Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canada distribution rights to Come Closer, which is Israel’s submission to the Best International Feature Oscar race.
From director Tom Nesher and based loosely on incidents from her own life, the film recounts the sometimes twisted, sometimes comic and surprising aftermath that followed her young brother’s death. Nesher, daughter of renowned Israeli director Avi Nesher, took inspiration for the storyline from Ari Nesher, who was killed in a 2018 hit-and-run accident at age 17.
In the film, the only person Eden (Lia Elalouf) has ever really loved is her teenage brother, Nati. There are no secrets between them – or so Eden believes. When Nati is killed in a car accident, Eden discovers he had a secret girlfriend named Maya (Darya Rosenn). Eden embarks on a clandestine investigation, stalking Maya, befriending her and ultimately developing an obsession that pulls Maya into her own life,...
From director Tom Nesher and based loosely on incidents from her own life, the film recounts the sometimes twisted, sometimes comic and surprising aftermath that followed her young brother’s death. Nesher, daughter of renowned Israeli director Avi Nesher, took inspiration for the storyline from Ari Nesher, who was killed in a 2018 hit-and-run accident at age 17.
In the film, the only person Eden (Lia Elalouf) has ever really loved is her teenage brother, Nati. There are no secrets between them – or so Eden believes. When Nati is killed in a car accident, Eden discovers he had a secret girlfriend named Maya (Darya Rosenn). Eden embarks on a clandestine investigation, stalking Maya, befriending her and ultimately developing an obsession that pulls Maya into her own life,...
- 11/11/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Israel’s yes Studios has struck a deal with Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks for a suite of shows including award-winning pre-#MeToo era series Unsilenced.
ChaiFlicks has also taken on the upcoming fourth season of breakout comedy Checkout, while renewing its license for the prior three.
Starring Yaakov Zada Daniel (Fauda) and Avraham Shalom Levi (Shtisel), Israeli Television Academy Award-winning drama Unsilenced is based on novel The Confidante. It follows the newly elected Israeli president with rumors of sexual assault and rape of a staffer swirling around him. His top adviser realizes that if news of this leaks out, the scandal could destroy the President’s career and his own.
July August Productions’ Checkout, meanwhile, has been one of ChaiFlicks’ most-watched series since it debuted in 2021, according to the streamer. Created by Nadav Frishman and Yaniv Zohar, it takes place in the Yavne branch of a fictional supermarket and follows...
ChaiFlicks has also taken on the upcoming fourth season of breakout comedy Checkout, while renewing its license for the prior three.
Starring Yaakov Zada Daniel (Fauda) and Avraham Shalom Levi (Shtisel), Israeli Television Academy Award-winning drama Unsilenced is based on novel The Confidante. It follows the newly elected Israeli president with rumors of sexual assault and rape of a staffer swirling around him. His top adviser realizes that if news of this leaks out, the scandal could destroy the President’s career and his own.
July August Productions’ Checkout, meanwhile, has been one of ChaiFlicks’ most-watched series since it debuted in 2021, according to the streamer. Created by Nadav Frishman and Yaniv Zohar, it takes place in the Yavne branch of a fictional supermarket and follows...
- 7/23/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fresh off the back of her jury prize win in Monte Carlo, we can bring you first look images of Unorthodox star Shira Haas in yes TV’s Night Therapy.
Night Therapy will launch on the Israeli Network on June 30 and yes Studios is selling around the world. It won Haas the special jury prize as last night’s TV fest drew to a close, while the show was nominated for best drama but lost out to Channel 4’s The Gathering. Another image can be viewed below.
Created by Raanan Caspi, Night Therapy is a psychological drama starring Yousef Sweid and Haas (Captain America), plus Lucy Ayoub, Yaakov Zada Daniel and Firas Nassar, all of whom have starred in Fauda.
The show tells the story of Louie (Sweid), an Arab-Israeli psychologist struggling to raise his two children after the suicide of his Jewish-Israeli wife.
