Germany’s Beta Film, a prime mover of this and next week’s virtual TV marketplace, has sold “Cryptid,” produced by Dramacorp for the Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay SVOD service, to Joyn, the new German AVOD venture launched in 2019 by Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1.
Underscoring how regional and big national streaming services are now energizing production and distribution in Europe, the sale also marks a first cornerstone licensing pact on “Cryptid” which in its high-school YA horror tropes and comic book aesthetics, plus short format narrative, aims to break new ground in Europe.
The series is also eliciting “strong interest from other big European territories,” said Beta Film’s Justus Riesenkampff. “Cryptid” is also the first
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