Nora Fingscheidt’s drama-thriller The Unforgivable debuted at #1 globally on Netflix for the week beginning December 6th. Audiences spent 85.86 million hours with Sandra Bullock, who stars as Ruth Slater, a woman recently released from prison who re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Fingscheidt joins a group of female directors and showrunners […]
Boots, the British pharmacy chain, has unveiled its 2021 Christmas campaign, starring actor Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, Queen Victoria) as the character of Joy. Bags of Joy, created by The Pharm – the WPP partnership team dedicated to WBA – aims to reignite the magic of the holiday season. It brings into focus the happiness […]
Netflix has announced Ehrengard, a new Danish Netflix feature film directed by Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Palme d’Or winner Bille August. The film is based on Ehrengard, one of the last works of Karen Blixen (1885-1962). Anders August is the scriptwriter and Marcella Dichmann at SF Studios is producing. The project has been […]
YouLook.tv, the new UK-based AVoD service, has launched a pop-up channel featuring 13 documentaries to commemorate the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. “We’re thrilled to have been able to source some great documentaries recently which allowed us not only to create this pop-up to celebrate Diana’s life with our viewers, but also to launch […]
SEQUOIA, an R&D project partnership between iSIZE, the BBC R&D and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has been awarded £700k from Innovate UK following a competitive grant submission, and a rigorous review and award process (<5% acceptance rate). Innovate UK is part of UKRI, the national funding agency investing in science and industrial research […]
Stingray Group, a music, media, and technology company, has announced that Qello Concerts by Stingray has launched on Libby, the award-winning app built for readers to discover and enjoy digital content from their public or academic library. Starting today, users of participating libraries around the globe will access premium content from the world’s leading concert […]
PUSH LIVE, a live entertainment technology company, has announced the hiring of Simon Hosken as Chief Financial and Operating Officer. Hosken previously held the position of COO and CFO for 15 years at Eagle Rock Entertainment, the world’s leading independent producers, publishers and distributors of music programming in both live and music documentaries. Before his […]
Qello Concerts by Stingray and Stingray Naturescape have launched on Freeview via the Channelbox platform. The Qello Concerts channel offers a collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries featuring an array of iconic and new artists including Coldplay, Queen, Adele, The Beatles, Sting and Madonna among many others. Stingray Naturescape broadcasts a rotation of scenery […]