Amazon Swoops For AMC Anthology Series ‘Soulmates’ In Key Global Territories

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up the rights to Spanish feature “Sky High” for a series adaptation, French crime series “Balthazar” posts record audience numbers for TF1, Mexican filmmaker Juan Ernesto Regalado Morales receives this year’s Guillermo del Toro-backed Jenkins-Del Toro Scholarship, and French journalist Augustin Trapenard announces he’s leaving Canal Plus.Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFor decades, local fiction dominated free-to-air primetime over much of Europe. Many big U.S.

Naman Ramachandran International Film Trust (IFT) has sold several international territories on action thriller “Dangerous,” starring Scott Eastwood and Mel Gibson.Territories sold include Koch for Germany, You Planet for Spain, Eagle for the Middle East, Top Film for the CIS, Programme 4 Media for Eastern Europe, and Pris for Portugal.Eastwood plays a reformed sociopath, who, after the death of his brother, heads to a remote island which soon falls under siege from a deadly gang of

Clayton Davis The line between film and television have been blurred for years. Some of us thought it would be one film that would force the call, but coincidentally, it seems to be five films that encapsulate Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” (or one really long movie, depending on where you stand) that forces the question of what constitutes an Oscars vs.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix, HBO and DAZN all announce new Spanish originals, Disney Plus orders a nature series from Warner Bros.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring “Money Heist” and “Elite” star Jaime Llorente, Amazon’s “El Cid” hit the streaming platform worldwide on Dec.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLegendary Global, the TV production-financing house launched by Chris Albrecht and Anne Thomopoulos, has teamed with Barcelona-based ESPotlight to acquire rights for a small screen adaptation of “Los Forasteros del Tiempo,” a family-targeting, illustrated time travel book series from Spain’s Roberto Santiago.The first season makes over the first title in the saga, “La Aventura de los Balbuena en el Lejano Oeste,” said ESPotlight partner Anxo

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Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentTelepool’s Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen has closed deals to major territories for “Plan A,” a true World War II story, starring August Diehl (“A Hidden Life,” “Inglourious Basterds”) and Sylvia Hoeks (“Blade Runner 2049,” “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”).Signature Entertainment has acquired all rights for the U.K., Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, while Twelve Oaks Pictures picked up the film in Spain.

Amazon Fire TV has updated its user interface, and says it now has 50 million monthly active users on its devices around the world, marking a 25% increase in reach since January.

The dark side of the Force will be returning to a galaxy far, far away with Thursday’s announcement that Hayden Christensen will be reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi”, with Ewan McGregor back in the role of the iconic Jedi master.

The dark side of the Force will be returning to a galaxy far, far away with Thursday’s announcement that Hayden Christensen will be reprising the role of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi”, with Ewan McGregor back in the role of the iconic Jedi master.

ViacomCBS Networks International president and CEO David Lynn is stepping down after 24 years with the company, while Raffaele Annecchino has been hired in his place.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has given a series order to “Extrapolations,” an anthology series about climate change from Scott Z. Burns, Variety has learned exclusively.Burns will write, direct, and executive produce the series, which hails from Media Res.

It was announced that presenter Kay Burley had been reportedly taken off Sky News after she broke the rules of COVID-19 in the UK.

While this year’s batch of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestants seemed to get on pretty well, it wasn’t always harmony in the castle, it seems.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, the European Film Awards detail this year’s special five-day virtual ceremony, the Spain Film Commission extends an invitation to international productions, ITV Studios sells more than 300 hours of content in India and the National Lottery announces a special Pantoland performance for key workers.AWARDSThe 2020 European Film Awards have announced measures to host a COVID-19 era edition, “The EFAs at Eight,” including a series of live-streamed virtual

The meal requests of the three final I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here campmates were revealed on Friday and they are nothing short of bizarre. Vernon Kay, Jordan North and Giovanna Fletcher have made it to the last hurdle of the hit reality show which means they will be treated to a meal of their choice ahead of the final.