If the company’s hit musical wins any of the 12 Tonys for which it is nominated on Sunday, it will have completed the feat in six-and-a-half years, besting Netflix’s current record of 12 years.
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Cercamon has picked up sales agency duties on tragicomedy “Black Money for White Nights,” which has its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Crystal Globe Competition. The Bulgaria-Greece co-production is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, and written by Grozeva, Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov. Marina, 65, a maternity nurse, and […]
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After serving as a minority partner to Spain’s Lastor Media on the Toronto-winning Spanish pic “They Will Be Dust,” established Swiss banner Alina Film is majority-producing with Lastor the period road movie “The Indies,” (“Les Indes”) which will be sneak-peeked as a work in progress at ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, running June 9-11. […]
Continue ReadingThe ‘Swiss Army Man’ producer just couldn’t say no to ‘The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes,’ the genre-bending feature directorial debut of Thanasis Neofotistos, which just premiered at SXSW London.
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BBC Studios has forged a newly-created global formats role for Karl Warner in L.A. Warner is relocating to the U.S. and being tasked with “identifying, partnering with, and scaling the next generation of creator led IP for global television formats” in an EVP, Global Creator Partnerships & Creative Development post, for which he will report […]
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Damai Entertainment, the Chinese film company previously known as Alibaba Pictures, has revealed the international rollout plans for surprise $223M hit Dear You, starting with Hong Kong and other Chinese-speaking territories later this month. The relatively small drama, released on April 30, has surprised the local industry by becoming the second-highest grossing film of the […]
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Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo is among investors backing Latin American microdrama platform Idilio. WndrCo joined a16z Speedrun, Goodwater Capital, Precursor Ventures and Latin American fintech leader David Vélez in a $5.5M seed funding round. Idilio is being positioned as at the intersection of popular Latin American telenovelas and the vertical video world, with an AI-powered engine […]
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Disney+ EMEA boss Karl Holmes has made the case for the streamer being the platform of choice for young adults in the UK. The executive unveiled data from UK ratings agency Barb that found almost 40% of viewing hours on the Disney+ platform are from 16-34 year olds, which was ahead of Netflix (32%), Prime […]
Continue ReadingDisney+ EMEA boss Karl Holmes has made the case for the streamer being the platform of choice for young adults in the UK. The executive unveiled data from UK ratings agency Barb that found almost 40% of viewing hours on the Disney+ platform are from 16-34 year olds, which was ahead of Netflix (32%), Prime […]
Continue ReadingKarl Holmes, at an industry conference in London, also highlighted the streamer’s top young adult audience share and 80 percent ad revenue growth in the U.K., hit ‘Rivals’ and the strength of its movie lineup.
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