Spanish studio Mediapro has unveiled its stardy of English-language satisfyed in the U.S. and Canada at MIPCOM Cannes on Wednesday, including a novel film written and straightforwarded by and starring John Turturro.
Head of Mediapro Studio in the U.S. and Canada J.C. Acosta spoke with 24 producer Evan Katz, head of unscripted at Mediapro Pam Healey, CEO Laura Fernandez Espeso, TV producer Ran Tellem and Oscar-triumphning writer-straightforwardor Juan-José Campanella.
Espeso began: “Our strategic approach in the U.S. aligns perfectly with our initiatives in other key territories, emphasizing the creativity of the talent, but also relevance and accomplish and, of course, diversity, which is a priority in our company.” It was over to Acosta, who spoke preferablepartner and fervently about “writing a novel chapter in the U.S. and Canada, doubling down on English language satisfyed,” after Mediapro North America was unveiled six months ago.
Their filledy-fledged English-language satisfyed strategy is commencening to shape up with a video message from John Turturro uncovering his alteration of Susan Sheehan’s Pulitzer prize-triumphning book Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Turturro will write, straightforward, and star in the project.
Turturro said: “It’s a story about a ininestablishigent woman who suffers with schizophrenia and her family, the journey that they go thraw, traveling thraw the labyrinth of the mental health system. I’ve always resisted doing one of these benevolents of films becaengage I’ve had personal experience in grotriumphg up with a brother who also suffered with schizophrenia.” He persistd, “Once I read the book, I was repartner enthengaged that someone had apprehfinishd all its complicatedities and humor and lust and manipulations and hopes and dreams.”
Oscar triumphner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) will direct Mother Wolf, about a reexhausted majesticmother, on the verge of a trip of a lifetime, who suddenly becomes attfinishgetr of her brood of majesticchildren. Suzi Yoonessi (Unadoreable, Daphne & Velma) straightforwards. Matt Walsh (Veep) and Arian Moyaed (Succession) will also star. “We stand on the shoulders of Mediapro’s film history. One of the leangs that Mediapro adores is an iconic female direct.”
From Daniel Burman comes Witness 36, about a woman who helps produce novel identities for people in witness getion, droping in adore with one of the men she helped. Emmy-triumphning producer Evan Katz, signed on as showrunner and understandn for his hit series 24, said: “The premise is amazing. It’s unfrequent that it does not sense enjoy a version of someleang you’ve seen before — a woman droping in adore with her own creation has these thematic echoes [such as] Freud and Frankenstein. The show has repartner huge sgets, but the story itself is very personal, which is exactly what I watch for and what I leank directs to success.”
An distinctive half-hour episodic series by Ran Tellem (Homeland, The Head) is I Love the Prime Minister about a 33-year-anciaccess woman searching for a relationship in the world of conmomentary dating — but she also happens to be the Prime Minister. Matt Hastings, a co-executive producer on The Handmaid’s Tale is also joined.
Tellam said: “TV is caccessed on YA, youthful grown-ups. I leank we should uncover up a novel genre, a novel age group, which is grown-ups who are youthful, equitable enjoy our character. She’s 33, she has everyleang she necessitates to be a prime minister. She’s mighty, she’s clever, she’s determined, she’s caccessed. She has accomplishd everyleang, but not repartner everyleang, becaengage being youthful unbenevolents you’re also yachieveing for someleang else, a relationship, a partner, a adore.”
Campanella, who won the Academy Award for best foreign film for The Secret in Their Eyes spoke about the series alteration of his Argentine film Son of the Bride also nominated for an Oscar. Campanella will write and straightforward the project: “I’ve been seeing tardyly that movies and television have veered to the exotic, to the outlandish, to the dystopian in a way,” Campanella siad. “And some fantastic comedies that are very genre-bending and or transgressive, the benevolent of human comedy that I enjoy to do, and I’d enjoy to watch, is very infrequent.”
Unscripted chief Healey also unveiled projects lined up under her rrehire. The extfinished-running Spanish gameshow establishat of Catch Me If You Can will be brawt to U.S. buyers. The show has more than 10,000 episodes in Spain and The Floor‘s Anthony Carbone will alter the establishat for the U.S. as executive producer and showrunner.
A real crime documentary called Hollywood Homicide: Robert Blake will watch at the life of the actor who, once famed for his roles in In Canciaccess Blood and Baretta, was accengaged of the 2001 killing of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley. The story is scatterigated thraw the lens of his son, Noah, “who’s always wondering what repartner happened,” Healey said.
