Tim Roth-starring Australian drama Last King of The Cross Sky Europe picked it up, marking the first major sales of Paramount+ in Europe as it heads towards Mipcom Cannes.
Sky has acquired the show to be used on its UK, Ireland and Italy service. The deal was made with Cineflix Rights.
Inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography, Helium’s 10-parter stars Academy Award-nominee Roth as Ezra Shipman, a kingpin in Sydney’s Kings Cross nightclub district in the 1980s and 1990s. Roth was the one who replaced Ian McShane as one of the leading roles earlier in this year.
Lincoln Younes, Claude Jabbour and Claude Jabbour are two Lebanese teens who arrived in Australia as teenagers. They quickly became part of an underground and made a name for their self as they were caught up in the Kings Cross cocaine wave.
Paramount+ Australia has given the show its green light and Cineflix Rights is the exclusive international distributor. Produced by Mark Fennessy and Karl Zwicky, and executive produced by Fennessy and Ibrahim, the drama is written by Kieran Darcy- Smith, Morgan O’Neill, Jane Allen, Alastair Newton Brown, Matt Nable, and James Pope, and directed by Darcy-Smith, Grant Brown, Catherine Millar, and Ian Watson.
Cineflix Rights Head for Scripted James Durie called Sky Atlantic the “The” “perfect home.”
“With its setting in the crime-infested, but very sexy district of Kings Cross in 1980s/90s Sydney, this series really has standout appeal to international buyers,”He concluded.