European giant Beta Film, known for ambitious titles such as “Babylon Berlin” and “The Swarm,” has shared with Variety in exclusivity a first-look picture of 1o-part series “Rise of the Raven,” which it hails as “one of the most epic European TV productions of all time.”
“Rise of the Raven” weighs in as a passion project of Hungarian-born and Canada-based producer Robert Lantos, behind “Sunshine,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Barney’s Version,” “Eastern Promises” and “Crimes of the Future.”
A highlight at Beta Film’s showcase this Tuesday at the London TV Screenings, “Rise of the Raven” turns on the extraordinary feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi, played by discovery Gellért L. Kádár, who in 1456 won a bloody, brutal Battle of Belgrade against a vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were often farm labourers armed with just slings and patriotic fervor.
Hunyadi largely halted a full Ottoman...
“Rise of the Raven” weighs in as a passion project of Hungarian-born and Canada-based producer Robert Lantos, behind “Sunshine,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Barney’s Version,” “Eastern Promises” and “Crimes of the Future.”
A highlight at Beta Film’s showcase this Tuesday at the London TV Screenings, “Rise of the Raven” turns on the extraordinary feat of Hungarian army commander Janos Hunyadi, played by discovery Gellért L. Kádár, who in 1456 won a bloody, brutal Battle of Belgrade against a vast Ottoman force twice the size of his troops who were often farm labourers armed with just slings and patriotic fervor.
Hunyadi largely halted a full Ottoman...
- 2/27/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Principal photography is underway near Budapest on “Rise of the Raven,” an epic drama series produced by veteran Canadian producer Robert Lantos’ Serendipity Point Films (“Crimes of the Future”) and Beta Film (“Gomorrah”) that marks the most lavish TV production in Hungary’s history.
Adapted from author Bán Mór’s bestselling novels, the 10-episode series tells the story of the Hungarian warrior Janos Hunyadi, who defeated the Ottoman army in 1456 at the Battle of Belgrade, halting its march across Europe.
Lantos, whose producing credits include “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Johnny Mnemonic” and “Eastern Promises,” spoke exclusively with Variety about a passion project more than a decade in the making. He was joined by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Robert Dornhelm and Hungarian directors Attila Szász and Orsi Nagypal, who joined the conversation fresh off shooting an epic battle sequence outside Budapest.
The Hungarian-born Lantos, who was in Cannes this year with David Cronenberg...
Adapted from author Bán Mór’s bestselling novels, the 10-episode series tells the story of the Hungarian warrior Janos Hunyadi, who defeated the Ottoman army in 1456 at the Battle of Belgrade, halting its march across Europe.
Lantos, whose producing credits include “The Sweet Hereafter,” “Johnny Mnemonic” and “Eastern Promises,” spoke exclusively with Variety about a passion project more than a decade in the making. He was joined by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Robert Dornhelm and Hungarian directors Attila Szász and Orsi Nagypal, who joined the conversation fresh off shooting an epic battle sequence outside Budapest.
The Hungarian-born Lantos, who was in Cannes this year with David Cronenberg...
- 8/9/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The filmmaker, revealed with Land of Storms, is working on his second feature. A Uniofilm Entertainment production sold by Nfi World Sales. On 10 August, Ádám Császi began filming his second feature, Three Thousand Numbered Pieces (Ando Drom). Revealed in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale with Land of Storms, the filmmaker brings together a cast including Franciska Farkas, Kristóf Horváth (already present in Land of Storms), Krisztofer Pászik (Brazilians), Rómeó Pápa, Edmond Oláh, Norbert Varga, Wieland Speck, Csaba Gerner and Ádám Varga. Written by Ádám Császi and Balázs Lengyel (Lajko: Gypsy in Space), the script centres on a white director working with a troupe of Romas with severely underprivileged backgrounds. The troupe members are former heroin addicts, ex-homeless people, juvenile delinquents, victims of rape and abuse. The play they make together, entitled Gypsy Hungarian, presents with genuine sincerity...
Australia’s Safe Harbour named best TV movie/mini-series.
UK crime thriller McMafia was named best drama series at the 47th International Emmy Awards ceremony in New York on Monday (25) evening.
Australia’s Safe Harbour won the best TV movie/mini-series award and programmes from Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey and the Us were among winners of another nine Emmys presented during the ceremony staged by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Other winners include Haluk Bilgier, who took the Emmy for best performance by an actor for his role in Turkish drama series Şahsiyet (Persona), and Marina Gera,...
UK crime thriller McMafia was named best drama series at the 47th International Emmy Awards ceremony in New York on Monday (25) evening.
Australia’s Safe Harbour won the best TV movie/mini-series award and programmes from Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey and the Us were among winners of another nine Emmys presented during the ceremony staged by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Other winners include Haluk Bilgier, who took the Emmy for best performance by an actor for his role in Turkish drama series Şahsiyet (Persona), and Marina Gera,...
- 11/26/2019
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
TV shows from the U.K., Brazil, India, the Netherlands, Turkey and Colombia scored International Emmy Awards at a gala Monday that was sort of like the Primetime Emmys but not televised and with a really nice cheese course.
The Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton was packed as host, Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show, called it “so great to be honoring all these great programs that Hollywood will remake and f**k up in three years.”
Actor John Turturro presented the first award of the night with a major gaffe a’ la Warren Beatty at the 2017 Academy Awards. After rolling the four clips for best TV Movie/Miniseries, Turturro announced the winner was McMafia of the U.K., a show competing in a completely different category, Drama Series — which was the final award of the evening.
Turturro’s winner was actually Safe Harbour from Australia, about a...
The Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton was packed as host, Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show, called it “so great to be honoring all these great programs that Hollywood will remake and f**k up in three years.”
