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Nordic streamer Viaplay and Amazon’s ad-supported service Freevee have scored online rights to the Australian crime drama Troppo from German group Leonine Studios.
Viaplay picked up SVOD rights to the series, based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, for the Nordics, the Netherlands, Poland and the Baltic region. Amazon Freevee scored AVOD rights for Germany and the U.K.
In Troppo, Thomas Jane plays Ted Conkaffey, a down-and-out ex-cop living in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia, who is recruited by Amanda Pharell (Nicole Chamoun), an eccentric small town private investigator, to investigate the murder of a brilliant tech pioneer. Created and written by Yolanda Ramke (Cargo) and co-directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Wakefield), Troppo premiered on Australian’s ABC and debuted in the U.S. on Freevee in May.
Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen), David Lyons (Eat Pray Love) and Yerin Ha (Halo) co-star.
Nordic streamer Viaplay and Amazon’s ad-supported service Freevee have scored online rights to the Australian crime drama Troppo from German group Leonine Studios.
Viaplay picked up SVOD rights to the series, based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, for the Nordics, the Netherlands, Poland and the Baltic region. Amazon Freevee scored AVOD rights for Germany and the U.K.
In Troppo, Thomas Jane plays Ted Conkaffey, a down-and-out ex-cop living in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia, who is recruited by Amanda Pharell (Nicole Chamoun), an eccentric small town private investigator, to investigate the murder of a brilliant tech pioneer. Created and written by Yolanda Ramke (Cargo) and co-directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Wakefield), Troppo premiered on Australian’s ABC and debuted in the U.S. on Freevee in May.
Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen), David Lyons (Eat Pray Love) and Yerin Ha (Halo) co-star.
- 10/17/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AGC Television, the TV unit of Stuart Ford’s independent content studio AGC Studios, and Lionsgate have teamed on espionage thriller series “Gray,” based on an original concept by best-selling novelist David Baldacci. Patricia Clarkson and Nathalie Emmanuel are attached to star.
Under the terms of their agreement AGC will distribute the series in the U.S., represented by CAA, and Lionsgate Television will handle international distribution rights.
The announcement was made by Ford, who is AGC chairman, Lourdes Diaz, who is the company’s president of television, and Agapy Kapouranis, who is Lionsgate’s president of international television and digital distribution. Ford is currently attending Rome’s Mia Market.
“Gray,” which is written by John McLaughlin, will be directed by Ruba Nadda, who previously worked with Clarkson on the film “Cairo Time.”
In “Gray,” Clarkson will play CIA spy Cornelia Gray, who is coming in from the cold after 20 years in hiding,...
Under the terms of their agreement AGC will distribute the series in the U.S., represented by CAA, and Lionsgate Television will handle international distribution rights.
The announcement was made by Ford, who is AGC chairman, Lourdes Diaz, who is the company’s president of television, and Agapy Kapouranis, who is Lionsgate’s president of international television and digital distribution. Ford is currently attending Rome’s Mia Market.
“Gray,” which is written by John McLaughlin, will be directed by Ruba Nadda, who previously worked with Clarkson on the film “Cairo Time.”
In “Gray,” Clarkson will play CIA spy Cornelia Gray, who is coming in from the cold after 20 years in hiding,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Nicole Chamoun will star opposite US actor Thomas Jane in ABC crime drama Troppo, with cameras now rolling in Queensland.
Produced by Beyond Entertainment and Eq Media Group in association with Jane’s production company Renegade Entertainment, the Fnq-set series is created by Yolanda Ramke and based on the novel Crimson Lake by Candice Fox.
Chamoun, best known for her roles in On The Ropes, The Gloaming, Safe Harbour and Romper Stomper, plays Amanda Pharrell, an eccentric Pi with a disturbing criminal past. She begrudgingly recruits disgraced ex-cop Ted Conkaffey (Jane) to investigate the murder of a brilliant research scientist.
As they battle to uncover the truth, and the tightly held secrets of Crimson Lake, their own traumatic pasts are dragged painfully into the present – tearing them apart, as each of them faces their own fight for sanity and survival.
The supporting cast includes David Lyons, Sun Park, Simon Lyndon,...
Produced by Beyond Entertainment and Eq Media Group in association with Jane’s production company Renegade Entertainment, the Fnq-set series is created by Yolanda Ramke and based on the novel Crimson Lake by Candice Fox.
Chamoun, best known for her roles in On The Ropes, The Gloaming, Safe Harbour and Romper Stomper, plays Amanda Pharrell, an eccentric Pi with a disturbing criminal past. She begrudgingly recruits disgraced ex-cop Ted Conkaffey (Jane) to investigate the murder of a brilliant research scientist.
As they battle to uncover the truth, and the tightly held secrets of Crimson Lake, their own traumatic pasts are dragged painfully into the present – tearing them apart, as each of them faces their own fight for sanity and survival.
The supporting cast includes David Lyons, Sun Park, Simon Lyndon,...
