LEONINE Studios brings three fresh series to the market
Patrick Phelan, Director of World Sales, LEONINE Studios, talks about the company’s main highlights at this year’s NATPE Budapest International. Several co-productions with Czech producers are also in the works.
Patrick Phelan, Director of World Sales, LEONINE Studios
Patrick, all the major TV market events and conferences are back. What are you bringing to NATPE Budapest International this year?
We are launching three fresh and intriguing new series at NATPE Budapest. The 6-part one-hour series Herzogpark comes from the production company of Bad Banks. The dramedy takes a look through the keyhole into the seemingly picture-perfect lives of five very different women living in a super posh neighborhood. The perfectly polished existence of a glamorous, champagne-fueled world is on the brink of chaos as carefully hidden secrets threaten to surface. The series just premiered on RTL’s streaming service RTL+.
New to our lineup is the Australian thriller series Troppo, which is based on the highly popular Crimson Lake novel series written by New York Times best-selling author Candice Fox. The 8-part one-hour series takes us right into a criminal case in the wilds of tropical Far North Queensland, with Thomas Jane, Nicole Chamoun, Radha Mitchell, David Lyons, Sun Park, Yerin Ha and many other great actors. Troppo premiered on ABC Australia and is a freevee US Original. The show was created and written by award-winning filmmaker Yolanda Ramke, who co-directed with acclaimed directors Jocelyn Moorehouse, Catherine Millar, Ben Howling and Grant Brown.
Bonn is a six-part political thriller that focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between Germany’s two rivaling intelligence services. The series was created by multi award-winning filmmaker Claudia Garde and stars an acclaimed cast including Mercedes Müller and Max Riemelt. Bonn will premiere on the German network ARD in 2023.
And what are your most-important TV projects currently in production and in development?
Our high-profile international co-production The Seed started shooting at the end of May. It’s a brand-new series coming from the producers of Spy City and is centered around The Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen (Norway), which provides the fascinating backdrop for this 6-part English-language thriller series. The Seed features a renowned international cast including Heino Ferch, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rainer Bock, Jonathan Berlin, Seumas Sargent, Erik Madsen and Friederike Becht.
Do you have any co-productions with CEE partners planned for 2022 and beyond? And are you looking into the region for more such opportunities?
One of our highlight projects, The Seed, is an international co-production between LEONINE Studios’ production banner Odeon Fiction (Germany), ARD Degeto (Germany), NRK (Norway), and MIA Film (Czech Republic). And our new 6-part series Bonn is a co-production with Wilma Film in Prague. We are also in development and finalizing the terms for another high-profile series to be co-produced between Germany and Serbia, which we are planning to announce soon.
You have a successful partnership with Amazon in Germany and in Austria. Have you planned similar deals with other streaming services?
LEONINE Studios is an independent company, so we’re open to do business with all players in the marketplace. Our vast content library offers programs from all genres and formats – from series to feature films, TV movies, shows and digital originals.
We are launching three fresh and intriguing new series at NATPE Budapest. The 6-part one-hour series Herzogpark comes from the production company of Bad Banks. The dramedy takes a look through the keyhole into the seemingly picture-perfect lives of five very different women living in a super posh neighborhood. The perfectly polished existence of a glamorous, champagne-fueled world is on the brink of chaos as carefully hidden secrets threaten to surface. The series just premiered on RTL’s streaming service RTL+.
New to our lineup is the Australian thriller series Troppo, which is based on the highly popular Crimson Lake novel series written by New York Times best-selling author Candice Fox. The 8-part one-hour series takes us right into a criminal case in the wilds of tropical Far North Queensland, with Thomas Jane, Nicole Chamoun, Radha Mitchell, David Lyons, Sun Park, Yerin Ha and many other great actors. Troppo premiered on ABC Australia and is a freevee US Original. The show was created and written by award-winning filmmaker Yolanda Ramke, who co-directed with acclaimed directors Jocelyn Moorehouse, Catherine Millar, Ben Howling and Grant Brown.
Bonn is a six-part political thriller that focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between Germany’s two rivaling intelligence services. The series was created by multi award-winning filmmaker Claudia Garde and stars an acclaimed cast including Mercedes Müller and Max Riemelt. Bonn will premiere on the German network ARD in 2023.
And what are your most-important TV projects currently in production and in development?
Our high-profile international co-production The Seed started shooting at the end of May. It’s a brand-new series coming from the producers of Spy City and is centered around The Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen (Norway), which provides the fascinating backdrop for this 6-part English-language thriller series. The Seed features a renowned international cast including Heino Ferch, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rainer Bock, Jonathan Berlin, Seumas Sargent, Erik Madsen and Friederike Becht.
Do you have any co-productions with CEE partners planned for 2022 and beyond? And are you looking into the region for more such opportunities?
One of our highlight projects, The Seed, is an international co-production between LEONINE Studios’ production banner Odeon Fiction (Germany), ARD Degeto (Germany), NRK (Norway), and MIA Film (Czech Republic). And our new 6-part series Bonn is a co-production with Wilma Film in Prague. We are also in development and finalizing the terms for another high-profile series to be co-produced between Germany and Serbia, which we are planning to announce soon.
You have a successful partnership with Amazon in Germany and in Austria. Have you planned similar deals with other streaming services?
LEONINE Studios is an independent company, so we’re open to do business with all players in the marketplace. Our vast content library offers programs from all genres and formats – from series to feature films, TV movies, shows and digital originals.
