A director hired by Netflix to make a science-fiction series was convicted this week of an $11 million (€9.3m) fraud. Prosecutors said Carl Erik Rinsch, 48, secured funding from Netflix from 2018 to early 2020 to make the series, which was initially called White Horse and later renamed Conquest. But he put the money in […]
The BBC has announced new funding and commissioning plans to build on the success of shows such as Blue Lights, Death Valley (pictured) and Only Child. The plans will see the broadcaster double spend on commissioning new shows for TV and BBC iPlayer that reflect stories in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – from c£50 […]
The British Film Commission and Italian Film Commissions joined forces under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of recognising and enhancing the collaboration between the UK and Italian screen industries, as well as incentivising and promoting inward investment film and high-end TV production across the two territories. Building on the MoU signed […]
Premier, the entertainment, arts and culture agency, has announced senior promotions within its Filmed Entertainment practice. The agency has promoted Annie McMonagle to the newly created position of Senior Director: Film & Streaming, and SJ Peyton to Senior Director: Television. Both will work alongside Executive Director Jonathan Rutter. McMonagle (pictured) has been part of the Premier team for over a decade and brings experience […]
French production and exhibition company Pathé has announced an initiative to relaunch its English-language film business with the appointment of FilmNation President of Motion Pictures Ben Browning as Co-CEO of Pathé UK and the company’s President of Global Film. Browning will join forces with Faith Penhale, Co-CEO of Pathé UK. Together, they will drive the […]
Double Vision, the Malaysian production company, part of the Vision New Media group, led by CEO Min Lim, has entered into a strategic partnership with RisingJoy, the growing microdrama and digital entertainment business co-founded by Cassandra Yang and Ricky Ow. The new arrangement allows Double Vision to explore the rapidly expanding microdrama market with an […]
Today (December 3rd) at ATF, three significant players in the ASEAN television market announced that they are to collaborate for a major new co-production agreement. Malaysian production company Double Vision and Malaysian studio Astro Shaw will now work with ABS-CBN, the leading media and entertainment company in the Philippines, to produce three new drama series […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has published a new edition of the report, Audiovisual fiction production in Europe – 2015-2024 figures. The report analyses the volume of TV and SVoD fiction films and series produced in Europe, where they originate from, which ones are international co-productions, and who […]
Australia’s federal parliament has passed legislation that will enforce content quotas for major SVoD platforms such as Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video. The national government announced it would roll out such quotas earlier this November, which require streaming services with over 1 million domestic subscribers to spend 10 per cent of their total Australian expenditure […]
Disabled people remain significantly under-represented across TV and radio and data on class representation remains poor, according to an Ofcom study on the make-up of the broadcasting industry workforce. The media regulator’s ninth annual equity, diversity and inclusion in broadcasting report shows that disabled people continue to be significantly underrepresented across the industry, accounting for […]