Actor John Turturro presented the first award of the night with a major gaffe a’ la Warren Beatty at the 2017 Academy Awards. After rolling the four clips for best TV Movie/Miniseries, Turturro announced the winner was McMafia of the U.K., a show competing in a completely different category, Drama Series — which was the final award of the evening.
Turturro’s winner was actually Safe Harbour from Australia, about a...
- 11/26/2019
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Safe Harbour’.
Matchbox Pictures drama Safe Harbour has won the International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie/Miniseries.
The four-part psychological thriller beat out fellow nominees Lust Stories (India), Se Eu Fechar Os Olhos Agora [If I Close My Eyes Now] (Brazil) and Trezor (Hungary).
First commissioned by Sbs, Safe Harbour follows a group of Aussie friends who come across a broken-down boat full of desperate asylum-seekers while on a yachting holiday. The Australians decide to tow the refugees, but the next morning the boat is gone. Years later they meet some of the refugees again and learn the truth: someone cut the rope between the boats and, as a result, seven people died.
Safe Harbour was scripted by Belinda Chayko (who also served as the showrunner), Matt Cameron and Phil Enchelmaier; directed by Glendyn Ivin; produced by Stephen Corvini, and stars Ewen Leslie, Phoebe Tonkin, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leeanna Walsman, Joel Jackson, Nicole Chamoun, Hazem Shammas and Robert Rabiah.
Matchbox Pictures drama Safe Harbour has won the International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie/Miniseries.
The four-part psychological thriller beat out fellow nominees Lust Stories (India), Se Eu Fechar Os Olhos Agora [If I Close My Eyes Now] (Brazil) and Trezor (Hungary).
First commissioned by Sbs, Safe Harbour follows a group of Aussie friends who come across a broken-down boat full of desperate asylum-seekers while on a yachting holiday. The Australians decide to tow the refugees, but the next morning the boat is gone. Years later they meet some of the refugees again and learn the truth: someone cut the rope between the boats and, as a result, seven people died.
Safe Harbour was scripted by Belinda Chayko (who also served as the showrunner), Matt Cameron and Phil Enchelmaier; directed by Glendyn Ivin; produced by Stephen Corvini, and stars Ewen Leslie, Phoebe Tonkin, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leeanna Walsman, Joel Jackson, Nicole Chamoun, Hazem Shammas and Robert Rabiah.
- 11/26/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
U.K. series “McMafia” earned the International Emmy Award for drama at the 47th annual ceremony recognizing programs from outside the U.S.
BBC’s “McMafia,” which also aired on AMC, was the final winner tonight at the Hilton New York where the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ kudos were handed out at a dinner gala hosted by “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.
Australia’s “Safe Harbour” won for movie/miniseries. The thriller about a disturbing trip to Indonesia for a group of friends from Brisbane beat out nominees from Brazil, India and Hungary. Matchbox Pictures’ produced the series for Australia’s Sbs. “Safe Harbour” was picked in the U.S. by Hulu.
The comedy prize went to Netflix’s Brazilian program “Especial de Natal Porta dos Fundos (The Last Hangover),” a Biblical spoof starring popular comedian Fábio Porchat.
Haluk Bilginer of Turkey’s “Şahsiyet (Persona)” won for best performance by an actor.
BBC’s “McMafia,” which also aired on AMC, was the final winner tonight at the Hilton New York where the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ kudos were handed out at a dinner gala hosted by “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.
Australia’s “Safe Harbour” won for movie/miniseries. The thriller about a disturbing trip to Indonesia for a group of friends from Brisbane beat out nominees from Brazil, India and Hungary. Matchbox Pictures’ produced the series for Australia’s Sbs. “Safe Harbour” was picked in the U.S. by Hulu.
The comedy prize went to Netflix’s Brazilian program “Especial de Natal Porta dos Fundos (The Last Hangover),” a Biblical spoof starring popular comedian Fábio Porchat.
Haluk Bilginer of Turkey’s “Şahsiyet (Persona)” won for best performance by an actor.
- 11/26/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Awards While Radhika Apte is nominated for Best Performance By An Actress for 'Lust Stories', the anthology is also competing in the TV Movie/Miniseries category.Tnm StaffThe International Emmy Awards announced its nominees on Thursday and there’s some great news for Indian entertainment as well, with a total of four nominations, including one for Best Performance By An Actress. Netflix India’s original Sacred Games, which recently released its second season has received an International Emmy nomination for Season 1 in the category of Drama Series. Lust Stories, another Netflix miniseries, got a nomination in the TV movie/miniseries category; and for her work in the same, Radhika Apte has been nominated for the Best Performance By An Actress. Amazon Prime’s The Remix-India has been nominated for the International Emmy for Non-Scripted Entertainment. Sacred Games directors Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan and Vikramaditya Motwane, The Remix host...
- 9/20/2019
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
The 27th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival Awards were presented Nov. 11 and We Are Movie Geeks was there!
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
Sliff presented seven major filmmaking awards during the course of the 2018 festival:
Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards to Jim Finn, Jane Gilooly, and Karyn Kusama; Women in Film Award to Melanie Mayron; Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Edwards and John Goodman; and the Contemporary Cinema Award to Jason Reitman.
Shorts Awards
Juries choose the winners of seven awards from among the shorts in competition. The Sliff shorts competition is officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, making the winners in the Best of Fest, Best Animated, Best Live Action, and Best Documentary categories eligible to submit for Oscar® consideration. The 2018 winners:
Best Documentary Short: “Koka, The Butcher” directed by Bence Máté
Best Local Short: “The Buck: Midwest Gully” directed by Jun Bae
Best Short Short:...
- 11/12/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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