Exclusive: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate is joining forces with blackpills (Bonding), the Paris-based production studio specializing in premium, short-form scripted content aimed at millennials, to develop and distribute Ya content. In addition to a distribution partnership, the companies will be co-developing an original slate of premium content to take to market together.
Blackpills, a digital upstart founded in 2017 by co-ceos Patrick Holzman and Daniel Marhely, focuses on content aimed at young audiences for whom smartphones are the first screen with an emphasize on themes such as identity, coming of age, dating and digital addiction.
The partnership announcement follows the recent release of blackpills’ first Netflix original series, Bonding, from Rightor Doyle (Barry). The seven-episode short-form dark-comedy series stars Zoe Levin and Brendan Scannell, and was co-produced by Anonymous Content.
Blackpills’ latest anthology series, Do Not Disturb, produced in association with Pulse Films, premieres at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Blackpills, a digital upstart founded in 2017 by co-ceos Patrick Holzman and Daniel Marhely, focuses on content aimed at young audiences for whom smartphones are the first screen with an emphasize on themes such as identity, coming of age, dating and digital addiction.
The partnership announcement follows the recent release of blackpills’ first Netflix original series, Bonding, from Rightor Doyle (Barry). The seven-episode short-form dark-comedy series stars Zoe Levin and Brendan Scannell, and was co-produced by Anonymous Content.
Blackpills’ latest anthology series, Do Not Disturb, produced in association with Pulse Films, premieres at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
- 5/16/2019
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the favorites heading into this year’s Canneseries Short-Form Competition has to be the star-studded anthology series “Do Not Disturb,” spearheaded by the U.K.’s Pulse Films in association with Blackpills Studio.
Michael Haussman and Larry Volpi created the series, and its nine, 10-minute episodes were written by the two along with Olivia Poulet, Mike O’Leary, Nida Manzoor and Davey Spens.
“Do Not Disturb” takes the audience behind the little plastic placards we hang on hotel-room door handles when we need a nap, want to be left alone, or perhaps up to something a bit more adult, as is often the case in this show.
Some episodes are comedies, some terrifying and others sultry, but each explores the darker side of humanity that is often kept behind closed doors.
The series’ directors include Haussman, Jude Law, Jake Chapman, Mounia Akl, Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace, Zoe Casavettes and Matthew Huston.
Michael Haussman and Larry Volpi created the series, and its nine, 10-minute episodes were written by the two along with Olivia Poulet, Mike O’Leary, Nida Manzoor and Davey Spens.
“Do Not Disturb” takes the audience behind the little plastic placards we hang on hotel-room door handles when we need a nap, want to be left alone, or perhaps up to something a bit more adult, as is often the case in this show.
Some episodes are comedies, some terrifying and others sultry, but each explores the darker side of humanity that is often kept behind closed doors.
The series’ directors include Haussman, Jude Law, Jake Chapman, Mounia Akl, Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace, Zoe Casavettes and Matthew Huston.
- 4/6/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Banshee and Quarry star Tyson Sullivan and Days of Our Lives star Billy Flynn are collaborating on the dramatic feature Willowbrook which they’ll both star and co-write. The pic is scheduled to start filming in February in New York State with Matthew Huston making his feature directorial debut.
Willowbrook centers around a young mother who dies leaving behind a young daughter and a bereft husband. Soon after her death, a childhood friend returns to their hometown, only to create havoc within the family. Sullivan and Flynn are partnering with New York-based producer Rose Ganguzza under her Rose Pictures’ banner. Producing alongside Ganguzza’s Rose Pictures’ is Myra Morris and Jake Alden Falconer.
Ganguzza’s upcoming projects include Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Pam Grier and Jacki Weaver which recently wrapped production in Atlanta, Georgia; Fatima, staring Harvey Keitel & Sonia Braga...
Willowbrook centers around a young mother who dies leaving behind a young daughter and a bereft husband. Soon after her death, a childhood friend returns to their hometown, only to create havoc within the family. Sullivan and Flynn are partnering with New York-based producer Rose Ganguzza under her Rose Pictures’ banner. Producing alongside Ganguzza’s Rose Pictures’ is Myra Morris and Jake Alden Falconer.
Ganguzza’s upcoming projects include Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Pam Grier and Jacki Weaver which recently wrapped production in Atlanta, Georgia; Fatima, staring Harvey Keitel & Sonia Braga...
- 8/28/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The star of Paramount-mgm’s late summer release Ben-Hur is at the Cannes television market in a new role as producer with rights to a pair of prestige projects.
Cysa Productions has optioned television rights to BAFTA-winning writer Jennifer Majka’s The Architect, an original series that explores how and why we live.
The Architect is being conceived as an international co-production of ten one-hour episodes a season that kicks off in London in the 1950s and 1960s as architect Jack Tanner works on the reconstruction of postwar London.
The first season will chart how the ambitious era of modern architecture shaped lives following the ravages of WW2 and production will relocate to other cities around the world in subsequent seasons.
Huston will produce alongside his Cysa partner and former agent, Abi Harris, and Cysa will develop and produce the series with Majka.
The latter’s writing credits include The Bigger Picture, for which she...
Cysa Productions has optioned television rights to BAFTA-winning writer Jennifer Majka’s The Architect, an original series that explores how and why we live.
The Architect is being conceived as an international co-production of ten one-hour episodes a season that kicks off in London in the 1950s and 1960s as architect Jack Tanner works on the reconstruction of postwar London.
The first season will chart how the ambitious era of modern architecture shaped lives following the ravages of WW2 and production will relocate to other cities around the world in subsequent seasons.
Huston will produce alongside his Cysa partner and former agent, Abi Harris, and Cysa will develop and produce the series with Majka.
The latter’s writing credits include The Bigger Picture, for which she...
- 4/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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