Series Mania Unveils Co-Pro Projects With Buzzy Titles From Christoffer Boe, Jennifer Fox, Australia’s Wooden Horse
variety.comChristoffer Boe, “The Chaplain,” from Australia’s Wooden Horse and Jennifer Fox’s latest “Ruth’s Ghosts” are among buzz titles at March’s Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.
There’s also good word on “Phenomena – the Series,” a modern makeover of Dario Argento’s “Creepers,” and Spanish dramedy “The Lottery Ticket,” from Secuoya Studios.
Announced by Series Mania Friday, the 16-title lineup runs the gamut from powerhouses – German pubcaster ARD (“Nuclear Sunset Cruise”), the Lars von Trier-run Zentropa, Iceland’s Glassriver (“Masquerade”) and Israel’s Sipur (“Intimacy”) – to far more contained budget link-ups such as “Wool,” a Serbia-Iceland co-pro.
That said, the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions show, like the London TV Screenings before them, a new industrial realism, with Europe’s TV production adapting to more straightened times. “Certainly, project financing is a bit more complicated than a few years ago.
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