For almost a decade, producers Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy helped make some of the biggest film festival sensations, from “The Witch” to “American Honey.” In 2016, though, their production company Parts and Labor hit a wall. “I’m very proud of everything we did,” Knudsen said over Zoom this week, “but we couldn’t really get out of the gate. You get a film into Sundance or Cannes and it just doesn’t do anything. It wasn’t sustainable. There had to be a way to not only make a movie create a career path.”
Knudsen and Van Hoy parted ways in 2016 and began producing independently. When Knudsen was introduced to director Ari Aster and produced his 2018 debut “Hereditary,” it led to a new partnership. “It felt effortless to work together, which is all you want as a producer,’ Knudsen said. The pair created a new production company, Square Peg,...
Knudsen and Van Hoy parted ways in 2016 and began producing independently. When Knudsen was introduced to director Ari Aster and produced his 2018 debut “Hereditary,” it led to a new partnership. “It felt effortless to work together, which is all you want as a producer,’ Knudsen said. The pair created a new production company, Square Peg,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Accident
(Mediaset-Globomedia)
Starring Inma Cuesta (“Julieta”), a thriller about a wife discovering the truth about her husband.
Sales Agent: Eccho Rights
Arde Madrid
(Movistar Plus, Andy Joke)
Warmly received at San Sebastian, a B&W comedy-thriller half-hour set in 1961 Madrid’s Dolce Vita, featuring Ava Gardner.
A Different View
(Boomerang, Rtve)
A suspense dramedy portrait of the Spanish society in the ’20s, via a traditionalist Lycee in the provinces.
El Continental
(Gossip Events & Productions, Rtve)
One of Rtve’s big plays, a 10-hour, 1920’s set gang war thriller, with Alex Garcia and Michelle Jenner (“Isabel”).
Hierro
(Movistar Plus, Arte, Portocabo, Atlantique)
Movistar Plus’ first international co-production and Portocabo’s calling card, a murder investigation set against spectacular landscapes of the mid-Atlantic Hierro.
Sales Agent: Banijay Rights
Gigantes
(Movistar Plus, Lazona Producciones)
Building buzz before its San Sebastian Fest world premiere, Enrique Urbizu’s brutal Madrid crime family parable on the legacy of violence,...
(Mediaset-Globomedia)
Starring Inma Cuesta (“Julieta”), a thriller about a wife discovering the truth about her husband.
Sales Agent: Eccho Rights
Arde Madrid
(Movistar Plus, Andy Joke)
Warmly received at San Sebastian, a B&W comedy-thriller half-hour set in 1961 Madrid’s Dolce Vita, featuring Ava Gardner.
A Different View
(Boomerang, Rtve)
A suspense dramedy portrait of the Spanish society in the ’20s, via a traditionalist Lycee in the provinces.
El Continental
(Gossip Events & Productions, Rtve)
One of Rtve’s big plays, a 10-hour, 1920’s set gang war thriller, with Alex Garcia and Michelle Jenner (“Isabel”).
Hierro
(Movistar Plus, Arte, Portocabo, Atlantique)
Movistar Plus’ first international co-production and Portocabo’s calling card, a murder investigation set against spectacular landscapes of the mid-Atlantic Hierro.
Sales Agent: Banijay Rights
Gigantes
(Movistar Plus, Lazona Producciones)
Building buzz before its San Sebastian Fest world premiere, Enrique Urbizu’s brutal Madrid crime family parable on the legacy of violence,...
- 10/15/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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