Mystery thriller “Moresnet,” which had its world premiere this week at TV festival Canneseries, is set in a sleepy village in Belgium, Moresnet, but underneath the placid surface dark forces lurk.
Variety spoke to writer Jef Hoogmartens and director Frank Van Passel about the show, which is being distributed by Newen Connect.
The series centers on a group of adults who used to be friends when they were children, but were traumatized when one of them, Daan, murdered another for no apparent reason.
Two decades later the friends – minus Daan, who is locked up in the local asylum – gather in the village again after Daan’s brother Ben returns for his father’s funeral. The friends decide to dig up a time capsule they buried on the night of the murder. In that, they find Daan’s diary. On the last page, Ben discovers a list of names… with the death dates of his friends.
Variety spoke to writer Jef Hoogmartens and director Frank Van Passel about the show, which is being distributed by Newen Connect.
The series centers on a group of adults who used to be friends when they were children, but were traumatized when one of them, Daan, murdered another for no apparent reason.
Two decades later the friends – minus Daan, who is locked up in the local asylum – gather in the village again after Daan’s brother Ben returns for his father’s funeral. The friends decide to dig up a time capsule they buried on the night of the murder. In that, they find Daan’s diary. On the last page, Ben discovers a list of names… with the death dates of his friends.
- 4/10/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Note: LateNighter generally posts late night daily ratings on a two (business) day delay, which is how they are released by Nielsen.
CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert kicked off the week of March 4, 2024 by averaging the most total viewers and most P18-49 viewers in late night, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data. That represents a +9% gain in total viewers and a +5% gain in P18-49 viewers from last Monday’s episode.
RuPaul, and Yuval Noah Harari were Colbert’s guests on Monday’s Late Show.
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon came in second at 11:35 p.m., averaging 1,221,000 total viewers and 209,000 P18-49 viewers in the timeslot on March 4. The Tonight Show gained +2% in total viewers and a solid +21% in P18-49 viewers from the prior Monday episode.
Julianne Moore, Lindsay Lohan, and Joe List were Fallon’s guests on Monday’s Tonight Show.
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CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert kicked off the week of March 4, 2024 by averaging the most total viewers and most P18-49 viewers in late night, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data. That represents a +9% gain in total viewers and a +5% gain in P18-49 viewers from last Monday’s episode.
RuPaul, and Yuval Noah Harari were Colbert’s guests on Monday’s Late Show.
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon came in second at 11:35 p.m., averaging 1,221,000 total viewers and 209,000 P18-49 viewers in the timeslot on March 4. The Tonight Show gained +2% in total viewers and a solid +21% in P18-49 viewers from the prior Monday episode.
Julianne Moore, Lindsay Lohan, and Joe List were Fallon’s guests on Monday’s Tonight Show.
Continue reading Late Night Ratings: Monday,...
- 3/6/2024
- by A.J. Katz
- LateNighter
Filmmaker, screenwriter and author Quentin Tarantino stopped by Real Time Friday night to talk with Bill Maher about his new book, Cinema Speculation, out on Tuesday.
Tarantino went to a lot of sophisticated films as a young child, he admitted, sometimes viewing subject matter that he didn’t quite understand, like a certain infamous Ned Beatty rape scene in Delilverance.
Of that scene, Tarantino said, “I’m seeing it in ’73, so I’m about nine,” he said. Admitting he didn’t know about sodomy, Tarantino did know Beatty was being subjugated, because everybody on the school yard has been subjugated to some degree.
“I’m not sure what the lesson is here,” Maher joked.
Tarantino found his way back to his point about young viewers of sophisticated films. “There will be some stuff that goes over their head,” he said. But, like him, “I got the gist of it.”
That...
Tarantino went to a lot of sophisticated films as a young child, he admitted, sometimes viewing subject matter that he didn’t quite understand, like a certain infamous Ned Beatty rape scene in Delilverance.
Of that scene, Tarantino said, “I’m seeing it in ’73, so I’m about nine,” he said. Admitting he didn’t know about sodomy, Tarantino did know Beatty was being subjugated, because everybody on the school yard has been subjugated to some degree.
“I’m not sure what the lesson is here,” Maher joked.
Tarantino found his way back to his point about young viewers of sophisticated films. “There will be some stuff that goes over their head,” he said. But, like him, “I got the gist of it.”
That...
- 10/29/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Popular face of TV industry, Shweta Tiwari, who is currently seen in ‘Main Hoon Aparajita’ playing the role of a mother of three daughters, revealed her interest in reading books and said that reading a good novel for her is like a stressbuster.
She said: “I enjoy reading a good book whenever I have free time. Even if I have a hectic shoot schedule, reading an interesting novel always makes me happy and stress-free.”
The actress made her place in the entertainment industry with the role of Prerna in ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ and also acted in a number of daily soaps, films and web series. She was also the winner of ‘Bigg Boss 4’ and then participated in ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 11’. She made her digital debut with ‘Hum, Tum and Them’.
