends and also collaborated on movies like Bharat and the Tiger franchise. But the superstar grabbed several eyeballs when actress Zarine Khan was chosen to star opposite him in the 2010 film Veer. The reason being Zarine’s resemblance to Katrina. Many fans felt that the actor did so because he was allegedly missing the actress after their breakup.

In a throwback interview with Cosmopolitan, Katrina Kaif had once broken her silence on the same. The actress furthermore also reacted on whether Salman Khan ‘mellowed’ down his personality after his breakup with the actress. The Merry Christmas actress said, “Isn’t that flattering? I think that’s so sweet. I even helped her with her make-up during her screen test.

Billie Lourd is acknowledging the dark feelings of grief on the eighth anniversary of her mom Carrie Fisher’s death. On Friday, the actress remembered her late mother with an emotional tribute, describing the “dread” of mourning Fisher as an “emotional tropical storm.”

“It has been 8 years since my mom died. As my son would say ‘That’s a lot!’ I always dread this day,” Lourd wrote on Instagram. “I spend so much time leading up to it thinking about how awful I’m going to feel. And my dread is usually right.

Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott in ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ season 4 episode 15

The team hits the courts on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 15, “Double Fault.” Directed by Ken Girotti from a script by D. Dona Le, episode 15 will air on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

“Double Fault” Plot: The Fugitive Task Force springs into action to find a famous foreign tennis player after she’s kidnapped from a tennis court in Brooklyn.

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Exclusive: Mandalay Television is continuing to ramp up its slate of book to series adaptations.

The company, founded by former Sony Pictures boss and Rain Man and Flashdance producer Peter Guber, has optioned Mike Grist’s series of action thriller novels including Saint Justice for television.

The six-book series follows ex-CIA operative Christopher Wren, as he chases down the worst cult leader in history who is trying to destroy American democracy by dividing and pitting the US population against each other.

Only Wren can stop the anarchism when he discovers the leader of the cult is his father, who he escaped from as a young teenager. Wren’s internal battlefield leads him to finding redemption and atoning for the dark events of his own past.

The series is being overseen by Mandalay executives David Zelon, Vanessa Johnston and Zach Wanerman.

Saint Justice was originally self-published by Mike Grist in...

The team investigates a brutal murder on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 14. Directed by Ludovic Littee from a script by Wendy West, episode 14 – “Wanted: America” – will air on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

“Wanted: America” Plot: When a rising star triathlete is found violently murdered, the team chases after one of her teammates and his girlfriend. Also, Remy reunites with a true crime show producer from his past.

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The Berlin Festival’s ever larger three-day Berlinale Series Market kicks off today, Feb. 20. Below just a small selection of the series screening at the Market or in Berlinale Series, the festival strand. The selection could have been much larger.

About Antoine

Berlinale Series Market Selects

Canada

Creator: Cathleen Rouleau

Production company: ComediHa!

Broadcaster: Club illico, Tva (Quebecor)

An insight into the life of a family with all the quirks, highs and lows it entails, tackling a rarely explored theme in fiction: Life with a multi-handicapped child.

Rouleau: “I didn’t want to write a gut-wrenching story. A good show is wrapped in truth. It doesn’t matter if the hero spits fire from his mouth, as long as he is true to himself.”

Agent

Berlinale Series

Denmark

Creator, director: Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Production company: Zentropa Productions2

Broadcaster: TV2

Johan’s job is to solve his clients’ problems. Chronically overstretched,...

The team search for a kidnapped teenager on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 13. Directed by Jon Cassar from a script by Khalid Moalim, episode 13 – “Transaction” – will air on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

“Transaction” Plot: The team must navigate the mistrust of authorities in a tight-knit Somali community in Minnesota as they race to find a kidnapped 14-year-old girl.

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Indie producer Daisy Allsop has joined WestEnd films to oversee acquisitions and development across the company’s slate of films and TV shows.

Allsop takes over from Toby Hill and has already started her new role. She will attend the Berlin film festival, where WestEnd will debut Traitor, a new television series from the creators of False Flag, Valley of Tears, and Euphoria.

