Scott Rosenfelt, Blue Fox Be part of Philippines Crime Collection ‘Sellblock’

Hollywood producer Scott M. Rosenfelt has joined Filipino TV crime-action sequence, “Sellblock,” as U.S.-based Blue Fox Leisure joins because the present’s gross sales and distribution consultant.

Deliberate as a three-season sequence, “Sellblock” chronicles the actions of certainly one of Asia’s greatest drug empires which is working from inside a Philippines maximum-security jail. Manufacturing is scheduled to start out in Might.

The solid is headlined by Jericho Rosales (“Basurero,” “Siargao,” “Pacquiao: The Film”) alongside actors Empoy Marquez, Ronnie Lazaro, Mon Confiado, Sylvia Sanchez, and Ria Atayde.

The present is produced by Philippines-based BlackOps Studios Asia, headed by Pedring Lopez (Netflix’s “Maria,” “Darkroom,” “Geisha of Dying”). Lopez will direct all eight episodes of the primary season.

“Pedring and I are very happy to increase upon our rising relationship with Blue Fox Leisure’s executives, Audrey Delaney and Lisa Gutberlet with ‘SellBlock,’ as we’re already concerned collectively in two function tasks, ‘CounterPlay’ and ‘Gi’,” mentioned Rosenfelt. “We admire their standing within the trade and look to construct a long-term relationship as we proceed to develop and produce content material in Asia.” Rosenfelt has credit together with “Mystic Pizza,” “House Alone” and “Vital Pondering.”

First introduced in 2022, the sequence can also be produced by PsyOps8 along with its companion, Fireplace and Ice Media, a brand new manufacturing firm headed by Liza Diño, former chairperson and CEO of the Movie Improvement Council of the Philippines, which is elevating financing for the venture.

Jim Baltazar’s CMB Movies, one of many largest manufacturing gear suppliers in Southeast Asia and Nathan Studios (“Cattleya Killer”, “Set off”) is ready as a co-producer.

Philippines media group ABS-CBN is not connected. Neither is Hong Kong-operated media fund New Asia Ferrell Asset Administration Restricted.

“I’ve had a robust curiosity in growing a present like this, to offer international audiences with a glimpse right into a shadowy, harmful world. My work as a filmmaker – director, author and showrunner – takes me to many nice tales, to mine tough characters and to light up their brutality and their humanity. ‘SellBlock’ is all of that and extra,” mentioned Lopez.

“Working with BlackOps takes us one step nearer to the imaginative and prescient of a globally aggressive movie and TV trade from the Philippines. Within the final six years, we’ve got seen the elevation of Filipino arthouse movies within the prime movie festivals due to worldwide co-production with the Southeast Asian area and Europe,” mentioned Diño. “Now, with the streaming giants trying on the Philippines for content material manufacturing, we see a shift in our native mainstream trade to provide globally viable style content material that may be distributed to industrial markets and loved by audiences worldwide.”

Blue Fox operates as a distributor in North America and as a gross sales agent in worldwide territories. Its present gross sales slate consists of: “Aristotle and Dante Uncover the Secrets and techniques of the Universe,” produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda; “Area Oddity,” directed by Kyra Sedgwick; household comedy “Fashionable Principle,” starring Cheryl Hines, Sophia Reid-Ganzert, and Marc Evan Jackson; and the YA thriller “Jane” with Madelaine Petsch and Chloe Bailey.