MEDIA RELEASE: Cineflix Rights launches MIPCOM 2025 slate

Cineflix Rights has unveiled its MIPCOM 2025 slate, featuring a new loveable family drama, a comedic thriller with A-List Hollywood talent, and a first look at a stunningly picturesque Nordic blue crime story alongside new lifestyle & property, factual entertainment, blue-chip history and true crime series as well as new seasons of hit brands from some of the world’s most creative producers.

Leading the distributor’s scripted slate is The Walsh Sisters (6×60’, Cuba Pictures and Metropolitan Pictures for RTÉ in association with the BBC, Screen Ireland and Cineflix Rights), based on the best-selling novels of Marian Keyes, is a darkly funny, emotionally raw drama about five Irish sisters bound by love, history, and a tendency to self-destruct.

HILDUR (6×60’, Take Two Studios and Sagafilm in association with IPR.VC for Ruutu, Iceland and Siminn, Finland), based on the novels by Satu Rämö, is the perfect example of the Nordic blue genre; a gripping crime thriller which also embraces the theme of families, friendships, humour and the power of love, while reflecting the remote Westfjords region of Iceland’s dramatic and stunning landscape.

Sunny Nights (8×60’, Jungle Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment in association with Cineflix Rights for Stan, Australia) is a darkly comedic crime drama directed and executive produced by Trent O’Donnell (Colin from Accounts, Hacks) starring Will Forte (The Four Seasons, Last Man on Earth, Bodkin) as strait-laced American Martin Marvin, who teams up with his loose cannon sister, Vicki, played by D’Arcy Carden (Nobody Wants This, The Good Place, Barry), to set up a spray tan business in Sydney.

Cineflix Rights’ factual slate includes:

A New Life in the Sun: Win a B&B (15×60’, True North Productions for Channel 4, UK) is an entertaining competition and actuality based format extension of one of the UK’s best-loved brands, in which couples compete for one of the most ambitious and audacious prizes ever–the keys to a gorgeous bed and breakfast property in the heart of the French countryside, and the chance to change their lives forever.

Top of the Block (40×30’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV Canada) features three design-savvy families in each episode going head-to-head in an all-out street fight by opening their doors to a brutally honest panel of their peers who tour—and judge—their beloved bespoke interiors for a chance to win cash, prizes, and neighbourhood bragging rights.

Kobe: The Making of a Legend (3×60’, CNN Original Productions, US) exploring the life and legacy of an American icon that continues to inspire and spark dialogue around greatness, redemption, and humanity, shedding light on the unseen forces that shaped his journey.

Rookie Truckers (8×60’, Prospero Productions for Seven Network Australia and Channel 5, UK) follows eager yet naive drivers who, for the first time, take on the wild and unforgiving Australian roads, in charge of some of the longest and heaviest vehicles in the world.

Recording Evil (3×60’, Totseret Ha’Aretz Productions, for KAN 11, Israel) based on the British Army’s secret recordings of Nazi soldiers and officers held as prisoners of war, that expose the atrocities of the Holocaust as told by the Nazis themselves in their own words, unaware that their conversations were being spied on.

New to Cineflix Right’s market leading true crime slate are:

Billionaire Boys Club (4×60’, CNN Original Productions, US), the true story of a gang of 25-year-old finance bros who set out to kidnap, rob, and eventually kill their affluent targets in Los Angeles at the height of 1980s Reagan-era glamour, glitz, and greed.

Most Likely to Murder (10×60’, Law&Crime Productions for Law&Crime Network, US) explores what happens when the most popular students in class turn out to be cold-blooded killers, revealing the secrets of the infamous young people who became engulfed in the dark world of crime.

Don’t Open the Door (20×60’, Cineflix and C3 Media for A&E, UK) delves into chilling tales of unsuspecting individuals whose lives are forever altered when a stranger knocks on their door and they are thrust into real-life nightmares when their unexpected guests reveal malevolent motives.

Kill/Switch (10×60’, Law&Crime Productions for Law&Crime Network, US) reveals how cunning modern criminals take their crimes to a whole new level, killing their victims and assuming their personas in an even more twisted version of identity theft.

These latest titles join returning seasons of long-running factual brands including Château DIY, A New Life in the Sun, Help! We Bought a Village, The Yorkshire Auction House, and award-winning format Tempting Fortune.

Tim Mutimer, CEO, Cineflix Rights said: “Our MIPCOM 2025 slate brings a much-loved Irish family from the pages of Marian Keyes’ best-selling novels into life for viewers, and a Nordic blue detective story set in one of the world’s most strikingly beautiful locations. On the factual front, we have an exciting competition format from one of the UK’s most popular lifestyle franchises, the inside track on the formative years of one of the biggest global sports stars ever, and a host of new titles for our market-leading true crime slate. Alongside these, we have fresh seasons of some of our buyers’ favourite dramas and factual hits, providing buyers with the best new and returning content from our incredibly creative producer partners from around the world.”

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