Night Therapy will launch on the Israeli Network on June 30 and yes Studios is selling around the world. It won Haas the special jury prize as last night’s TV fest drew to a close, while the show was nominated for best drama but lost out to Channel 4’s The Gathering. Another image can be viewed below.
Created by Raanan Caspi, Night Therapy is a psychological drama starring Yousef Sweid and Haas (Captain America), plus Lucy Ayoub, Yaakov Zada Daniel and Firas Nassar, all of whom have starred in Fauda.
The show tells the story of Louie (Sweid), an Arab-Israeli psychologist struggling to raise his two children after the suicide of his Jewish-Israeli wife.
- 6/19/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The cast and filmmakers behind Netflix’s Israeli series “Fauda” are speaking out and taking action amid the Hamas attacks in Israel.
Actor Lior Raz, who also produces the series, is a former Israeli special forces unit soldier. Following this past weekend’s attacks on Israeli by the Iran-backed terrorist group, Raz traveled with “Fauda” co-creator Avi Issacharov and Israeli Democracy Institute head Yohanan Plesner, to join the fight against Hamas with his fellow members of the group Brothers in Arms, who had previously protested against efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
He later posted a video, writing, “I headed down south to join hundreds of brave ‘Brothers in Arms’ volunteers who worked tirelessly to assist the population in the south of Israel. We were sent to the bombarded town of Sderot to extract two families. No fear!” Sderot is just a few miles...
Actor Lior Raz, who also produces the series, is a former Israeli special forces unit soldier. Following this past weekend’s attacks on Israeli by the Iran-backed terrorist group, Raz traveled with “Fauda” co-creator Avi Issacharov and Israeli Democracy Institute head Yohanan Plesner, to join the fight against Hamas with his fellow members of the group Brothers in Arms, who had previously protested against efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judiciary.
He later posted a video, writing, “I headed down south to join hundreds of brave ‘Brothers in Arms’ volunteers who worked tirelessly to assist the population in the south of Israel. We were sent to the bombarded town of Sderot to extract two families. No fear!” Sderot is just a few miles...
- 10/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Unorthodox star Shira Haas has boarded yes TV’s latest series, a psychological drama about an Arab-Israeli psychologist struggling to raise his two children after the suicide of his Jewish-Israeli wife.
Haas, who is also starring in Captain America: New World Order, is returning to her native Israel for 10-parter Night Therapy, which has just entered production.
Created and written by Raanan Caspi and directed by Gabriel Bibliowicz, Haas will play a computer genuis who rarely leaves her home. She joins a cast consisting of lead Yousef Sweid (Game of Thrones), with whom she starred in Netflix’s Unorthodox, and three Fauda actors – Lucy Ayoub, Yaakov Zada Daniel and Firas Nassar.
Sweid plays Louie, who decides to shift his practice to receive patients at night following the tragedy. Through the gateway and magic of the late clinic hours, and flashback scenes where Louie acts as an unseen observer to their problems,...
Haas, who is also starring in Captain America: New World Order, is returning to her native Israel for 10-parter Night Therapy, which has just entered production.
Created and written by Raanan Caspi and directed by Gabriel Bibliowicz, Haas will play a computer genuis who rarely leaves her home. She joins a cast consisting of lead Yousef Sweid (Game of Thrones), with whom she starred in Netflix’s Unorthodox, and three Fauda actors – Lucy Ayoub, Yaakov Zada Daniel and Firas Nassar.
Sweid plays Louie, who decides to shift his practice to receive patients at night following the tragedy. Through the gateway and magic of the late clinic hours, and flashback scenes where Louie acts as an unseen observer to their problems,...
- 6/27/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Red Skies, the Israeli drama that counts Euphoria and Shtisel execs behind it, has landed a renewal a month before the first season has launched.
Reshet 13 has made the bold move for an eight-part Season 2, with the first set to debut in mid-June. The series, which has backing from Len Blavatnik’s Access Entertainment, has been building momentum over recent months and had its world premiere in International Competition at Series Mania in March.