As an independent producer, Allsop’s credits include Tell It To The Bees (2018), Orthodox (2015), and the forthcoming My Happy Ending, starring Andie Macdowell and Miriam Margolyes. Allsop is also a screenwriter, represented by Casarotto Ramsay. She continues to operate her producing slate through Archface Films.

“We are thrilled to have Daisy join our team. Daisy has a great instinct for material and extensive experience in script development,” said Maya Amsellem, managing director at WestEnd.

“Her history as a producer makes her a real asset in building close...

Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott and Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines in ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ season 4 episode 12

CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four will return from a three-week break with an episode that finds the team searching for kidnapped teenagers. Directed by Jean de Segonzac from a script by Richard Sweren, season four episode 12 – “Black Mirror” – will air on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.

“Black Mirror” Plot: When two Vermont teens are kidnapped on their way home from a basketball game, the team is led to a wayward pastor and his brother. Also, Remy attends a hearing for his brother’s murderer.

Season...

A round-up of European drama deals and appointments.

Blackport snares international broadcasters

Icelandic drama Blackport has reeled in its first international broadcast deals following its launch at MipTV earlier this year.

Buyers for the quirky drama include Topic in the US and Canada, Sbs in Australia, AMC Networks International Southern Europe in Spain and Portugal, Rts in Switzerland and TG4 in Ireland.

Blackport had been previously pre-sold to Dr in Denmark, Nrk in Norway, Svt in Sweden, and Yle in Finland. It won the Series Mania grand prize in 2021.

The eight-parter is produced by Vesturport and Turbine Studios for Arte...

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Keshet International CEO Alon Shrtruzman will be leaving the global content producer and distributor owned by Keshet Media Group at the end of 2022.

Shtruzman has led the Keshet division since its launch in 2012 when Keshet expanded outside of Israel to export its formats and IP around the world. A milestone in reaching into Hollywood came when Keshet’s Prisoners of War series was adapted by Showtime for U.S. audiences as Homeland.

“I am grateful to Keshet and Avi Nir for the faith and support, to Ki’s management and the entire team for conquering so many peaks and taking our content across the world, and to the buyers, producers and creators who were part of this exciting journey,” Shtruzman said in a statement.

Keshet series and formats have been picked up by HBO, NBC and BBC, in addition to streamers like Netflix,...

The Israel Film Festival is kicking off in LA this week and it’s going big on television.

The event is set to kick off with screenings of Israeli series such as False Flag and Tehran, while The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, the historical drama series picked up in the U.S. by Netflix, will close the festival with its American premiere.

Hagai Levi, creator of In Treatment, co-creator of The Affair and writer/director of HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage, is also being recognized at the event with the 2022 Achievement in Television Award.

Levi will be honored on May 12, followed by screenings of the first episode of new seasons of False Flag and Tehran. He will also take part in a panel discussion, moderated by Deadline, that will also include Dana Eden and Daniel Syrkin, co-creators of Apple’s Tehran, Francesca Orsi, SVP, Drama Series, HBO, Alon Shtruzman,...

Suspicion is a 2022 British thriller television show released by Apple TV+, based on an Israeli series titled False Flag. The first season follows the perspective of five London residents who have come under suspicion of being involved in the kidnapping of a media titan's son.

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The series as a whole was met with mixed reviews from IMDb users, earning a 6.9/10 average from 4,800 votes. However, the audience ratings of individual episodes show that some were much more liked than others...

Hot off the success of “No Man’s Land,” Israel’s Spiro Films and France’s Haut et Court TV are re-teaming on “Armageddon,” a sprawling thriller miniseries looking at Christian extremists operating in the Holy Land.

The show is being created by David Ackerman, who previously worked in national security in Israel and went on to pen the film “Blank Bullet” inspired by the story of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and “Jerusalem,” a gritty geopolitical thriller drama which competed at last year’s Series Mania.

Ackerman is currently writing the script for “Armageddon,” which weaves several characters, including a Christian American priest who travels with a few disciples to the Kibbutz Megiddo. Appearing friendly and charitable, the group starts forging bonds within the small community, including a mother and a son, while pursuing their secret agenda: find the Antichrist who will provoke a war that will fulfil their biblical prophecy...

