Untitled - Festival de Télévision de Monte

Closing Gala
Ce soir, clap de fin sur le
50è Festival de Monte-Carlo
qui tirera son bouquet final
depuis la Salle des Etoiles
du Monte-Carlo SportingClub. Au préalable, les divers
jurys auront levé le voile
sur le Palmarès de cette
édition du cinquantenaire.
Petit rappel de toutes les
distinctions qui seront
au générique de cette
cérémonie...
Soirée
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Closing Gala
Bernard Montiel
Animateur, comédien,
toqué de travail
Les éditions du Festival passent et, au cœur du duo des
présentateurs officiels pour les cérémonies d’ouverture
et de clôture, seul reste Bernard Montiel… La remarque
fait sourire l’animateur TV de plus en plus happé par la
fiction. Ce soir, c’est l’actrice américaine Sofia Milos (Les
Experts, le nouveau Tatort) qui s’essaiera à l’exercice
sur la scène de la Salle des Princes du Grimaldi Forum.
Et Bernard d’enfiler aussitôt son autre costume : celui de
comédien qui joue le Procureur Alain Berger et donne
la réplique à Xavier Deluc dans la série « Section de
Recherches ». « Nous achevons là maintenant le tournage
de la saison 4 et fort de notre record d’audience à 7,5
millions pour la case du policier du jeudi soir, TF1 a d’ores
et signé pour une saison 5 qui sera tournée dès octobrenovembre », jubile le néo-comédien. Peut-être parce qu’il
se souvient qu’un de ses premiers jobs a été huissier… de
justice, mais plus sérieusement parce qu’il sait qu’il est « un
débutant dans ce métier, toujours à l’écoute des conseils
de mes partenaires. Quand je vois la créatrice et scénariste
de la série Dominique Lancelot conforter mon personnage
de proc austère et intransigeant, je n’y crois presque pas
moi-même. Ma propre mère me trouve méconnaissable
dans ce rôle si éloigné de ma nature enjouée ».
Il est loin le temps où Bernard Montiel faisait partie
uniquement de la famille en or des animateurs.
Aujourd’hui, il éprouve un besoin presque compulsif à
se remettre sans cesse en cause à travers les projets les
plus divers : il vient de tourner la suite d’ Aicha sous la
caméra de Yasmina Benguigui et parle déjà d’une trilogie,
il tournera à la rentrée une comédie pour TF1 « Toqué »
aux côtés d’Ingrid Chauvin, nourri un projet de série pour
M6, continue à faire des piges en tant qu’animateur sur
NRJ 12 pour « Le Grand Casting » ou un sujet Monaco
dans « 50 mn Inside », commence à faire des piges écrites
cette fois pour Ici Paris et Télé 7 Jours, vient de superviser
le tournage du clip de « Citizens of the World » sur le toit
de Capitol Records à L.A., garde toujours une pensée ou
une action pour l’association «Touche pas à mon enfant»
qui lutte contre la pédophilie au Maroc, son pays de
naissance. Jamais à bout de souffle, Bernard Montiel ne
peut se résigner à une quelconque routine... Son « J’ai
besoin d’être à 200 % pour me sentir vivre » nous rassure :
Bernard Montiel sera bien au Festival en 2011 !
Hervé Zorgniotti
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Hostess With
The Mostest
After a five-week shoot in Lucerne and a three day break in
Paris and before returning to Los Angeles, Sofia Milos has
arrived in Monaco to co-host tonight’s award ceremonials with
her usual flair - for fun, languages and improvisation.
The Swiss-born beauty of Italian-Greek parents could be
representing any of three shows here. She is still recurring as “my
beloved character detective Yelina Salas” on “CSI: Miami.” Her US
Homeland Security Special Agent Bianca LeGarda was “promoted
to Washington, DC” just before the end of the last year of “The
Border” in Toronto. And she has just wrapped being Chicago cop
Abby Lanning in a “Tatort” film, “Wishful Thinking,” made by Swiss
TV for all the usual German-speaking fans of the longest running
cop show in history. It is, m’sieur Wolf, 40 years old!
Instead, Sofia is representing herself and making the opening/
closing duet with Bernard Montiel work like a dream,
She has become a Euro star on top of her Hollywood achievements
by improvising when presenting an award in last year’s Rose d’Or
festival in Montreux.
“First, I spoke in English, then in Swiss German - and I had such
enthusiastic applause! It was such a surprise that this “CSI: Miami”
girl also spoke Swiss German with a Zurch accent. It freaked
everybody out.”
In particular, the Swiss TV fiction chief Peter Studenhalter and the
latest “Tatort” kommissar Stefan Gubser - following in the long
line of Walter Ritcher, Hansjörg Felmy, Manfred Krug, Hannelore
Elsner, Eva Mattes, this year’s Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, etc.,
and, of course, Götz George, the foul-mouthed working-class
hero cop who mesmerised/polarised Germany for 20 years..
The two Swiss rolled to LA to woo Sofia into their movie. She
agreed to acting in German (she flew in early to work with a
coach on refreshing her lingo) and to - “My god!” - keeping to
the “Tatort” tradition of no make-up. “Or very little.”
“I play a cop - for a change. She’s on an exchange programme with
Chicago’s twinned town of Lucerne - which is just magnificent!
(I was born 45 minutes away in Zurich). Abby’s working on a
special case, so it’s not long before she meets Kommissar Reto
Flückiger.” They may meet again in nother movie next year.
The main diffference Sofia says, between “Tatort” and “CSI”
is that is anti-stylised. “No glitz. No glam. The police look like
police. Wee’d one scene where we are, er, er... oh, I’m forgetting
my English.”
You must get back to LA!
“Right... that’s where my mortgage is. Anyway... we had about
15 cop extras to bust into this house. After the second take, I
said: ‘Oh my God, you guys rock! How did you learn how to that?’
That’s when I found out they were real cops.... Actually, they
looked more like Chippendales!”
Tony Crawley
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« Avec Marcy Carsey et Tom Werner,
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Prix du Public
TMC / TELE 7 JOURS
Une Nymphe d’Or d’Honneur du 50è Festival sera attribuée ce
soir à Marcy Carsey et à Tom Werner.
«Marcy et Tom ont modifié le paysage de la télévision avec leurs
émissions novatrices, a déclaré David Tomatis. Ils ont appréhendé la
notion mondiale de la programmation en distribuant des émissions
sur tout le globe lors de ces trois dernières décennies par le biais du
géant américain de la comédie qu’ils ont constitué, Carsey-Werner
Company.»
