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By Mike Reynolds

Hollywood seems to like sequels on small and large screens, but 2024 may see a very different kind of sequel — and not a very pleasant one, at (…)

The official news came out on Tuesday, March 5, 2024: “The 2025 editions of Realscreen Summit and NATPE Global will co-locate at the InterContinental Miami hotel. Spanning the week of (…)

By Dom Serafini

In September 2022, a year before U.S. car executives were looking to cash in on their Electric Vehicle (EV) bets, being a so-called “know-it-all,” I wrote for a (…)

If sports TV channels in the U.S. are reportedly in troubled waters, in Italy, football clubs are the ones drowning in the Red Sea. Financial losses are engulfing the Serie (…)

By Mike Reynolds

A return of the televised Golden Globe Awards show from Hollywood in January 2024 had many people wondering if the elimination of the organizer, the former Hollywood Foreign (…)

By Dermot Horan*

Well into the early 2000s, content buyers used to go to Brighton, in the U.K., for the BBC Showcase market. It was held in a rather old-fashioned conference (…)

On Italian broadcast TV all Dick Wolf series (including Law & Order, FBI, and Chicago PD) get a red dot on the side of the screen, indicating the presence of (…)

The “Mere Exposure Effect” is a scientific term for people’s tendency to like things just because they have been exposed to them repeatedly. This term could even be applied to (…)

It’s February, which means it’s time to talk about the L.A. Screenings. So, here’s a preliminary calendar. The indie portion will start on Tuesday, May 14, with set-up at the (…)

Recently, journalists, commentators, and pundits alike have been warning us not to trust predictions for 2024. Especially those that have anything to do with finances. They seem to agree with (…)