Beta Film is teaming up with Hannes Jakobsen, Dominik Böhm, and Lars Stark to found the new Berlin-based AI start-up Chapter41 with the goals of optimizing workflows, consulting, and content production...
It has been a big night for Beta at the Serielizados Fest in Barcelona, winning all five international awards of the festival.
Sky and Beta Film have released the first teaser for Gomorrah - The Origins, the prequel to the global mob crime saga phenomenon, Gomorrah...
Ahead of the launch of sweeping Greek melodrama The Great Chimera, star Fotinì Peluso and director Vardis Marinakis reveal how they collaborated on this adaptation of M Karagatsis’s celebrated novel about a complex heroine caught up in a turbulent love triangle.
The fourth season of Makari has returned on RAI 1 as a prime-time winner, reaching up to 20% market share and drawing over 3 million viewers.
For the first time, M Karagatsis’s 20th-century literary classic The Great Chimera is being adapted for the screen. The ambitious six-hour series, produced by Foss Productions in collaboration with Beta Film, ERT and international partners, aims to capture the novel’s complex exploration of love, identity and belonging while appealing to contemporary audiences...
DQ travels to Naples to watch filming for Gomorra – Le Origini (Gomorrah – Origins), a 1970s-set prequel to the iconic Italian mafia drama. Director Marco D’Amore, writer Maddalena Ravagli, producer Riccardo Tozzi and Sky exec Nils Hartmann go back to the beginning...
Rex is coming home: Production on Rex - Vienna Calling is underway, bringing the world’s most successful TV dog back to Vienna for six feature-length episodes...
The addictive thriller series The Couple Next Door – Deadly Attraction travels around the globe: Beta Film has sold the Eagle Eye Drama/Channel 4 series to over 50 territories worldwide...
Austrian drama Mozart/Mozart pushes the sister of the Austrian composer into the limelight. Showrunner Andreas Gutzeit discusses reimagining the Mozart legacy, playing with history and the creative use of music throughout the six-part series.
Beta in Germany’s youth-focused label Beta Kids & YA is taking a slate of series and films to MipJunior this weekend, including Astrid Lindgren’s Seacrow Island.
Writer Karin Arrhenius and director Fredrik Edfeldt reflect on the task of reimagining Astrid Lindgren’s beloved Swedish family series Vi på Saltkråkan (Life on Seacrow Island) for modern audiences, their screen partnership and why good drama comes from good characters.
MIPCOM: C21 has drawn together a selection of programmes likely to make an impact at this year’s Mipcom, ranging from the problem of super-destructive pigs to the physical gameshow born on YouTube, a Cold War spy drama and a true-crime parody...