Leading European distributor Global Screen – part of Pan-European Production and Distribution Studio Vuelta – has acquired brand new dramas to launch to buyers at MIPCOM next week.
Crime thriller Murder on the Inca Trail – available as 4 x 45’ or 2x 90’ – is produced by Westside for ARD Degeto/BR and stars Nina Gummich (Alice; Charité), Thomas Prenn (Die Mittagsfrau, Deutsches Haus) and many more. How do you solve a murder on the remote Inca Trail, with no witnesses, no weapon and no evidence? Chief Inspector Rita Berg faces this challenge after Ursula Glück is killed during an alleged robbery. Her husband, Jona Kepler, claims innocence, but suspicion lingers. Despite a lack of motive, Berg keeps digging.
Also new for MIPCOM is season two of period anthology drama The Palace produced by MOOVIE GmbH, Constantin Film and ZDF. Once again set at the legendary Palace in Berlin, the new season takes us to 1990, the year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. At an unprecedented time of crisis and transformation, ballet director Regina Feldmann and a trio of up-and-coming young dancers face personal and professional turmoil as they navigate love, fears and ambitions in a battle to save their theater…
Following the huge international success of the first series, Global Screen will launch a second season of Recipes for Love and Murder, the 8 x 50’ crime drama starring Maria Doyle Kennedy (Outlander) and Tony Kgoroge (Invictus) at MIPCOM.
Filmed in South Africa and Scotland, Recipes for Love and Murder, produced by Both Worlds Pictures in co-production with Acorn and M-Net, and in association with Paradoxal, is a charming quirky murder mystery series based on the acclaimed novel by best-selling and award-winning South African author Sally Andrew – Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery. In season two, when a massive fire engulfs the small town of Eden, a fateful chain of events is triggered and Tannie Maria, Jessie and Chief Detective Khaya Meyer get dragged into a multiple murder investigation that unearths the town’s darkest secrets.
Ulrike Schröder, Co-Head International Sales and Acquisitions at Global Screen, comments, “We look forward to screening these entertaining titles next week in Cannes. Viewers are always seeking out strong production values and great storylines and we are sure that these three series full of glossy drama and popular varieties of crime narratives will have particular appeal to our clients around the world right now.”
Global Screen is a new addition to pan-European Distribution and Production Studio Vuelta already present in France (Pan and Playtime), Germany (SquareOne and Telepool), Scandinanvia (Scanbox), Benelux (WWE) and in Italy (Indiana Productions). Vuelta has had an amazing run with Pan’s record breaking release of “A Little Something Extra”, WWE’s “Loverboy: Emoties Uit” and Scanbox’s impressive year with the releases of “Longlegs,” “Past Lives,” “When in Rome” and “Civil War,” and recently opened Swedish number one “It could have been us”.
