Sundance is Underway, Ready to Move
The 41st annual Sundance Film Festival, the largest indie film festival in the U.S., is currently underway in its traditional Park City venue through February 2.
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Up the Ladder: FilmRise, Blink49
• New York City-based FilmRise has promoted Melissa Wohl to EVP, Global Distribution Partnerships and Content Sales, and Daniel Gagliardi to EVP Global Streaming Distribution and Strategy. (pictured)
In her new (…)
Big Media Inks Output Deal with RTL’s NTV
Global producer/distributor Big Media has expanded its partnership with RTL Deutschland by signing a multi-year output deal for its free-to-air news channel NTV. The deal includes an initial 14 hours (…)
‘The League of Extraordinary…’ Lands in The Nordics
Los Angeles-based TGC Global Entertainment has signed a new format deal for reality competition The League Of Extraordinary… ITV Studio Nordics has optioned the format for Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.
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Bell Media Inks Co-Development Deal with Pageboy
Bell Media and Pageboy Productions — founded by actor, producer, and advocate Elliot Page — have partnered to develop original scripted series for Crave and CTV.
“Canada holds a special place (…)
Dynamic to Rep Spanish Thriller ‘Innate’
Plano a Plano Bilbao has unveiled psychological thriller series Innate, created by Fran Carballal (Cicatriz, Una Vida Menos en Canarias) and Enrique Lojo (En Fin, Una Vida Menos en Canarias). Starring Elena (…)
New ITV Doc Investigates the Spycops Scandal
All3Media International is launching internationally new three-part docuseries Deep Deception. For more than 40 years, a secret unit of the U.K. undercover police were paid to spy on ordinary members of (…)
Brand Safety Now a Political Issue
At Facebook and Instagram speech freedom is coming with ad restrictions. This is because advertisers fear that eliminating fact-checking on content opens the door to misinformation or offensive speech, and (…)
Nielsen’s Big Data Added to Media Panel
Nielsen, the New York City-based media measurement company, is integrating its consumer-panel-based TV ratings with numbers drawn from third-party vendors such as smart TV manufacturers.
Nielsen calls the new service Big (…)
NBCUniversal Reorganizes TV Group
NBCUniversal Entertainment and Studios chairman Donna Langley has revealed that the company is bringing Universal Television, Bravo and Peacock programming under one organization, Universal Television Entertainment Group.
The new group will (…)