She’s all that! Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to the red carpet. The actress, 24, has racked up too many acting credits to count through the years (50+!) — so it’s safe to say she knows how to rock the step-and-repeat.
02.04.2022 - 11:05 / variety.com
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThough the onslaught of streaming giants is impacting Turkey’s TV landscape, it’s not as though Turkish shows weren’t doing gangbuster global biz way before Netflix and other platforms arrived on the scene.“Turkish dramas were already reaching audiences all over the world on linear TV,” says Ekin Koyuncu, head of prominent broadcaster Kanal D’s international sales arm. And that is why streamers are now so keen on making Turkish originals.What changes with having Turkish originals streaming on global platforms is that “the age targets are totally different,” she says.
“With this [platform] product, we are gaining the awareness of a younger population, especially in the U.S. and Europe, where our linear penetration is actually low.” So “both sides are benefitting from each other,” Koyuncu points out.The new batch of Turkish dramas going out globally via both linear and streaming outlets includes:AzizThis 1930s-set historical drama being sold by Inter Medya is about a man who finds true love as he fights for the liberation of his people.
Aziz Payidar, from the wealthy carpet-making Payidar family in the city of Antakya, undergoes a sudden life change after he kills a French military officer and must leave his first love and his lands behind. He returns after two years to find the city under military occupation and learns that his beloved is now engaged to his cousin, while his encounter with a village girl proves cathartic in more ways than one.
She’s all that! Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to the red carpet. The actress, 24, has racked up too many acting credits to count through the years (50+!) — so it’s safe to say she knows how to rock the step-and-repeat.
Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called ‘Sidelines’. Listen to the track below.Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premiers on May 15.Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu.
Daft Punk have released a short video detailing the original storyboards of their ‘Around The World’ music video.The video, which was uploaded onto the now-inactive French electronic duo’s YouTube channel on Thursday (April 14), shows the official storyboards from the 1997 music video, including the layout of the video’s iconic stage design, and the placement and movement of its dancers.Watch the storyboard video below.This marks the first time that the ‘Around The World’ storyboards have been made available to a wide audience for free as it was previously only viewable via the duo’s 1997 DVD, D.A.F.T.Directed by Michel Gondry, the ‘Around The World’ music video features several groups of costumed dancers making their way across a stage set, each bringing a different vibe to Daft Punk’s track. Revisit it below:‘Around The World’ featured on the duo’s debut album, ‘Homework’.
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has given a formal series green light to The Turkish Detective, an adaptation of Barbara Nadel’s CWA Silver Dagger Award-winning novels featuring Detective Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman. Haluk Biligner (Baba), Ethan Kai and Yasemin Kay Allen (The Usual Suspects) have been tapped to star in the series, set in modern-day Istanbul and produced by Miramax and leading Turkish production company Ay Yapim, in association with VIS, Paramount’s international studio. Filming is set to begin this month in Istanbul. The Turkish Detective is slated to debut globally on Paramount+ in 2023.
The Associated Press reported.Kashoggi was killed in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where the U.S. resident was picking up documents to marry his Turkish fiancee.
Jorja Smith has teamed up with Ibeyi for a radiant new R&B track called ‘Lavender & Red Roses’ – watch the song’s video below.The latest preview of Ibeyi’s forthcoming album ‘Spell 31’, which is set to arrive May 6 via XL Recordings, follows on from the singles ‘Sister 2 Sister’ and ‘Made Of Gold’ featuring Pa Salieu.According to Complex, Smith dropped in at the Afro-Cuban French duo’s studio to hear their upcoming album, but she was immediately enamoured with ‘Lavender & Red Roses’, so Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz made space on the track for her. Smith also appears in Lucrecia Taormina’s desert-set video for the song.“‘Lavender & Red Roses’ is a song about the feeling we all experience when we love someone troubled. It could be a partner, a sibling, a parent, a friend,” Lisa-Kaindé said of the song.
Emiliano De Pablos Munich-based Beta Film has closed a raft of major deals over Europe and beyond on Spanish TV dramas “You Shall Not Lie” and “La Fortuna,” two of the most successful recent originals produced by Movistar Plus, Spain’s biggest pay-TV/SVOD operator.Both series have been sold to Italy’s RAI and to HBO for its platform HBO Max for Eastern Europe, Benelux, the Nordics, Netherlands, and Portugal, among other territories.A six-part thriller by Pau Freixas, co-creator of “The Red Band Society,” “You Shall Not Lie” was sold to RTL Deutschland for Germany, where it will premiere on its streaming platform RTL Plus this spring.In France, the drama has been picked up by M6 with an exclusive window for its SVOD service Salto. Furthermore, Antenna TV secured rights for Greece and Cyprus, as well as Blue TV for Turkey.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSporting a powerful slate of new shows at MipTV, Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus, has announced what it describes as a “substantial” distribution deal with U.S.
Marta Balaga Bowing in Canneseries official selection, six-episode miniseries “Infiniti” isn’t just for sci-fi aficionados, Empreinte Digitale producer Eric Laroche told Variety.Co-produced between France and Belgium, the latest Canal Plus offering – created by Stéphane Pannetier and Julien Vanlerenberghe – interweaves multiple storylines, moving from the International Space Station (ISS) that suddenly goes silent to an investigation in Kazakhstan, where a beheaded, wax-covered body is found by a local cop.Discouraged by his superiors, Isaak (Daniyar Alshinov) decides to solve the mystery, while French astronaut Anna Zarathi (Céline Sallette) pursues her dream of space travel.“Having more than one genre, especially in a TV series, is very interesting. But one of them still needs to form the skeleton of the show.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Turkish TV market is being shaken up by the arrival of more U.S. streaming platforms, which are driving up production costs, but also providing a new burst of opportunity for talent, content creators and producers.Netflix, which launched in Turkey in 2016, is the country’s streaming market leader when it comes to subs — said by insiders to be just shy of 7 million — and in terms of its local originals’ output.Disney Plus, which is expected to bow this summer, is busy mounting multiple Turkish productions that are still being kept under wraps, while HBO Max just entered the market and is also active in production.Amazon Prime Video is also expected to start churning out Turkish originals in 2023.
Rishi Sunak should come back with an emergency budget to get families through the cost of living crisis, trade unionists have demanded.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Jeff Danna’s score for Julia, which is set for release tomorrow via Watertower Music.
Former Geordie Shore star Grant Coulson was given the boot from a Jet2 flight to Turkey after getting into a drunken row with fellow passengers over the weekend. Back in 2016, the 30 year old claimed he was "too famous to work" after starring in one episode of the raunchy MTV spin-off show. And on Saturday, Grant claimed a group of passengers began mocking him as he was travelling to Antalya to get a hair transplant and his teeth fixed.
A screaming woman who was kicked off a Jet2 flight from Manchester Airport was flying to Turkey for £3,000 teeth whitening treatment, her friends have revealed. The Manchester Evening News news reported Catherine Bush has now been banned from the airline for life and slapped with a £5,000 fine.
Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo is refusing to get too carried away after Portugal moved to within one victory of reaching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.