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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Berg’s Film 44 has renewed it creative partnership with Netflix to produce and direct live-action films and series. The news follows the success of Berg’s No. 1 limited series American Primeval, which spent four weeks on the Netflix Global Top 10 TV (English) and racked up 35.1 million views following its January debut.
Film 44’s Painkiller, the last limited series for Netflix directed by Berg, spent five weeks on the streamer’s Global Top 10 TV List (English) in 2023, accumulating 29.1M views.
The next project under the partnership is the feature adaptation of Buzz Bissinger’s New York Times bestseller The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II. Berg, who co-wrote the script with Mark L. Smith, will direct and is producing alongside Brian Grazer at Imagine and Alex Gayner. The story is set after the attack on
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