Viaplay Sets True-Life Disaster Story ‘Roombeek’ As Latest Dutch Original Drama Series
Viaplay has ordered its latest Dutch original: a four-part drama from Banjiay Benelux label EndemolShine Scripted about the 2000 Enschede fireworks warehouse explosion titled Roombeek. The horrific tragedy killed 23 people and injured 950 and the series will explore its devastating human impact and aftermath. Casting for the series is underway, and production will begin in early 2023, with EndemolShine Scripted’s Gerd-Jan van Dalen and Viaplay Group’s Kennard Bos producing. Having launched in the Netherlands in March, Viaplay’s scripted original slate from the territory includes true crime drama The Hunt for Jasper S., produced by Willem Bosch and Pieter Kuijpers; dark comedy Something Stupid, created by novelist Saskia Noort; and Liesbeth Strik’s drama The Guilty. Filippa Wallestam, Viaplay Group Chief Content Officer, said: “We have very high ambitions for our Dutch Originals, and are committed to working with...
Viaplay has ordered its latest Dutch original: a four-part drama from Banjiay Benelux label EndemolShine Scripted about the 2000 Enschede fireworks warehouse explosion titled Roombeek. The horrific tragedy killed 23 people and injured 950 and the series will explore its devastating human impact and aftermath. Casting for the series is underway, and production will begin in early 2023, with EndemolShine Scripted’s Gerd-Jan van Dalen and Viaplay Group’s Kennard Bos producing. Having launched in the Netherlands in March, Viaplay’s scripted original slate from the territory includes true crime drama The Hunt for Jasper S., produced by Willem Bosch and Pieter Kuijpers; dark comedy Something Stupid, created by novelist Saskia Noort; and Liesbeth Strik’s drama The Guilty. Filippa Wallestam, Viaplay Group Chief Content Officer, said: “We have very high ambitions for our Dutch Originals, and are committed to working with...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
"Star Trek: Discovery" director and executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi has just signed a development deal with CBS Studios, according to Deadline. The multi-year deal will include the new sci-fi drama "Myth, which Osunsanmi was already working on. The upcoming series will be co-written by Osunsanmi and Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika, who are the creators of "Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation."
The pilot for the new series will be directed by Osunsanmi, as well as produced through the Silent Storm Productions banner recently founded by Osunsanmi and his wife Lorna Clarke Osunsanmi. The site says...
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The pilot for the new series will be directed by Osunsanmi, as well as produced through the Silent Storm Productions banner recently founded by Osunsanmi and his wife Lorna Clarke Osunsanmi. The site says...
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- 2/25/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Olatunde Osunsanmi, director/executive producer of Star Trek: Discovery, has signed a multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the flagship Star Trek Universe series, CBS Studios.
This marks the first overall pact for writer-director-producer Osunsanmi who is already working on the first project under the agreement, sci-fi drama Myth. Osunsanmi is co-writing Myth with Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation creators Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika. Osunsanmi is set to direct the pilot for the project, which he is producing through the Silent Storm Productions banner he recently launched with his wife, writer-producer Lorna Clarke Osunsanmi (All American). CBS Studios will be taking Myth out to market in the coming weeks.
Osunsanmi burst into the scene with the 2009 Universal Pictures movie The Fourth Kind, starring Milla Jovovich, which he directed from a Black List screenplay he wrote based on a recurring nightmare he had as a child. He...
This marks the first overall pact for writer-director-producer Osunsanmi who is already working on the first project under the agreement, sci-fi drama Myth. Osunsanmi is co-writing Myth with Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation creators Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika. Osunsanmi is set to direct the pilot for the project, which he is producing through the Silent Storm Productions banner he recently launched with his wife, writer-producer Lorna Clarke Osunsanmi (All American). CBS Studios will be taking Myth out to market in the coming weeks.
Osunsanmi burst into the scene with the 2009 Universal Pictures movie The Fourth Kind, starring Milla Jovovich, which he directed from a Black List screenplay he wrote based on a recurring nightmare he had as a child. He...
- 2/23/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
So you're all excited about crowdfunding your first/dream/calling-card film project via Kickstarter or IndieGoGo.
But you're not Zach Braff, and you're definitely not "Veronica Mars." In fact, once you've reached out to all the friends, relatives and colleagues willing to donate some bucks, how on earth are you going to reach and impress the total strangers you might need to make your goal amount (and if you don't, in most cases, you'll never see a cent) in the allotted campaign period?
The Crowdfunding Film Society may have the answer for that and many other questions about the process.
Still in its nascent stages, the organization was founded a few months ago by Beverly Hills advertising and marketing professional Philip Cardwell and San Francisco-based campaign manager John-Michael Scott.
The L.A. chapter's first meeting drew about 20 curious people to the Cat & Fiddle Pub in Hollywood Wednesday night. Currently free and accepting members,...
But you're not Zach Braff, and you're definitely not "Veronica Mars." In fact, once you've reached out to all the friends, relatives and colleagues willing to donate some bucks, how on earth are you going to reach and impress the total strangers you might need to make your goal amount (and if you don't, in most cases, you'll never see a cent) in the allotted campaign period?
The Crowdfunding Film Society may have the answer for that and many other questions about the process.
Still in its nascent stages, the organization was founded a few months ago by Beverly Hills advertising and marketing professional Philip Cardwell and San Francisco-based campaign manager John-Michael Scott.
The L.A. chapter's first meeting drew about 20 curious people to the Cat & Fiddle Pub in Hollywood Wednesday night. Currently free and accepting members,...
- 7/15/2013
- by Los Angeles Daily News
- Huffington Post
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