HBO Max Units Hungarian Model of ‘The Bridge’

FORMAT

HBO Max in Hungary will stream a neighborhood model of hit survival actuality format “The Bridge.” The competitors sees contributors tasked with constructing a 250-metre-long bridge to an island for the possibility to win a big money prize. Offered by Csaba Magyarósi, “The Bridge Hungary” is produced regionally by Free Monkeys Manufacturing. That is the sixth adaptation of the format, which was created in Spain by Zeppelin, a part of Banijay Iberia and has U.Ok., Brazil and Australia variations..

Banijay Rights struck a number of offers for the U.Ok. model with broadcasters within the Netherlands and throughout Africa and Latin America. The U.Ok. sequence additionally aired on HBO Max within the US, Latin America, and Asia.

The Hungarian settlement was negotiated by Veronique Verges, senior VP German territories, Poland and Hungary, Banijay Rights.

APPOINTMENTS

Christine Diakos is becoming a member of Leisure One as VP, growth, unscripted – Canada, tv, answerable for the event, creation and pitching of non-scripted content material, with a deal with life-style, actuality and competitors sequence, reporting into Jocelyn Hamilton, president – Canada, tv.

Diakos was beforehand senior VP of manufacturing and growth at Massive Coat Media, the place she served as a supervising producer on “Love It or Record It” (HGTV) and “Jillian and Justin” (W Community). Additionally reporting into Hamilton is Scott Boyd, who has been promoted to VP, growth, unscripted, and can oversee factual, true crime, and docu-series content material.

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In the meantime, the Content material Catalyst Fund has rebranded as Catalyst and has appointed a brand new growth co-ordinator, Mithila Majithia, who will assist the group because it embarks on a development technique, which incorporates the launch of a sequence of neighborhood connector occasions designed to construct a world community of ladies creatives. Majithia joins Catalyst from Toronto-based manufacturing firm Alibi Leisure, the place she served as enterprise affairs co-ordinator on a variety of standard reveals, together with “Carnival Eats,” “Sarah off the Grid” and “Titanic: The New Proof.”

Catalyst’s new title and picture is designed to simplify its model proposition and place itself as a neighborhood for ladies creators. The corporate is targeted on attracting girls creators in non-scripted content material, however will characterize IP in all genres and in any respect ranges of leisure, together with scripted, premium options and podcasts.

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Elsewhere, U.Ok. media government search company Ibison Expertise Group (ITG) has employed Alexandra Fraser, former joint CEO of All3Media’s Maverick TV, within the newly created function of non-executive director, answerable for serving to ITG obtain development throughout its two divisions: government search, putting management and transformational roles into media organizations; and artist administration, administration of on-screen expertise. ITG places main expertise into roles each on and off-screen.

SALES

About Premium Content material has bought Icelandic drama “Blackport” to Subject within the U.S. and Canada, SBS in Australia, AMC Networks Worldwide Southern Europe in Spain and Portugal, RTS in Switzerland and TG4 in Eire. It had been pre-sold to DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden, and YLE in Finland.

“Blackport” (8 x 52’) is created by Gísli Örn Garðarsson (“Ragnarok”), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (“Trapped”) and Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir (“Prisoners”) and is produced by Vesturport and Turbine Studios for Arte (France) and RÚV (Iceland).

Set within the Eighties in a small Icelandic fishing village, the story follows a married couple, who together with their mates construct a small fishing empire because of the introduction of the fishing quota system within the nation. However the wrestle for energy deeply corrupts the couple, leading to a feud of jealousy, greed and betrayal.

FESTIVALS

The seventeenth London Korean Movie Pageant (Nov. 3-17) will open with the U.Ok. premiere of sci-fi field workplace hit, Choi Dong-hoon‘s “Alienoid,” starring Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin and Kim Tae-ri, with the director in attendance. This system contains some 35 movies throughout strands together with Cinema Now, After Darkish: Ok-Horror, Indie Skills, Girls’s Voices, Documentary, Shorts and Artist Video.

The Particular Focus strand is devoted to acclaimed actor Kang Soo-yeon, identified internationally for Im Kwon-taek’s “The Surrogate Girl” (1987), for which she received finest actress on the Venice Movie Pageant. The actor, who died earlier this year, additionally served because the co-chair of the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant. Her co-chair Kim Dong-ho and director of the Korean Movie Archive, Kim Hong-joon shall be taking part within the Discussion board occasion devoted to Kang and the Korea’s cinema panorama of her period.

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Surprising Pink Endorphins, a brief movie pageant created and curated by Laura Aimone, specializing in girls in numerous sports activities, will happen in Venice Sept. 26-30. Movies screened embody “Kanya” (swimming); “Treasured Chief Girl” (snowboarding); “Chilly Sweat” (fusball); and “Not Alone” (mountain climbing).