Red Skies is based on a best-selling novel from former Israeli Intelligence Officer Daniel Shinar and is set during the bloody Second Intifada period of 2000-2005, exploring events such as Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. It follows the Israel-Palestine conflict through the eyes of two friends who are forced to choose sides and stars Maor Schweitzer (Valley of Tears), Amir Khoury (Fauda), Annie Shapero, Lihi Kornowski (Losing Alice), Alona Sa’ar, and Yaakov Zada Daniel...
Reshet 13 has made the bold move for an eight-part Season 2, with the first set to debut in mid-June. The series, which has backing from Len Blavatnik’s Access Entertainment, has been building momentum over recent months and had its world premiere in International Competition at Series Mania in March.
Red Skies is based on a best-selling novel from former Israeli Intelligence Officer Daniel Shinar and is set during the bloody Second Intifada period of 2000-2005, exploring events such as Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. It follows the Israel-Palestine conflict through the eyes of two friends who are forced to choose sides and stars Maor Schweitzer (Valley of Tears), Amir Khoury (Fauda), Annie Shapero, Lihi Kornowski (Losing Alice), Alona Sa’ar, and Yaakov Zada Daniel...
- 5/18/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Trailer has dropped for Unsilenced, the latest Israeli drama picked up by Fauda and Shtisel producer Yes Studios.
Inspired by the novel The Confidante by Odelia Karmon, Unsilenced is a six-part series about sexual violence set in the pre-#MeToo era and shows the lengths to which an influential perpetrator, in this case a President – and his allies – will go to silence victims, protect themselves and keep their crimes out of the public eye, and how women bound by experience can come together to seek justice.
In Unsilenced, a recently elected President continually forces himself upon a new member of his team – a bright and ambitious young woman from a humble background. Desperate to keep her job, she asks the President’s chief of staff for help, but he shows his complicity with the situation by first looking the other way and then, as things escalate, by engineering a...
Inspired by the novel The Confidante by Odelia Karmon, Unsilenced is a six-part series about sexual violence set in the pre-#MeToo era and shows the lengths to which an influential perpetrator, in this case a President – and his allies – will go to silence victims, protect themselves and keep their crimes out of the public eye, and how women bound by experience can come together to seek justice.
In Unsilenced, a recently elected President continually forces himself upon a new member of his team – a bright and ambitious young woman from a humble background. Desperate to keep her job, she asks the President’s chief of staff for help, but he shows his complicity with the situation by first looking the other way and then, as things escalate, by engineering a...
- 5/2/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Yes Studios, the Israeli producer and distributor behind “Fauda” and “Shtisel,” has boarded “Unsilenced,” a six-part series about sexual violence which is inspired by Odelia Carmon’s novel “The Confidante.”
The multi-layered series stars Yaakov Zada Daniel (“Fauda”), Avraham Shalom Levi (“Shtisel”), Nelly Mira Rubin (“Fire Dance”), Dana Meinrath and Irit Nathan Benedek.
Loosely inspired by actual events, “Unsilenced” is set pre-#MeToo, in the early 2000’s, when powerful men could readily mask and perpetuate abhorrent behaviors with the help of people they installed around themselves.
The story revolves around a recently elected President who continually forces himself upon a new member of his team, a bright and ambitious young woman from a humble background. Desperate to keep her job, she asks the President’s chief of staff for help, but he shows his complicity with the situation by first looking the other way and then, as things escalate, by...
The multi-layered series stars Yaakov Zada Daniel (“Fauda”), Avraham Shalom Levi (“Shtisel”), Nelly Mira Rubin (“Fire Dance”), Dana Meinrath and Irit Nathan Benedek.
Loosely inspired by actual events, “Unsilenced” is set pre-#MeToo, in the early 2000’s, when powerful men could readily mask and perpetuate abhorrent behaviors with the help of people they installed around themselves.