Cette récompense qui consacre des dirigeants d’exception et leurs
contributions à l’industrie du divertissement, est revenu notamment
par le passé à Dick Wolf, créateur et producteur exécutif de New York
– Police judiciaire, au magnat de la presse Ted Turner, au comédien
Roger Moore, au producteur, homme d’affaires et artiste Merv
Griffin, au producteur de télévision David E. Kelley ou encore à la
correspondante de CNN Christiane Amanpour.
La Carsey-Werner Company est l’une des sociétés de production de
programmes de comédie les plus prolifiques et les plus brillantes. C’est
aussi certainement l’un des studios indépendants les plus prospères
de l’histoire de la télévision. Carsey-Werner a été l’un des fournisseurs
et distributeurs de pointe du marché mondial avec des séries cultes
telles que Roseanne, The Cosby Show, 3e planète après le soleil, 70,
Une maman formidable, Cybill et Campus show. Les émissions CW
sont regardées dans plus de 175 pays et traduites dans plus de 50
langues différentes.
L’acteur et l’actrice
«le plus glamour» 2010
1 - Hugh Laurie
et Lisa Edelstein
(Dr House)
2 - Simon Baker (The
Mentalist) et Eva Longoria
(Desperate Housewives)
3 - Cote De Pablo et
Michael Weatherly (NCIS)
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Jessica Szhor, qui incarne la splendide Vanessa dans la série « Gossip Girl », a fait
sensation au Festival, à l’image du succès de la série : «Bien que « Gossip Girl » raconte la
vie de jeunes de la haute société new-yorkaise, tout en mélangeant d’autres personnages
plus traditionnels, la série reste tout de même réaliste avec ses ses joies et ses peines»
raconte Jessica. Depuis qu’elle a intégré l’équipe de Gossip Girl, elle goûte aux
plaisirs de vivre à New-York et d’être une actrice à la notoriété reconnue. Mais
motus sur sa vie privée ! A la moindre question personnelle, sa technique est
bien rôdée : « Je ne réponds pas ». Son luxe suprême demeure néanmoins «
de passer du temps avec sa famille ».
Si son personnage de Vanessa est toujours en quête de potins, dans la
vraie vie Jessica Szhor se moque bien de savoir ce que l’on raconte à son
sujet. Elle estime même avoir réussi à garder une vie su garder une
vie assez normale sans trop d’excès de fans ou de paparazzis. Avec
parfois des exceptions… « Un jour un fan m’offrit un petit chaton
en peluche, alors que je me remis à marcher, mon bodyguard me
prit la peluche, l’inspecta de tous les côtés, lui arracha la tête et
me montra un microphone caché à l’intérieur ». Anecdote livrée par
Jessica elle-même.
Si elle n’aime pas suivre sa série «j’ai toujours une impression de déjà
vu», elle se déclare accro à d’autres comme Californication, Glee ou
encore The Office. Prochaine étape dans sa carrière : le cinéma avec la
sortie annoncée en cet été d’un remake en 3D du film d’horreur Piranha de Joe
Dante sorti en 1978, où elle incarnera l’une des étudiantes. Elle débutera aussi bientôt
le tournage d’une comédie romantique Love, Wedding, Marriage.
Coming Soon in 3-D!
Move over J-Lo. Here comes J-Zo. And
this summer you can’t miss her. She’ll
be coming right at right - right out
at ya! - in the latest 3-D endeavour,
“Piranha 3D”!
She is Jessica Szhor, alias Vanessa
Abrams in The CW teen series, “Gossip
Girl” - or ”GG” as the fans call it - based
on, but never following the books by
Cecily von Ziegesar. J-Zo arrived a tad
late in the first season in 2007 but soon
became an important regular alongside
Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace
Crawford, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick
and Taylor Momsen.
“Everyone is pretty close. Everyone’s a
big family. It’s a such a blessing. We’re
so grateful. Other sets can be such
drama.”
She was also late into the cast of the
re-tread make of the 1978 horror flicker,
“Piranha.” Jerry O’Connell, Elisabeth
Shue and Richard Dreyfuss (Ole Man
Jaws, himself!) were much in need of her
youthful sparkle.
The oldest of five children in Menomonee
Falls,
Wisconsin,
Jessica
started
modelling - at age six. “Later on, my
parents wanted me to have another job,
so my friend and I started a cleaning
company. We’d go to our teachers’
houses and clean.”
After graduation, she moved to LA - and
appeared in “Joan of Arcadia,” “CSI:
Miami” and such movies as “Somebody
Help Me” and “Fired Up.”
Next stop: New York, where “GG” is
made. When not filming, she can be
found strolling in Central Park with a
spring in her stop - she’s got Radiohead
on her iPod. Or in museums and art
galleries and concerts. “That’s the great
thing about New York. There’s always
something to do.”
Earlier this year she came #16 in People
magazine’s annual list of the World’s
Most Beautiful People. “I love when
people come up to me and go, ‘What
are you?’ I’ve heard everything: half
African-American, half-white, Puerto
Rican, Mexican, Brazilian. Some people
hit it right on: ‘You’re Hungarian.’ Right,
Hungarian and a quarter black.”
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Competition
Mrs. England!
There are, we understand, moves afoot to make
a tele-film about the recently defeated UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown. It would not be surprising
if Julie Walters plays him. The ex-nurse and stand-up
comic turned champion Bafta Award-winning actress
can play anything. And has.
Twice nominated for an Oscar, she immediately received
various Hollywood offers for “what they thought working-class
English was... They just didn’t know what to do with me....
besides, Meryl Streep gets all the roles you’d want to play.
Who’s going to ask an English person?”
And that is what she is, the epitome of the English spirit and
humour. She’s happy with that, never allowing it be a drawback
- nor a caricature. Result: three Brit Baftas in succession, plus
two more and she made her total six on Sunday night!
What, for example, could be more essentially English than
being the mum of Jane Austen, Joe Orton, Ron Weasley and,
more or less, “Billy Elliott”?
Now add her vivid collection of bio-pix... the cheery
surburban housewife Cynthia Payne opening a brothel in her
semi-detached in Streatham... the Great Train Robber Buster
Edwards’ wife aching to return to Blighty... one of the (again
suburban) housewives posing nude for a calendar for charity...
and Lydia Leakey, a typically seductive British murder victim,
circa 1956.