Apart from acting, Shweta makes sure to take out some time for her hobby of reading books and said about...
She said: “I enjoy reading a good book whenever I have free time. Even if I have a hectic shoot schedule, reading an interesting novel always makes me happy and stress-free.”
The actress made her place in the entertainment industry with the role of Prerna in ‘Kasautii Zindagii Kay’ and also acted in a number of daily soaps, films and web series. She was also the winner of ‘Bigg Boss 4’ and then participated in ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 11’. She made her digital debut with ‘Hum, Tum and Them’.
Apart from acting, Shweta makes sure to take out some time for her hobby of reading books and said about...
- 10/21/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Marcel van Brakel and Mark Meeuwenoord, winners of IDFA’s Special Jury Award for Creative Technology for their project “Symbiosis,” are already working on an augmented reality (Ar) spin-off app, “Future Botanica,” which will allow the audience to co-create new lifeforms and talk about ecosystems.
“Virtual reality can be so exclusive, especially with a project like ‘Symbiosis,’ completely physical and on location. You must be there and talk to people, smell them and touch them. It’s an important part of our work, but we want to reach a broader discussion,” van Brakel tells Variety.
Presented in this year’s DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, “Symbiosis” – produced by Corine Meijers and set 200 years in the future “on the ruins of inhospitable Anthropocene” – is a performative, multisensory and multiuser VR experience, in which the human body is “redesigned.” Inspired by Donna Haraway’s book “Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in...
“Virtual reality can be so exclusive, especially with a project like ‘Symbiosis,’ completely physical and on location. You must be there and talk to people, smell them and touch them. It’s an important part of our work, but we want to reach a broader discussion,” van Brakel tells Variety.
Presented in this year’s DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, “Symbiosis” – produced by Corine Meijers and set 200 years in the future “on the ruins of inhospitable Anthropocene” – is a performative, multisensory and multiuser VR experience, in which the human body is “redesigned.” Inspired by Donna Haraway’s book “Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in...
- 11/28/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last thing they texted to the last thing they binge-watched. This week, actor Luke Bracey takes our call.
If you've ever sat awkwardly at the Thanksgiving table dodging prying questions about why you don't have a date, Luke Bracey and Emma Roberts have a solution for you in their latest Netflix film, Holidate. With a mutual hate for the holidays, the duo team up and create a pact to be each other's "holidate" for every festive occasion throughout the year - but as you can probably guess, it turns out their perfect plan is a lot more complicated than they imagined. Ahead of the Netflix film's release on Oct. 28, we chatted with the Australian actor about his favorite piece of advice, how he and...
If you've ever sat awkwardly at the Thanksgiving table dodging prying questions about why you don't have a date, Luke Bracey and Emma Roberts have a solution for you in their latest Netflix film, Holidate. With a mutual hate for the holidays, the duo team up and create a pact to be each other's "holidate" for every festive occasion throughout the year - but as you can probably guess, it turns out their perfect plan is a lot more complicated than they imagined. Ahead of the Netflix film's release on Oct. 28, we chatted with the Australian actor about his favorite piece of advice, how he and...
- 10/30/2020
- by Kristin Harris
- Popsugar.com
Development continues on director Ridley Scott and documentarian Asif Kapadia's feature adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's non-fiction best-seller "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", charting the course of the development of human beings:
"It is a book that changes how you see the world and our adaptation should do the same," said Kapadia, "to serve as a wake-up call for who we are, where we have come from and where we are heading.
"We hope to mix science, fiction, history, drama and genius in order to bring to life the incredible journey of our species, that began as an insignificant animal and is now on the verge of becoming a 'god'," said Harari.
"Sapiens" has sold 8 million copies in 30 languages since its publication in 2011.
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"It is a book that changes how you see the world and our adaptation should do the same," said Kapadia, "to serve as a wake-up call for who we are, where we have come from and where we are heading.
"We hope to mix science, fiction, history, drama and genius in order to bring to life the incredible journey of our species, that began as an insignificant animal and is now on the verge of becoming a 'god'," said Harari.
"Sapiens" has sold 8 million copies in 30 languages since its publication in 2011.
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- 1/30/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Having premiered on Netflix Nov. 22, “Nobody’s Looking” marks the first collaboration between Gullane and Netflix – their second, “Boca a Boca” is in development- and comes from a long list of new projects that the streaming giant has announced with it’s $87 Million investment in Brazilian content.
The series embodies the streaming platform’s push into regional production: High concept and higher production values that aim for an international appeal without losing a sense of regional identity.
It depicts a bureaucratic organization of guardian angels in which the uniformed “angelus” invisibly protects humans beings, always following the rules of an absent Boss. With the arrival of Uli (Victor Lamoglia), a new “angelus” that starts questioning the established rules, the whole system slowly sinks into crisis as the series joyfully plays with consequences and the interactions between humans and angels.
The eight-episode series was created by Daniel Rezende, Carolina Markowicz and Teodoro Poppovic.
The series embodies the streaming platform’s push into regional production: High concept and higher production values that aim for an international appeal without losing a sense of regional identity.
