Chernobyl director Johan Renck and production partner Michael Parets will adapt Andrew O’Hagan’s new epic British novel Caledonian Road for TV.
Recently published by Faber to rave reviews, Caledonian Road is a Dickensian tale of the rise and fall of Campbell Flynn, an art historian and celebrity intellectual, told against the backdrop of modern-day Britain and the deep-set corruption at the heart of the ruling class. O’Hagan is a three-time Booker Prize nominee (for Our Fathers, Be Near Me and The Illuminations). His last novel, Mayflies, was adapted as a drama series by BBC in 2022 starring Martin Compston, Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen.
Parets and Renck will produce Caledonian Road through their Fremantle-backed production company Sinestra, with Renck set to direct. Emmy-winning showrunner Will Smith (Veep, The Think of It, Slow Horses) will adapt the book for the screen. O’Hagan will serve as executive producer.
“We’ve...
Recently published by Faber to rave reviews, Caledonian Road is a Dickensian tale of the rise and fall of Campbell Flynn, an art historian and celebrity intellectual, told against the backdrop of modern-day Britain and the deep-set corruption at the heart of the ruling class. O’Hagan is a three-time Booker Prize nominee (for Our Fathers, Be Near Me and The Illuminations). His last novel, Mayflies, was adapted as a drama series by BBC in 2022 starring Martin Compston, Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen.
Parets and Renck will produce Caledonian Road through their Fremantle-backed production company Sinestra, with Renck set to direct. Emmy-winning showrunner Will Smith (Veep, The Think of It, Slow Horses) will adapt the book for the screen. O’Hagan will serve as executive producer.
“We’ve...
- 4/8/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This England EP Richard Brown’s Passenger and Chernobyl director Johan Rencks/Spaceman producer Michael Parets’ new shingle Sinestra have optioned Nathan Newman’s How to Leave the House.
The pair have acquired TV rights following competitive auction to the novel due out in Spring 2024. It marks the first major revealed project for Passenger since being acquired by Fremantle and one of Sinestra’s first projects since launching several weeks ago with a first-look Fremantle deal.
Taking place over 24 hours, Newman’s book follows Natwest, a precociously intelligent but anxious 23 year old who orders an embarrassing package to his house on the eve of his departure for university. When it doesn’t arrive, he is forced on an odyssey around his small town to retrieve it.
Brown, Renck and Parets said the book could be an “instant classic.”
“Bracingly original, profoundly insightful and extremely funny to boot, we feel tremendously...
The pair have acquired TV rights following competitive auction to the novel due out in Spring 2024. It marks the first major revealed project for Passenger since being acquired by Fremantle and one of Sinestra’s first projects since launching several weeks ago with a first-look Fremantle deal.
Taking place over 24 hours, Newman’s book follows Natwest, a precociously intelligent but anxious 23 year old who orders an embarrassing package to his house on the eve of his departure for university. When it doesn’t arrive, he is forced on an odyssey around his small town to retrieve it.
Brown, Renck and Parets said the book could be an “instant classic.”
“Bracingly original, profoundly insightful and extremely funny to boot, we feel tremendously...
- 12/16/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
First collaboration with Fremantle will be adaptation of Antoine Wilson’s ’Mouth to Mouth’
Chernobyl director Johan Renck has launched the production company Sinestra with producer Michael Parets and has signed a two-year television first-look deal with production and distribution group Fremantle.
Renck and Parets first TV collaboration with Fremantle will be 1990s Los Angeles art scene drama Mouth To Mouth, based on the novel by Antoine Wilson.
Renck won an Emmy for outstanding directing for a limited series for HBO and Sky drama Chernobyl.
Renck also directed Sky and Canal+ drama The Last Panthers, and most recently helmed feature...
Chernobyl director Johan Renck has launched the production company Sinestra with producer Michael Parets and has signed a two-year television first-look deal with production and distribution group Fremantle.
Renck and Parets first TV collaboration with Fremantle will be 1990s Los Angeles art scene drama Mouth To Mouth, based on the novel by Antoine Wilson.
Renck won an Emmy for outstanding directing for a limited series for HBO and Sky drama Chernobyl.
Renck also directed Sky and Canal+ drama The Last Panthers, and most recently helmed feature...
- 9/27/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Chernobyl director Johan Renck and Spaceman producer Michael Parets have launched a production company.
Sinestra debuts with a two-year television first-look deal with Fremantle, and the pair has already set their debut TV project: an adaptation of Antoine Wilson’s novel Mouth to Mouth, which is billed as “a thrilling ride into the raucous LA art scene of the 1990s.” The book was included on President Barack Obama’s 2022 summer reading list.
Renck is best known for HBO and Sky’s critically acclaimed limited series Chernobyl (HBO/Sky), which starred the likes of Jared Harris and Emily Watson, earned 10 Emmy wins and is one of the best reviewed TV shows of all time. He also directed all episodes and co-produced the BAFTA-nominated Sky and Canal+ drama The Last Panthers, starring John Hurt and Samantha Morton, and directed pilots and episodes of Vikings, Bloodline, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Bates Motel among others.
