AMC+ announced on Thursday that it has has acquired the rights to three crime drama series: Cold Courage, Kin and Too Close.
The first to premiere on the streaming service is Lionsgate’s Cold Courage, which will hit AMC+ on Thursday, March 11. Based on the award-winning and best-selling novels from Finnish journalist Pekka Hiltunen, Cold Courage follows two women as they collide during a series of murders in present-day London. Mari (Pihla Viitala), a fierce psychologist, and Lia (Sofia Pekkari), a shy graphic artist, are drawn together through the “Studio” – a clandestine group of like-minded people operating off the grid, dedicated to righting the wrongs of the powerful, influential and corrupt.
John Simm appears as populist politician Arthur Fried and joins fellow cast-members Caroline Goodall and Arsher Ali. Jakob Eklund, Peter Coonan and Matteo Simoni also star.
The series was adapted for the screen by David Joss Buckley and Brendan Foley.
The first to premiere on the streaming service is Lionsgate’s Cold Courage, which will hit AMC+ on Thursday, March 11. Based on the award-winning and best-selling novels from Finnish journalist Pekka Hiltunen, Cold Courage follows two women as they collide during a series of murders in present-day London. Mari (Pihla Viitala), a fierce psychologist, and Lia (Sofia Pekkari), a shy graphic artist, are drawn together through the “Studio” – a clandestine group of like-minded people operating off the grid, dedicated to righting the wrongs of the powerful, influential and corrupt.
John Simm appears as populist politician Arthur Fried and joins fellow cast-members Caroline Goodall and Arsher Ali. Jakob Eklund, Peter Coonan and Matteo Simoni also star.
The series was adapted for the screen by David Joss Buckley and Brendan Foley.
- 2/18/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
The number of big-ticket dramas coming to the international market continues to increase as viewers embrace shows from all corners and consume them on a dizzying range of channels and platforms.
In a cluttered landscape, movie-inspired shows and book adaptations have built-in marketing appeal and bring a fan base, which is one way to cut through. There are multiple examples of both at MipTV,
from “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “To Catch a Thief,” to Canneseries opener “Vernon Subutex,” based on the hip French novel.
“The Walking Dead” producer Channing Powell envisages a dystopian future about a technology embedded inside our heads, while other series tackle the populist politics taking hold in many parts of the world. Immigration tales from the past, but with a modern-day relevance are also to the fore.
As thousands of acquisitions execs land in Cannes with checkbooks at the ready, Variety highlights the scripted...
In a cluttered landscape, movie-inspired shows and book adaptations have built-in marketing appeal and bring a fan base, which is one way to cut through. There are multiple examples of both at MipTV,
from “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “To Catch a Thief,” to Canneseries opener “Vernon Subutex,” based on the hip French novel.
“The Walking Dead” producer Channing Powell envisages a dystopian future about a technology embedded inside our heads, while other series tackle the populist politics taking hold in many parts of the world. Immigration tales from the past, but with a modern-day relevance are also to the fore.
As thousands of acquisitions execs land in Cannes with checkbooks at the ready, Variety highlights the scripted...
- 4/8/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
John Simm plays a rabble-rousing populist politician in “Cold Courage,” and Lionsgate has stepped up and taken international rights to the series.
Based on the series of novels by Pekka Hiltunen, the drama is billed as the biggest yet out of Finland and will bow on the Viaplay streaming service in Scandinavia. With a cast from all over Europe and a shoot spanning Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and the U.K., “Cold Courage” is international in scope and ambition.
That was part of the appeal for Simm, a familiar face on British TV, playing The Master in “Doctor Who” and starring in a host of other shows for British networks. “There was a point I was on BBC and ITV at the same time and that was a bit much,” he told Variety. “I thought it would be nice to step away from that for a little bit and do something I haven’t done,...
Based on the series of novels by Pekka Hiltunen, the drama is billed as the biggest yet out of Finland and will bow on the Viaplay streaming service in Scandinavia. With a cast from all over Europe and a shoot spanning Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and the U.K., “Cold Courage” is international in scope and ambition.
