As a Netflix VP and head of international original series, Erik Barmack shaped today’s fiction TV business. He brought “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”) to Netflix and spearheaded the U.S. streaming giant’s drive into local production the world over. “Dark,” “Elite” “Rain” and “Sacred Games” are some results.
Now working out of his own label, L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content, which holds down a strategic label with The Mediapro Studio, Barmack has placed some 12 series with streaming platforms. Given that, why is the doyen of international series now driving into movie production?
Wild Sheep Content is shooting “Cold, Dead Hands” – a provisional title – starring Kate del Castillo, producing with Del Castillo’s Cholawood and Park City-based Top Dead Center Films, headed by Gary and Julie Auerbach, creators of the film.
A full-on propulsive survival thriller with Del Castillo chased by a psychopath across snowy Utah mountain forest,...
Now working out of his own label, L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content, which holds down a strategic label with The Mediapro Studio, Barmack has placed some 12 series with streaming platforms. Given that, why is the doyen of international series now driving into movie production?
Wild Sheep Content is shooting “Cold, Dead Hands” – a provisional title – starring Kate del Castillo, producing with Del Castillo’s Cholawood and Park City-based Top Dead Center Films, headed by Gary and Julie Auerbach, creators of the film.
A full-on propulsive survival thriller with Del Castillo chased by a psychopath across snowy Utah mountain forest,...
- 1/19/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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