Erik Barmack’s “Fusion,” Sally Wainwright’s “Riot Girls” and epic fantasy “Battle of the Kingdoms” attribute as potential highlights on the Sequence Mania Dialogue board’s first Patrons Upfront, whose lineup was launched Tuesday by Sequence Mania founder and director fundamental Laurence Herszberg.
Kicking off with a Beta Brunch on March 24, the Patrons Upfront moreover choices latest assortment from ARD, ZDF Studios, Mediawan, Sidus, Beta Film, Slot Machine, REinvent and Bande à Half Motion pictures – making for a mouthwatering prospect.
The Upfront moreover underscores two tendencies: a switch into English-language manufacturing which has greater U.S. streamer product sales prospects; an increasingly more attractive financing model, a minimal of for selectively produced foreign-language displays, based totally on tying down companions and pre-sales amongst native broadcasters in Europe pretty than prepared for in the meanwhile extraordinarily tough U.S. deal with a streamer.
Part of producer-distributor Erik Barmack’s drive at Wild Sheep Content material materials into “excessive experience from smaller worldwide places,” “Fusion” marks the first enterprise to enter manufacturing from new Icelandic manufacturing powerhouse ACT4. It’s co-created and written by fundamental Icelandic TV assortment producer Hörður Rúnarsson (“As Prolonged As We Dwell,” “Black Sands”).Wild Sheep is backed by The Mediapro Studio.
The newest from Wainright, (“Joyful Valley,” “Closing Tango in Halifax,” “Gentleman Jack”), sure for BBC and Britbox inside the U.S. and Canada, “Riot Girl” is produced by the U.Okay.’s Drama Republic (“Doctor Foster”) a Mediawan agency.
Moreover inside the mix: “Battle of the Kingdoms,” produced by German powerhouse Constantin, an epic medieval fantasy reimagining of heroic legend “The Observe of the Nibelungs.” Weighing in at spherical €45 million ($47.25 million), it’s the best budgeted German manufacturing ever.
“The Sequence Mania Patrons Upfront is an distinctive event for top-tier patrons, showcasing distinctive 12-minute first look screenings from ten eagerly awaited assortment that have sturdy worldwide attraction,” said Herszberg. “From the outset, our goal with this new event has been to current unparalleled entry to our patrons along with help facilitate networking options with the principle distributors behind these assortment,” she added.
“This new event marks the beginning of a extremely new chapter inside the historic previous of Sequence Mania Dialogue board. From creation to worldwide distribution, we’re extra solidifying our place as a result of the must-attend event of the spring for the scripted group.,” well-known Francesco Capurro, director of the Sequence Mania Dialogue board.
A fast drill-down on the titles:
“Dangerous Actuality,” (“Das zweite Attentat”)
Nation: Germany
Worldwide Product sales: OneGate Media
Manufacturing Agency: Eikon Media, Deal Productions
Format: 6 episodes x 45 minutes
Model: Thriller
Yr of producing: 2024
Residing for 20 years in Athens beneath a Federal Authorized Police Office (BKA) security program, Alexander Jaromin begins a decided and dangerous search to uncover the truth of his father’s lack of life. Co-helmed by “The Swarm” and “Concordia” director Barbara Eder, a political thriller backed by extremely efficient German companions, public broadcaster ARD and enterprise arm ARD Degeto and gap financier Bravado Media. An ARD product sales subsid, OneGate Media, serves as worldwide distributor.
“The Danish Girl” (“Danska Konan”)
Nation: Iceland
Worldwide Product sales: The Celebration Film Product sales
Manufacturing Agency: Slot Machine
Format: 6 episodes x 47 minutes
Model: Drama, Comedy
Yr of producing: 2025
Toplining Trine Dyrholm, star of Oscar-nominated “The Girl with the Needle,” as a retired Danish Secret Service agent, dwelling a quiet life in Reykjavik who can’t stop her deep sense of justice from serving to her neighbors, whether or not or not they want or not. A buzz assortment moreover chosen for Sequence Mania’s Worldwide Panorama, from Benedikt Erlingsson (“Girl at Battle,” “Of Horses and Males”) produced by Slot Machine (“Dancer inside the Darkish, “Melancholia”).
“The Deal”
Nation: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Worldwide Product sales: Gaumont
Manufacturing Agency: Bande à Half Motion pictures, Les Motion pictures Pelleas, Gaumont Télévision, Bidibul Productions, Versus Manufacturing
Format: 6 episodes x 46 minutes
Model: Drama, Thriller
Yr of producing: 2024
Swiss diplomat Alexandra Weiss hosts ultimate chance nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran, as her former love, threatened Iranian engineer Payam, appears, threatening her stance of famed Swiss neutrality. Veerle Baetens, Juliet Stevenson, Anthony Azizi star; excessive Swiss manufacturing house Bande à Half Motion pictures (“Sister,” “Canine on Trial,” “Protected House”) lead produces.
