Netflix’s Brandon Riegg, VP of unscripted and documentary series, spoke about the streamer’s dive into sports-themed content and the smashing success of “Beckham” — its docuseries chronicling the life and marriage of famed footballer David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice — at Content London on Wednesday.
Riegg said Netflix did not give editorial control away on “Beckman.” “We retained final cut in no different than any of the sports leagues,” he said, adding that Netflix “talked to all of the talent and partners. We want them to feel invested and as a stakeholder, but also understand that our job and the producer’s job is to tell the best version of that story and to encompass and cover whatever they think is meaningful.”
The executive also revealed Beckham didn’t watch the series until after it had premiered on Netflix. “I don’t think he or Victoria had seen any of it.
Riegg said Netflix did not give editorial control away on “Beckman.” “We retained final cut in no different than any of the sports leagues,” he said, adding that Netflix “talked to all of the talent and partners. We want them to feel invested and as a stakeholder, but also understand that our job and the producer’s job is to tell the best version of that story and to encompass and cover whatever they think is meaningful.”
The executive also revealed Beckham didn’t watch the series until after it had premiered on Netflix. “I don’t think he or Victoria had seen any of it.
- 11/29/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Warrior Queen Of Jhansi, Beckman attract buyers.
LA-based Pinnacle Peak Pictures, renamed after the sale of the North American Pure Flix streaming platform to Sony, is screening Man Of God to EFM buyers and continuing sales on Walking With Herb as it reports a raft of deals on its slate of family, inspirational and faith films.
Walking With Herb, which is being lined up for a US theatrical release in early summer and features George Lopez as God’s motorcycle-riding messenger, has sold to California Filmes for all Latin America.
Female empowerment story Warrior Queen Of Jhansi has gone to Rialto in Australia,...
LA-based Pinnacle Peak Pictures, renamed after the sale of the North American Pure Flix streaming platform to Sony, is screening Man Of God to EFM buyers and continuing sales on Walking With Herb as it reports a raft of deals on its slate of family, inspirational and faith films.
Walking With Herb, which is being lined up for a US theatrical release in early summer and features George Lopez as God’s motorcycle-riding messenger, has sold to California Filmes for all Latin America.
Female empowerment story Warrior Queen Of Jhansi has gone to Rialto in Australia,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
VOD is for more than low-budget action movies. Janelle Monae, Millie Bobby Brown, and Jessica Chastain rule this week, starring in three distinctive films available only to home audiences. “Enola Holmes” on Netflix, and “Ava” are new to VOD this week, while the premium-price “Antebellum” is riding high in its second weekend at $19.99.
“Ava,” released September 25, currently sits at #1 on both AppleTV and Google Play at a standard new-release price of $6.99. It was a troubled production: Matthew Newton wrote the film (originally titled “Eve”) and developed it with Chastain, who stars as an assassin in a secret organization. However, he stepped down as its director about a month before production began in September 2018 after facing public backlash to his past charges of domestic violence and assault. (Newton pled guilty.)
Tate Taylor, who previously directed Chastain in “The Help” and “Ma,” replaced Newton; after the film wrapped, it was retitled “Ava.
“Ava,” released September 25, currently sits at #1 on both AppleTV and Google Play at a standard new-release price of $6.99. It was a troubled production: Matthew Newton wrote the film (originally titled “Eve”) and developed it with Chastain, who stars as an assassin in a secret organization. However, he stepped down as its director about a month before production began in September 2018 after facing public backlash to his past charges of domestic violence and assault. (Newton pled guilty.)
Tate Taylor, who previously directed Chastain in “The Help” and “Ma,” replaced Newton; after the film wrapped, it was retitled “Ava.
- 9/28/2020
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
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