While buying traditional network series might have become slightly more complicated for the worldwide market, and the weeklong sales pitch is no longer quite as opulent as it used to be, there was plenty of interest in the latest slate of dramas and comedies.
British broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 have revealed that the rise of SVOD services including Netflix and Amazon has lead to rising production and talent costs in the UK television sector.
The rising cost of drama production has been laid out by both broadcasters in their submission to the House of Lords…
After making a Cannes splash with its acquisition of Roland Emmerich’s big budget sci-fi project Moonfall, the newly-formed German indie conglomerate founded by KKR and Fred Kogel, has confirmed a series of further high-profile pick-ups made on the Croisette. They include Robert Lorenz’s The Minuteman starring Liam…
Netflix is moving into Egyptian drama with an adaptation of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's Paranormal.
The SVOD service has ordered the Middle Eastern series, which will be produced by Mohamed Hefzy and Amr Salama with the latter directing and showrunning.
The series is set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and…
To the delight of many Game of Thronesfans, the Sunday night void on HBO where new episodes of the fantasy series would normally air was filled with not a new episode, but a documentary titled Game of Thrones: The Last Watch from British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay. The docu, which aired Sunday night, chronicled David Ben…
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about the season 2 finale of Killing Eve. It’s no surprise that the season 2 finale of Killing Eve ended with lots of bloody twists and turns, but there is one particular maybe-death that will have audiences gasping and clutching their pearls for dear life.
In the final…
Director Matthew Vaughn said that the forthcoming Kingsman 3 will wrap up the saga of Taron “Eggsy” Egerton and his mentor, Colin “Harry” Firth.
The gimmicky British spy saga has seen the two survive the wipeout of virtually all of their fellow Kingsmen in 2017’s The Golden Circle, the sequel to 2014’s The Secret Servi…
Elton John claims that he had to fight to tell his story his way in ‘Rocketman.”
"Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven't led a PG-13 rated life," John said in an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian. "I didn't want a film packed with drugs and sex…
Simon Pagenaud edged Alexander Rossi Sunday in a close finish to win the 103rd Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
With 13 laps to go, Pagenaud and Rossi traded the lead at least a half-dozen times after a restart with 13 laps remaining. Pagenaud took the lead for good with a lap left and then had to…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney’s live-action take on the classic 1992 animated Aladdin rode to a $121M start at the international box office this weekend, coming in right at the top end of industry predictions with a better-than-expected debut in some Asian markets. The global three-day opening is $207.1M.
In North…
Bill Yoast, the football coach whose personality was portrayed by Will Patton in the film Remember The Titans, has died. He was 94 and passed at an assisted living facility in Springfield, Virginia, according to a news release from the Alexandria City Public Schools.
Yoast coached at Francis C. Hammond High School, an…
4TH UPDATE/Writethru, 2nd SUNDAY Update after 5:02AM post: Though Disney, which is usually conservative and safe with their estimate shows an $86.1M 3-day and $105M 4-day for Aladdin(still great numbers), industry averages believe Prince Ali will be much higher with a 3-day of $88.5M and a 4-day in the $110.9M range…
Corneliu Porumboiu returned to Cannes ten years after 2009's Police, Adjective with The Whistlers, one of the freshest genre hybrids in a festival full of them. Set in Porumboiu's native Romania, it concerns a corrupt cop who is in league with gangsters based on Gomera in the Canary Islands. But what makes this film…
Forty years after the Cannes Palme d'Or saved Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece from oblivion, the ultimate disruptor reflects on life before and after "Apocalypse Now."
