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EXCLUSIVE: The European Commission is preparing to make a competition ruling on Banijay Group’s $2.2BN takeover of Endemol Shine Group, setting a provisional date of June 30 for a decision. Securing clearance in Europe is the biggest antitrust hurdle Banijay needs to overcome to complete the acquisition from Disney and Apollo Global Management, creating the largest […]

A series of high-profile names have committed to speaking at CARLA 2020, a digital conference focusing on creating lasting structural change in the film and TV industries post-COVID-19. Keynote speakers will include Belle filmmaker Amma Asante, new Sundance director Tabitha Jackson, Swedish Film Institute CEO Anna Serner, and broadcaster Mo Abudu. They will open the […]

A+E Networks UK has commissioned a nine-part competition series for Sky History in which carpenters compete to be crowned Britain’s Top Woodworker. The Chop: Britain’s Top Woodworker is produced by Big Wheel Film & Television and Motion Content Group, and will be hosted by comedian Lee Mack, presenter Rick Edwards, and carpenter William Hardie. In […]

There can’t be many examples of this – Kurt Wimmer, whose credits include writing and directing Equilibrium, has wrapped production on a feature film shot on set entirely during the lockdown. This project is a yet-to-be-titled reimagining of Stephen King’s short story Children Of The Corn, which has already spawned 10 feature movies prior to […]

Snabba Cash (Easy Money), the Swedish Netflix original series that is being produced by SF Studios, is underway in Stockholm. Evin Ahmad, known from the feature film Dröm Vidare and two Netflix series Quicksand and The Rain season 2, is playing the lead. The show is a reboot of a trilogy of feature films based on the Stockholm Noir books […]

It’s been a troubling week for All3Media production company Lime Pictures, which is now facing accusations of discriminating against black people on two of its biggest shows. Following allegations from actress Rachel Adedeji about the treatment of black cast members on Hollyoaks, Vas J Morgan has raised questions about his treatment on ITV scripted reality […]

Spike Lee stopped in online to talk with Trevor Noah about his new film Da 5 Bloods, which depicts African American vets returning to Vietnam to seek the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.  Lee’s talk topics rambled from Crispus Attucks to Colin Kaepernick to the New York […]

Denise Cronenberg, the sister of film director David Cronenberg and a prominent costume designer who dressed such stars as Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, and Jeremy Irons, has died. She passed May 22 at Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario, Canada at age 81 from complications of old age. “We would put on […]

In a sit-down with President Donald Trump on Thursday, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner asked him about his response to protests and unrest in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd. “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump wrote on Twitter on May 28. Reporters quickly pointed […]

E! has picked up a sixth season of docuseries Total Bellas, which follows the lives of WWE stars Nikki Bella and Brie Bella. The NBCUniversal cable network will launch the next run of the show later this fall. Season 5 of the show, which ends tonight, June 11, featured Nikki and Artem’s French engagement and […]

Joe Biden raised money at a star-filled virtual fundraiser on Thursday that included performances by Jennifer Hudson, John Legend and Andra Day, jokes from Jay Leno, and a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump by Barbra Streisand. “Think of how many lives could have been saved if he had paid attention to the warnings and acted […]