In “False Flag” Season 3, Streamaze, an Israeli high-tech company, suffers a chemical attack at a hotel which is masterminded by terrorists.

Or does it? Maybe this was an attack on an individual gone awry.

Mossad’s state-of-the art data analysis identifies three suspects, all with possible reasons to commit the outrage, one of whose victims is the Israeli Minister of Culture. But suspicions don’t make them guilty.

‘False Flag’ mainstay character Eitan Koppel is once more dispatched to investigate and is always two moves ahead of the local police. But even in Episode One, as possible explanations proliferate, the series, as in Seasons One and Two, consistently pulls the rug from under the viewer’s feet, suggesting the supposedly guilty may be innocent, and innocent guilty, as a more nuanced and complex picture emerges.

In its constant caveats against pre-judgement, “False Flag,” a propulsive thriller, takes on a resonant...

“The Fear Index,” starring Josh Hartnett, and the third season of iconic Israeli series “False Flag” will both screen at the Berlinale Series Market Selects, whose lineup was unveiled Tuesday.

The latest from “The Crown” producers Left Bank Pictures, Sky Original “The Fear Index” is billed as a fast-paced, gripping Frankenstein-style parable on the dangers of AI. Based on the Robert Harris novel of the same title, its international sales will be handled by NBCUniversal Global Distribution.

Sold by Keshet International, “False Flag” is one of milestone titles that turned Israel’s series into a global brand, with Fox International taking the world on season one at 2015’s Mipcom in its first global acquisition of a foreign-language series.

Season three marks the return of both original series creators, Maria Feldman and Amit Cohen, in a tale which looks set to weave the same web of distrust, deception and sudden twists as the first two seasons.

Keshet International (Ki) has picked up the anticipated Flemish drama “Storm Lara” which is set to world premiere at the Berlinale Series Market Selects.

The four-part thriller series marks the first scripted project to be commissioned by Belgian streamer Streamz. Produced by the Belgian banner A Private View, “Storm Lara” takes place in real-time during a two-hour radio call-in show. When late-night radio DJ Lara receives a call from suicidal Suzy, she feels in control. But as events unfold, a grueling game of cat and mouse reveals that Suzy has been holding all the cards all along. Confronted, Lara realizes that it’s time to stop living a lie.

“Storm Lara” stars Ella Leyers (“Hidden Assets”) as DJ Lara, Wouter Hendrickx (“Blackout”) as her producer and lover Rafik, and Anemone Valcke (“Generation B”) as Suzy (“Aka Liv”). Created and written by Daan Gielis (“La Holandesa”), this intimate and sensory drama...

"Suspicion" is the new thriller TV series based on the series "False Flag", starring Uma Thurman ("Kill Bill"), streaming February 4, 2022 on Apple TV+:

"...when the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question. 

"As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the authorities to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted.  

"Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?..."

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Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re speaking to Arik Kneller, founder of Israeli talent agency The Kneller Agency. The company, which was the first agency in Israel to focus solely on representation of writers and creative professionals, has an extensive list of clients that are behind series such as Fauda, In Treatment and Shtisel.

As Israeli content continues to be a growing force in the drama world, Arik Kneller is one man behind the scenes who is driving the charge.

The Tel Aviv native is the founder of The Kneller Agency, an Israeli talent and artist agency that represents more than 250 clients across television, film, theatre, literature, music and advertising. The company was the first agency in Israel to focus its representation on writers and directors.

Uma Thurman is taking another stab at streaming TV.

The Kill Bill and Chambers veteran will headline the Apple TV+ drama series, Suspicion, which is described as a "heart-pounding drama."

The highly-anticipated drama is set to premiere Friday, February 4, with two episodes available on premiere day.

New episodes follow weekly.

As for what the series is about, check out the official logline:

When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question.

As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the FBI to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted.

Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of...

Apple TV Plus released a trailer for “Suspicion,” an eight-episode limited series starring Uma Thurman, premiering on Feb. 4.

Thurman plays a high-profile CEO living in New York City, where her son is taken by four mysterious, masked kidnappers at a hotel. As the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency set their eyes on four seemingly ordinary British citizens staying at the hotel, they scramble to prove their innocence — but not everyone can be trusted.

