“Next time, I’ll get to stay for a week, so I won’t have to eat twenty-four tacos in twenty-four hours, like last time,” she said to the room of assembled staff members.īajaria told me that the ideal Netflix show is what one of her V.P.s, Jinny Howe, calls a “gourmet cheeseburger,” offering something “premium and commercial at the same time.” She praised the Latin American group for its recent track record of making slick telenovelas that draw large audiences outside Spanish-speaking regions. On an afternoon not long ago, she was kicking off one such meeting at the company’s Latin American headquarters, inside one of the tallest skyscrapers in Mexico City. She wears her favorite “travel blazer,” a designer jacket bejewelled on the breast pocket with the words “Art is truth.” And, though she often stays “in country” for only a day or two at a time, she likes to schedule a “slate meeting” so that the local development team can fill her in on upcoming programs. She checks in and furiously answers e-mails from Los Angeles until it’s time for a breakfast or a dinner or a midday meal with executives and creators. A black car brings her from the airport to a luxury hotel, perhaps the Four Seasons. Camp is repped by Innovative Artists and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell and Vassallo, and Teague is with CAA.Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of television, follows a similar routine whether she’s visiting Mumbai or Berlin or Seoul or Stockholm or any of the company’s twenty-six foreign outposts. Marvel is represented by Innovative Artists and Viking Entertainment. Watkins is repped by Haven Entertainment, UTA and Patti Felker. Moayed is repped by Gersh, Kipperman Management and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Menzies is represented by WME, Cognition, and Conway Van Gelder Grant. Recent television credits include Aisling Bea’s The Way Up Game of Thrones as ‘Edmure Tully’ and the hit Starz series Outlander, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. On the film side, Menzies’ notable credits include Anna Foerster’s Underworld: Blood Wars and Richard Eyre’s King Lear. He won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Netflix’s The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Menzies is about to shoot the lead role in Manhunt for Apple TV+. FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales and the following buyers with respective territories: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films – Germany, Spain, All Eastern Europe, Cis, Benelux, Greece, Iceland, Middle East, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Turkey, Latin America, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and South Africa, Vertice Cine (Italy), Lev Cinema (Israel), Prisvideo (Portugal), and Roadshow distribution (Australia/New Zealand). Bregman and Azpiazu produced Enough Said, and are longtime collaborators with both Holofcener and Louis-Dreyfus. Ben & Don is produced by Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu, Louis-Dreyfus and Holofcener. One day, when Beth overhears him admitting that he hasn’t liked her writing in years, it threatens to undo all that’s good in their lives. In the movie, Beth is a New York novelist in an unbelievably happy marriage to Don, who loves her and supports her in every way. Also rounding out the cast are Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, Jeanne Berlin, Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel. Cameras roll this week on the movie, which A24 acquired all US rights on out of AFM last year. Primetime Emmy winner Tobias Menzies has boarded the Nicole Holofcener directed and written feature Beth & Don opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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