The story revolves around a recently elected President who continually forces himself upon a new member of his team, a bright and ambitious young woman from a humble background. Desperate to keep her job, she asks the President’s chief of staff for help, but he shows his complicity with the situation by first looking the other way and then, as things escalate, by...
- 3/21/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
High-flying Access Entertainment, a division of Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries and equity investor in A24 and “His Dark Materials” producer Bad Wolf, is investing in “Red Skies,” one of the biggest titles set to world premiere at this year’s Series Mania, in main International Competition.
Blavatnik and Danny Cohen, Access Entertainment president, will serve as executive producers on “Red Skies,” a position they also hold one upcoming movies such as Beau is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” “Iron Claw,” starring Zac Efron, and “Conclave,” from Edward Berger, director of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
An eight-episode series, “Red Skies” will be broadcast on Reshet 13 later this year.
“Red Skies” marks Access Entertainment’s first foray into Israeli television drama production. It makes its bow on a series which involves a bevy of the prime movers on Israel’s international TV scene.
Produced by Yoav Gross,...
Blavatnik and Danny Cohen, Access Entertainment president, will serve as executive producers on “Red Skies,” a position they also hold one upcoming movies such as Beau is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” “Iron Claw,” starring Zac Efron, and “Conclave,” from Edward Berger, director of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
An eight-episode series, “Red Skies” will be broadcast on Reshet 13 later this year.
“Red Skies” marks Access Entertainment’s first foray into Israeli television drama production. It makes its bow on a series which involves a bevy of the prime movers on Israel’s international TV scene.
Produced by Yoav Gross,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Fauda is a series created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff. With Lior Raz, Hisham Suliman and Shadi Mar’i. You can watch the fourth season starting January 20 on Netflix.
Fauda in its fourth season in a mix of action, political thriller and the (evident) touch of social conflict. Beyond the evident confrontation (this is not a product about politics), this is a very entertaining series that has rhythm and intelligence and has known how to captivate the viewer with its complex plot, it elaborate characters and above all, its frenetic rhythm and elaborate construction in the parallel stories that have known how to reach an audience seeking big thrills.
This is a great success and excellent entertainment. The action scenes are very elaborate.
This season is just as good as the past ones: more of the same, more than one expects have made Fauda a phenomenon worth watching.
Storyline
A...
Fauda in its fourth season in a mix of action, political thriller and the (evident) touch of social conflict. Beyond the evident confrontation (this is not a product about politics), this is a very entertaining series that has rhythm and intelligence and has known how to captivate the viewer with its complex plot, it elaborate characters and above all, its frenetic rhythm and elaborate construction in the parallel stories that have known how to reach an audience seeking big thrills.
This is a great success and excellent entertainment. The action scenes are very elaborate.
This season is just as good as the past ones: more of the same, more than one expects have made Fauda a phenomenon worth watching.
Storyline
A...
- 1/20/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
The Operative Vertical Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Yuval Adler Screenwriter: Yuval Adler, adapted from the Novel “The English Teacher” by Yiftach Reicher Atir Cast: Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar, Liron Levo, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Ohad Knoller Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/26/19 Opens: August […]
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- 8/2/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Written by Jennifer Conroy
Look To The Stars Correspondent Jennifer Conroy recently attended Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Making a Difference: 70 Years of Heroes and Hope and filed this report.
Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler
Credit/Copyright: Shahar Zaran
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, philanthropist, musician, and producer of records, film & television. As the 232nd richest person in America this businessman is estimated a net worth of $3 billion with interests in entertainment, media, and finances. He reminds me of Iron Man. The opening scene of the movie, of a hero among many who can do just about anything with his fame, money, and power.
Haim Saban is indeed our modern day Iron Man leading the charge as it is the 12th year that Haim has chaired the event, but the gala has actually been around in some form since 1981. It’s become more grand since Haim has started chairing,...
Look To The Stars Correspondent Jennifer Conroy recently attended Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Making a Difference: 70 Years of Heroes and Hope and filed this report.
Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler
Credit/Copyright: Shahar Zaran
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, philanthropist, musician, and producer of records, film & television. As the 232nd richest person in America this businessman is estimated a net worth of $3 billion with interests in entertainment, media, and finances. He reminds me of Iron Man. The opening scene of the movie, of a hero among many who can do just about anything with his fame, money, and power.
Haim Saban is indeed our modern day Iron Man leading the charge as it is the 12th year that Haim has chaired the event, but the gala has actually been around in some form since 1981. It’s become more grand since Haim has started chairing,...
- 11/7/2018
- Look to the Stars
Seven series selected for TV strand.
The Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15-25) has unveiled the seven titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Source: Hulu
The Looming Tower
Opening the festival’s TV strand is Australian series Picnic At Hanging Rock, FremantleMedia’s Natalie Dormer-starring TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, which previously spawned Peter Weir’s Bafta-winning 1975 feature.
The series tells the story of a strict headmistress at a boarding school whose dark past catches up with her after three pupils mysteriously disappear during a school outing.
Also in the selection is Legendary Television and broadcaster Hulu’s The Looming Tower, which is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name. Chronicling the lead-up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the series stars Jeff Daniels as counter terrorism expert John O’Neill and is being exec produced by Alex Gibney.
Further series in the...
The Berlin Film Festival (Feb 15-25) has unveiled the seven titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Source: Hulu
The Looming Tower
Opening the festival’s TV strand is Australian series Picnic At Hanging Rock, FremantleMedia’s Natalie Dormer-starring TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, which previously spawned Peter Weir’s Bafta-winning 1975 feature.
The series tells the story of a strict headmistress at a boarding school whose dark past catches up with her after three pupils mysteriously disappear during a school outing.
Also in the selection is Legendary Television and broadcaster Hulu’s The Looming Tower, which is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning book of the same name. Chronicling the lead-up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the series stars Jeff Daniels as counter terrorism expert John O’Neill and is being exec produced by Alex Gibney.
Further series in the...
- 1/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
It turns out Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, who announced their split yesterday, may actually have been separated for much longer than a day.
RadarOnline is reporting that the couple haven't been happy for "over 10 years" and are finally taking steps toward a divorce now because Perlman is fed up with DeVito's wandering eye.
“He may not appear to be a ladies’ man, but Danny certainly gets a lot of female attention,” a source close to the family told RadarOnline of the 67-year-old actor. "Danny can be quite the flirt and because of his powerful status in Hollywood, he’s not ashamed to abuse his position and chat-up young, aspiring woman looking to make it in the industry."
DeVito and Perlman's devastating breakup after 30 years of marriage came as a shock to many, who were rooting for the couple since the beginning of their relationship in 1970. But it sounds like...
RadarOnline is reporting that the couple haven't been happy for "over 10 years" and are finally taking steps toward a divorce now because Perlman is fed up with DeVito's wandering eye.
“He may not appear to be a ladies’ man, but Danny certainly gets a lot of female attention,” a source close to the family told RadarOnline of the 67-year-old actor. "Danny can be quite the flirt and because of his powerful status in Hollywood, he’s not ashamed to abuse his position and chat-up young, aspiring woman looking to make it in the industry."
DeVito and Perlman's devastating breakup after 30 years of marriage came as a shock to many, who were rooting for the couple since the beginning of their relationship in 1970. But it sounds like...
- 10/9/2012
- by Leigh Blickley
- Huffington Post
After 30 years of marriage, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman have separated.The couple's rep confirmed the news to Et, but no other details about the split were immediately available.Danny, 67, and Rhea, 64, tied the knot on January 28, 1982. They have three children: 29-year-old Lucy Chet DeVito, 31-year-old Grace Fan DeVito and son Jacob Daniel DeVito.The separation definitely comes as a shock to us, as they were one of the longest-lasting relationships in Hollywood.Check out the gallery above to see more shocking splits. Read more...
- 10/8/2012
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
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