These were real people. As was Mrs. Mary Whitehouse who
campaigned about “Filth, being everywhere on TV, with the
possible exception of the meteo (although all those damp
fronts must have riled her)... and last year’s amazing double
whammy of Britain’s best loved (only loved?) politician, “Mo”
- in competition here - and Dr. Anne Turner, ending her life (of
progressive supranuclear palsy) at 66 at the Dignitas assisted
suicide clinic in Zurich in “A Short Stay In Switzerland,” a
most moving companion piece to this year’s opening film. “It
affected all of us – cast and crew. There were days when we
thought we just couldn’t cry any more.”
“Mo” is also dying... Tony Blair believed her lies about the
seriousness of her cancer. It’s good that he did. In 1997, he
gave Dr. Marjorie Mowlam the Northern Ireland ministry - a
real poisoned chalice. Her methods were often rough and
uproarious - she once threw off her wig in mid negotiations,
“aren’t there just times when all you want is a bloody good
scratch” - and she was close to brokering the “impossible
peace” when she was squashed more by Blair politics than her
brain tumour.
Julie admits trying to quit the “Mo” project. “She doesn’t look
anything like me She was a big woman, she’s got a big open
face, so I was very scared. But I thought there are so few single
dramas of any worth. I have to get my head round the fear of
doing it. And it was fabulous - she was just alive in that script...
She knew what her amazing talent was, connecting with the
people, and she had a massive drive and ambition, and she
was right in the end. History tells us that... What a woman!”
Mo, Ann, and all the others are the reason why Julie became
an actress. Not because of Shakespeare or great literature,
“more just wanting to understand what the people were really
like, why they said all the strange things they did.”
Several of Julie’s previous co-stars are now knights, Sir This
or That. She has two medals from The Queen yet bafflingly
remains a great dame rather than a Dame like Judi Dench,
Helen Mirren, etc. Never mind. She has a star on the Walk of
Stars. Not on Hollywood Boulevard. Where it really counts for
a Brummie girl. In Birmingham.
“Birmingham and the West Midlands is where I’m from; these
are my roots and in essence it has played a big part in making
me the person I am today.”
Tony Crawley
100% English.
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Cover Stars
Desperate No More?
In May, at the end of the sixth
season of “Desperate Housewives,“
surprise lovers Robin and Katharine
ran off together to Paris…
In reality, the actresses Julie Benz
and Dana Delany are hera and
should be back again next year
with their new series.
As we said when she visited us here last time, “Desperate
Housewives” was a show waiting for Dana Delany... She
turned down the first offer to play Bree. No thanks, said the
ever fearless Dana. I’ve already played her... She preferred
challenges, not repeaters. So Marc Cherry did his creator
thing and invented Katharine Mayfair for her and Dana joined
up for the fourth season. Now it looks as if she’s leaving...
Last time we saw Katharine, she was flying off to Paris with a
neighbour - played by another highly favoured TV lady, Julie
Benz - the wife of “Dexter.” (Instead of Paris, they’re both here!)
If they ever return depends on the result of The Pilot Season...
Dana locked up her 81st screen role since 1978 in an ABC pilot
for a procedural crime show called “Body of Evidence.” No,
not a re-make of the tawdry Madonna movie - though Dana
could pull that off without pausing for breakfast. No, it’s about
a medical examiner and, therefore, sounds much like a re-tread
of Amanda Burton’s excellent BBC series, “Silent Witness.”
Dana first doubled duties by guesting as an FBI agent opposite
her ex-desperate husband, Nathan Fillion, in his new hit show,
“Castle.” «He called me up when I was in the loony bin on
‘Housewives’ and said, ‘You know, there’s a part coming up and
you would be great. I’d love you to do it.’ And I said: ‘Nathan, I
think I already have a job.’ But ABC very nicely worked it out.”
Around the same time, Julie Benz was also in the ABC pilot biz,
making”No Ordinary Family.”
Now as boith series get picked up, the ladies won’t have much
time to return to Wisteria Lane and face the music... as well as
exercising forensic and superpower abilities.
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aka. Rita and Robin and
The single most important question many young and
sudden Hollywood stars are asking right now: Is
there life after playing vampires? Oh yes there is.
Ask Julie Benz...
A few years ago she was the evil vampire Darla surviving
“Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and moving on in to the spin-off,
“Angel.” Such a wonderful character, such a beautiful way
for her to go. The last 20 minutes redeemed her in the eyes
of the fans. She was able to finally do something good after
400 years of evil and terror.” Since when Julie - who already
proved there’s life after being in ice-skating championships
- has been all over... She was up there with Jack Nicholson in
“As Good As It Gets” and Sylvester Stallone in “Rambo.” She
has two movies awaiting release: “Bedrooms” and “Answers
To Nothing” with another Monaco visitor, Elizabeth Mitchell
from “V.” Since October 2006, Julie has been better known
as Rita Bennett, the troubled - eventually tragic - lover of
“Dexter”... and during five guest shots this year as stripper
Robin Gallagher in “Desperate Housewives.” And. if the
wind’s in the right direction, her latest pilot may become a
series. This has Julie and Michael Chiklis heading “No Ordinary
Family” - they suddenly find they have super-powers! So, Julie
has much to talk about...
“Dexter” “When we did the pilot, I was very nervous. I was
beginning to work with my favorite actor and I had to do a lot
of relaxation to be on set with Michael. I was such a huge fan
of his and just couldn’t believe I was cast to play opposite him.
I was really waiting for someone to come up to me and say it’s
all a joke.”
“No Ordinary Family” “A mix between «Heroes» and «The
Incredibles.” You have real drama behind it as well but there’s
obviously some humor in it - because how can you not have
humor! It’s just a great mix of everything, a little sci-fi with
adventure with family drama with comedy. No superhero
costume - regular street clothes.”
More Robin? “I’d love to return and explore Robin some
more. I loved playing her and it was just such a joy to be on the
show. It all depends on what happens with Dana’s pilot and
my pilot. I don’t know if that’s a possibility, going back and
forth. I’m sure that ABC is amenable to that.. Just depends on
the schedule... because Dana’s the main character and I’m
one of the satellites.”
No more Rita? “It didn’t feel right to have her die. But that’s
just me. I love Rita so much... If they found a way, a creative
way to bring me back and I felt that it made sense then I’d
definitely jump at the chance. I loved working with Michael. It
was just an amazing four years that I had working on the show.
I’m always open to it.”
Tony Crawley
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Series Stars...
Who’s On First ?
Memo To Jerry Seinfeld : Hey Jer’ if you still
thinking about setting up a biopic of your
favourite comics, Abbott and Costello… we
have found your stars… You’ll be surprised
to learn these closet comics are the ultra
straight, cool, upstanding « Flashpoint »
heroes. They’d be a blast as the dynamic duo.