It depicts a bureaucratic organization of guardian angels in which the uniformed “angelus” invisibly protects humans beings, always following the rules of an absent Boss. With the arrival of Uli (Victor Lamoglia), a new “angelus” that starts questioning the established rules, the whole system slowly sinks into crisis as the series joyfully plays with consequences and the interactions between humans and angels.
The eight-episode series was created by Daniel Rezende, Carolina Markowicz and Teodoro Poppovic.
- 12/6/2019
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Longo Nov 12, 2019
In the forthcoming Disney+ series The World According to Jeff Goldblum, the iconic actor plays his most personal role yet.
It’s Friday the 13th and Jeff Goldblum is avoiding strange tidings.
“Take it easy today,” Goldblum states matter of factly over the phone. He’s got a full slate of interviews to promote his new show, and it’s on the same day he released a single and fresh artwork for his upcoming jazz album. “Not that I’m superstitious,” he continues. “Not even a little bit. That’s all nonsense. Absolute nonsense. No, I go with science.”
If there’s a formula to having a long and satisfying career in the limelight, Goldblum deserves an honorary PhD for tinkering with the optimal compounds. The 66-year-old actor is closing in on five decades of film work; from classics like The Fly, Independence Day, and Jurassic Park...
In the forthcoming Disney+ series The World According to Jeff Goldblum, the iconic actor plays his most personal role yet.
It’s Friday the 13th and Jeff Goldblum is avoiding strange tidings.
“Take it easy today,” Goldblum states matter of factly over the phone. He’s got a full slate of interviews to promote his new show, and it’s on the same day he released a single and fresh artwork for his upcoming jazz album. “Not that I’m superstitious,” he continues. “Not even a little bit. That’s all nonsense. Absolute nonsense. No, I go with science.”
If there’s a formula to having a long and satisfying career in the limelight, Goldblum deserves an honorary PhD for tinkering with the optimal compounds. The 66-year-old actor is closing in on five decades of film work; from classics like The Fly, Independence Day, and Jurassic Park...
- 10/8/2019
- Den of Geek
Company restructures its London-based TV operations.
Ed Rubin, the managing director of Scott Free London, is stepping down from the company at the end of the month.
The move comes against the backdrop of a restructuring of the company’s TV operations in London, which has seen several employees depart to date. Screen understands that Scott Free’s La office will now principally oversee the TV side of the business.
Former Origin Pictures exec Rubin joined Scott Free in 2016. The company’s recent TV credits include the Tom Hardy-fronted series Taboo, which it produced with Hardy, Son & Baker for BBC and FX.
Ed Rubin, the managing director of Scott Free London, is stepping down from the company at the end of the month.
The move comes against the backdrop of a restructuring of the company’s TV operations in London, which has seen several employees depart to date. Screen understands that Scott Free’s La office will now principally oversee the TV side of the business.
Former Origin Pictures exec Rubin joined Scott Free in 2016. The company’s recent TV credits include the Tom Hardy-fronted series Taboo, which it produced with Hardy, Son & Baker for BBC and FX.
- 1/15/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Director Ridley Scott and documentarian Asif Kapadia, will adapt the non-fiction best-seller "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", by historian Yuval Noah Harari, charting the course of the development of human beings into a feature film:
"It is a book that changes how you see the world and our adaptation should do the same," said Kapadia, "to serve as a wake-up call for who we are, where we have come from and where we are heading.
"We hope to mix science, fiction, history, drama and genius in order to bring to life the incredible journey of our species, that began as an insignificant animal and is now on the verge of becoming a 'god'," said Harari.
"Sapiens" has sold 8 million copies in 30 languages since its publication in 2011.
Click the images to enlarge...
"It is a book that changes how you see the world and our adaptation should do the same," said Kapadia, "to serve as a wake-up call for who we are, where we have come from and where we are heading.
"We hope to mix science, fiction, history, drama and genius in order to bring to life the incredible journey of our species, that began as an insignificant animal and is now on the verge of becoming a 'god'," said Harari.
"Sapiens" has sold 8 million copies in 30 languages since its publication in 2011.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 7/19/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) and Oscar-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) are teaming together to adapt the international best-seller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Israeli professor Yuval Noah Harari.
Immediately calling to mind such event series as Carl Sagan's Cosmos (also a book) and the BBC's Planet Earth, Sapiens has an expansive reach: charting the entire journey of human beings from prehistoric creatures to the present. Harari tries to explain how Homo sapiens, just one of many branches of the early sapien's family tree, came to dominate the planet. “Nobody, least of all humans themselves," he writes, "had any ...
Immediately calling to mind such event series as Carl Sagan's Cosmos (also a book) and the BBC's Planet Earth, Sapiens has an expansive reach: charting the entire journey of human beings from prehistoric creatures to the present. Harari tries to explain how Homo sapiens, just one of many branches of the early sapien's family tree, came to dominate the planet. “Nobody, least of all humans themselves," he writes, "had any ...
- 7/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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