Film / TV
Cannes Mayor ‘Certain’ Mipcom Will Take Place in October (Screen Daily)
City of Cannes mayor David Lisnard has set his sights set on holding a physical Mipcom in October, following this year’s successful edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which has... More
ZOO Digital Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever, Tweaks Strategy (Slator)
ZOO’s Media Services division fared well, more than doubled during the year, as demand for services such as content preparation and digital packaging climbed during the pandemic.... More
Euro Final Most-Watched UK Broadcast in 20+ Years (DTE)
According to figures from BARB, the game was watched by 29.85m people across the BBC and ITV. Viewership peaked at 30.95 million. The average total represented an 82% share of the ... More
Will the Cannes Film Festival Kick Off a Global Comeback Post-Lockdown? (THR)
From shorter theatrical windows to streaming giants with more buying power than ever, the industry landscape has changed radically in the past year.... More
Warner Bros Opens New Virtual Production Stage at Leavesden (TVB)
Warner Bros UK is launching three new sound stages at its complex in Leavesden, just outside of London. The new stages provide the complex with 83,000 square foot of additional pro... More
England’s Historic Euro 2020 Win Over Germany Nets BBC 20.6M Audience Peak (Mediatel)
The match drew in an average of 13m viewers, according to BARB overnight figures. The broadcast, which ran from 4pm to 7.30pm on BBC One, achieved an audience share of 69% of the a... More
European Film Institutions Join Forces for Anti-Racism Task Force (Screen Daily)
The task force was the brainchild of Matthijs Wouter Knol, the newly appointed director of the European Film Academy, who quickly aligned with key colleagues who were also passiona... More
Why the French TV Drama Boom is ‘Just the Beginning’ (Screen Daily)
Long considered the poor relation to cinema in France, the country’s TV drama scene is sizzling as boundaries break down amid a content boom.... More
Spherex Debuts New Technology to Culture-Fit Movies, TV Shows for Global Audiences
SpherexGreenlight is a revolutionary new technology solution that combines machine learning and human curation to capture societal and cultural cues from more than 120 countries ar... More
Content’s Cultural Conundrum (Spherex Blog)
Rather than relying on traditional “subs and dubs” to export foreign content to consumers worldwide, production companies are starting to create local and culturalised versions... More
Piracy Still a Major Challenge in the Nordic Region (Señal News)
14% of all people 15-74 years old in the Nordics have illegally streamed or downloaded films and TV episodes in the past month, according to research from Mediavision.... More
FabriQ Taps Red Bee to Bring Vrienden van Amstel Online (Red Bee Blog)
An online audience of 1.7 million viewers across 120 countries for a 23-year-old wildly popular event being held virtually for the first time. And… with only two weeks prep tim... More
Portugal Broadcasts First Football Matches Over 5G (TVB)
5G has been used on camera feeds, to help create a hologram of one of the players, and to enable a roving reporter to move around the stadium.... More
Deluxe, Motion Picture Solutions Set Joint Venture (Deadline)
Deluxe and film services company Motion Picture Solutions have entered into a joint venture after Deluxe acquired 50% of Netherlands-based film delivery firm Gofilex. The companies... More
Report: 40% of UK Production Workforce See Virtual Production as a Key Disruptor (TVB)
Virtual production, remote working, and machine learning are among the key technologies expected to impact the UK’s production sector in the coming years, according to the Screen... More
Why Local-Language Adaptations are the Next Round of Remakes (THR)
Despite a recently announced wave of U.S. remakes of foreign films, the "much larger business" is in creating local-language adaptations as streamers court international subscriber... More
How to Build Better Relationships With Your Localisation QA Provider (Keywords Studios)
As the industry continues to mature, publishers and developers are increasingly turning to specialist service providers to reduce costs, improve quality and bring new content to ma... More
Italy Deals Major Blows to IPTV Pirates (AT)
Italy’s Financial Police, based in Milan, have identified and seized two illegal IPTV transmission centres located in Switzerland and Sicily.... More
Amazon to ‘Reimagine and Develop’ MGM Shows After $8.45B Deal (DTE)
The acquisition will see more than 17,000 hours of MGM TV fall under the Amazon banner, ranging from dramas such as Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale to unscripted series including S... More
RIP to the 90-Day Theatrical Window (Variety)
The decades-old staple of the film world slipped the surly bonds of Earth during COVID, perhaps the most consequential example of how the pandemic has upended the cinema business.... More