Anthony Mackie, best known for portraying Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is set to star and produce a new movie for Netflix. The futuristic sci-fi show, entitled Outside The Wire, sees a drone pilot sent into a deadly militarised zone where he finds himself working for an android officer tasked to locate a doomsday […]
Motion Content Group, a division of GroupM, and Banijay Asia, the 50:50 joint venture between independent content creation company Banijay Group, and media veteran Deepak Dhar, has announced a partnership for the Indian market in order to create content for TV broadcasters and OTT platforms. The partnership sees the coming together of two giants from […]
ITV Studios has announced that Lars Finnland has been appointed as the new Managing Director of its Nordic label, ITV Studios Norway. Finnland, who joins from events company 6.Sans Event where he was CEO, spent six years prior to that managing Nordisk Film TV, having also been Chief of Entertainment and initially a producer in […]
Sky has revealed its aim to inspire 11,500 more young people to pursue a career in the creative industries this year, as it expands the capacity of its Sky Academy Studios. The move, which will come in to effect for the new school term in September, will see Sky increase the number of free sessions […]
DreamWorks Animation has announced that Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an animated action-adventure series, will debut globally on Netflix in 2020 as part of an ongoing multi-year agreement with the streaming giant to produce original animated kids and family programming. Set within the same timeline as the 2015 blockbuster film, Jurassic World, the original series is […]
Joe and Anthony Russo – co-directors of Avengers: Endgame – along with Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro’s Allspark Animation, have partnered to create a Magic: The Gathering animated series for Netflix. The Russos will oversee the creation of an all new storyline based on the popular collectible and digital card game and expand on […]
The BBC and BT have successfully made the UK’s first live TV contribution over a public 5G connection, using EE’s 5G network. On BBC Breakfast on the morning of May 30th, viewers will have seen BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones cover the launch of the UK’s first 5G network from Covent Garden in Central London. […]
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced Netflix as the main supporting partner for their flagship talent scheme ‘Breakthrough Brits’, which showcases and supports the next generation of creative talent across film, games and television. Building on the success of ‘Breakthrough Brits’, now in its seventh year, the partnership with Netflix […]
In a move that will see it expand into seven new European countries, the Canal+ Group is to acquire pay-TV operator M7 for a purchase price of just over €1 billion. M7, one of the largest independent pay-TV companies in Europe operating in Benelux and Central Europe, is owned by Astorg, a leading European private […]
Sunset+Vine, the UK independent TV sports production and media company, has been awarded a new four year host production deal by the ICC covering all live event production services for ICC TV until 2023, excluding the India events in 2021 and 2023. In addition, Sunset+Vine will also produce daily highlights packages for all events. The […]