In the trailer, the four British visitors struggle to provide alibis, finding themselves in a trans-Atlantic game of cat and mouse.

Starring alongside Thurman are Kunal Nayyar (“The Big Bang Theory”), Noah Emmerich (“The Americans”), Georgina Campbell (“Black Mirror”), Elizabeth Henstridge (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Tom Rhys-Harries (“White Lines”), Elyes Gabel (“Scorpion”) and Angel Coulby (“Dancing on the Edge”).

Based on the Israeli series “False Flag,” “Suspicion” is led by showrunner and executive producer Rob Williams.

Apple TV+ has revealed the premiere date and a first look at the highly anticipated thriller series, “Suspicion,” which will make its worldwide debut on Friday, February 4, 2022.

When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question.

As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the FBI to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted. Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

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In addition to Thurman, the ensemble cast for “Suspicion” includes Kunal Nayyar...

Could one of these familiar faces be responsible for the abduction of an American businesswoman’s son?

Apple TV+ announced Wednesday that new drama Suspicion will premiere Friday, Feb. 4. Based on the Israeli drama False Flag, the eight-episode series stars Oscar nominee Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction) as a prominent businesswoman “whose son is kidnapped from a New York hotel,” per the official logline. Soon after, “the eye of suspicion falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question.

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Apple TV+ has revealed the premiere date and first-look images for its upcoming thriller series, Suspicion, starring Academy Award-nominated actress Uma Thurman. Set to make its worldwide debut with two episodes on Friday, February 4, 2022 (followed by one new episode weekly), the eight-episode drama is based on the award-winning Israeli series False Flag and is helmed by Man in the High Castle writer Rob Williams. The series follows a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) whose son is kidnapped from a New York hotel. Fingers are soon pointed at four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question. A trans-Atlantic cat-and-mouse chase begins as the National Crime Agency and the FBI try to track down the Brits, and it becomes clear that not everyone can be trusted. In addition to Thurman, the cast also includes Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), Noah Emmerich (The Americans), Georgina Campbell...

Fremantle has forged a ground-breaking three-year partnership agreement with a creative alliance of nine leading independent production companies to help them develop and fund high-quality international dramas series and films.

Called The Creatives, the alliance spans eight countries and has been spearheaded by France’s Haut Et Court, the production and distribution banner behind “The Returned” and “Possessions.”

Along with Haut et Court, the partnership includes the Netherlands’s Lemming Film (“Pleasure”), Belgium’s Versus Production (“Mother’s Instinct”), Norway’s Maipo Film (“Miss Julie”), Germany’s Razor Film (“Waltz With Bashir”), Israel’s Spiro (“Foxtrot”), France’s Unité (“A Good Doctor”), the U.S.’s Masha (“False Flag”) and the U.K.’s Good Chaos (“Triangle of Sadness”).

Each banner is strong across film and TV, and have a total of 100 films and series in various stages of development or production. Among the most attractive indie players left on the market,...

Israel has approved a 25% rebate for international TV and film productions with an initial budget of 45 million shekels ($14.5 million) for two years.

The program, which aims at enticing foreign producers to come shoot in Israel, has been pushed by the Israeli TV & Film Producers Association, in partnership with the Israeli Finance Minister, as well as the culture, foreign, economy and tourism industries.

“This is a very big deal for Israel and the local TV and film industry,” said Adar Shafran, chairman of the Israeli TV & Film Producers Association. Shafran said the rebate program will “provide thousands of jobs for Israelis and tens of millions of shekels that will be invested in the Israeli economy as a result of using services such as flights, hotels, catering, transportation and more.”

In the absence of a tax incentive, only a handful of international shows and films have shot in Israel in recent years,...

“Fauda,” “False Flag” and “No Man’s Land” producer Maria Feldman is teaming with Israeli director Dror Shaul on “The Collective,” an epic drama series set against the background of the early history of one of Israel’s best known institutions: the kibbutz.

Created, written and to be directed by Shaul, “The Collective” is set up at Feldman’s New York and Israel-based Masha, out of which she co-created and produced for Hulu and Arte the Fremantle-sold “No Man’s Land,” a standout in Series Mania’s main competition last year. This year, Feldman served on the jury of Series Mania’s Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.

