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Darren Aronofsky To Receive Locarno’s Honorary Pardo d’Onore
Darren Aronofsky will be awarded the honorary Pardo d’Onore award during this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 5 to 15. Aronofsky will pick up the award...
‘The 1% Club’ Cements Position As Top-Selling British Format With Sweden & Italy Deals
EXCLUSIVE: The 1% Club has sold to Sweden and Italy, cementing its position as the top-selling new UK format of the past decade, according to BBC Studios. In terms...
Belgium’s Oldest Distributor Belga Films Collapses But “Future Looks Bright” For Sister Companies Belga Studios & Independent Films, Says CEO
In a stark sign of the challenges facing Europe’s independent distribution and exhibition sector, news broke on Tuesday that Belgium‘s oldest distributor Belga Films has been liquidated. Belgian newspaper...
Disney+ Creates Top Development Job In UK
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has created a top development job in the UK as the streamer continues to expand its EMEA team. A job ad posted two days ago said Disney...
Beta Film Boards Quebec Noir Series ‘Northern Traces’ Starring Danny Gilmore
EXCLUSIVE: Quebec noir is coming to London. Northern Traces is one of the most-watched shows of the last five years on French-language streamer illico+ in Canada, and Beta Film...
Get Your AI Off Our ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Netflix Tells ByteDance In Latest Hollywood Cease & Desist Letter
Netflix “will not stand by and watch ByteDance treat our valued IP as free, public domain clip art,” the streamer told the TikTok owner tonight. In a short and...
Ted Sarandos Accuses Paramount Of “Flooding The Zone With Confusion” In WBD Merger Saga
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos took aim Tuesday at Paramount‘s rival bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, accusing the David Ellison-led company of “flooding the zone with confusion for shareholders.” The...
Daniel Radcliffe Doesn’t Want New ‘Harry Potter’ Cast To Be Asked About Original Cast To Not Be “Weird Spectral Phantoms”
Daniel Radcliffe is looking out for the new Harry Potter cast and suggests fans not ask about the original cast. The actor portrayed The Boy Who Lived across eight films, which...
Stephen Colbert Calls Out CBS, Again, Over Equal-Time Furor, But Says “I Don’t Want An Adversarial Relationship With The Network”
Last night, after Stephen Colbert’s monologue and before his second act, he had to go backstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater to discuss FCC guidelines. Knowing that he was...
YouTube Outage Affects Homepage, App, YouTube TV & More; Issue Resolved After Fix To “Recommendation System”
YouTube is addressing the issue that took the service down for some users for a couple of hours. Many users took to social media to complain that YouTube was...
Brian Tyree Henry Adult Animated Series ‘Bass X Machina’ Gets Netflix Greenlight, Release Date
Bass X Machina, a new adult animated series from Oscar, Emmy and Tony-nominated Brian Tyree Henry (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) is set at Netflix for a fall premiere. Starring...
Jane Baer Dies: Longtime Disney Animator & Indie Studio Exec Who Created Toontown Scenes For ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Was 91
Jane Baer, a pioneering animator who worked at Disney on films ranging from Sleeping Beauty to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and also ran her own animation production company, died...