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Beta Film
Exclusive: Beta Film strikes global sales for Russia’s Trigger
Beta Film has struck deals across Brazil, Israel and Japan for Russian drama series Trigger,…
Show of the Week: The Pier
Spanish romantic thriller The Pier originates from Esther Martínez Lobato and La Casa de Papel…
Show of the week: Trigger
Trigger warning: The Sreda Film-produced drama is a clear indication of the premium content beginning…
Red Bull & Beta Film pick up first network partner for JV series
Red Bull and Beta Film have partnered with the first network, Germany’s ARD/Degeto, for the…
Beta Film partners with La Casa de Papel showrunner for new drama
Beta Film has announced a partnership with Movistar+/Telefonica and Atresmedia Studios to work with acclaimed…
Beta Film & O3 Productions team for Arab-European copros
Beta Film and O3 Productions, the production arm of Middle Eastern broadcaster MBC, are partnering…
Germany’s Beta Film secures rights to French Victor Hugo series
Beta Film has secured worldwide rights for the high-end French scripted series Victor Hugo –…
Red Bull & Beta Film team for football corruption scripted venture
Red Bull Media House and Beta Film are set to launch an ambitious high-end scripted…
Beta joins Sky Germany’s Bridge-inspired Pagan Peak
Sky Germany’s upcoming reimagining of The Bridge has welcomed Munich’s Beta Film as coproducer and…
Beta buys prodco MR Film
Germany’s Beta Film has acquired a majority stake in Austrian prodco MR Film for an…
Autentic buys WDR out of distribution JV
Munich-basesd Autentic is taking full control of the international distribution company it runs with WDR…
MIPCOM slates – Drive & Beta Film
Drive Media Rights UK-based Drive has revealed its factual slate for Cannes from a line…
Returning miniseries
Distributors will tell you that if they could have one drama production in their portfolio…
UFA Fiction exec transfers to Beta
Beta Film has tapped a producer from German compatriot UFA Fiction to become its international…
Captive audience: the Spanish SVOD boom
Spain’s drama production sector is moving swiftly towards international television’s top tier, fuelled by the…
Sky and Movistar buy Beta’s 1993
Sky Deutschland and Spain’s Movistar+ are among several buyers of political thriller 1993. The Sky…
Second Swedish-French drama copro on horizon
Following on from SVT and Canal+ thriller Midnight Sun, a second Swedish-French scripted coproduction is…
German prodco creates Italian JV prodco with Passadore
German prodco Neue Deutche Filmgesellchaft (NDF) has created a joint venture production company with Italian…
Beta buys into Tykwer’s X Filme
German producer and distributor Beta Film has acquired a stake in X Filme, Tom Tykwer’s…
Sky and Scandis buy Babylon Berlin
Beta Film has sealed a raft of deals for Babylon Berlin, the upcoming €40 million…
Stingray buys music channel from Mojto firm
Montreal-based Stingray Digital Group is acquiring international pay TV music channel Classica from Unitel, a…
Beta Film buys into Lineup Industries
Beta Film has bought into Lineup Industries, the distribution business set up in 2014 by…
Autentic declares War on Drugs in Cannes
German distributor Autentic is launching factual special King of Cocaland – UN Losing War on…
ZDF orders Professor T drama remake
German broadcaster ZDF has ordered a German version of Professor T., the Belgian cop drama….
Germany’s Beta makes another Spanish drama move
Munich-based Beta Film has picked up international rights to Spanish TV drama Light of Elna….
RTL sets up German Power Couple
German free TV powerhouse RTL has ordered a local version of the Israeli-originated format Power…
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 – part II
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling…
German drama sells to Scandis
Beta Film has shopped 40 hours of scripted content to broadcasters in Scandinavia. Public broadcasters…
ZDF, WDR prep for MIPTV’s German Focus
Key German distributors, including ZDF Enterprises and WDR Mediagroup, are prepping for a MIPTV during…
Ex-Red Arrow exec joins Fremantle
Caroline Kusser will reunite with her former boss at Red Arrow International, Jens Richter, after…