Now being written by Dror, “The Collective” marks his return in an extended narrative form to the kibbutz setting of his two huge hits, the 50-minute “Operation Grandma,” (“Mivtsa Savta”), which won the Israeli Academy Award and became a cult film in Israel; and 2007’s “Sweet Mud,...

Russia’s Alexander Rodnyansky, producer of high-level Cannes hits such as “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” has added another prize to his illustrious career, winning the Series Mania Forum Best Project Award for the Soviet-era period drama “Red Rainbow.”

Presented Monday at the Forum, Series Mania’s industry arm, as one of 16 projects at its Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, “Red Rainbow” beat a strong field of other contenders to take the Award, which comes with a €50,000 cash prize for development, a considerable sum to help a series project advance.

Written by Matt Jones, and based on a true story, “Red Rainbow” is set in 1979 and turns on three young German gay activists from West Berlin who, through a series of blunders and misunderstandings, are invited by Soviet Central Committee Secretary Kaptinov to join an official visit to the Ussr, despite homosexuality being illegal in the country.

Once there, their translator, Larissa, is given...

Jessica Ann Collins has been cast opposite Luke Evans and Michiel Huisman in the upcoming Apple action-thriller series “Echo 3,” reuniting Collins with Academy Award-winning producer and writer Mark Boal. Collins will play Amber Chesbourough, a brilliant young scientist who is described as the emotional center of a small American family.

The 10-parter is set in South America and follows Chesborough. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother, Bambi (Evans), and her husband (Huisman) — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a drama set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.

The Apple show will be shot with both English and Spanish dialogue. Boal will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jason Horwitch, with both executive producing. Pablo Trapero (“Carancho”) will direct. Peter Traugott of Keshet Studios will executive produce as well along with Givon, Stan Wlodkowski, Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck,...

After 10 consecutive days of violence, the renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict is already considered the worst clash since 2014. For a film community known to be fiercely opposed to the politics led by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, both Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers and producers fear the escalation of violence will cause irreparable damage. There have been countless fallouts between Israelis and Palestinians in the region over the last 70 years, but industry executives indicate that the proliferation of social media is taking commentary on the conflict to unprecedented levels.

“Today, because of social media, hatred is spreading much quicker. This is a nightmare, and it will affect relationships in the medium to long term,” predicts Rani Massalha, the Paris-based French-Palestinian producer of Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s “Gaza Mon Amour” which opened at Venice and represented Palestine in the Oscar race this year.

“When I started my career as a director with ‘Girafada,...

Exclusive: In something of an international coup, Mr Robot and True Detective outfit Anonymous Content has inked a first look deal with Israeli talent and artist agency, The Kneller Agency, which reps a host of the country’s leading film and TV creatives.

Under the deal, management and production firm Anonymous Content will have exclusive first-look rights to original film and TV ideas generated from the group.

Based in the center of Tel Aviv and founded in 1996 by Arik Kneller, the agency reps more than 250 clients in TV, film, theater, literature, music and advertising.

Among the company’s most internationally recognized talent are: Two-time Oscar nominee and co-creator and director of HBO series, Our Boys, Joseph Cedar; Keren Margalit — creator, writer, and director of Yellow Peppers which was the basis for UK remake The A Word (BBC); Tomer Kappon — star of The Boys (Amazon), Fauda (Netflix), and When Heroes Fly (Netfix); Israeli author,...

Exclusive: WestEnd Films has acquired international rights on Dismissed, the buzzy new satirical comedy-drama Israeli TV series about a group of female army recruits.

The show was created by Israeli Television Academy winner Nir Berger (Dead End) and Atara Frish (Heroine), who also directs. It is produced by Naomi Levari (One Week and a Day) and Saar Yogev (Chained) for Black Sheep Film Productions and Kan: Israeli Public Broadcasting. Kan is currently broadcasting the 10 x 35 series and has already picked it up for a second season.

WestEnd will handle sales through its TV-focused WeSeries banner. The company’s series credits include Valley of Tears, which recently aired on HBO Max, and Traitor, which is now in post-production; both series come from writers/producers Ron Leshem (Euphoria) and Amit Cohen (False Flag). WestEnd also has a television development slate with production and financing company, Anton. The first project will be a...

