Studio 100 Teams With Caligari on “Dougie Dolittle”
Studio 100 International, in collaboration with Germany’s Caligari Film and Studio Isar Animation, and Spain’s 3 Doubles Producciones, has started pre-production on their new action-comedy CGI movie, Dougie Dolittle.
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Inter Medya’s “Saýara” to Screen at Cannes Film Fest
Distributed by Turkey’s Inter Medya and produced by Inter Yapım, the revenge film Saýara, written and directed by Can Evrenol, is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival during (…)
TV as a Sleep Remedy
It turns out that radio and TV shows are better than sleeping pills. The Wall Street Journal has discovered that insomniacs and people who have difficulty sleeping tend to snooze off (…)
Geophil Acquires Turkish Dramas for Indian Market
Dubai-based Geophil has acquired a raft of Turkish drama series for distribution in India.
Titles acquired include popular digital series Ilk Ve Son (Deeply) from Calinos Entertainment; Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (Love Doesn’t Understand Words) from Inter (…)
Italy’s Rai Journalists Strike over Control by Government
Some journalists at Italian pubcaster Rai are on strike today to protest against budget streamlining and the alleged control by Georgia Meloni’s rightwing government over their work. Usigrai and FNSI (…)
EU Concerned About Meta’s Disinformation
The European Union has launched a formal investigation into tech giant Meta last week due to growing concerns about the management of disinformation on the platform. Meta may have violated (…)
Cannes Film Fest Workers Call for a Strike
French union Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma (“Under The Screens, The Waste: The Collective of Precarious Workers at Film Festivals”) called for a (…)
Prequel Films With Many Options
After reboots, remakes and sequels, Hollywood is now planning to entertain the world with prequels; feature films whose narrative moves in a time before the story of the established main (…)
Mediaset Celebrates Mike Bongiorno with ‘Wheel of Fortune’
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of late Italian presenter Mike Bongiorno (May 26, 1924-September 8, 2009), Italy’s Mediaset celebrates the TV personality with a new edition of Wheel of Fortune, hosted by Gerry (…)
Apollo’s Heel in Paramount Bid
If Paramount Global were to accept the joint bid from Apollo Global Management and Sony Pictures Entertainment, its Achilles’ heel would be the U.S. Antitrust Laws and U.S. regulations restricting (…)