NATPE Budapest Means Business
NATPE Budapest opened today its 2025 edition with remarkable momentum, welcoming over 750 delegates from more than 65 countries, including over 400 buyers and over 100 exhibitors and partners representing (…)
All3Media’s “The Traitors” Travels to LatAm
All3Media International has inked a deal with NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct To Consumer Latin America for “The Traitors.” Under the deal, NBCUniversal has acquired the rights to produce local versions of the reality competition (…)
China’s Big Presence at Sunny Side of the Doc
For the eighth year running, the China pavilion will be supporting international co-productions at Sunny Side of the Doc, the doc-focused event that starts today in La Rochelle, France, and (…)
ITV Partners with Paprika Studios on Formats
Paprika Studios will exclusively represent six of ITV Studios’ non-scripted formats across Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
This collaboration brings together a diverse mix of non-scripted formats (…)
The Series Craze Continues with IGSF
Italy has chosen to jump on the series mania bandwagon, creating its own Italian Global Series Festival (IGSF), which opened its premier event on Saturday, June 21, in the beach-town (…)
TikTok Ban Deadline Gets Extension
President Trump has signed an executive order today extending for additional 90 days (until September 17, 2025) the deadline for ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell its platform to (…)
Conecta Wraps Up Ninth Edition
The ninth edition of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, held from June 16 to 19 in Cuenca (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), concludes today with a total of 700 participants from 31 countries.
Participation (…)
Sphere Abacus Acquires Space Docs
Sphere Abacus has acquired two feature documentaries that showcase the remarkable endeavors of astronauts in the U.S. space program.
Hannah Berryman’s latest film Spacewoman has been acquired for worldwide distribution, excluding North America, (…)
WB Pictures to Distribute GMA’s “P77”
GMA Pictures’ upcoming horror film “P77” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and will hit theaters on July 30.
P77 (Penthouse 77) is a psychological horror film based on a story by Anj Atienza (…)
An Old Idea Now in Use, But Not Widely
By Dom Serafini
On April 14, 1998, I wrote in the Italian financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore, that RAI, Italy’s state-owned broadcaster, should replace each of its three TV channels’ (…)