Amazon Prime Video’s Lord Of The Rings original TV series is still in pre-production, but it has already been renewed for a second season. Amazon revealed to Deadline that a sequel is already in the pipeline and that the show will go on a hiatus for some four months after filming the first two season […]
At the Stockholm Film Festival, Netflix announced two new excusive movies coming out of the Nordics: Red Dot from Sweden, produced by SF Studios and Cadaver from Norway, produced by Motion Blur. Action-thriller Red Dot and horror movie Cadaver will premiere exclusively on Netflix. Netflix also announced the global acquisition of the Danish feature film […]
In a move that better positions the streaming giant to take on the recently-launched Disney+, Netflix and Nickelodeon have formed a new, multi-year output deal to produce original animated feature films and television series – based both on the Nickelodeon library of characters as well as all-new IP – for kids and families around the […]
Joe and Anthony Russo, the co-directors behind the Marvel blockbucter movie Avengers: Endgame, will be part of a team adapting Reed Tucker’s book, Slugfest: Inside The Epic, 50-year Battle Between Marvel And DC, into a new documentary series for Quibi. Tucker’s book, published in 2017, looked at the rise and history of the two most […]
Amazon Studios has greenlit the one-hour drama, The Peripheral, based on The New York Times-bestselling novel by William Gibson, from the critically-acclaimed writers, producers, and directors Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld), their company Kilter Films, and Warner Bros Television. The Peripheral will launch globally on Amazon Prime Video. The Peripheral centres on Flynne Fisher, a […]
Companies looking to shoot short-form content, such as TV commercials, in the Middle East can now benefit from express access to Abu Dhabi Film Commission’s 30 per cent cash rebate on production and post-production spend. As well as TV commercials, the rebate is applicable to feature films, television dramas and series, documentaries, and telemovies shot […]
The TV and film production sector is experiencing a period of phenomenal growth, driven by demand for British content from Netflix and Amazon Prime, according to data from Barclays Business Banking. The number of loans taken by SMEs to fund new TV series such as Top Boy, Sex Education and The Crown has increased by […]
Analyst firm TDG has been actively reporting on the original content arms race amongst Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video (the ‘Big-3’) for several years, and its research has highlighted the increased role it is playing for both customer acquisition and retention. With major services such as Apple TV+, Disney+, and HBO Max hitting the […]
The Communications and Digital Committee of UK parliament’s upper chamber the House of Lords has warned that public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to be better supported to ensure that they can continue to produce high-quality drama and documentaries which reflect and examine UK culture. In return, the broadcasters need to adapt to ensure that they […]
Cara Delevingne is set to executive produce and host an all-female practical joke series from ITV America’s Sirens Media, for Quibi – the short-form mobile content platform set to launch is April 2020. In each episode of the as-yet untitled show, Delevingne and a hist of female accomplices will “wreak havoc, executing a new stunt […]