Sinestra debuts with a two-year television first-look deal with Fremantle, and the pair has already set their debut TV project: an adaptation of Antoine Wilson’s novel Mouth to Mouth, which is billed as “a thrilling ride into the raucous LA art scene of the 1990s.” The book was included on President Barack Obama’s 2022 summer reading list.
Renck is best known for HBO and Sky’s critically acclaimed limited series Chernobyl (HBO/Sky), which starred the likes of Jared Harris and Emily Watson, earned 10 Emmy wins and is one of the best reviewed TV shows of all time. He also directed all episodes and co-produced the BAFTA-nominated Sky and Canal+ drama The Last Panthers, starring John Hurt and Samantha Morton, and directed pilots and episodes of Vikings, Bloodline, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Bates Motel among others.
- 9/27/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Fremantle has signed a two-year first-look deal with Sinestra, the new production company launched by Chernobyl director Johan Renck and his production partner Michael Parets.
The first project under the agreement, which was unveiled Tuesday, will be Mouth to Mouth, a series based on the novel of the same name by Antoine Wilson. The book is described as “a thrilling ride into the raucous LA art scene of the 1990s.”
Under the new deal, global production giant Fremantle will be the home for Sinestra’s upcoming TV projects, getting the first crack at co-developing, co-producing, and co-financing small-screen efforts as well as leading on international sales. The first-look agreement was brokered by Fremantle’s Christian Vesper, president of Global Drama, and Seb Shorr, executive vice president, commercial and business affairs, Scripted and Renck’s team at Casarotto Ramsey & Assocs, CAA, Black Bear Pictures and Sloane,...
Fremantle has signed a two-year first-look deal with Sinestra, the new production company launched by Chernobyl director Johan Renck and his production partner Michael Parets.
The first project under the agreement, which was unveiled Tuesday, will be Mouth to Mouth, a series based on the novel of the same name by Antoine Wilson. The book is described as “a thrilling ride into the raucous LA art scene of the 1990s.”
Under the new deal, global production giant Fremantle will be the home for Sinestra’s upcoming TV projects, getting the first crack at co-developing, co-producing, and co-financing small-screen efforts as well as leading on international sales. The first-look agreement was brokered by Fremantle’s Christian Vesper, president of Global Drama, and Seb Shorr, executive vice president, commercial and business affairs, Scripted and Renck’s team at Casarotto Ramsey & Assocs, CAA, Black Bear Pictures and Sloane,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Accredited on-site attendance for forum gains 22% on 2019.
Le Monde De Demain and Chair Tendre were among the winners at Series Mania 2022 as the event in Lille came to a close with accredited on-site attendance for the forum up 22% over 2019 and 57% over 2021.
Series Mania founder and general director Laurence Herszberg (pictured) said the 2022 edition brought together more than 70,000 participants for the festival and 3,300 accredited persons on-site from 64 countries for the Forum compared to 2,100 in 2021 and 2,700 in 2019. The visits to the Series Mania website and Series Mania digital platform produced 260,000 views.
French show Le Monde De Demain created by Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne,...
Le Monde De Demain and Chair Tendre were among the winners at Series Mania 2022 as the event in Lille came to a close with accredited on-site attendance for the forum up 22% over 2019 and 57% over 2021.
Series Mania founder and general director Laurence Herszberg (pictured) said the 2022 edition brought together more than 70,000 participants for the festival and 3,300 accredited persons on-site from 64 countries for the Forum compared to 2,100 in 2021 and 2,700 in 2019. The visits to the Series Mania website and Series Mania digital platform produced 260,000 views.
French show Le Monde De Demain created by Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Netflix and Arte’s musical show “Le Monde de Demain” (“The World of Tomorrow”) took the top prize in the International Competition of television festival Series Mania at the event’s awards ceremony Friday.
The series, created by Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne – both also directing – Vincent Poymiro and David Elkaïm, takes a look at the birth of the French hip-hop movement in the 1980s. Made with the collaboration of Laurent Rigoulet and the participation of Kool Shen, JoeyStarr and DJ Détonateur S, it was described by the organizers as “a personal chronicle about a Parisian suburban youth reaching adulthood, claiming its own space in a new France, a country to reinvent.”
In the acting categories, Michelle De Swarte was noticed for her role in the U.K.’s “The Baby,” produced by Sky, HBO and Ocs, while Israeli actor Yehuda Levi impressed the jurors with his performance in “Fire Dance,...
The series, created by Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne – both also directing – Vincent Poymiro and David Elkaïm, takes a look at the birth of the French hip-hop movement in the 1980s. Made with the collaboration of Laurent Rigoulet and the participation of Kool Shen, JoeyStarr and DJ Détonateur S, it was described by the organizers as “a personal chronicle about a Parisian suburban youth reaching adulthood, claiming its own space in a new France, a country to reinvent.”
In the acting categories, Michelle De Swarte was noticed for her role in the U.K.’s “The Baby,” produced by Sky, HBO and Ocs, while Israeli actor Yehuda Levi impressed the jurors with his performance in “Fire Dance,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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