That’s sharpshooter (and ex-punk rocker)
Hugh Dillon as Bud and Enrico Colantoni,
similarly Italian , as Lou. (« I can do fat ! »).
They passed their audition on the photo-call
set yesterday, clowning to the manner born…
Think it started when someone said: Hugh’s
on first.
« Uniforms translate well, » says Enrico about the
huge success of their Canadian (yes, Canadian)
series. « When you see a uniform, you know
what the show’s about. We’ve immediately got
your attention. Then, instead of the underbelly
of law enforcement, like « The Shield, » we’re
going back to clean ideals and morals. We’re
trying to prevent trouble… We talk … maybe
we have to shoot later, but not without remorse,
not without consequences. »
Enrico is the cool team leader, Hugh is the hitman. « I’m the emotional one, who talks first
and he’s let’s-get-it-done - together we’re the
complete human being, the complete cop. We
work so well together… »
« He’s like an older brother to me, » says Hugh.
« Rico’s been in the business longer, in America
longer and my life has changed just from meeting
this guy. He makes me kinda re-think what I am…
one of those people you don’t wanna punch in
the head.
«We’re both from Ontario, from humble
beginnings, small towns, moved to the States,
took a shot at stuff and here we are back in
Canada working on a show we love. It’s like
playing in a rock band. »|
And Hugh knows all about that. His 90s’ group,
Headstones, won three gold records . Youngest
of the family, his fairy tales were called « Yellow
Submarine » and « Hey Jude (his brother is Jude
- Jude Dillon – say it!) In trouble at home, he split
to London (« because of The Clash, The Pistols,
the Stones ») and was a busker – with a Mohawk
- in Leicester Square. Quentin Tarantino picked
up his 1996 movie, « Head Case Logo, » and that
really opened doors. Here, on his first vacation in
three years (he’s in two shows ), he’s competing
against himself for best series actor. « I like that.
I like that, a lot. Hey, you get a little bit of luck,
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and some skill along the way. »
Enrico and Hugh
as Colantoni & Dillon
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He’s One In 7,000!
Series Stars...
Luke Pasqualino, the Sicilian-Napolitan actor from
Peterborough, first tried out for “Skins” in 2007.
As the runaway British teen hit is about kids in
the sixth form, it changes the pupils every two
years, so Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino tried again...
as #5,282 in an open casting call.
“I was told that 7,000 people went for my part, and
nine auditions later I’m there, filming on set in Bristol...
I told a couple of fibs early on, when they asked me if
I could skateboard. Obviously I said yes, not realising
how much of a skateboarder Freddie actually was!
“He’s also in a love triangle, he’s competing with his
best friend, so his life is a battle – he’s rarely got a
smile on his face.
His most challenging scene?
“Probably my sex scene.
Because it was very cold - in the woods on a cold
forest floor in November!”
Luke is due in the upcoming horror movie, “The
Apparition,” with “Twilight” star Ashley Greene and
Tom Felton from the “Harry Potter” series. And then
- perhaps - a “Skins” movie. A huge challenge, says
producer Steve Christian, because “the biggest critics
of ‘Skins” are the ‘Skins’ fans. Turning TV shows into
films doesn’t happen so much these days, probably
because there’s not the material out there. But what
we dont want to do is to make a 90 minute episode it would be a complete disaster.”
Tony Crawley
Barbara Bain
Mission
accomplie
Elle était Cinnamon Carter dans «Mission
Impossible», série immortalisée par la musique de
Lalo Schifrin.
«C’est une musique incroyable. A la fin de chaque
épisode, quand les agents se retrouvaient une fois
leur travail accompli, nous savions que les notes
accompagneraient nos pas et sans les entendre,
nous marchions en cadence avec la musique dans la
tête». En France, la série a été diffusée à partir de 10
octobre 1967. « Bruce Geller était un vrai génie. Il a
écrit, créé et produit « Mission Impossible ». Et on
lui doit aussi la série « Mannix ». Le succès vient de
son écriture et de son inventivité. Nous mettions à
peu près dix jours pour faire un épisode. Il y a aussi
l’équipe que nous formions autour de Peter Graves,
Greg Morris, Peter Lupus et Martin Landau. Nous
étions tous très complices. Et j’ai été très peinée
d’apprendre la disparition de Peter Graves en mars
dernier. Les films qui se sont inspirés de la série n’ont
rien à voir avec ce que nous faisions. Ce sont deux
choses complètement différentes. Il y a de la violence
alors que dans nos épisodes, il n’y avait aucun meurtre
et aucune goutte de sang n’était versée. D’ailleurs,
nous n’avions pas d’arme sur nous ».
D’une série culte, l’autre. Barbara Bain enchaîne le
rôle d’Helena Russell pour « Cosmos 1999 », toujours
aux côtés de son époux Martin Landau, et diffusée
en France à partir de décembre 1975. Le prénom
Cinnamon pour « Mission Impossible », c’est vous qui
l’avez trouvé ? « Non, c’est Bruce Geller. Il voulait une
actrice douce et épicée comme la cannelle ». Un bon
choix car Barbara Bain est les deux à la fois.
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En coulisses
Simon Baker
Une bonne mentalité
Costume gris, chemise blanche et lunettes de vue sur
le nez, Simon Baker est arrivé hier à la conférence
de presse en toute décontraction où l’attendait une
cinquantaine de journalistes, caméras branchées,
magnétos sur la touche « record » et stylos prêts
à dégainer pour noter les dernières révélations de
l’acteur vedette de la série « Le Mentalist » sur TF1.
Côté scoop, il a déclaré qu’il allait prochainement réaliser
l’un des épisodes. Mais quant à la l’intrigue proprement
dite de la série dans son ensemble, il faudra attendre
encore un peu. Puis, Simon Baker, la voix posée, a
expliqué longuement comment il est entré dans le
personnage. « Ce qui le définit, en premier lieu, c’est son
sens de l’humour et son irrévérence. J’y ai apporté un
peu de moi-même. Je suis quelque peu espiègle, faisant
des blagues de gamin. J’ai une totale liberté avec mon
personnage. Bien sûr, il y a le scripte, les dialogues et je
m’y tiens, mais en même temps je peux y introduire des
aspects plus personnels. Une autre chose sur laquelle je
suis intervenu, c’est le choix de sa voiture et ce, dès le
deuxième épisode. Je ne pouvais imaginer que Patrick
Jane, mon personnage, puisse conduire une Chevrolet
ou une voiture de sport. J’ai tout de suite pensé à
une voiture d’occasion ou ancienne. L’une de mes
automobiles préférées est la DS, mais personne ne la
connaissait sur le tournage. Alors, j’ai dû expliquer que
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c’était une voiture mythique, en avance sur son temps,
une sorte de dinosaure qui est toujours de son époque.