- 8/12/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
IMDb TV has picked up the first season of Australian drama series Troppo, based on Candice Fox’s bestselling novel Crimson Lake, starring and executive produced by Thomas Jane (The Expanse The Vanished) via his Renegade Entertainment. The upcoming series comes from Eq Media Group, Beyond Entertainment and AGC Television, the television production and distribution division of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios. Production is currently underway in Australia.
Adapted for television by Yolanda Ramke, Troppo is the story of Ted Conkaffey (Jane), an ex-cop falsely accused of committing a disturbing crime, who has escaped to hide away in the tropics of Far North Queensland. As he tries to avoid discovery, he’s drawn into investigating a wild murder and a missing person, alongside a complicated woman, with dark secrets of her own.
Troppo is based on Fox’s book Crimson Lake, the first novel of a gripping contemporary crime series set in Queensland,...
Adapted for television by Yolanda Ramke, Troppo is the story of Ted Conkaffey (Jane), an ex-cop falsely accused of committing a disturbing crime, who has escaped to hide away in the tropics of Far North Queensland. As he tries to avoid discovery, he’s drawn into investigating a wild murder and a missing person, alongside a complicated woman, with dark secrets of her own.
Troppo is based on Fox’s book Crimson Lake, the first novel of a gripping contemporary crime series set in Queensland,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Carla Gugino, who recently starred in The Haunting of Bly Manor, will front a television crime thriller for AGC Television.
The company, which makes Epix’s War of the Worlds, is producing and financing Leopard Skin with production underway in the Dominican Republic.
There is no network attached yet and AGC will begin discussions with broadcast and streaming partners when the show is in post-production.
The series comes from Sebastian Gutierrez, who wrote the screenplay for Snakes on a Plane and created Cinemax series Jett. He serves as showrunner with Lantica Studios providing production services
The cast also includes Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Gentry White (Palm Springs), Philip Winchester (Law & Order: Svu), Margot Bingham (The Walking Dead), Gaite Jansen (Jett), Nora Arnezeder (Safe House), and Ana de la Reguera (Narcos).
Leopard Skin kicks off when a criminal gang fleeing a botched jewelry heist is forced to...
The company, which makes Epix’s War of the Worlds, is producing and financing Leopard Skin with production underway in the Dominican Republic.
There is no network attached yet and AGC will begin discussions with broadcast and streaming partners when the show is in post-production.
The series comes from Sebastian Gutierrez, who wrote the screenplay for Snakes on a Plane and created Cinemax series Jett. He serves as showrunner with Lantica Studios providing production services
The cast also includes Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Gentry White (Palm Springs), Philip Winchester (Law & Order: Svu), Margot Bingham (The Walking Dead), Gaite Jansen (Jett), Nora Arnezeder (Safe House), and Ana de la Reguera (Narcos).
Leopard Skin kicks off when a criminal gang fleeing a botched jewelry heist is forced to...
- 2/9/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
AGC Television producing, fully financing eight-episode series.
Production has begun in Dominican Republic on AGC Television’s crime thriller Leopard Skin which Sebastian Gutierrez is directing from his screenplay.
Carla Gugino leads an ensemble cast on the story about a gang who flee a botched heist and seek refuge in a beachside estate where two women live in seclusion, triggering secrets, betrayal and desire.
The cast includes Amelia Eve (The Haunting Of Bly Manor), Gentry White (Palm Springs), Philip Winchester (Law & Order: Svu), Margot Bingham (The Walking Dead), Gaite Jansen (Peaky Blinders), Nora Arnezeder (Mozart In The Jungle), and Ana de la Reguera.
Production has begun in Dominican Republic on AGC Television’s crime thriller Leopard Skin which Sebastian Gutierrez is directing from his screenplay.
Carla Gugino leads an ensemble cast on the story about a gang who flee a botched heist and seek refuge in a beachside estate where two women live in seclusion, triggering secrets, betrayal and desire.
The cast includes Amelia Eve (The Haunting Of Bly Manor), Gentry White (Palm Springs), Philip Winchester (Law & Order: Svu), Margot Bingham (The Walking Dead), Gaite Jansen (Peaky Blinders), Nora Arnezeder (Mozart In The Jungle), and Ana de la Reguera.
- 2/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaking brothers Michael and Peter Spierig have boarded the supernatural thriller series adaptation of the popular literary “Ben Walker” franchise, developed by Stuart Ford’s Agc Television.
Rob Carlson at UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the Spierig Brothers with Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz, Agc’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa, and VP of Scripted Television Matt Bankston.
Ford, Diaz, creator Christopher Golden, and Pete Donaldson for Donaldson Media & Consulting will executive produce.
The Spierig brothers hit the ground running in 2003 when their debut feature “Undead” won the Fipresci Award and enjoyed a North American release handled by Lionsgate. Their follow up, “Daybreakers,” starred Ethan Hawke and was a hit at that year’s Midnight Madness in Toronto, before again enjoying a theatrical run again handled by Lionsgate.
Since then the two have found continued success with features such as “Predestination” – once again with Hawke in the leading role,...
