At Prime Video Presents Australia 2021, Amazon Prime Video announced the greenlight of its first Australian Original feature-length documentary made in Australia, titled Burning. From executive producers Cate Blanchett and Eva Orner, who also serves as director, Burning takes an unflinching look at the deadly Australian bushfires between 2019-2020, known as the ‘Black Summer’. The […]
Groupe TF1, Groupe M6, Groupe Bouygues and RTL Group have signed agreements to enter into exclusive negotiations to merge the activities of Groupe TF1 and Groupe M6 and create a major French media group. They say the new group would be well positioned to master the challenges arising from the accelerating competition with global platforms, […]
An extensive operation – Operazione Black out – carried out by Italy’s Polizia di Stato (State Police) against audiovisual piracy, aimed at combating the phenomenon of illegal IPTV services, has seen the dismantling of what it described as a complex criminal infrastructure, both from an organisational and technological point of view. The measures were carried […]
Drama series Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, based on the 2018 novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty and directed and produced by Jonathan Levine, will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, China other countries outside the US (where it will air on Hulu) later this year. The series […]
Disney+ has announced that Pride, a six-part documentary series chronicling the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America decade-by-decade from the 1950s onward, will premiere on June 25th. Pride will be available as a Star Original in the UK, with all six episodes dropping at once exclusively on Disney+. In Pride, from Killer Films and Sundance World Cinema […]
Sony Pictures Television’s portfolio of UK channels have been sold to Narrative Capital, a US financing and investment firm. The deal includes Sony Movies, Sony Movies Classic, Sony Movies Action, Sony Channel, POP, Tiny POP and POP Max, as well as various digital assets. The channels will be rebranded as GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, […]
Fight Sports has landed the rights in over 50 countries to the anticipated return of Floyd Mayweather as he takes on internet celebrity Logan Paul on June 6th. In the UK and Ireland, the exhibition bout will be available on Sky Sports Box Office. Fight Sports has acquired the rights to this event in most […]
A study of the online content viewing behaviour of Vietnamese consumers has found that 60 per cent access streaming piracy websites or torrent sites. The levels of piracy went as high as 65 per cent within the 18-24 age demographic. The survey, commissioned by the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and conducted […]
YouTube has partnered with the NHS to launch a multi-million-pound advertising campaign to encourage young people in the UK to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The Google-owned video sharing site says the partnership will involve ads on billboards, buses, bus stops etc as well as on the YouTube platform – with YouTube themselves footing the bill. […]
ESPN and La Liga have signed a long-term agreement that will make ESPN+ the new English- and Spanish-language home for La Liga Santander and La Liga SmartBank in the US for the next eight seasons (through 2028-29). Beginning in August, hundreds of live matches across both leagues will be available each year, exclusively on ESPN+. […]