“Escaping Bolivia,” (“Flukten fra Bolivia”)
Nation: Norway
Worldwide Product sales: REinvent Worldwide Product sales
Manufacturing Agency: Fenomen TV, 4 1/2 FILM
Format: 6 episodes x 44 minutes
Model: Drama, Thriller
Yr of producing: 2025
Ella Øverbye, star of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Berlin 2025 Golden Bear winner “Wishes” and Jakob Oftebro (“1864”) topline the real-life thriller, impressed by the incarceration in Bolivia of three Norwegian girls for drug trafficking in 2008. Two plan escape. Anna Gutto, behind Lionsgate’s “Paradise Freeway” starring Juliette Binoche, serves as concept director, alongside creator-episodic director Emilie Beck, hooked as much as Netflix’s “Royalteen.”
“Fusion,” (“Reykjavic Fusion”)
Nation: Iceland
Worldwide Product sales: The Mediapro Studio Distribution, Wild Sheep Content material materials
Manufacturing Agency: Act4
Format: 6 episodes x 52 minutes
Model: Thriller
Yr of producing: 2024
Co-produced by Arte in France and Germany, pre-sold to AMC Iberia for Spain and Portugal and with public broadcaster YLE for Finland and described as “Breaking Unhealthy” meets “The Bear,” “Fusion” has Darri participating in gifted chef Jónas, falsely imprisoned, now out and attempting to regain his family’s perception. Ostracized, he accepts illicit funds to open a restaurant, plunging him into money laundering and debt, jeopardizing his parole, life, and members of the family.
“Puzzle Girl,”
Nation: U.Okay.
Worldwide Product sales: ZDF Studios
Manufacturing Agency: December FilmsFormat: 6 episodes x 60 minutes
Model: Comedy, Thriller
Yr of producing: 2025
A “compelling, cosy crime drama,” has said Paul Testar on the Paramount-owned U.Okay. channel Channel 5. In it, after an odd murder takes place in sleepy market metropolis Bakerbury, the police are baffled by a crossword puzzle clue left on the physique. Fortunately, famed cruciverbalist Cora Felton (“Downton Abbey’s” Phyllis Logan ) has merely moved to metropolis. PBS-bound inside the U.S. with ZDF Studios selling non-U.S.
“Riot Girls,”
Nation: U.Okay.
Worldwide Product sales: Mediawan Rights
Manufacturing Agency: Drama Republic Restricted
Format: 6 episodes x 60 minutes
Model: Drama
“5 not so youthful girls create a makeshift punk-rock band with the intention to enter a neighborhood experience contest. Writing their first genuine music, nonetheless, they rapidly uncover that they’ve a lot to say, as they juggle demanding jobs, grown-up children, subtle mom and father, husbands who’ve buggered off.” A synopsis with a selected Wainright style for a potential lineup highlight.
“S Line”
Nation: South Korea
Worldwide Product sales: Sidus
Manufacturing Agency: Sidus
Format: 6 episodes x 60 minutes
Model: Thriller, Science fiction
Yr of producing: 2024
Hyun-heup sees the S Line, a pink thread linking people who had beforehand had a relationship. She teams with Detective Han Ji-wook to research the S Line, after an excellent buddy falls into coma using sinister glasses to see the Line. From Sidus, behind “Dr. Park’s Clinic” launched on SVOD service Tving.
“Shadow Leaks,” (Schattenseite)
Nation: Germany
Worldwide Product sales: Beta Film
Manufacturing Agency: Dreamtool Leisure for ARD Degeto Film, funk, and Hessischer
Rundfunk, with funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Format: 6 episodes x 45 minutes
Model: YA Thriller
Yr of producing: 2024/2025
A second ARD assortment inside the Upfront. At her new high-school, Nola investigates a ShadowPage site which reveals the students most intimate secrets and techniques and methods, whose creator is blackmailing her. She moreover tries to go looking out out what the S Line has to do with a pupil’s newest lack of life. Created by Jonas Ems (“Toxisch”) and Hanna Hribar (“Mistaken”), based totally on Ems’ bestseller and backed by ARD Degeto Film and one different play by Beta Film for YA auds, seen in “Wild Republic” and “The Sea Previous.”
“Battle of the Kingdoms”
Nation: Germany
Worldwide Product sales: Fremantle
Manufacturing Agency: Constantin Television
Format: 6 episodes x 60 minutes
Model: Drama
Yr of producing: 2024
Reimagining “The Observe of the Nibelungs,” an inspiration behind “Lord of the Rings” and “Recreation of Thrones, “Battle of the Kingdoms” prompts Hagen, a soldier and Lord Commander ready to face by his King nevertheless secretly deeply in forbidden love with Princess Kriemhild. “The thought is, first, making a model new world and a model new IP. And, second, once you’re going proper into a method like this, the stakes and the expectations are very extreme, so that you really want a extreme funds,” Constantin Film head Oliver Berben has suggested Choice.
