MUMBAI: Content and IP creation studio Applause Entertainment has now taken the local rights to three of Armoza Formats’ scripted series: the highly acclaimed crime-thriller Hostages and hilarious comedies La Famiglia and Honey Badgers.
Produced by Yetzira Ivrit, Hostages is an intense psychological crime-thriller that follows a renowned surgeon about to perform a routine operation on the president. But there is nothing routine about it when her family is taken hostage and she is ordered to sabotage the procedure and kill the President–or her family will die. As viewers follow the battle to save both her family and the president, they are taken on a journey where all are fighting for their survival.
Applause Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair said, “We are most excited to be adapting these Armoza shows for India. I have been a big fan of Israeli content as our countries have a close cultural affinity and I believe stories like ‘Hostages’, ‘La Famiglia’ and ‘Honey Badgers’ are incredibly universal. Writing, casting and production on all three shows is already underway and filming should commence soon.”
Produced by United Studios of Israel, La Famiglia follows the lives of a perfectly normal suburban family living in the divorce capital of the country. With many reasons to be happy, they have even more reasons to go to therapy–their sex life, his best friend, her complaints, and his mother. Their therapy sessions provide the entertaining basis for the series, through which we flashback to the comical, stand-alone scenes from their daily life. Each episode is a new therapy session in which they bring up the most embarrassing, bizarre, awkward and insane moments that are a part of every family’s life.
Applause Entertainment is a content and IP creation studio with a focus on films, digital series, television, animation, music and live events. Whereas, Armoza formats is established in 2005, is the key player in the international content market and an independent creators and distributors of global content.
Armoza Formats CEO Avi Armoza, “As we continue to expand our scripted and ready-made series catalogues, we are thrilled that Applause Entertainment, a highly acclaimed creative house, has chosen to take three of our top scripted series to be adapted in one of the most important content arenas in the world.”
Honey Badgers, produced by Naor Zion and originally aired on Reshet’s Channel 2, follows the lives of four small-town friends who change their identities to get jobs at one of the world’s top financial firms. They will fake it all to appear more sophisticated and achieve their fantasy of opening up their own investment company.
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