Madrid — Ahead of next week’s Natpe market in Miami, Beta, one of the biggest independent TV-film powerhouses in Europe, has confirmed a swathe of sales on its U.S. TV movie productions and high-end spin-off series “Gomorrah: The Immortal.”
The sales flag Beta’s diversified production-distribution model, and the continuing appetite for TV movies in the U.S., led by Lifetime and Hallmark channels, as the demand for movies of all type rises in a new streaming platform era.
In banner sales, A & E has acquired a bevy of U.S. TV thrillers for Lifetime, among them “Fatal Friend Request,” starring Sarah Lind (“True Justice”) and Bree Williamson (“Private Eyes”), produced by Cartel, “Purity Falls” by Stargazer, with Krisanna Loken (“Burn Notice2) and Trevor Stines (“Riverdale”) and a trio of Ninth House-productions: “Perfect Party Planner,” toplining Lindsey McKeon (“Supernatural”), “Bridal Nightmare” with Karissa Lee Staples (“S.W.A.T.”) and Mark Hapka...
The sales flag Beta’s diversified production-distribution model, and the continuing appetite for TV movies in the U.S., led by Lifetime and Hallmark channels, as the demand for movies of all type rises in a new streaming platform era.
In banner sales, A & E has acquired a bevy of U.S. TV thrillers for Lifetime, among them “Fatal Friend Request,” starring Sarah Lind (“True Justice”) and Bree Williamson (“Private Eyes”), produced by Cartel, “Purity Falls” by Stargazer, with Krisanna Loken (“Burn Notice2) and Trevor Stines (“Riverdale”) and a trio of Ninth House-productions: “Perfect Party Planner,” toplining Lindsey McKeon (“Supernatural”), “Bridal Nightmare” with Karissa Lee Staples (“S.W.A.T.”) and Mark Hapka...
- 1/17/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
MGM warms up to duo's 'Covers'
MGM has jumped into bed with scribes Robin Schiff and Ken Levine, folding up their spec script Between the Covers for an undisclosed sum for studio-based Arthur Sarkissian to produce. The romantic comedy centers on a free-spirited woman who writes a book espousing freedom and independence and who winds up having an affair with a married writer considered America's foremost expert on marital problems. At the studio, Covers is being overseen by MGM executive vp Elizabeth Cantillon. It was brought into Sarkissian's Arthur Sarkissian Prods. by vp development Peter Sussman, who also will oversee it through development. "It's a very smart and totally character-driven romantic comedy," Sarkissian said. "It's very well done and reminded me of movies like 'When Harry Met Sally' and old Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movies -- very well written and castable." Schiff and Levine, who met on the set of Almost Perfect in 1997, are repped by Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann. Schiff is additionally repped by attorney Melanie Cook. Levine is additionally repped by attorney Tom Hansen.
- 10/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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