Rob Carlson at UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the Spierig Brothers with Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz, Agc’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa, and VP of Scripted Television Matt Bankston.
Ford, Diaz, creator Christopher Golden, and Pete Donaldson for Donaldson Media & Consulting will executive produce.
The Spierig brothers hit the ground running in 2003 when their debut feature “Undead” won the Fipresci Award and enjoyed a North American release handled by Lionsgate. Their follow up, “Daybreakers,” starred Ethan Hawke and was a hit at that year’s Midnight Madness in Toronto, before again enjoying a theatrical run again handled by Lionsgate.
Since then the two have found continued success with features such as “Predestination” – once again with Hawke in the leading role,...
- 10/14/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Alienist writer John Sayles is developing a limited series set in the world of televangelism with Agc Television.
Sayles, who has been nominated for a best screenwriting Oscar for Passion Fish and Lone Star, is developing Electric Church with Black Mirror director John Hillcoat on board to direct.
Sayles co-created the project with Marc-Edouard Leon. The drama tells the true story behind the rise of the Christian Right. In the 1980’s, larger-than-life personalities such as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell ruled the airwaves. They were rich, they were idolized, they epitomized religious excess. The series will explore how their paths collided in an epic saga that would change the face of American politics.
Sayles will exec produce with Hillcoat, Agc Studios founder Stuart Ford, Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz and Agc’s Head of Film Greg Shapiro with Jonathan Pavesi producing.
The deal...
Sayles, who has been nominated for a best screenwriting Oscar for Passion Fish and Lone Star, is developing Electric Church with Black Mirror director John Hillcoat on board to direct.
Sayles co-created the project with Marc-Edouard Leon. The drama tells the true story behind the rise of the Christian Right. In the 1980’s, larger-than-life personalities such as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell ruled the airwaves. They were rich, they were idolized, they epitomized religious excess. The series will explore how their paths collided in an epic saga that would change the face of American politics.
Sayles will exec produce with Hillcoat, Agc Studios founder Stuart Ford, Agc Television President Lourdes Diaz and Agc’s Head of Film Greg Shapiro with Jonathan Pavesi producing.
The deal...
- 5/21/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Agc Television has optioned rights to author Christopher Golden’s Ben Walker supernatural thriller book franchise to develop into a TV series. The deal unveiled Tuesday encompasses the prolific Golden’s 2017 bestseller Ararat that launched the series and the upcoming The Pandora Room which hits shelves in April. A third novel, Red Hands, will be published in 2020.
Golden, who helped on the screenplay for the Hellboy reboot coming later this year, will pen the pilot script based on Ararat, which won a Bram Stoker Award. Agc Studios founder Stuart Ford and TV division boss Lourdes Diaz are executive producing the project with Golden and Pete Donaldson of Donaldson Media & Consulting. A late 2019 production start is being eyed.
The book’s lead character Ben Walker is a self-described “weird sh*t expert” working for a secret arm of the Department of Defense to investigate newly discovered phenomena. The job leads Walker...
Golden, who helped on the screenplay for the Hellboy reboot coming later this year, will pen the pilot script based on Ararat, which won a Bram Stoker Award. Agc Studios founder Stuart Ford and TV division boss Lourdes Diaz are executive producing the project with Golden and Pete Donaldson of Donaldson Media & Consulting. A late 2019 production start is being eyed.
The book’s lead character Ben Walker is a self-described “weird sh*t expert” working for a secret arm of the Department of Defense to investigate newly discovered phenomena. The job leads Walker...
- 2/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Bankston has joined Agc Television as VP Scripted Television. He will oversee the development and production of scripted TV content for the small-screen arm of Stuart Ford’s indie Agc Studios.
Bankston will work with Agc TV President Lourdes Diaz to produce a slate of series, limited series and telefilms and also will work on projects with Agc’s London office.
“I’m looking forward to working with Matt, whose talent and relationships in the scripted sphere complement the spirit and goals of Agc TV, both domestically and internationally,” Diaz said.
Bankston comes to Agc from EuropaCorp TV Studios USA, where he was VP Scripted Development. He helped launch the French studio’s U.S. TV operation, overseeing original series development, and managed development co-ventures with partners including eOne, Universal Cable Productions and James Patterson Entertainment. Prior to EuropaCorp, Bankston was VP Development for Montreal-based Muse Entertainment, where he...
Bankston will work with Agc TV President Lourdes Diaz to produce a slate of series, limited series and telefilms and also will work on projects with Agc’s London office.
“I’m looking forward to working with Matt, whose talent and relationships in the scripted sphere complement the spirit and goals of Agc TV, both domestically and internationally,” Diaz said.
Bankston comes to Agc from EuropaCorp TV Studios USA, where he was VP Scripted Development. He helped launch the French studio’s U.S. TV operation, overseeing original series development, and managed development co-ventures with partners including eOne, Universal Cable Productions and James Patterson Entertainment. Prior to EuropaCorp, Bankston was VP Development for Montreal-based Muse Entertainment, where he...
- 10/10/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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