SYFY'S "VAN HELSING" JOINS COMIC-CON@HOME JULY 23 TO GIVE FANS A BITE OF THE UPCOMING FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON
LOS ANGELES, CA - July 9, 2020 - Dynamic Television and Nomadic Pictures announced today that the cast of SYFY's action-horror series Van Helsing will join Comic-Con@Home, hosted by San Diego Comic-Con, with a virtual panel on Thursday, July 23rd at 5:00 PM PT on the Comic-Con YouTube Channel.
Series stars Kelly Overton (True Blood), Jonathan Scarfe (Hell on Wheels), Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Aleks Paunovic (Continuum), Keeya King (Jigsaw) and Nicole Munoz (Defiance) will join showrunner Jonathan Lloyd Walker, and executive producers Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes to give fans a first taste of what's in store for the explosive fifth and final season in a Q&A moderated by producer Morris Chapdelaine. The hour-long horror is the first dramatic series to return to production in Canada and is still expected to premiere this fall with 13 all-new episodes to conclude its epic tale.
Van Helsing is a total re-imagination of a timeless brand, set in a world dominated and controlled by vampires. In its final season, Vanessa, Violet, and Jack will risk it all to finally bring an end to the Dark One once and for all. The Van Helsings must figure out ways to escape and evade the various obstacles in their path to prevent them from their mission, leading to an epic final showdown between the Van Helsings and the Dark One.
The series airs on SYFY in the U.S., on SuperEcran in Quebec, Canada, and globally on Netflix. The series stars Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Tricia Helfer, Nicole Munoz, Keeya King, and Aleks Paunovic.
Van Helsing is produced by Chad Oakes and Mike Friselv of Nomadic Pictures (Fargo, Hell On Wheels) along with Morris Chapdelaine and Chris Rudolph. Jonathan Lloyd Walker (Continuum, Wu Assassins) serves as Showrunner. Executive producers are Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev (Nomadic Pictures), Dave Brown and Zadoc Angell (Echo Lake Entertainment), Jonathan Walker as well as Daniel March (Dynamic Television). Dynamic Television handles the worldwide distribution for the series, excluding first run U.S. television and Canada.
About Dynamic Television:
DYNAMIC TELEVISION is an independent production and distribution company with a global strategy to bring premium television programming to worldwide audiences. Dynamic's series include ALMOST NEVER, the #1 rated teen series from CBBC in the UK; TRAPPED, the critically acclaimed Icelandic crime drama from award-winning filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur; the critically acclaimed Flemish heist series THE DAY; from DR and creator Christian Torpe the Danish suspense thriller DELIVER US; the hit series VAN HELSING (SYFY) now in production on Season 5; Z NATION a top-rated show for SYFY; the five-time Emmy nominated series EAST LOS HIGH (Hulu) and MADIBA (BET), a six-part mini-series starring Laurence Fishburne. Set to premiere in 2020 are the upcoming series GINNY & GEORGIA (Netflix) and the Danish crime procedural THE SOMMERDAHL MURDERS for TV2 and ZDF.
About Nomadic Pictures:
Nomadic Pictures is a Canadian based production company, developing, financing and producing features, MOW's, Mini-Series and TV series. In 25 years, Nomadic has produced over ninety-three (93) television & film projects worth a combined $950 million in production and remains one of the most active production companies in North America.
In addition to their seventy-one (71) Emmy Nominations and countless awards, Oakes and Frislev won three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Childern's/Youth/Family Special for "The Incredible Mrs. Ritche" (Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers) (Showtime). In 2005, Nomadic Produced AMC's first scripted Original mini-series, "Broken Trail" (Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church), which in 2007, went on to be nominated for 16 Primetime Emmys(R), winning four awards including Best Mini-Series. In 2014 & 2015, Nomadic's Chad Oakes & Mike Frislev took home an Emmy(R), a Golden Globe(R), a Television Critic's Award and a Producers Guild Award for Best Mini-series with "Fargo" (Billy Bob Thorton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Alison Tolman) (FX/MGM). In 2016 & 2017, "Fargo" Season 2 and 3 received a combined Thirty-Four Emmy nominations, including Emmy's noms for Best Mini-series.
In 2019, Nomadic produced Season 4 of "Van Helsing" (SYFY/Netflix/SuperEcran), Season 2 of "The Order" (Netflix), two pilots "Chad" (TBS/Turner) & "Ride or Die" (PopTV) and the Feature "LAND" (Focus Features/Big Beach).
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