EXCLUSIVE: Having premiered at Venice in 2024, Thomas Vinterberg’s drama Households Like Ours has been picked up by Netflix for the U.S. and can launch on the streamer on June 10.
Households Like Ours is the first collection from Vinterberg, the Oscar-winning One other Spherical filmmaker and co-founder of the Dogma 95 motion. The drama has already offered to the BBC within the UK and a raft of worldwide patrons. Studiocanal is dealing with distribution and sealed the Netflix sale.
Zentropa developed Households Like Ours with Studiocanal and it’s an authentic collection for TV2 Denmark and Canal+ in France. Set in a not-too-distant future, it follows occasions after rising water ranges pressure Denmark to be evacuated. Those that can afford it journey to prosperous international locations. The much less well-off, in the meantime, rely upon government-funded relocation to more difficult locations, casting a brand new spin on a refugee story. In opposition to this backdrop we meet Laura (Amaryllis August), a pupil on the cusp of commencement. When information of the evacuation breaks, she faces the inconceivable dilemma of selecting between the folks she loves essentially the most. “International locations disappear, love stays,” reads an outline of the collection.
“It’s great how an inherently Danish collection like Households Like Ours, via a platform like Netflix, can journey far and large and ring a bell with audiences around the globe,” Vinterberg mentioned.
He added: “On this more and more divided world, it offers me each pleasure and hope to see that there’s a common language — a standard floor rooted in shared human experiences. Hopefully, that sense of connection continues throughout the Atlantic.”
The present was produced by Zentropa for TV2 in Denmark. The collection had a strong competition run; after debuting at Venice in 2024, it performed at Toronto and the London Movie Competition. The present has already bowed on TV2 in Denmark.
Vinterberg and wrote the seven-part collection with Bo Hr. Hansen. It was shot in Denmark, Sweden, France, Romania, and the Czech Republic. There are a raft of co-production companions together with NRK, TV4, ARD Degeto, Movie i Väst, Sirena Movie, Zentropa Sweden, Saga Movie and Ginger Footage.
One other Spherical producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing produced. Households Like Ours additionally reunites Vinterberg and Zentropa with Studiocanal, which distributed One other Spherical within the UK.
The Netflix deal follows gross sales to quite a few broadcasters and platforms together with Movistar Plus+ (Spain), CBC Gem (Canada) and SBS (Australia).
“With the assist of CANAL+ and all of our companions we’ve got taken nice satisfaction in bringing Vinterberg’s deeply human and common story of affection and hope to such a large viewers,” mentioned Chloé Marquet, Studiocanal’s Head Of Worldwide Gross sales for Movies & TV Collection. “Netflix is now the proper place for the collection to thrive and resonate far past borders.”