Et qui correspondrait parfaitement au caractère de mon
personnage. Le modèle que je conduis dans la série date
de 1971 ». Colombo a eu sa Peugeot 403, le Mentalist a
sa DS Citroën. L’automobile française s’exporte bien. Du
moins, dans les séries américaines. On peut souhaiter à
Patrick Jane le même succès qu’a rencontré l’inspecteur
au vieux pardessus râpé qui s’en allait, hiver comme été,
mener ses enquêtes. Il semble en prendre le chemin car
son premier épisode diffusé sur TF1 a été regardé par 9
millions de téléspectateurs.
Toutefois, Simon Baker ne s’enflamme pas : « Bien
évidemment ma vie a changé, ma notoriété a grandi,
mais lorsque je me promène dans les rues de Los
Angeles, la ville des stars, je n’ai pas une horde de fans
qui se précipite sur moi. J’ai plus de difficulté quand je
sors de la ville mais en règle générale les gens respectent
ma vie privée. Ils m’abordent avec discrétion et respect.
Et puis, mes enfants sont là pour relativiser ce succès.
Pour faire le promotion du Mentalist, la production avait
placardé un immense portrait de moi sur la façade d’un
immeuble. Quand il l’a vu, mon fils m’a dit : « Tu as
acheté l’immeuble, papa ? ». Les mots d’enfants vous
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It was a long time
coming... since September
1990. And the closer it
got, the more difficult it
became. Television is forever
changing, ratings are forever
moving (like budgets). Finally,
“Law & Order” will not go to a
21st season. Or, at least, not
on N.B.C. For now, therefore,
“L&O” remains co-champion
with “Gunsmoke” (195575) as America’s longest
running drama series.
Creator Dick Wolf took the
N.B.C. body blow with the
fortitude of a Muhammd
Ali. “Never complain.
Never explain.”As the bell
went for the next round,
he emerged with a swift
uppercut: “The patient is in
a medically induced coma and
we’re hoping for a cure.” Wolf won
on points and immediately got on with
the work of launching a fifth series within his
champion franchise. “Law & Order: Los Angeles.” Or, “LOLA”
to its friends. And if you remember, the song went: “Whatever
Lola wants, Lola gets.” Hopefully. Of course, “Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit” is alive and well with a 12th season on
NBC and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” has No. Nine on the
USA Network. Why are the shows so good? Two words, says
“Criminal Intent” cop Jeff Goldblum: Dick and Wolf.
“He’s a brilliant guy... passionate, caring... and attracts terrific
people around him, the whole producing team and the writers
that he gets. And of course, the great actors... I’ve always
wanted to watch Michael Moriarty or Sam Waterston or Vincent
D’Onofrio or Kathryn Erbe, all those people.
Jerry Orbach! I’d tune in to see them any time.” Two members
of the DWPD - Dick Wolf Police Department - are a here with
the big daddy of procedural cop-art...
Ice-T is one of the show’s longevity champs. He’s been Detective
Odafin “Fini” Tutola in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” for
a full decade, starting 221 episodes ago in 2000 . All highly
ironic as T is the founding father of gangsta rap (if not T, who?)
and wrote and performed the legendarily controversial “Cop
Killer”... leading to a feud with the LAPD. Born Tracy Lauren
Marrow in New Jersey, 1958, he’s never hidden an ill-spent
youth before a 1985 car smash had him switching from crime to
rap. And from rap to acting - not happily, at first, with s rapper
and/or pimp bits before being encouraged to shine his light in
some 70 more roles in thje last 27 years. As, for example - and
again, ironically - a cop in “New Jack City,” a mutant kangaroo
(you heard) in “Tank Girl,” Abel Ferrara’s “R Xmas” and as
himself in the musical activists’ rockumentary, “Sounds Like A
Revolution.” Still with time for his day job...
Jeremy Sisto has been Detective Cyrus Lupo since the 18th
season of the “L&O” mothership in 2007. He was born in a
Californian township called Grass Valley to a jazzman father
and actress mother. His sister also acts. Jeremy has his father’s
deep voice - the reason, he gets so many dark characters. “The
combination of the timbre of my voice and my inflections tends
to make people feel that there’s some darkness there.” The voice
was perfect for Batman in a tele-toon. As a kid, he preferred
Superman,“ then Wolverine... and then I found girls.” He’s been
a tele-Jesus, Gaius Julius Caesar, The Movie Hero (who thinks his
life is watched by an audience) and, of course, Billy Chenowith
in 31 sublime chapters of “Six Feet Under.” As well as keeping
New York safe these days, he has begun a second career as a
producer. Following, no doubt, his grandfather’s advice: “Don’t
fall down.”
Tony Crawley
The Irish Have Landed
Producer Martha O’Neill and actors
Risteard Cooper, Michelle Beamish
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“Original comedy drama is one of the greatest challenges
of all - particularly in Irish - and we are thrilled at this latest
international recognition for one of our projects. The
audience and critical reaction in Ireland has been uniformly
positive and its great to see that our brand of humour can
travel.”
Micheál Ó’Meallaigh, Commissioning Director of the
TG4 channel, commenting on not one, not three but six
nominations won here by the Wildfire production of “An
Crisis” - a six parter about the strange world of ACT (An
Chomhairle Teanga), an Irish language organisation that
seems to be following rather unusual policies. Two Nymph
nods are for producers Martha O’Neill and O’Meallaigh four for actor Conor MacNeill and three of his co-stars who
are here this week: Michelle Beamish, Risteard Cooper and
(arriving later today) Norma Sheahan.
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Le « Mentalist » s’installe sur TF1
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Of Rossi, Spenser, Joey & Fat Tony
After much speculation about Geena Davis, Michael Keaton and the
thisclose Harvey Keitel taking over, Joe Mantegna became David Rossi
- the head honcho of the FBI profilers hunting serial killers among other
depraved members of society in “Criminal Minds.”
Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr. has now completed 59 shows as David Rossi
with the other guys who stayed put (up to 109 shows now): Shemar Moore,
Thomas Gibson, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness..
