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Hello International Insider friends, and happy Friday. Jake Kanter with you this week, and here’s everything you need to know about the global film and TV business. If you want to subscribe to get this alert in a timely fashion, sign up here. ‘Mulan’ Mayhem Another turbulent week in the world of cinemas: If you […]

Germany’s largest organization of cinema operators, HDF Kino, has issued a statement weighing in on the controversy swirling around Disney’s decision to put Mulan directing onto Disney+ in major markets. The move has prompted an angry response from international exhibitors. As Deadline reported this week, UK cinema owners called it a “f*ck you to exhibitors”, […]

NBC News and MSNBC on Sunday will start a weeklong series of special reports on education in America amid the coronavirus crisis, as schools grapple with reopening or starting fall classes with online learning. Coronavirus and the Classroom will include an Aug. 13 primetime NBC special anchored by Lester Holt, with correspondents and newsmakers with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Van Ditthavong’s feature directorial debut All Roads To Pearla (formerly known as Sleeping In Plastic), which had its world premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival. The crime-thriller stars Alex MacNicoll, Addison Timlin, Corin Nemec, Nick Chinlund and Dash Mihok. The film dark coming-of-age tale is set […]

EXCLUSIVE: Fulwell 73 has secured the rights to turn Helen Cresswell’s young adult novel Moondial into an ambitious time travel drama after the book inspired a popular BBC series of the same name in 1988. The James Corden-backed company will team with Matt Lopez, who wrote Nicolas Cage starrer The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Dwayne Johnson’s […]

ITV is moving its celebrity reality show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! from Australia to the UK after staging the show in its usual New South Wales home proved too challenging amid coronavirus. Ant and Dec will host Season 20 as usual, but it will be set in the ruins of a countryside […]

Keke Palmer is to join the cast of Disney+ series The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder, which is currently in production. Palmer will play the role of Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, a 14-year-old activist who relentlessly marches to the beat of her own drum. Yesterday, the cast and executive producers of the popular animated series of almost […]

Talk show host Seth Meyers tonight ran down two of President Donald Trump’s most recent television interviews, bringing forth some highly ascerbic takes on what was really said during the discussions. First, there was Trump’s interview with Axios, which Meyers said “could have doubled as an in-take at a psych ward.” To redeem himself, Meyers […]

EXCLUSIVE: This could get messy. The TV Academy this morning announced the rundown for the virtual 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, which includes five nights of Creative Arts Emmy Awards, followed by the 72nd Emmy Awards telecast on Sept. 20. There is a major shakeup in the lineup for the Sept. 20 show which aires on […]

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday meant to block all business with ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, starting 45 days from now. The move is designed to effectively ban TikTok in the United States, unless Microsoft or some other company could buy the social media platform’s U.S. operations by mid-September. Microsoft has […]

Facebook has extended its work-from-home policy for employees through July 2021, and has said they will give workers $1,000 for home office supplies. A Facebook spokeperson dropped the news to Business Insider on Thursday. “Based on guidance from health and government experts, as well as decisions drawn from our internal discussions about these matters, we are […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported on Thursday that the region had hit a grim new milestone, topping 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. That leaves L.A. trailing only New York City as the region in the U.S. with the highest number of cases. To date, the Public Health Department […]