Munich-based sales agency The Playmaker Munich is to handle international sales on Snakefilm’s mystery horror “The Black Spider,” which vividly portrays a gruesome world dominated by eerie demonic force.
The film, written by Barbara Sommer and Plinio Bachmann, is directed by Markus Fischer.
Set in Emmental in the 13th century, “The Black Spider” tells the story of the courageous young midwife Christine. As she returns to her home village to accompany a birth, she witnesses the cruel Teutonic Knights driving the villagers to their deaths.
To protect her village from the terror of the knights, Christine enters a pact with the devil without knowing the costs. Henceforth punished with a spider plague, the villagers turn away from the midwife and Christine goes from being the savior to the hunted.
While the village is preparing for a human sacrifice, Christine faces the crucial battle against the diabolical power that wants...
The film, written by Barbara Sommer and Plinio Bachmann, is directed by Markus Fischer.
Set in Emmental in the 13th century, “The Black Spider” tells the story of the courageous young midwife Christine. As she returns to her home village to accompany a birth, she witnesses the cruel Teutonic Knights driving the villagers to their deaths.
To protect her village from the terror of the knights, Christine enters a pact with the devil without knowing the costs. Henceforth punished with a spider plague, the villagers turn away from the midwife and Christine goes from being the savior to the hunted.
While the village is preparing for a human sacrifice, Christine faces the crucial battle against the diabolical power that wants...
- 5/2/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Filming is underway on ambitious European drama series The Net, about corruption and conspiracies in the world of international soccer.
The Net will comprise four independent series, shot in their local languages, which will work as stand-alone dramas, but also as part of an interwoven narrative across 30 hours of storytelling.
The first of four seasons to get underway is Austria’s The Net – Prometheus, which will star Tobias Moretti (Bad Banks), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Benjamin Sadler (Tribes of Europa) and Nicholas Goh (Skyfall). Andreas Prochaska (The Winemaker) is directing Martin Ambrosch’s (Brock) script.
Set in Austria’s mountains, the drama will center on Georg Trotter (Moretti), a doctor and former doping agent who gave up his career after a tragic car accident badly injuring his wife Diana (Coulby) and killing his beloved son. Known as notorious doping hunter and “bloodhound”, Georg is offered to run a new,...
The Net will comprise four independent series, shot in their local languages, which will work as stand-alone dramas, but also as part of an interwoven narrative across 30 hours of storytelling.
The first of four seasons to get underway is Austria’s The Net – Prometheus, which will star Tobias Moretti (Bad Banks), Angel Coulby (Merlin), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Benjamin Sadler (Tribes of Europa) and Nicholas Goh (Skyfall). Andreas Prochaska (The Winemaker) is directing Martin Ambrosch’s (Brock) script.
Set in Austria’s mountains, the drama will center on Georg Trotter (Moretti), a doctor and former doping agent who gave up his career after a tragic car accident badly injuring his wife Diana (Coulby) and killing his beloved son. Known as notorious doping hunter and “bloodhound”, Georg is offered to run a new,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Beta Film and Red Bull Media House are launching high-end scripted project The Net. Inspired by true events, the ambitious series is planned as five standalone seasons of eight episodes each. It uses the world of soccer as a backdrop for the characters who experience the beautiful game not only as a dream factory, but also one of the largest organized crime enterprises in history. Based on a concept from Matthias Hartmann and Plinio Bachmann, the series aims to demonstrate a new avenue for international drama production whereby individual seasons can be watched alone or can be discovered as part of the 40-hour interwoven narrative. Each of the five seasons will be developed with local partners and produced in their respective home markets. Negotiations with producers and broadcasters are under way with shooting scheduled to commence in 2019/2020.
Global Road Entertainment has acquired world rights to gameshow format Idiotest, and has...
Global Road Entertainment has acquired world rights to gameshow format Idiotest, and has...
- 4/9/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Beta Film announces project at annual pre-miptv dinner in Cannes.
German drama powerhouse Beta Film and Austria’s Red Bull Media House are joining forces on a high-end scripted mega series inspired by football and provisionally entitled The Net.
The project spans 40 hours of drama, divided into five stand-alone, eight-episode series revolving around characters linked in some way to the world of football, whether it be as a fan, player, coach or footballer’s wife.
German opera and theatre director Matthias Hartmann – who is known for his out-of-the-box productions of Fidelio and La Bohème – came up with the concept with...
German drama powerhouse Beta Film and Austria’s Red Bull Media House are joining forces on a high-end scripted mega series inspired by football and provisionally entitled The Net.
The project spans 40 hours of drama, divided into five stand-alone, eight-episode series revolving around characters linked in some way to the world of football, whether it be as a fan, player, coach or footballer’s wife.
German opera and theatre director Matthias Hartmann – who is known for his out-of-the-box productions of Fidelio and La Bohème – came up with the concept with...
- 4/8/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Beta Film announces project at annual pre-miptv dinner in Cannes.
German drama powerhouse Beta Film and Austria’s Red Bull Media House are joining forces on a high-end scripted mega series inspired by football and provisionally entitled The Net.
The project spans 40 hours of drama, divided into five stand-alone, eight-episode series revolving around characters linked in some way to the world of football, whether it be as a fan, player, coach or footballer’s wife.
German opera and theatre director Matthias Hartmann – who is known for his out-of-the-box productions of Fidelio and La Bohème – came up with the concept with...
German drama powerhouse Beta Film and Austria’s Red Bull Media House are joining forces on a high-end scripted mega series inspired by football and provisionally entitled The Net.
The project spans 40 hours of drama, divided into five stand-alone, eight-episode series revolving around characters linked in some way to the world of football, whether it be as a fan, player, coach or footballer’s wife.
German opera and theatre director Matthias Hartmann – who is known for his out-of-the-box productions of Fidelio and La Bohème – came up with the concept with...
- 4/8/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Cannes — In what looks like one of the biggest drama series announcements at Cannes this MipTV, Beta Film and Red Bull Media House are teaming to develop a high-end drama series project, “The Net,” a five-season series, with eight episodes to each season.
A fiction drama series, a departure for Rbmh, “The Net” centers on the world of soccer and is inspired by true events, the partners announced at a Rbmh dinner on Sunday night at the Riviera. Shooting is scheduled to commence in 2019/20. “The Net” is based on a concept by Matthais Hartmann and Plinio Bachmann.
Every one of the five seasons will take place in a different country, Beta and Rbmh’s strategy will be to seek out local anchor broadcaster partners for each country, while co-producing with a local independent co-producer.
“The Net,” however, will not feature soccer matches but rather the context: Organized crime, drugs, bribery,...
A fiction drama series, a departure for Rbmh, “The Net” centers on the world of soccer and is inspired by true events, the partners announced at a Rbmh dinner on Sunday night at the Riviera. Shooting is scheduled to commence in 2019/20. “The Net” is based on a concept by Matthais Hartmann and Plinio Bachmann.
Every one of the five seasons will take place in a different country, Beta and Rbmh’s strategy will be to seek out local anchor broadcaster partners for each country, while co-producing with a local independent co-producer.
“The Net,” however, will not feature soccer matches but rather the context: Organized crime, drugs, bribery,...
- 4/8/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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