Luke Evans has been tapped to star in Apple’s Echo 3 action-thriller drama series, from Oscar winner Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Apple Studios and Keshet Studios.

Echo 3 is set in South America and follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, who is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a layered, personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.

Evans will play the role of Bambi, Amber’s brother.

The 10-part series is based on the award-winning Keshet Broadcasting series When Heroes Fly, created by Omri Givon and inspired by the eponymous novel by Amir Gutfreund. Given a straight-to-series order by Apple last July, Echo 3 will be shot with English and Spanish dialogue.

Boal serves as showrunner alongside...

Apple TV Plus has ordered to series the bilingual drama “Now and Then” from Bambú Producciones and creators Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés and Gema R. Neira. Campos and Fernández-Valdés will serve as showrunners, with Neira and Campos writing the series.

The series, which will be shot in both Spanish and English and set in Miami with an all-Hispanic cast, will be executive produced by “Homeland” and “The Spy’s” Gideon Raff, who is set to direct the first two episodes for the Apple streaming service. Campos, Fernández-Valdés and Neira are the same team behind the TV series “Velvet”, “Cable Girls” and “Grand Hotel.”

“Now and Then” is described as a “multi-layered thriller that explores the differences between youthful aspirations and the reality of adulthood, when the lives of a group of college best friends are forever changed after a celebratory weekend ends up with one of them dead. Now, 20 years later,...

Netflix and Belgium’s Flemish community public service broadcaster Vrt have commissioned eight-part crime drama “Diamonds.”

Co-created by Yuval Yefet and Rotem Shamir, who also directs, the series with mafia-style undertones, is set within Antwerp’s diamond district and follows the struggles of one of the city’s most influential diamond-dealing families.

“Diamonds,” to be shot in Dutch, English and Yiddish, will be co-produced by Keshet International and Belgium’s De Mensen. It was commissioned by Netflix alongside Vrt’s head of scripted, Wim Janssen, and is supported by Screen Flanders.

The series will be executive produced by De Mensen’s head of scripted Pieter Van Huyck and Ivy Vanhaecke (“Undercover”), alongside Keshet International VP of global drama Atar Dekel and CEO Alon Shtruzman and Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir.

“We are excited to join forces with the fantastic teams at De Mensen, Keshet International and Vrt to bring...

“No Man’s Land,” “Fauda” and “False Flag” producer Maria Feldman is teaming with “Tel Aviv on Fire” writer-director Sameh Zoabi on a new identity crisis series “Inheritance,” which offers a fresh, comedic take on the Israel-Palestine conflict, breaking new ground for scripted TV.

Created by Zoabi, Alma Ganihar and Leora Kamenetzky, a writer on “Fauda” and co-creator with Feldman on “False Flag,” “Inheritance” is set up at Feldman’s New York-based Masha Productions label, with Feldman and Cliff W. Roberts taking producer credits. The partners have a bible and screenplay for a pilot. Zoabi will direct all episodes.

Zoabi’s TV debut, “Inheritance” asks a weighty question: How far people can change their position on the Palestine-Israeli conflict? But it looks set to do so through light, fast-paced comedy – a combination of thematic weight and lightness of touch at the heart of “Tel Aviv on Fire,” Zoabi’s 2018 breakthrough movie,...

After a year that tested their limits and redefined landscapes, leaders in France’s entertainment industry share thoughts on their top achievements, the pandemic’s long-term impact and what’s on the horizon for them in 2021.

Thierry Fremaux

Director, Cannes Film Festival / Director, Institut Lumiere

What is the single thing — material or otherwise — getting you through the pandemic? The love of cinema. And the love of those who love cinema, for whom we tried to survive. Also, the new albums from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

What was your greatest achievement in 2020? A book about judo. When I was young, I was into films and judo. Without cinemas, I went back to judo.

What do you think will be the long-term impact of the pandemic on the industry? The acceleration and urgency in proving that cinema is a singular art — and a precious one. Like movie theaters.

Who would you...