Mantegna has played Dean Martin, Fidel Castro, Elvis guitarist Joe Esposito
and various David Mamet creations - winning a Broadway Tony for Ricky Roma
in “Glengarry Glen Ross” - snatched by Al Pacino for the 1992 movie.
Before Rossi, his favourite roles were Spenser, Joey Zasa and... Fat Tony.
Spenser was a dream come true - second time around. Joe loved Robert B.
Parker’s pulp fiction and knew how the writer had pushed for him to play his
shamus in the 1985 series. Instead, the producers went for a telly-face: Robert
Urich. However, in the late 90s, Parker wrote his own “Spenser” movies and
got his man. “He’s clever with his innuendoes and that’s the stuff that’s fun
to play, just as it makes it fun to read.”
Dennis Farina beat Joe to Detective Joe Fontana in “Law & Order” just as
Joe beat Dennis to Joey Zasa in Coppola;s “The Godfather Part III.” Joe
calls it the Italian “Star Wars.”
Then, there is his longest running role... 17 years as Anthony “Fat Tony”
D’Amico, the Godfather of Springfield, home town of... “The Simpsons.”
With Mafiosi henchmen like Legs, Louie, Icepick, and Johnny Tightlips
backing him up, Fat Tony (he might actually be called Marion!) was supposed
to be a one-off happening. Joe has now played him 21 times since 1991.
And insists on voicing the character every time he’s on. “If Fat Tony sneezes,
I want to be there.”
Fortunately for us, Tony’s not on call this week because Joe makes it
abundantly clear: “Nothing interferes with my doing ‘The Simpsons’.” TC
Anything
For Children
She was Miss Oklahoma 1985 in the All-American Teen Pageant - and lost
in the final to an unknown Halle Berry. She made her TV debut in “1st &
Ten,” with starred a certain O.J. Simpson. She then played by-the book
Police Sergeant Cory McNamara for five years on “Pacific Blue.” And the
became the mother of Harbor School socialite Taylor Townsend in “The
O.C.” (Orange County).
She is the Texas born Paula Trickey, who works as tirelessly for charity as she
does in her acting - she has two new movies awaiting release, “Locked Away”
and “Blood Shot.”
Paula uses her love of golf to participate in such tournaments as the Dennis
Quaid tournament for Doctors Without Borders. She also supports Athletes and
Entertainers for Kids, the LAPD memorial fund, The Fireman’s Memorial Fund,
and the Children’s Hospital of Austin, Pat Boone’s Head Trauma Awareness,
Pediactric Aids, Animal Rescue, etc. “Anything for the children” is her motto,
after witnessing, as a child, the suffering of her own sister as she fought a losing
battle with auto immune disease.
TC
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The Full Monte
Owch!
Holmes, Sweet Holmes. As proved by
Guy Ritchie, there’s life in the old dog
yet. Therefore, BBC and PBS are into
another new series of Sherlock Holmes
tales. Benedict Cumberbatch (best
actor here in 2004) will be “Sherlock.”
That should please the French. In
recent months, they’ve had a plethora
of Sherlocks. From Basil Rathbone to
Rupert Everett, American Matt Frewer,
Anthony Higgins, Aussie Richard
Roxborough and, of course, Jeremy
Brett. “There were 14 Tarzans,” Cubby
Broccoli reminded George Lazenby when
he expected more money for a second
Bond film. Well, there have been about
175 Sherlocks across the eons and the
globe (China, Finland, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russiua) since the
first (silent) movie in 1905.
© NBC
Leading contender for the mini-series Nymph
tonight is the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks
succsssor to their “Band of Brothers” about
“The Pacific” war zone. It was denounced,
however, by London Sunday Times TV critic
AA Gill. “There is not a character, a scene,
a line of dialogue you haven’t seen, not just
once, but a dozen times... This was war as a
comforting, familiar bed-time story... Not just
bad storytelling, intellectually and emotionally
feeble and cynical, it was morally reprehensible,
shaming, from two men who not only should
know better but claim to know better.”
Next? “The Girl In Alfred Hitchcock’s
Shower” on the death of Marli Renfro,
Janet Leigh’s “Psycho” body double.
Best Browsing through the nominations
for best actors in American dramatic TV
series, not surprised to find Jon Hamm
for “Mad Men,” nor even two actors
(Michael C. Hall and John Lithgow) for
“Dexter.” And the “Lost” gang - all 14
of ‘em!
Awards “Spartacus: Blood and Sand”
has three nominations for best actors,
none for best prosthetic... Bye, bye!
See y’all next year.
Bobby Dupea
Russell Crowe turns TV producer with
“Emergency Sex” for HBO. (Where
else with a title like that!) Maria Bello
stars in Simon (“Slumdog Millionaire”)
Beaufoy’s script.
True Crime
Ridley Scott, who is
beginning to resemble John Huston,
is producing “Graysmith,” about
the cartoonist, writer and part-time
detective Robert Graysmith. Among his
filmed true-crime books is “Auto Focus”
on the murder of “Hogan’s Heroes”
star, Bob Crane.
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© HBO
Culture Clash “The Office” goes Indian.
That’s the new comedy series about a US
novelty company having its call centre
“Outsourced.” Off-Broadway star Ben
Rappaport has to Americanise his Indian
staff about whoopee cushions, foam
fingers and wallets made of bacon...
Rather than Bollywooders, the workers
include such BBC finds as Sacha Dhawan
and Rebecca Hazlewood.
Dommagio! Two CBS stars
“90210” star AnnaLynne
McCord had to stay home for the best possioble reason.
Work! Even if she’s not
acting, she isalways busy with humanitarian concerns in
Haitian and New Orleans. “For
me success is not all about the
pay-cheque or magazine covers.
It’s about figuring out why I’m
here and discovering my greater
purpose in life.” Good girl.
Who’s the next US biggie?
The bid money’s on Kelli
Giddish as the cowboy-booted
heroine of “Chase” - “all the
undeniable elements of a thrill
ride that you’d expect from
Jerry Bruckheimer,” promises
NBC. Kelli leads an elite
bunch of US marshals hunting
America’s most dangerous
fugitives. She’s also great
as a “Past Life” regression
therapist on Fox.
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Le plaisir d’offrir
Pour la seconde année, Nathalie Dubois et son très attendu
« Gifting Lounge », mis en place par la société DPA basée
au Etats-Unis, sont sont installés, le temps du Festival, dans
le Salon Berlioz de l’Hôtel de Paris.
