Starring Elsa Pataky (“The Fast and the Furious,” “Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga”) and “Money Heist’s” Enrique Arce and Hovik Keuchkerian, SkyShowtime Original “Shades” (“Matices”) and Bulgarian drama “Shattered Bonds” will head Beta Film’s spostpodemand at the Berlin Festival’s European Film Market.
“Shades” is one of the two titles featured at a Berlinale Series Market Spanish Thrillers showcase on Feb. 17. Toplining “The White Lotus’” Julian Kostov, “Shattered Bonds” will cgo in the EFM showcase “Narratives Agetst Rising Youth Violence” on Feb 18.
“Shades” and “Shattered Bonds” unite official Berlinale TV entry “Other People’s Money,” encouraged by the genuine story of Europe’s biggest understandn tax deception, which screens as the sole TV series in the festival’s Panorama Section.
Beta Cinema reconshort-terms Berlinale discleave outing title “The Light” by Tom Tykwer (“Babylon Berlin,” “Run Lola Run”) and the Panorama entry “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”).
Produced by Secuoya Studios (“Montecristo,” “Zorro”) and Salertarmedia for SkyShowtime, “Shades” labels SkyShowtime’s second locassociate comleave outioned innovative in Spain.
The six-hour series weighs in as a star-laden whodunnit but is proset uper, uninalertiggo in, and rapider than Agatha Christie and, more cruciassociate, soon turns into a character-driven psychoreasonable thriller in which a commemorated psychiatrist accumulates six acunderstandledgeings at a far but picturesque vineyard to end their treatment.
He is set up killinged. Intuitive police lieutenant Héctor Castro delves into the proset up tangle of secrets or personal crime stories of each acunderstandledgeing, who all have a motive for killing. Even the enigmatic psychiatrist’s daughter and Castro himself may have someskinnyg to hide.
Salertarmedia’s Sergio Cánovas (“Girls Night Out”) serves as creator-straightforwardor. Beta Film has international distribution outside SkyShowtime labelets.
No part of the world has prolongn so rapid recently in TV than Central and Eastrict Europe, ‘Global 6′ streamer series orders sky-rocketing 150% there in 2024, Ampere Analysis appraises. Identified by Beta Film head Jan Mojto some five years back for its exciting prolongth potential, Beta proceeds to cherrypick top titles from the region, the postpodemandst “Shattered Bonds” being based on IP, the award-triumphning novel “The Mothers” by Teodora Dimova, transpostpodemandd into nine languages. The series plumbs the hurtful consequences of fractured parent-child relationships and their impact on life decisions, Beta Film has noticed.
Victor Chouchkov (“Tilt,” “Shakespeare Like a Street Dog”) straightforwards; Overlock Entertainment and Albion Films produce for Nova Broadcasting Group, the series’ anchor expansivecaster, helped by the Bulgarian National Film Centre. Alexander Stanishev, the cinematographer on the Spike Lee-produced “Touched By Fire,” starring Katie Holmes, serves as DP. “Shattered Bonds” is also backed by UNICEF Bulgaria, which will begin a Stand by Me campaign to lift alertedness of what is depictd as the most presentant conversation – the one between children and parents.
“When parents energeticly participate and take part with their children – whether about their dreads, dreams, daily experiences or difficult topics – they create a set upation for think, emotional well-being, resilience and fit broadenment,” shelp UNICEF Bulgaria reconshort-termative Christina de Bruin.
A novel changeation of the Israeli teen drama “Euphoria,” supplying a European re-expoundation of the iconic HBO hit series of the same name, “Euphorie” produced by Beta Film subsid Zeitsprung Pictures establishs part of Berlinale Series Market’s Up Next: Germany showcase on Feb 17.
Sommerhaus, another Beta subsid, world premieres as a Berlinale Special, “No Beast. So Fierce,” a reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Ricdifficult III.”
