BBC to premiere Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Strasbourg 1518’
Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer’s latest film Strasbourg 1518 is to premiere on BBC Two on July 20. The film is part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine initiative, and features performances from great dancers inspired by the so-called dancing plague that broke out in Strasbourg in 1518. It was co-commissioned by Artangel and Sadler’s Wells and is produced by Academy Films for BBC Films and BBC Arts.
Rotterdam film festival changes
International Film Festival Rotterdam has instigated significant changes under new director Vanja Kaludjercic ahead of its landmark 50th edition, scheduled to run January 27-February 7. The fest will introduce new strand ‘Harbour’, which will become its central program and also its largest, screening movies from around the world. Giona Nazzaro has joined the supervising programming team, alongside Bianca Taal and Gerwin Tamsma. Its flagship Tiger and Big Screen competitions will also be expanded,...
Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer’s latest film Strasbourg 1518 is to premiere on BBC Two on July 20. The film is part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine initiative, and features performances from great dancers inspired by the so-called dancing plague that broke out in Strasbourg in 1518. It was co-commissioned by Artangel and Sadler’s Wells and is produced by Academy Films for BBC Films and BBC Arts.
Rotterdam film festival changes
International Film Festival Rotterdam has instigated significant changes under new director Vanja Kaludjercic ahead of its landmark 50th edition, scheduled to run January 27-February 7. The fest will introduce new strand ‘Harbour’, which will become its central program and also its largest, screening movies from around the world. Giona Nazzaro has joined the supervising programming team, alongside Bianca Taal and Gerwin Tamsma. Its flagship Tiger and Big Screen competitions will also be expanded,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Jake Kanter and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Barcroft Studios, the British producer behind Netflix series Amazing Interiors, has been 100% acquired by publisher Future in a deal worth £23.5M ($30.3M) in cash and shares.
Future, a listed company in the UK, announced the acquisition in its full-year earnings on Friday and will complete the deal by the end of November. It publishes media brands including Four Four Two and TechRadar.
Barcroft makes factual content for streamers and broadcasters, as well as operating its own social video channels on YouTube, Facebook and Snapchat, where it has amassed 63M followers through self-funding content like Born Different and Beastly.
Barcroft was founded in 2003 by CEO Sam Barcroft and in 2014, took minority investment from Channel 4 as part of the British broadcaster’s Growth Fund initiative to boost small independent producers. The Future deal will mean that Barcroft is no longer part of the Growth Fund.
Sam Barcroft will remain in charge...
Future, a listed company in the UK, announced the acquisition in its full-year earnings on Friday and will complete the deal by the end of November. It publishes media brands including Four Four Two and TechRadar.
Barcroft makes factual content for streamers and broadcasters, as well as operating its own social video channels on YouTube, Facebook and Snapchat, where it has amassed 63M followers through self-funding content like Born Different and Beastly.
Barcroft was founded in 2003 by CEO Sam Barcroft and in 2014, took minority investment from Channel 4 as part of the British broadcaster’s Growth Fund initiative to boost small independent producers. The Future deal will mean that Barcroft is no longer part of the Growth Fund.
Sam Barcroft will remain in charge...
- 11/15/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A&e is eyeing a move into the medical genre and has put its first project into production – an observational documentary series from British producer Barcroft Studios.
Barcroft, the company behind Netflix’s Amazing Interiors, is making a series that explores some of the rarest and most complicated medical conditions on the planet and follows people having life-changing surgery. It originally had the working title of Operation Miracle, but Deadline understands that this is not set to be the on-air title for the multi-part series.
The broadcaster has had recent success with its police series Live Pd and commissioned a number of spin-offs, including forthcoming competition format America’s Top Dog, as well as titles such as Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and prison format 60 Days In. Elaine Frontain Bryant, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming for A&e Network, told Deadline that the broadcaster was now exploring...
Barcroft, the company behind Netflix’s Amazing Interiors, is making a series that explores some of the rarest and most complicated medical conditions on the planet and follows people having life-changing surgery. It originally had the working title of Operation Miracle, but Deadline understands that this is not set to be the on-air title for the multi-part series.
The broadcaster has had recent success with its police series Live Pd and commissioned a number of spin-offs, including forthcoming competition format America’s Top Dog, as well as titles such as Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and prison format 60 Days In. Elaine Frontain Bryant, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming for A&e Network, told Deadline that the broadcaster was now exploring...
- 8/30/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It's no secret that HBO's dark new teen-centric series, Euphoria, is full of bops. From bangers to classics, we've identified the songs that make up most of Euphoria's eclectic soundtrack, but the thing that still remains a secret is the name of that incredible theme music. What makes this even trickier is that every episode has been different, and the song is always in the background of the recap. Episode four's theme music was particularly haunting, which is why we dug even harder to find out what it is. We're pretty sure that the song you're hearing is the instrumental version of "Stay" by indie artist Richard Macklin, who is little known now but hopefully won't be for long.
Related: If You're Already Crossing Your Fingers For a Season 2 of Euphoria, Here's What We Think
Though the version played in Euphoria is purely instrumental, the song's lyrics only...
Related: If You're Already Crossing Your Fingers For a Season 2 of Euphoria, Here's What We Think
Though the version played in Euphoria is purely instrumental, the song's lyrics only...
- 7/8/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Barcroft Studios, the production company behind Netflix’s Amazing Interiors, has hired former Vice exec Al Brown to run its forthcoming short-form strand.
Last month, the British indie secured a contract to produce more than 100 original factual projects for Channel 4’s youth strand 4Real. Brown, joining as executive producer, will oversee the content of this strand, which will be distributed online and across social media platforms. He will work closely with Barcroft Studios founder and CEO Sam Barcroft on the scheme.
This comes after Brown left youth media brand Vice last year after ten years. He was most recently vice president of programming at Vice Studios’ UK division. He was a member of the team that launched the Viceland linear channel in the UK as well as online channel Vice News and food strand Munchies. He also exec produced series including fashion docu-series State of Undress and Ellen Page’s Gaycation.
Last month, the British indie secured a contract to produce more than 100 original factual projects for Channel 4’s youth strand 4Real. Brown, joining as executive producer, will oversee the content of this strand, which will be distributed online and across social media platforms. He will work closely with Barcroft Studios founder and CEO Sam Barcroft on the scheme.
This comes after Brown left youth media brand Vice last year after ten years. He was most recently vice president of programming at Vice Studios’ UK division. He was a member of the team that launched the Viceland linear channel in the UK as well as online channel Vice News and food strand Munchies. He also exec produced series including fashion docu-series State of Undress and Ellen Page’s Gaycation.
- 7/3/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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