Sebastien Raybaud’s production and financing company Anton, which co-financed shows like “His Dark Materials” and “McMafia,” and sales and production company WestEnd Films are to co-fund a development slate of television series.

The first project will be a thriller series from television writers/producers Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, currently in development.

WestEnd most recently partnered with Leshem and Cohen on Israel’s biggest budget television drama series to date, “Valley of Tears,” which was part of Series Mania’s 2020 official competition, and has recently been sold worldwide to HBO Max.

Anton co-finances an on-going high-end drama fund with the BBC that includes productions such as “Gentleman Jack,” and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials.” They have also self-commissioned a short-form drama series with the BBC and Clerkenwell Films. Anton recently announced a collaboration with producers Sherry Marsh and Julie Gardner of Bad Wolf America to develop global thriller “The Red Lotus,...

Production and finance outfit Anton and sales and production company WestEnd have entered a deal to co-fund a development slate of TV series.

The first project under the pact will be a thriller series from writers/producers Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, whose credits include the war drama No Man’s Land, which Hulu is showing stateside. Cohen also produced the Keshet show False Flag and Leshem created the Israeli teen drama Euphoria, which was adapted by HBO.

WestEnd also recently partnered with the duo on Israel’s biggest budget television drama series to date, Valley of Tears, which Deadline revealed had sold to HBO Max.

Anton has recent credits include BBC productions Gentleman Jack, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The company has multi-financing agreements with European companies including Federation Entertainment and TF1-owned Newen.

WestEnd Films’ Managing Director Maya Amsellem said: “WestEnd has launched its TV arm WeSeries...

First project will be a thriller from Ron Leshem (‘Euphoria’) and Amit Cohen (‘False Flag’).

UK firms Anton and WestEnd Films have joined forces to co-fund a development slate of television series, with a new thriller from renowned writer-producers Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen already in the pipeline.

WestEnd Films, the London-based production, financing and sales company, recently worked with Leshem and Cohen on Israel’s biggest budget drama series to date, Valley Of Tears, which was part of Series Mania’s 2020 official competition and has recently been sold worldwide to HBO Max.

Details of the new project are being...

British production and sales outfit WestEnd Films and European producer/financier Anton are joining forces to bankroll a new slate of high-end television series. 

The first project under the partnership, announced Thursday, will be a thriller series from Israeli showrunners Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, creators of False Flag and the WestEnd-produced Valley of Tears.

Leshem, who also created the Israeli drama Euphoria was successfully adapted by HBO in a version starring Zendaya; and Cohen, whose credits include hit spy series The Gordin Cell,  will be lead writers on the new series as well as executive producers. Deals of the project are still under wraps....

British production and sales outfit WestEnd Films and European producer/financier Anton are joining forces to bankroll a new slate of high-end television series. 

The first project under the partnership, announced Thursday, will be a thriller series from Israeli showrunners Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, creators of False Flag and the WestEnd-produced Valley of Tears.

Leshem, who also created the Israeli drama Euphoria was successfully adapted by HBO in a version starring Zendaya; and Cohen, whose credits include hit spy series The Gordin Cell,  will be lead writers on the new series as well as executive producers. Deals of the project are still under wraps....

Hulu has dropped an action-packed trailer to “No Man’s Land,” an epic war series, love story and, above all, tale of personal odyssey.

Setting it apart, the eight-part series takes place against the background of the Syrian Kurd Ypj women’s militia push back against Isis, a struggle featuring formidable female fighters.

A Hulu Original, set to bow in the U.S. on Nov. 18, “No Man’s Land” is created by “Fauda” and “First Flag” producer Maria Feldman as well as Eitan Mansuri, behind Omri Givon’s 2018 Canneseries best series winner “When Eagles Fly.”

In a pedigree creative package, the series is written by “False Flag’s” Amit Cohen and “Euphoria’s” Ron Leshem.

That is reflected in a multi-level series which is at once intimate drama and geo-political eye-opener, and spangled by set piece action scenes between the Ypj and Isis, which make up much of the trailer.

In a first,...

Women are taking the fight to Isis in “No Man’s Land,” Hulu’s upcoming Syrian civil war drama. IndieWire is exclusively premiering the trailer for the upcoming series, which can be viewed below.

