Новости за 14.05.2020

The IAB has revealed details for the virtual NewFront presentations in June, adding newer presenters like TikTok and Roku to a roster full of mainstays like Hulu and YouTube. The NewFronts, usually a splashy New York affair that leads up to the traditional TV upfronts in May, will be held this year will be June […]

EXCLUSIVE: Orlando von Einsiedel, whose short doc The White Helmets picked up the 2017 Academy Award, is teaming with National Geographic to launch a series of short films celebrating Nobel Peace Prize Laureates from around the world. The five docs will launch on Nat Geo’s YouTube channel on May 20. Three are making world premieres, while […]

The BBC’s director of content Charlotte Moore has revealed that the British broadcaster is planning to resume filming on Top Gear and EastEnders next month following the coronavirus production shutdown. In a blog on the BBC website, Moore said production will restart on the BBC Studios car show and soap opera by the end of […]

Germany’s Constantin Film has been awarded the Federal Film Board’s Branchentiger prize for the top local producer and distributor of 2019. This is the 13th consecutive year that the Resident Evil and Perfect Strangers maker has won the award. With it comes 3.1M euros in funding for seven new in-house productions as well as 600K […]

HBO Max and Quibi will give keynotes as part of the Cannes Marché’s online version of Meet The Streamers. The second edition of the industry strand will be part of the Marché du Film Online, which will run from June 22 to 26. Meet The Streamers will also include VOD-focused panels and conversations. The HBO keynote, […]

Netflix has taken world rights to Polish director Jan Komasa’s The Hater, which won Best International Narrative Feature at this year’s digital Tribeca Film Festival. Komasa is the director of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Polish feature Corpus Christi. His previous projects include Suicide Room, Warsaw Uprising and Warsaw 44. His latest feature, written by Mateusz Pacewicz, […]

Wattpad Studios is developing the features What Happened That Night and The Hound. Both titles come from their library of Wattpad stories and are part of Wattpad’s Development Fund which finances early development for select TV and film projects. The new fund uses data-backed insights to uncover stories and trends that can be adapted for TV, film, […]

Johnny Depp’s former lovers Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis have rallied around the actor, submitting statements defending his character as part of a libel trial in the UK courts. Depp is suing Dan Wootton, the executive editor of The Sun, and the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, for defamation over an article […]

Amazon Prime Video India has made its biggest direct-to-service movie acquisition in the shape of Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana comedy Gulabo Sitabo. The Hindi-language comedy will launch exclusively on the streaming service on June 12 and will be simultaneously available in 200 countries worldwide. The film was originally due to launch theatrically earlier this […]

Twitter has told its employees that they can continue working from home as long as they like, even after the pandemic eases. To Trevor Noah, that brings some advantages – and one big problem. “I hope more companies follow suit,” he said. The good news is that “your daily commute is like five seconds. Your […]

He’s holed up at his home like everyone else, but two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu has been busy for the last six months restoring his first feature film, Amores Perros, on the occasion of its 20th birthday. The film won the Prize of the Critic’s Week at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. At a Zoom-based […]

UPDATE: Eric Eremita, the popular contractor from HGTV’s Love It Or List It and Brother vs Brother, is recovering from the coronavirus and detailing for the first time what he went through in his battle against the disease. Eremita, age 51, was in a New York hospital for three weeks, two of them on a ventilator. He […]