C’est dans ce précieux écrin que les vedettes du petit écran
ont pris l’habitude de découvrir les tout nouveaux produits de
beauté, accessoires de mode, chaussures, prêt à porter haut de
gamme et même maillots de bain, représentant des marques
renommées du monde entier.
Le principe de cette « vitrine magique » reste simple : le
temps de l’événement, les invités sont invités à passer au salon
afin de rencontrer cette pionnière dans le monde du placement
de produits… et recevoir des cadeaux ! Ces lots sont alors
destinés à promouvoir des marques, portées ou montrées par
les vedettes, au moment de leur passage sur le tapis rouge du
Festival et lors des séances photo pour la presse. En échange,
la star n’a pas seule « contrainte » que de prendre la pose avec
l’objet à promouvoir, et sourire !
Elles sont nombreuses à se laisser tenter par l’expérience.
Nous avons par exemple croisé une Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost, V)
ravie d’avoir porté une splendide robe de soirée proposée par
Nathalie, à l’occasion de la cérémonie d’ouverture.
C’est en proposant des produits haut de gamme, design ou
hight tech, avec une vision volontairement internationale
que le concept de ces « suites » s’est imposé dans le monde
événementiel. Autant dire qu’il a de beaux jours devant lui,
surtout içi à Monte-Carlo.
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TV Xchanges
The Paley Center for
Media’s special oneday International
Benjamin Pyne, President, Global Distribution, Disney Media Networks:
“It’s always good to sit down with people and talk about our industry because
we have so many common goals. For me the most pressing issues are how to
create a balance between the creation of content, reaching the audience and
getting paid for what we do.”
Council summit took
place yesterday
in the Salle Genevoix
of the Grimaldi Forum.
Pat Mitchell, CEO, Paley Center:
“The thing that has struck me most today is how global our media industry has
become and how the concerns and attitudes of consumers are utterly global.
Ultimately what we all care about is getting audiences to the content and that’s
is the same challenge whether you are in Denmark or Dubai.”
The meetings brought
together executives
from around the world
in order to exchange
Christine Ockrent of Audiovisual Extérieur de la France:
“For me the main interest is that there are people present from a number of
different but complimentary sectors. And the fact is that we all have very similar
concerns and increasingly I hear converging opinions and much more honesty.
No-one is pretending to have all the solutions.”
ideas among leaders
about global media,
entertainment, and
communications.
David Naylor, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse:
“Our role is definitely changing in that four years ago we were mainly working with
companies who sprang-up from the internet such as MySpace and AOL but now we
have more traditional media clients. What I am seeing with them is that they no longer
see the internet exclusively as a threat. There is some acceptance of potential role as
an enabler and my clients are increasingly using the web very well.”
Johnson Shows How To Make More For Less
At his keynote interview yesterday, NCIS Executive Producer Charles Floyd Johnson revealed how the series
has saved over $30,000 per episode on the last series: “We had been aware for a while that many other series were
switching from film to HD but we had resisted doing so until the seventh series because we were worried about losing
the look and we knew the drill with film,” he said. “But when we made the change, not only did we save
somewhere between $20-30,000 on each episode but we also found it relatively simple to get the same
look. We have also introduced various Green initiatives, which are good for the environment and good
for reducing costs. We used to buy thousands of plastic bottles of water each year, then we changed
to individual, refillable bottles and water-coolers. And again, we have managed to make savings of
around $30,000 per year.”
The seventh season of NCIS saw the show become the number one scripted show in
the US, and even the return of American Idol failed to dislodge it: “Our last season
was unusual in that most shows are experiencing audience fall-off by that point
but in fact our audience grew, Johnson said. “There are several reasons why
that happened by I do believe that our online activities were an important
factor. We have totally embraced Social Networking sites such as Tumbler and
Facebook, we read the blogs and we run competitions, poll the audience and
offer webisodes which are complimentary to the broadcast version of the
show.” Finally Johnson, referring to the previous panel, agreed with its
conclusion: “I do agree that we will see more and more co-productions,
simply because there is no choice financially and the US has as much
of a problem as Europe,” he said. “And in fact you can look at it as
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an opportunity to enrich shows.”
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TV Xchanges
Causes
Fiction
For
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T
he opening debate of the TV Xchanges
programme explored the world of fiction
financing, an area which all the participants
agreed is both complex and challenging.
“Compared to the financing system in the US,
producing fiction if Europe is complex and getting
progressively more so,” Justin Bodle, CEO and
Chairman of Power, said. “The US studio system
is so much simpler, and what I’d like to see is a
centralization of issues such as tax credits, gapfunding, pre-buys and the commissioning process in
order that we can get away from the multi-layered
structure that we have at the moment.”
Bodle also noted that there is a huge difference in
the way that he is treated as a producer and as a
distributor: “In the UK as a producer, we are subject
to the foibles of commissioning executives, but
abroad where we are looking to acquire, we are
much more welcome of course.”
Martin Moszcowicz, Member of the Board at
Constantin Film, stated that he believes that such
challenges are an inherent part of the TV industry:
“It has never been an easy business but I’m confident
that it will always be around,’ he said. “But the real
challenge that we face at the moment is the transition
from analogue to digital. The TV industry has always
been pushed forward by technological advances
but we haven’t yet worked out a way to
make money from it.”
Another technological advance
that will be impacting on living
rooms around the world
imminently is 3D
televisions:
Friction
“All the major manufacturers are gearing up to massproduce 3D sets, they predict that sales will total $14
billion in 2011, but we Europeans are not producing
any content,” Moszcowicz said. “So after the World
Cup people will only have US shows to watch.”
As Carlo Bixio, President of Publispei, happily
admitted, Italy is different: “Italy is in a crisis, but
it isn’t in a crisis,” he said. “It is a very paradoxical
country with a system that means that to produce
in Italy you really have to be an Italian operation.
Of course we try to produce as cheaply as possible
but it’s always a gamble, especially if you want to
produce series that are a bit different, because the
audience wants predictable entertainment.”
Christian Charret, president of Geteve, admitted
that French producers urgently need to bring down
production costs: “The sourcing of financing is in
permanent evolution but the truth is that fiction
is the most expensive form of content to produce
barring big sporting events and the trouble is that
the audience is shrinking and getting older, The 1524 age group does not watch fiction on the TV.”