The series’ synopsis reads:

“No Man’s Land” dives into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters, fierce women and Isis’ biggest nightmare, and travels with them in Isis occupied territory. Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look on the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world.

“No Man’s Land” stars Félix Moati, Mélanie Thierry, and James Purefoy alongside Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed,...

Exclusive: Apple is gearing up to go into production on two of its first UK-commissioned dramas amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Uma Thurman starrer Suspicion and Gary Oldman-fronted Slow Horses prepare to shoot.

Deadline understands that Suspicion could be the first of the two shows to get cameras rolling under strict safety protocols after it was forced to shut down in March as Covid-19 ripped through British shoots.

The Keshet Productions UK adaptation of Israeli drama False Flag has entered pre-production and the shoot is planned for late October, although dates are not set in stone. Producers were nearing the end of the first block of filming before the show was halted.

Suspicion features Thurman as a prominent American businesswoman whose 21-year-old son is kidnapped from an upmarket hotel in central New York. Four British citizens staying at the hotel quickly become the prime suspects.

Rob Williams is the showrunner,...

Exclusive: Colette and The Imitation Game star Keira Knightley has found her next period drama – an adaptation of Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+.

The streamer has ordered the project to series from See-Saw Films, the company behind The King’s Speech and Top of the Lake. It will be directed by Dark River and The Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard and is written by Mrs Wilson writer Anna Symon.

The Essex Serpent follows newly widowed Cora, played by Knightley, who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.

Set in 1893, the book was published by Serpent’s Tail, an imprint of Profile Books in 2016 and was named Book of the Year by the British Book Awards that year.

The Hurt Locker writer and producer Mark Boal is adapting Israeli drama When Heroes Fly for Apple.

The streamer has handed the series, which will be known as Echo 3, a straight-to-series ten-part order.

It will be produced by Keshet Studios and Apple and will be set in South America.

The series follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a layered, personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.

It is based on Keshet’s series When Heroes Fly, created by Omri Givon and inspired by the eponymous novel by Amir Gutfreund. It will be shot with English and Spanish dialogue.

Boal will serve as showrunner alongside co-showrunner and executive producer Jason Horwitch...

Apple TV+ has ordered a new 10-episode action-thriller series called “Echo 3” from “The Hurt Locker” writer Mark Boal, the streaming service said Thursday.

Based on Keshet Broadcasting’s “When Heroes Fly,” an Israeli series created by Omri Givon and inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel of the same name, “Echo 3” is set in South America and follows Amber Chesborough, “a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family,” per Apple’s description.

“When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a layered, personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.”

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Boal will executive produce “Echo 3” and serve as showrunner alongside Jason Horwitch. Other executive producers include Keshet Studios’ Peter Traugott, as well as Stan Wlodkowski, Omri Givon,...

Apple has ordered an action-thriller series from Mark Boal straight to series, Variety has learned.

The 10-episode series is titled “Echo 3,” based on the Israeli series “When Heroes Fly” created by Omri Givon and based on the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund.

In the series, Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a drama set against the backdrop of a secret war.

The series will be shot with both English and Spanish dialogue. Boal will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jason Horwitch, with both executive producing. Peter Traugott of Keshet Studios will executive produce as well along with Givon, Stan Wlodkowski, Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck, Avi Nir of Keshet Media Group, Alon Shtruzman of Keshet International,...

Apple is adding another international co-production to its streaming repertoire.

The streamer has boarded the Israeli psychological thriller series “Losing Alice.” The show is produced by Israel’s Dori Media Productions in association with Hot. The eight-episode series is currently airing on Hot and will stream worldwide later this year on Apple TV Plus.

The series hails from creator Sigal Avin, who served as director in addition to writing. It follows Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a 48 year old film director who feels irrelevant since raising her family. After a brief encounter on the train, she becomes obsessed with 24 year old screenwriter, femme-fatale, Sophie (Lihi Kornowski), and eventually surrenders her moral integrity in order to achieve power, relevance and success. The series uses flashbacks and flash-forwards to take viewers through the conscious and subconscious parts of Alice’s mind.

This is the second Israeli co-production deal Apple has announced in recent weeks.