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LONDON: Sid Gentle Films has acquired the rights for Elizabeth Jane Howard’s best-selling book series The Cazalet Chronicles.

CANNES: The biopic Mata Hari marks Star Media’s first production for the global market with original English dialogue.

BURBANK: At MIPCOM, Legendary Television Distribution is slated to showcase the new drama series The Looming Tower, based on the nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright about 9/11 and the secret war between the FBI and the CIA.

LONDON: Amazon and UFA Fiction have revealed that Deutschland 86, the second installment of the hit drama series Deutschland 83, is due to debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in Germany in 2018.

STOCKHOLM: MTG Studios is prepping the new series Veni Vidi Vici, working with the Nordic talents Thomas Bo Larsen, Rafael Edholm and Livia Millhagen together with Canadian actor Michael Wincott.

LOS ANGELES: Rose Leslie, star of Game of Thrones, has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS All Access spin-off of The Good Wife.

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered a full season of the action drama Lethal Weapon, picking up an additional five episodes.

CANNES: Ten years after starring together in 1001 Nights, the Turkish actors Halit Ergenç and Bergüzar Korel are teaming up for Wounded Love, a new drama that Kanal D is presenting.

MONTREAL: CTV and Super Écran, alongside Productions Casablanca and NBCUniversal International Studios, have announced the start of production on the upcoming limited event series The Disappearance.

MUNICH/PARIS/LONDON: TANDEM Productions and Save Ferris Entertainment are working with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures on the new drama Brazza.