Ovideo, TV3 to produce 'Almodis'

BARCELONA -- Ovideo TV, Catalan pubcaster TV3 as well as the creative team behind hit historic fiction "Ermessenda," are becoming back for just about any spin-off, "Almodis." "Ermessenda" will be a two-part miniseries initiating the indomitable Ermessenda, Countess of Barcelona. Most likely the very best lady in Catalan history, she governed Barcelona and Girona through pressure of personality, immense wealth and support within the chapel and Norman mercenaries from 993 to 1057. Another two-part small, "Almodis" focuses on the bloody face-off involving the twin sons of Almodis, the cultured last wife of Ramon Berenguer I, Ermessenda's grand boy, Ovideo TV professional prexy Antoni Camin told journalists. El Cid, immortalized by Charlton Heston, also bakes a look and feel. Ovideo may seek worldwide co-production gold gold coin to cover 15%-20% of budget, Camin mentioned. "Almodis" reteams "Ermessenda" director Lluis Maria Guell and screenwriters Nuria Furio and Merce Sarrias. Moving October 2012, "Almodis" is allotted around Euros2.8 million ($3.9 million), over three occasions the cost on most TV movies in the united states, Camin mentioned. Offered abroad by Imagina Intl. Sales, "Ermessenda" broadcast Tuesday March 22 and March 23 on TV3, notching up a 22.3% business, way above TV3's funnel average of 13%-15%. Founded in 1985 just like a TV production and ads company, Ovideo ongoing to produce the rasing and lowering occasions in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games, and hire Martin Scorsese to helm a celebrated 2007 Yuletide commercial, a Hitchcock spoof, for Catalan cava company Freixenet. Ovideo TV may also be developing two worldwide TV movies: "Hotel Regal" as well as the Robert Dornheim-directed thriller, "Love and Fear in Barcelona," with Austria's Epo Film. Co-produced again by Epo, additionally to Belgium's Esterhazy & Dienst Push., the World War Ii-set "Regal" can be a high comedy based on true occasions: a caper to spring Belgium pm Hubert Pierlot from confinement with the Gestapo at Barcelona's Hotel Regal. Guell directs in the script by film director Julio Wallovits ("Smoking Room," "The Chair"). Costing $2.75 million-$3 million, "Regal" adopts production 2011/12, Camin mentioned. "Love" is skedded to roll spring/summer season 2012. TV3 will co-produce "Regal" and "Love." Pioneering a completely new mix between TV content and advertising, Ovideo TV has produced music docu series "Entre 2 Aguas." Airing late evening on pubcaster TVE's culture funnel, "Aguas" is backed by telco Telefonica brand Movistar. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com