Film and TV producer Antonio Saura of Zebra
Productions explained that Spain is also faced
with a set of problems including rampant piracy:
“Broadband penetration is the highest in Europe
at 67% and clearly that presents producers with a
challenge,” he said. “And in terms of the financial
crisis, we have been hit hard. On top of that we
have a government that is rather trigger-happy in
the way that it formulates and passes laws. We now
have a public broadcaster that is not allowed to have
advertising and, effectively, not supposed to be
successful. Meanwhile the private broadcasters are
unable to react to the changing market and sometimes
in feels like the only thing that really works are the
soap series from South America, but Spaniards are
very good at improvising and that is how we find
ways to finance our fiction production.”
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The panelists at the New Business Models
For TV Drama Production round table
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TV Xchanges
Comes
Private Sector Finance
Yesterday’s second round table looking at
Fiction Funding proved to be controversial with
participants at odds as to whether the crisis is
really over but unanimous over that the fact that
broadcasters are increasingly leaving the financing
of audiovisual projects to producers: “We were
shocked by the review that we did of the production
sector which showed a massive fall in profit forecasts
but costs remaining fixed for producers,” Aviva
Silver, Head of Unit – MEDIA Programme & Media
Literacy, said. “The other worrying thing is that the
internet is not providing any significant revenue.
And catch-up TV is very popular but again it doesn’t
provide revenue and it also eats into DVD sales.”
MEDIA’s new scheme to try to encourage banks and
other financial institutions to invest in audiovisual
productions was met with some skepticism by
Dominique Lambert, Director, HSBC France. “Of
course as a bank this scheme is interesting but the
fact that funding for the project is €8 million over four
years means that its effect will only be modest.”
Nicolas Traube, CEO of Pampa, was left
wondering where exactly the finance for
audiovisual projects in general would
come from: “My job is to make films
and it has been very clear for some
time now that the financial crisis is
a big one,” he said. “However, the
public still loves watching images
and they always will. And that begs
the question; who is going to pay for
programming to be produced ? Will banks
replace broadcasters as a primary investor?”
Of Age
Utta Tuttlies, Head of Communications at the
Association of Commercial Television, Europe
acknowledged that her sector has been very
affected by the crisis: “When you are a publicly
funded broadcaster it’s clear where your finance is
coming from but the private sector does not
have that luxury and a lot of our members
were gravely affected by the dramatic,
double digit decline in advertising
revenues,” she said. “But the effect
around Europe came in two waves,
with Western Europe hit first, and
hopefully now starting to recover,
but Eastern Europe hit later and still
having a tough time. The biggest
irony in all this is that viewing figures
were rising as advertisers were leaving.”
Norbert Sauer, Managing Director & Executive
Producer, UFA Fernsehproduktion stated that
producers were just going to have to get used to
a new way of working: “We have to get used to
having less money whether we like it or not,” he
said. “For example a TV film that would have cost
€1.3 million now has to be made for €1 million, plus
we are increasingly finding that broadcasters expect
producers to assume the costs of production.
Meanwhile high-end drama remains very important
so we are more obliged than ever to co-produce
and UFA has a network of partner companies in key
territories.”
Michela Ritondo, International Tax
Expert, Federal Public Service Finance in
Belgium, revealed that Belgium offers
a significant incentive to producers
of TV films, kids’ programming and
animation: “If an investor puts up to
€500,000 into one of those categories,
we offer a 150% tax relief, that is to say
on a sum of €750,000 for any project longer than 22
minutes.”
The Fiction Funding: Mew Schemes, New Funds
And Others. Where Can The Money Come From?
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TV Xchanges
Klaus Bassiner, Managing Director Series, ZDF
will be talking to Alain Modot,
Vice-President, Media Consulting Group
today at 9.30 in the Salle Van Dongen.
Thursday 10th June 2010
9:30 – 10:00
Keynote : Klaus Bassiner, Managing Director Series,
ZDF, Germany with Alain Modot,
Vice-president, Media Consulting Group, France
10:30 – 12:00
Round table 3 - Co-production: a concept
of the Old World?
Speakers:
Pascal Breton, President, Marathon, France
Philipp Kreuzer, Attorney at Law / Head of
Production, Finance & Co-Production, Bavaria
Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Germany
Ole Soendberg, Executive Producer, Yellow Bird,
Sweden
Nathalie Garcia, General Manager, Notro TV, Spain
Philippe Jacot, Head of Co-production, EBU
Filip Bobinski, CEO and Producer, Dramedy,
Czech Republic
Rob Pursey, Managing Director,
Touchpaper Television, United Kingdom
Moderator:
Alain Modot, Vice-President, Media Consulting Group,
France
What They Said At
TV Xchanges 2010
“Successful shows are always partly down to the synergy
amongst the cast, and even if an episode one week is not
great, the audience will come back,” Charles Floyd Johnson,
Executive Producer, NCIS.
“As we are seeing in Korea right now, when broadband penetration gets to 70% and above, the home
entertainment industry just disappears. Spain is currently at 63% and climbing rapidly so I fear for that country’s
producers,” Martin Moszcowicz, Member of the Board at Constantin Film.
“Spain is second only to Bulgaria in terms of piracy and the government is being very slow to act. At the same
time broadcasters are proving to be unable to change their ways which is stifling fiction production,” Film and TV
producer Antonio Saura of Zebra Productions.
“The economic crisis showed clearly that TV advertising and consumption are not necessarily related. Advertising
was down by 20% but consumption was only down by 5%,” Nicolas Traube, CEO of Pampa.
“New business models are being tested all the time. 720 new Video On Demand (VOD) services were launched
in Europe in the last year and there are now over 7,000 channels on the continent,” Utta Tuttlies, Head of
Communications at the Association of Commercial Television, Europe.
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Series Stars...
By sheer happenstance, two of our Hollywood guests this week
are connected to the new George Lucas script about the first black
aerial combat unit of World Ward II. The 994 pilots fought for
acceptance from the white brass and Washington bigots simply
to enter WWII - after training at the segregated army airfield at
Tuskegee, Alabama, circa 1942.
“90210” find Tristan Wilds appears in the fictional account, “Red
Tails” - produced (in Prague) by, among others, Charles Floyd
Johnson, the triple Emmy-winner producer of “NCIS,” The Rockford
Files,” “Magnum, P I,” “Quantum Leap” and “BL Stryker.”
Tristan’s fellow flyers include Terrence Howard and, the only actor
appearing in both tghsi and the 1995 tele-film version, the Oscarwinning Cuba Gooding Jr.
Both men confirmed in Monaco yesterday that producer George
Lucas returned to directing for the first time since the last (?) “Star
Wars - Revenge of the Sith” in 1995 to handle some re-shoots on
T.C.
this movie, a pet project of his for some decades.
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