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International Industry Says Goodbye to MIPTV, Canneseries Promises to Return
The banner outside the Majestic Hotel said it all. “The Last Dance” read the message on the banner from Turkish-based television sales group Global Agency, a farewell gesture to the international TV market MIPTV, a fixture on the industry calendar since its launch in 1965, which will wrap its final edition this Wednesday. The billboard […]
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‘Chernobyl’ Director, ‘Slow Horses’ Writer to Adapt ‘Caledonian Road’ for TV (Exclusive)
Chernobyl director Johan Renck and production partner Michael Parets will adapt Andrew O’Hagan’s new epic British novel Caledonian Road for TV. Recently published by Faber to rave reviews, Caledonian Road is a Dickensian tale of the rise and fall of Campbell Flynn, an art historian and celebrity intellectual, told against the backdrop of modern-day Britain […]
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2024 Global Box Office Forecast Up Slightly, Still Below Last Year
Things are looking slightly better than expected. Timed to this year’s CinemaCon, analytics firm Gower Street released an updated forecast for the global box office that predicts revenues will be stronger than originally expected for 2024. Gower Street is projecting theatrical revenues this year will hit $32.3 billion, up from the $31.5 billion they originally […]
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Dawn Porter on How She’s Pivoted During the TV Downturn to Keep Telling Stories That Matter
“I bring you news from America, where commissions are plentiful and they all come within two weeks,” joked Dawn Porter, playing to the industry crowd at the international television market MIPTV on Sunday. It got a big laugh. Everyone in the audience knows the reality: That the era of peak TV is past and that […]
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‘Fallout’ Receives Warm Reception at Canneseries Premiere With Ella Purnell, Kyle MacLachlan
The international audience at the Canneseries television festival was the first worldwide to take a deep dive into Amazon’s Fallout, the hotly anticipated adaptation of the blockbuster video game franchise. The first two episodes of the series screened Saturday night in Cannes, just under a week before the show rolls out worldwide on Prime Video. […]
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Cannes Critics’ Week Names Spanish Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen Jury President
Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Stockholm, The Realm, Madre, The Beasts), who was nominated for the best international film honor at Italy’s David Di Donatello Awards, has been named jury president of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week, the festival sidebar run by the French film critics union that focuses on first and second features from up-and-coming […]
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Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis in First-Look Images From ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’
The BBC and Masterpiece PBS have revealed first-look images from Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, the hotly-anticipated miniseries sequel to the 2015 Emmy-nominated Wolf Hall. Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis reprise their roles as Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII in the adaptation of the book by Hilary Mantel, the final novel in […]
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Paola Cortellesi’s ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Leads Italy’s Donatello Awards Nominations
Paola Cortellesi’s There’s Still Tomorrow, a black-and-white feminist comedy that became the top-grossing film in Italy last year, is the frontrunner for the 2024 David Di Donatello Awards, Italy’s equivalent to the Oscars, with 19 nominations, including for best film. Cortellesi picked up a Donatello nomination for best directorial debut for There’s Still Tomorrow, which […]
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Is MIPTV on Its Last Legs?
Since 1965, MIPTV has been as regular as Thanksgiving. The international television market, held in Cannes every spring, has been a fixed part of the global industry calendar for decades. But despite the obvious appeal of the French Riviera, MIPTV is in trouble. Attendance at the market, which counted more than 10,000 official registrations in […]
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Ukraine Documentary Wins Vilnius Film Festival Best Film Award
Maciek Hamela’s In The Rearview, a documentary that follows the stories of Ukrainians forced to flee the war, has won best film at the 2024 Vilnius Film Festival. The Vilnius jury picked the “touching documentary” for its top prize in a unanimous vote. Filmed in the first days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the film […]
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Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox and ‘Saltburn’ Star Alison Oliver Items Up for Auction to Aid Palestinians in Gaza
Tilda Swinton, Ken Loach and Brian Cox are among the British film and TV VIPs contributing to an online auction to raise money for humanitarian relief for Palestinians in Gaza. Among the auction lots to bid on are an online bedtime story read by Swinton; tickets to Cox’s London stage performance of A Long Day’s […]
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Pro7 Board Rejects Berlusconi Family Plan to Split Up German Broadcaster
The executive and supervisory board of German media group ProSiebenSat.1 on Wednesday rejected proposals by the Berlusconi-backed MediaForEurope (MFE) group that would have radically restructured the company. MFE’s proposals would have seen ProSieben spin off its Dating & Video and Commerce & Ventures operations and appoint new, pro-MFE members to the group’s board. But ProSieben […]
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