The CW has acquired the US rights to the action series “Professionals” starring Tom Welling, Brendan Fraser, and Elena Anaya.
The premiere date for the show’s U.S. broadcast debut will be announced at a later date.
“Professionals” follows Vincent Corbo (Welling), a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests of rich and powerful clients by any means necessary – legal or not. After a next-gen medical satellite explodes on launch, Corbo is hired by the rocket’s designer – billionaire futurist Peter Swann (Fraser) – who suspects sabotage. Complicating Corbo’s new gig is his former paramour and now Swann’s fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Grace Davila (Anaya), who is racing to help stave off a global catastrophe.
As Corbo and his team of veteran security professionals investigate the rocket disaster, they expose a lethal conspiracy of Swann’s corporate rivals, corrupt government officials, and a shadowy crime...
The premiere date for the show’s U.S. broadcast debut will be announced at a later date.
“Professionals” follows Vincent Corbo (Welling), a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests of rich and powerful clients by any means necessary – legal or not. After a next-gen medical satellite explodes on launch, Corbo is hired by the rocket’s designer – billionaire futurist Peter Swann (Fraser) – who suspects sabotage. Complicating Corbo’s new gig is his former paramour and now Swann’s fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Grace Davila (Anaya), who is racing to help stave off a global catastrophe.
As Corbo and his team of veteran security professionals investigate the rocket disaster, they expose a lethal conspiracy of Swann’s corporate rivals, corrupt government officials, and a shadowy crime...
- 9/14/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Brendan Fraser Actioner ‘Professionals’ Finds Global Distribution With Rainmaker Content (Exclusive)
Rainmaker Content has picked up worldwide distribution rights from German studio Leonine for Brendan Fraser-starring action series “Professionals.” The project, which was completed during the global pandemic, will be shopped to buyers at next month’s virtual Mipcom market.
Commissioned by Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) for streamer Viaplay, the cast includes Fraser (“Trust”), Tom Welling (“Smallville”), Elena Anaya (“Wonder Woman”), Saïd Taghmaoui (“John Wick 3”), Ken Duken (“Inglorious Basterd”), Lisa Loven Kongsli (“Force Majeure”) and August Wittgenstein (“The Crown”).
The 10-part series stars Welling as hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo, who is hired by billionaire futurist Peter Swann (Fraser) and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela “Grace” Davila (Anaya), to investigate the explosion of an advanced medical satellite. What Corbo and his team discover, however, is that a combination of Swann’s business rivals, corrupt government officials and a shadowy crime syndicate could be behind the attack.
Commissioned by Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) for streamer Viaplay, the cast includes Fraser (“Trust”), Tom Welling (“Smallville”), Elena Anaya (“Wonder Woman”), Saïd Taghmaoui (“John Wick 3”), Ken Duken (“Inglorious Basterd”), Lisa Loven Kongsli (“Force Majeure”) and August Wittgenstein (“The Crown”).
The 10-part series stars Welling as hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo, who is hired by billionaire futurist Peter Swann (Fraser) and his fiancée, medical visionary Dr. Graciela “Grace” Davila (Anaya), to investigate the explosion of an advanced medical satellite. What Corbo and his team discover, however, is that a combination of Swann’s business rivals, corrupt government officials and a shadowy crime syndicate could be behind the attack.
- 9/29/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Completion guarantor has six films at Toronto including Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise.
European Film Bonds has revealed the company has now bonded more than €1bn ($1.1bn) of production finance.
The completion guarantor, which has its head office in Denmark and has been in operation for seven years, has six films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
These include premieres for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Matt Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity, Alexandra Keining’s Girls Lost, The Salvation director Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest Men & Chicken, and Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already.
Other recent titles include Cannes competition entry Louder than Bombs from director Joachim Trier and awards season candidate Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, which received its world premiere at Telluride 2015 and is released on Oct 23 in the Us through Focus Features.
Efb has recently expanded its operations working in Australia and China as well as securing a long-standing relationship with South...
European Film Bonds has revealed the company has now bonded more than €1bn ($1.1bn) of production finance.
The completion guarantor, which has its head office in Denmark and has been in operation for seven years, has six films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
These include premieres for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Matt Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity, Alexandra Keining’s Girls Lost, The Salvation director Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest Men & Chicken, and Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already.
Other recent titles include Cannes competition entry Louder than Bombs from director Joachim Trier and awards season candidate Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, which received its world premiere at Telluride 2015 and is released on Oct 23 in the Us through Focus Features.
Efb has recently expanded its operations working in Australia and China as well as securing a long-standing relationship with South...
- 9/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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