That was part of the appeal for Simm, a familiar face on British TV, playing The Master in “Doctor Who” and starring in a host of other shows for British networks. “There was a point I was on BBC and ITV at the same time and that was a bit much,” he told Variety. “I thought it would be nice to step away from that for a little bit and do something I haven’t done,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Film Festival, Critics' WeekAnna Novion's debut feature "Grown-ups" is a light comedy that never quite decides whether it is about youthful rites of passage, a summer romance or a dysfunctional father. In combination though these elements are likely to appeal to a wide audience. Deservedly so. Agreeably unpretentious, the movie relies on close observation of individual quirks to exercise its gentle humor which, while never delivering a knock-out blow, delivers firm tweaks to the funny bone.
Novion, who is of mixed Franco-Swedish origin, opts for home ground with her story of Albert (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his daughter Jeanne (newcomer Anais Demoustier). Each year he takes her on her birthday to visit a foreign country, and this year, her 17th, it is Sweden.
Arriving at their villa on the island of Orust, they find that there's been a mix-up, with the proprietor, Annika (Lia Boysen), in residence with a longtime French friend, Christine (Judith Henry), and that there's nothing for it but for the couples to cohabit.
Albert, who has brought a metal-detector along with him hoping to unearth relics from the reign of an obscure Viking warrior, proves to be an affectionate but fussy and pedantic father unwilling to allow his daughter to explore her adolescent longings. Jeanne, naturally enough, is becoming interested in boys, and there are plenty on the scene to satisfy that interest. And Christine and Annika each have their sidebar romance angle.
Novion develops a love interest between Albert and Christine but allows it to falter because of Albert's obsessive concern for his daughter.
Similarly, she never brings Jeanne's adolescent yearnings to the boiling point. Instead the movie reaches its dramatic peak in serio-comic vein when Albert becomes marooned on an outlying island. The movie never reaches for the heights, yet undoubtedly achieves more by attempting less.
Production companies: Moteur S'il Vous Plait, DFM Fiktion, Film I Vast
Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier, Judith Henry, Lia Boysen, Jakob Eklund, Anastasios Soulis, Bjorn Gustafsson.
Director: Anna Nouvion.
Screenwriters: Anna Nouvion, Beatrice Colombier, Mathieu Robin.
Photography: Pierre Novion.
Production design: Gert Wibe.
Music: Pascal Bideau.
Editor: Anne Souriau.
Sales: Memento Films International
No rating, 84 minutes.
Novion, who is of mixed Franco-Swedish origin, opts for home ground with her story of Albert (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his daughter Jeanne (newcomer Anais Demoustier). Each year he takes her on her birthday to visit a foreign country, and this year, her 17th, it is Sweden.
Arriving at their villa on the island of Orust, they find that there's been a mix-up, with the proprietor, Annika (Lia Boysen), in residence with a longtime French friend, Christine (Judith Henry), and that there's nothing for it but for the couples to cohabit.
Albert, who has brought a metal-detector along with him hoping to unearth relics from the reign of an obscure Viking warrior, proves to be an affectionate but fussy and pedantic father unwilling to allow his daughter to explore her adolescent longings. Jeanne, naturally enough, is becoming interested in boys, and there are plenty on the scene to satisfy that interest. And Christine and Annika each have their sidebar romance angle.
Novion develops a love interest between Albert and Christine but allows it to falter because of Albert's obsessive concern for his daughter.
Similarly, she never brings Jeanne's adolescent yearnings to the boiling point. Instead the movie reaches its dramatic peak in serio-comic vein when Albert becomes marooned on an outlying island. The movie never reaches for the heights, yet undoubtedly achieves more by attempting less.
Production companies: Moteur S'il Vous Plait, DFM Fiktion, Film I Vast
Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier, Judith Henry, Lia Boysen, Jakob Eklund, Anastasios Soulis, Bjorn Gustafsson.
Director: Anna Nouvion.
Screenwriters: Anna Nouvion, Beatrice Colombier, Mathieu Robin.
Photography: Pierre Novion.
Production design: Gert Wibe.
Music: Pascal Bideau.
Editor: Anne Souriau.
Sales: Memento Films International
No rating, 84 minutes.
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