Netflix’s ‘Lady Voyeur’ Creator Sets TV Adaptations at Waterside Studios (Exclusive)
Corus Entertainment’s Waterside Studios has nabbed the TV adaptation rights to two YA novels by Argentina’s Marcela Citterio: The Girl Who Didn’t Want to Be a Princess and Uma Ghost. Toronto-based Waterside Studios will develop for global young adult audiences live-action, English-language series based on both novels from the creator and writer of Netflix’s Lady […]
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Gigi Hadid Condemns “Terrorizing of Innocent People” After Hamas Attacks on Israel
Half-Palestinian supermodel Gigi Hadid has commented publicly on the current wave of Israel-Palestine violence after the terrorist organization Hamas launched attacks on southern Israel. “The terrorizing of innocent people is not in alignment with & does not do any good for the ‘Free Palestine’ movement,” Hadid said in a lengthy post on her Instagram account […]
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Dan Abrams’ Law&Crime Network Sold to Jellysmack
Video content creator Jellysmack has acquired the Law&Crime Network, founded by legal analyst and TV host Dan Abrams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition will bring Jellysmack a raft of video content, which includes Law&Crime’s YouTube channel for live trial footage and other true crime-related content that has earned over 3 billion […]
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To Rival Netflix, 8 European Broadcasters Team to Commission and Share Prestige TV Dramas
Eight northern European public broadcasters have come together to jointly commission high-end dramas and share their scripted series with one another, while also selling internationally. The new collaboration, New8, is partnered by ZDF (Germany), NPO (The Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RÚV (Iceland) and NRK (Norway). Their immediate goal is co-producing eight […]
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Lionsgate, Ebony Magazine to Launch FAST Channel
Lionsgate has inked a deal with the parent of Ebony magazine to launch a free ad-supported channel, Ebony TV by Lionsgate. The new FAST channel will offer premium content from Lionsgate’s library and will launch on Oct. 11 on Samsung TV Plus. “Ebony is the perfect partner to help bring our expansive library to a […]
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Warner Music Group Names Carletta Higginson Chief Digital Officer
As Warner Music Group looks to drive more revenue from music streaming services and introduce artificial intelligence tools, the major label has tapped former YouTube and Google Play veteran Carletta Higginson as its new executive vp and chief digital officer, effective October 16. Higginson is set to join WMG, home to the likes of Ed Sheeran, […]
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Sean Penn’s ‘C*A*U*G*H*T’ Hostage Satire Pulled From MIPCOM Amid Israel-Hamas War
Amid breaking news coverage of the attacks on Israel, Fremantle has decided against bringing the Australian satirical comedy C*A*U*G*H*T, which stars and is executive produced by Sean Penn, to MIPCOM for promotion and international sales amid the expanding conflict with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. “In light of the current situation unfolding in Israel, […]
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Emily Blunt Hustles for Riches in Latest ‘Pain Hustlers’ Trailer
Emily Blunt frantically hustles for a better life, only to fall deeper into a dangerous racketeering scheme, in the official trailer for David Yates’ Pain Hustlers, which Netflix released on Tuesday. Dreaming of riches for herself and her young daughter, Liza Drake, played by Blunt, lands a job from Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) at a failing pharma startup […]
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Imax China Shareholders Vote Down $124M Buyout
A proposed $124 million deal by Imax to acquire a 28.5 percent stake in its Shanghai-based Imax China unit that it does not already own has been voted down by shareholders. On Tuesday, the cinema technologies company said an Oct. 9 extraordinary general meeting led to shareholders voting 70 percent of the buyout proposal, which […]
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Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Faraway Downs’ to World Premiere at Inaugural SXSW Sydney Fest
Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs, a six part series that extends his 2008 epic Australia, will close the inaugural SXSW Sydney Screen Festival on Oct. 21 with a world premiere. The Elvis filmmaker will be on hand to present the limited series told in six chapters and starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Brandon Walters […]
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‘The Day After’ Director Nicholas Meyer to Exec Produce Daniel Ellsberg Documentary ‘How to Stop Nuclear War’
Nicholas Meyer, director of ABC’s groundbreaking 1983 TV movie The Day After, is set to executive produce Paul Jay’s How to Stop a Nuclear War feature documentary, based on the book Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by the late Daniel Ellsberg. The Day After, which aired Nov. 20, 1983 on ABC, vividly depicted a fictional full-scale […]
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Angus Cloud Becomes Hostage-Taker With ‘Your Lucky Day’ Trailer in One of His Final Film Roles
Before his death at age 25 in late July, Angus Cloud — known for playing Fezco on the hit HBO series Euphoria for two seasons — finished filming a star turn in writer-director Dan Brown’s thriller Your Lucky Day. The trailer for Brown’s lotto-win hostage flick, which dropped on Friday, reveals Cloud as Sterling, a petty criminal-turned-hostage taker in […]
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