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Macey Chipping, the star of the BBC series Mystic, based on the best selling YA novels written by Stacy Gregg, has signed with Inspire Entertainment for management. The series follows Issie (Chipping), a girl who struggles to fit in after moving to New Zealand from the UK with her mother following the death of her…

The reverberations of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's stunning Quibi shutdown are being felt both in financial circles — where the $2 billion failure cements itself as a cautionary tale — and in Hollywood’s beleaguered creative community where many believe Quibi’s demise will make it harder for the next big idea…

An inquiry into the fatal incident that took the life of UK cameraman Mark Milsome closed today with a ruling of "accidental death". Milsome was killed in November 2017 in Ghana while filming a stunt scene on BBC and Netflix series Black Earth Rising. The inquest took place at West London Coroner's Court this week…

Event cinema outfit Secret Cinema received a backlash 10 days ago after it was revealed the company had be given a £977,000 ($1.3M) grant from the UK government as part of its Culture Recovery Fund. Today, the company quietly released a statement on its website from CEO Max Alexander defending its position. "2020 has…

EXCLUSIVE: Yitzhak Rabin, the former Israeli PM whose assassination in 1995 rocked the Middle East, will be the subject of a new high-end miniseries from Ariel Vromen, the Los Angeles-based Israeli filmmaker whose credits include the 2012 crime pic The Iceman. The six-part show will be titled The Leader and is being…

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Kolstad, scribe and creator of the John Wick franchise and co-writer of the upcoming Marvel mini-series The Falcon And the Winter Soldier, is teaming up with Swiss producer-distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment, director Claudio Faeh (Northmen – A Viking Saga) and producer Christopher Milburn (Unhinged…

Stath Lets Flats Renewed For Season 3 Channel 4 has commissioned a third season of BAFTA-winning comedy Stath Lets Flats. Created by Fleabag actor Jamie Demetriou and produced by Roughcut TV, the comedy follows the career of hapless realtor Stath and his family business, Michael & Eagle. Stath Lets Flats, which was…

Hello International Insider readers, Tom Grater here with our pick of the news from the world of film and TV this week. QUIBI QUICK-BITES THE DUST Quibye: Farewell Quibi, we barely knew ye. The service launched by heavyweights Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman in April this year, which aimed to revolutionize short…

Damian Kavanagh, the managing director of Peaky Blinders and Netflix’s Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father producer Tiger Aspect, is stepping down after nearly two years. Kavanagh joined Tiger Aspect in 2019 after a spell running BBC Three, where he commissioned shows including Fleabag. His departure follows Tiger…

Netflix is aiming to grow its production of anime content by signing four deals with creators in Japan and Korea. The producers are Japan’s NAZ, Science SARU, MAPPA, and Korea's Studio Mir, and take the streamer's total content deals in the two territories to nine. Each deal is a non-exclusive production line…

A government-mandated curfew that was set in place in France last week has been widely extended across the country, and will come into effect from Friday night. An estimated 46M people (69% of the population) will be impacted by the new measures announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex this evening. Residents of the 54…

BritBox, the ITV and BBC joint-venture streamer, has promoted Emily Powers to lead its North American operations following the departure of president and CEO Soumya Sriraman earlier this month. Powers, currently SVP and commercial head, will become executive vice president and head of BritBox North America after being…