Paramount+ today announced that Hollywood star David Dastmalchian will join the cast of the Paramount+ original series Dexter: Resurrection. Dastmalchian will guest star in the role of ‘Gareth’. Production for Dexter: Resurrection kicked off in January 2025 in New York and the series is set to launch in summer of 2025 on Paramount+. The new original drama […]

The British Board of Classification (BBFC) has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2023, revealing insights into the UK’s film and cinema industry. The latest report reveals an uplift in overall content submitted for cinema classification, marking a ten-year record number of submissions in the two most popular age rating categories. 2023 saw 1,114 […]

Content studio and digital media network, Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has entered into an output deal with The People Profiles YouTube channel, starting with an initial order of 60 feature documentaries. Effective immediately, this partnership will see the publication of originally produced biographical documentaries across Little Dot Studios’ Digital Media Network, enabling cross-promotion […]

Barbie has accumulated a far larger audience than any other Oscar-nominated movie, after their arrival to streaming platforms, far surpassing Netflix’s nominee, Maestro, by 45 per cent according to data from Plum Research. In the first seven days of its release Barbie (on Max) was viewed by 4.1 million unique viewers in the US, compared […]

Female-fronted movies are proving most popular in the UK ahead of The Oscars ceremony, according to data from advertising technology firm Quantcast. However, Oppenheimer is widely expected to scoop the big prize, pointing at a disparity between what captures the imagination and the critics’ choice. The insight shows that if The Oscars were based on […]

Do films with certain characteristics tend to get nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards? Nielsen’s Gracenote ran an analysis to answer this question tapping its descriptive metadata around entertainment content.Among other characteristics, the taxonomy of Gracenote Video Descriptors cover 294 different Video Moods organised hierarchically from broad, high-level concepts (Level 1) to more […]

The Marvels has debuted at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Film Chart, which tallies physical disc and digital download sales. Marvel Studios’ sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel sees Carol Danvers (aka Captain Marvel), played by Brie Larsson, destroy the Supreme Intelligence; leaders of the Kree empire. A civil war ensues, leaving Hana, the Kree […]

At this time last year, I was writing about the shameful shambles that was the inevitable disintegration of Richard Sharp’s tenure as BBC Chair. A cash machine crony of Boris Johnson, his tenure was nothing short of embarrassing all round. It has taken a year for a new Chair, Samir Shah, to be named. The […]

Oppenheimer makes it to a third week as the UK’s Number 1 film, despite tough competition from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Just 1,700 sales separate the Number 1 and Number 2 entries this week, as the fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise – and former Number 1 itself – flies back […]

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer has helped IMAX report record box office revenues for the quarter-year to September 30th expand 98 per cent to $347 million (€329m). IMAX itself posted revenues of $103.9 million for the quarter, up 51 per cent from a year ago. Its Q3 profits were $12 million and meant a positive move […]