Новости за 27.04.2021

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of winning the Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for Two Distant Strangers, Travon Free has inked a first look producing deal with Endeavor Content. Free wrote Two Distant Strangers and co-directed with Martin Desmond Roe. The Netflix short which stars Joey Bada$$, Andrew Howard and Zaria follows a man who is trying to […]

Swedish Film Institute Chief Leaving Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, is leaving her position after a decade in the role. The long-standing exec has overseen a pivotal period for the org, with the industry undergoing seismic changes during her 10 years at the helm, including the #MeToo movement. Serner notably launched the […]

Hasbro’s thriving analog and digital games business helped its first-quarter profit beat Wall Street expectations, but Covid-19-related struggles in film and TV resulted in only a 1% uptick in revenue. Total revenue came in at $1.15 billion, up only about $9.2 million from the year-ago quarter and just shy of analysts’ consensus forecast for $1.17 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Rowell’s hit web series The Rich and the Ruthless has a new home at BET+. The upcoming fourth season of the drama series premieres May 13, joining Seasons 1-3, which are currently streaming on the ViacomCBS platform. Created by, starring and directed by Rowell, The Rich and the Ruthless is a behind the […]

Disney is to close 18 of its television channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong on October 1, according to local reports. The news, which appears to have been first reported by Singapore-based blog Geek Culture, will see channels including Fox, FX, and Disney Channel go dark (full list below) as Disney shifts its focus […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kin, the company behind Tia Mowry’s Challenge Accepted and Facebook Watch’s What Happens at Home, has hired Shani Black as head of programming and development. Black, who was a supervising producer on Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, will oversee the company’s slate of unscripted programming for social, streaming, and linear platforms. Reporting […]

After starting the year off strong with a trailer for all of 2021, Netflix has come out with its new summer slate as well as a sizzle trailer to go along with it. While highlighting some films with previously announced release dates like Zack Snyder’s Army Of The Dead and Woman In The Window starring Amy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a huge transatlantic project for you: The team behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/PBS drama Wolf Hall, including Oscar winner Mark Rylance, are reuniting to make cybersecurity series The Undeclared War for NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and UK broadcaster Channel 4. The six-part series is written and directed by seven-time BAFTA winner Peter Kosminsky and is […]

With 75 million copies of his novels in circulation around the globe, American author Harlan Coben has conquered the world of print with his popular brand of crime thrillers, including the Myron Bolitar series. He is now making great strides into the new frontier of streaming via a one-of-a-kind deal with Netflix. First struck in […]

A Netflix representative for The Crown has denied a report that the lavish royal drama is struggling to cast an actor to play Prince Andrew in the final two seasons. British tabloid The Sun claimed that producers at Left Bank Pictures have advertised for the role on casting website Spotlight. “Stars aren’t exactly queuing up […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at Hot Docs, London-based MetFilm Sales has boarded worldwide sales rights to Set! directed by Scott Gawlik, segment producer on Emmy-nominated Netflix series A Little Help With Carol Burnett. The film, which has a hint of Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show about it, sees a group of […]