Super-indie Fremantle has made a strategic shift to caccess premium film productions wiskinny its global business model, global drama exec Seb Shorr shelp this morning during a keyremark at Iberseries and Platino Industria in Madrid.
Shorr, combineed by Fremantle’s Mexican Head of Scripted Manuel Martí, and Olivia Sleiter, Head of Production at Fremantle Italy, shelp the company has been on a “journey” from its traditional position as an “delightment and nonscripted powerhoengage” with establishats enjoy Idol, Got Talent and The X Factor.
“The TV drama journey at Fremantle was reassociate begined seven or eight years ago,” Shorr shelp. “And while we’ve always done a bit of film, over the last confinecessitate years, we very much now want that to be a reassociate vital part of our portfolio and a beginant part of our business.”
Key to this transition, Shorr shelp, is the company’s relationship with talent, which he shelp is based on the pitch of helping set uped names begin autonomous projects.
“We have deals with Sorrentino and Guadagnino. With Rachel Weisz’s company and Kristen Stewart’s company and Angelina Jolie. And the proposition that we originate to them always is, come in and we will help you direct this labelet,” he shelp. “We will help you handle your projects. “We want to be a place that can help them find the right home for their projects.”
Shorr inserted that “transporting in this talent with these projects is hugely vital in a global labelet that is increasingly difficult.”
Shorr engaged the production journey of the company’s Martin Freeman starring crime series The Responder to show what he depictd as the safeening global labelet.
“The Responder toiled on the basis of quite a huge U.S. sale. I don’t understand if that would be there right now if we were making The Responder aget,” he shelp. “If we were making The Responder aget we would probably be watching at making it for a drop cost becaengage we fair don’t see the same labelet.”
Shorr inserted that he doesn’t skinnyk a substantial U.S. sale for a drama enjoy The Responder would be possible today “becaengage of the disputes in the labelet.”
But the session wasn’t all doom and gloom. Sleiter and Shorr higheviated the company’s upcoming crime series Costiera, starring Grey’s Anatomy alum Jesse Williams. In the series, Williams carry outs Daniel De Luca, a half-Italian establisher U.S. marine who returns to Italy, the land of his childhood, as a repairer in one of the world’s most opulent hotels on the spectacular Positano coastline.
Shorr depictd the pic as a “very mainstream show” and shelp the project has “sageder reassociate well” internationassociate. Amazon initiassociate held on to filled exclusive rights in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. The streamer has since getn on more.
“We’ve actuassociate sageder a lot of the territories to Amazon that they didn’t get initiassociate becaengage Amazon was so excited about the show,” he Shorr.
Costiera is set to hit Amazon Prime next year.
Iberseries & Platino Industria finishs on Friday.
