Charge your glasses. Apple TV+ is taking on Legendary Entertainment’s Drops of God Season 2.
Quoc Dang Tran’s French-Japanese drama adaptation of the smash manga series was a hit for the streamer and Season 2 will again be bought rather than commissioned by Apple in a rare TV acquisitions deal.
Starring Fleur Geffrier (Das Boot) as Camille Léger and Tomohisa Yamashita (The Head) as Issei Tomine, Drops of God follows an estranged child who learns she must master and correctly identify the properties of 13 wines to assume control of her newly deceased father’s collection. In Season 2, Camille and Issei once again face a nearly impossible challenge: to uncover the origin of the world’s most wonderful wine, a secret that even Alexandre Léger failed to unlock.
Deadline revealed last year that Apple beat a number of suitors to land the international series, which we hear had a budget of around $30M,...
Quoc Dang Tran’s French-Japanese drama adaptation of the smash manga series was a hit for the streamer and Season 2 will again be bought rather than commissioned by Apple in a rare TV acquisitions deal.
Starring Fleur Geffrier (Das Boot) as Camille Léger and Tomohisa Yamashita (The Head) as Issei Tomine, Drops of God follows an estranged child who learns she must master and correctly identify the properties of 13 wines to assume control of her newly deceased father’s collection. In Season 2, Camille and Issei once again face a nearly impossible challenge: to uncover the origin of the world’s most wonderful wine, a secret that even Alexandre Léger failed to unlock.
Deadline revealed last year that Apple beat a number of suitors to land the international series, which we hear had a budget of around $30M,...
- 5/21/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Apple TV+ has picked up Drops of God, a series set in the world of fine wine based on a Japanese manga property, from Legendary Entertainment.
Deadline understands that the streamer beat out a number of suitors to land the international series, which is in multiple languages including English, French and Japanese.
However, the most interesting element of the deal is that it marks one of the first times that Apple has dipped its toe into international co-productions and licensing; the majority of its scripted series to date have been fully owned originals. We hear that the first season of Tehran and Losing Alice were picked up in a similar manner.
Drops of God is written by Quoc Dang Tran, who wrote on French series Call My Agent and created Disney+’s Parallèles, the streamer’s first French language series, and directed by Oded Ruskin, who has directed episodes...
Deadline understands that the streamer beat out a number of suitors to land the international series, which is in multiple languages including English, French and Japanese.
However, the most interesting element of the deal is that it marks one of the first times that Apple has dipped its toe into international co-productions and licensing; the majority of its scripted series to date have been fully owned originals. We hear that the first season of Tehran and Losing Alice were picked up in a similar manner.
Drops of God is written by Quoc Dang Tran, who wrote on French series Call My Agent and created Disney+’s Parallèles, the streamer’s first French language series, and directed by Oded Ruskin, who has directed episodes...
- 1/23/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lily Franky, Ciaran Hinds and Ryô Nishikido (“Hospitality Department”) have joined the cast of Oscar-nominated “Philomena” producer Gabrielle Tana’s forthcoming film “Cottontail,” starring Jessie Buckley.
BAFTA “Brit to Watch” director Patrick Dickinson directs. Japanese actor Franky replaces Ken Watanabe, who was previously attached to star in the pic. Also joining the cast are Japanese Academy Award winner Tae Kimura (“Zero Focus”) and Rin Takanashi (“Like Someone in Love”).
London’s WestEnd Films is handling world sales, and will continue to sell the film at this week’s European Film Market.
“Cottontail” tells the heart-rending story of Kenzaburo (Franky) who, after his wife Akiko (Kimura) passes away in Japan, travels with his estranged son Toshi (Nishikido) and daughter-in-law Satsuki (Takanashi) to the Lake District in England — the land of Beatrix Potter, whose charming tales of Peter Rabbit captivated Akiko as a child.
Akiko had always hoped to travel there one day with Kenzaburo,...
BAFTA “Brit to Watch” director Patrick Dickinson directs. Japanese actor Franky replaces Ken Watanabe, who was previously attached to star in the pic. Also joining the cast are Japanese Academy Award winner Tae Kimura (“Zero Focus”) and Rin Takanashi (“Like Someone in Love”).
London’s WestEnd Films is handling world sales, and will continue to sell the film at this week’s European Film Market.
“Cottontail” tells the heart-rending story of Kenzaburo (Franky) who, after his wife Akiko (Kimura) passes away in Japan, travels with his estranged son Toshi (Nishikido) and daughter-in-law Satsuki (Takanashi) to the Lake District in England — the land of Beatrix Potter, whose charming tales of Peter Rabbit captivated Akiko as a child.
Akiko had always hoped to travel there one day with Kenzaburo,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Editors’ Note: Deadline’s latest series, Reopening Hollywood, focuses on the incredibly complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide forum for leaders in Hollywood who have a vision for how production could safely restart in the era of coronavirus.
Michael Mann is renowned for series that include Miami Vice and Crime Story, and he’s shaping the tone by directing the pilot of a major new HBO Max series Tokyo Vice, an hourlong crime drama that stars Ansel Elgort as a Western journalist covering the crime beat in Tokyo who finds himself running afoul of a major crime boss. The episode was just finding its rhythm when coronavirus shut everything down. How to recapture the momentum?
Deadline: What an unusual moment, where you head to Tokyo to shoot a pilot,...
Michael Mann is renowned for series that include Miami Vice and Crime Story, and he’s shaping the tone by directing the pilot of a major new HBO Max series Tokyo Vice, an hourlong crime drama that stars Ansel Elgort as a Western journalist covering the crime beat in Tokyo who finds himself running afoul of a major crime boss. The episode was just finding its rhythm when coronavirus shut everything down. How to recapture the momentum?
Deadline: What an unusual moment, where you head to Tokyo to shoot a pilot,...
- 5/15/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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