Tag: Fremantle

Amazon Freevee has clinched a deal with Fremantle to bring the beloved soap Neighbours back to screens, with the reboot set to premiere exclusively on the AVOD platform in the U.S. and the U.K.

BAFTA winner Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, Atonement, Cyrano) has joined the Sky original drama series M. Son of the Century, about Benito Mussolini’s rise to power, as director.

Fremantle has licensed to the BBC the Spanish-language thriller Señorita 89 and the German drama KaDeWe—Our Time is Now for launch in the U.K. later this year.

Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods) and Linus Roache (Batman Begins, Homeland) have joined the lead cast of Showtime’s limited series Fellow Travelers.

SVT has partnered with the Fremantle company Miso Film to co-produce a TV adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Faithless.

Production has begun on Fremantle’s Without Blood adaptation, with Angelina Jolie writing and directing and Salma Hayek Pinault (Frida, Eternals, House of Gucci) starring.

Morgan Kohan (Transplant), Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill) and Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls) are set to star in the upcoming Sullivan’s Crossing adaptation from CTV, Fremantle and Reel World Management.

STARZPLAY has partnered with France Télévisions and Fremantle for the French-language drama Ouija, from co-creators Thomas Bourguignon and Jörg Winger.

Fremantle has taken a majority stake in the production company Element Pictures, which is behind such successful series and films as Normal People, The Favourite and Room.

Fremantle is set to develop and produce the ongoing drama series Troubled, exploring the problematic troubled teen reform industry.