Exclusive: German doc maker Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is lining up feature-length projects on former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and another from the UK’s Lucy, the Human Chimp director Alex Parkinson.
Deadline can reveal the Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 producer, which we last week reported had sold to Leonine Studios, is working on The Netanyahu Paradox and Lost at Sea – The Longest Night (working title).
The company has also confirmed a second season of Reeperbahn – Special Unit 65. It is already part-funded, with the award-winning doc series about German cops fighting organized crime in the 1980s moving into the 1990s for a new run.
The news came in a wide-ranging interview with Gebrueder Beetz co-founders Christian and Reinhardt Beetz, in which they discussed how being part of a consolidated group would impact their independent approach and revealed the existence of a deep development fund that will allow them to make up...
Deadline can reveal the Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 producer, which we last week reported had sold to Leonine Studios, is working on The Netanyahu Paradox and Lost at Sea – The Longest Night (working title).
The company has also confirmed a second season of Reeperbahn – Special Unit 65. It is already part-funded, with the award-winning doc series about German cops fighting organized crime in the 1980s moving into the 1990s for a new run.
The news came in a wide-ranging interview with Gebrueder Beetz co-founders Christian and Reinhardt Beetz, in which they discussed how being part of a consolidated group would impact their independent approach and revealed the existence of a deep development fund that will allow them to make up...
- 10/13/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S. screenwriter Kirk Ellis, best known for adapting David McCullough’s “John Adams” biography for HBO, has been tapped by Fremantle to write the screenplay for “Bibi,” its TV series about scandal haunted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The previously announced high-end series about the personal and political life of Netanyahu – who on Sunday went on trial in Jerusalem on corruption charges one week after managing to remain in office after a protracted political crisis – is being produced by Tel Aviv-based Abot Hameiri, a Fremantle company.
It is based on prominent Israeli journalist Ben Caspit’s “The Netanyahu Years,” a bestselling biography of politically canny and deeply divisive figure known at home as Bibi who is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, in power since 2009.
“Ben Caspit’s insightful reporting demonstrates how private life always shapes public affairs, and there’s no shortage of conflict – or opinions – when it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu,...
The previously announced high-end series about the personal and political life of Netanyahu – who on Sunday went on trial in Jerusalem on corruption charges one week after managing to remain in office after a protracted political crisis – is being produced by Tel Aviv-based Abot Hameiri, a Fremantle company.
It is based on prominent Israeli journalist Ben Caspit’s “The Netanyahu Years,” a bestselling biography of politically canny and deeply divisive figure known at home as Bibi who is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, in power since 2009.
“Ben Caspit’s insightful reporting demonstrates how private life always shapes public affairs, and there’s no shortage of conflict – or opinions – when it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The personal and political life of Benjamin Netanyahu is being developed into a high-end TV series by Fremantle through its Israeli production company, Abot Hameiri.
Abot Hameiri has bought adaptation rights to prominent Israeli journalist Ben Caspit’s “The Netanyahu Years,” a bestselling biography of the politically canny but divisive and scandal-haunted figure known at home as Bibi. Netanyahu’s bid to continue his tenure as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is currently in doubt.
The book sheds light on little-known aspects of Netanyahu’s life and focuses on how his personality has shaped Israel’s political and security establishment.
“It’s the biggest IP we can deliver out of Israel today to the world,” said Guy Hameiri, co-founder of Abot Hameiri. “Nobody has influenced our country in the past 20 years more than Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Hameiri described the series as “an epic political story with a very big philosophical and psychological undertone.
Abot Hameiri has bought adaptation rights to prominent Israeli journalist Ben Caspit’s “The Netanyahu Years,” a bestselling biography of the politically canny but divisive and scandal-haunted figure known at home as Bibi. Netanyahu’s bid to continue his tenure as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is currently in doubt.
The book sheds light on little-known aspects of Netanyahu’s life and focuses on how his personality has shaped Israel’s political and security establishment.
“It’s the biggest IP we can deliver out of Israel today to the world,” said Guy Hameiri, co-founder of Abot Hameiri. “Nobody has influenced our country in the past 20 years more than Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Hameiri described the series as “an epic political story with a very big philosophical and psychological undertone.
- 10/30/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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