Anonymous Content, 30West, Elysian, Totem Execs Debate Distribution Future – Zurich Summit

A host of heavyweight European execs have debated the difficulty of competing with US streamers on big budgets, while criticising these players for failing to nurture local talent and buying up studio space.

Emmerdale actress Paige Sandhu has revealed that her scheming character Meena Jutla has actually killed twice before taking up residence in the Dales.The news comes as viewers prepare to watch the psychopathic murderer kill again in Super Soap Week.

Most of us know Emmerdale actresses Paige Sandhu and Rebecca Sarker as on-screen sisters Meena Jutla and Manpreet Sharma. Between Meena sleeping with Manpreet's first husband and her meddling tendencies, it's fair to say their characters' relationship hasn't been the smoothest of sibling stories.

Meena Jutla, played by Paige Sandhu, has caused quite the stir in Emmerdale since she arrived in the village last autumn (September 2020). She's managed to manipulate multiple villagers – including her sister Manpreet Jutla (Rebecca Sarker) – into believing she's innocent while being a coldhearted killer behind the scenes.

We know and love (or sometimes love to hate) their characters on screen, but now it’s time to discover all the behind-the-scenes secrets from our favourite soap stars. In our exclusive interview, Soap Stars Coming Clean, OK!'s finding out all the juicy gossip about what happens when the cameras stop rolling, as well as the actors’ favourite memories with their co-stars so far.

EXCLUSIVE: Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour, set in an all-girls boarding school, is getting a shot at the small-screen with Anonymous Content and Bess Wohl adapting.

It's survival week in the village and the team at Emmerdale are pulling out all the stops in order to make it an event to remember. Meena Jutla (Paige Sandhu) has got more murder in mind as the village’s survival challenge takes a deadly turn.The event gets a little too literal when the killer decides to strike again – before she’s seen lying motionless in a maze in a flash-forward scene.

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled tech giant Facebook is the focus of a scripted drama series titled Doomsday Machine. Claire Foy, coming off her second Emmy win for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, is set to star as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the project, from Anonymous Content (Spotlight, Mr. Robot) and wiip (Mare of Easttown, Dickinson).

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar- and three-time Emmy winner Sally Field has signed with Anonymous Content.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter1212 Entertainment and Anonymous Content are teaming to adapt the Ursula K. Le Guin novel “The Dispossessed” into a limited series, Variety has learned exclusively.The book was originally published in 1974 and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards upon its debut.

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Regrets, he’s had a few. But then again, one stands out for Will Smith in his review of his film career.

Tim Dams European producers swapped notes about financing challenges, the talent crunch, distribution bottlenecks and rights retention at the Zurich Summit.Speaking in the session “Creative Financing and Producing in Europe,” Giorgos Karnavas, co-founder of Greece’s “Triangle of Sadness” producer Heretic, spoke of the challenges of finding crew given that so many were booked on big budget projects for streamers.

Tim Dams Senior producers and distributors took to the stage at the Zurich Summit to debate the future of film distribution.Amid the rise of the streamers, collapsing theatrical windows and the shuttering of cinemas during the pandemic, they stressed the need for flexibility when planning the best way to release movies.Danny Perkins, the CEO and founder of Elysian Film Group, said: “There’s more change than ever. There is flux.

EXCLUSIVE: Cast has rounded out on Into The Deep, a thriller from Signature Films and Tea Shop Productions that is now shooting in Cornwall, UK.

Double take! Give Sydney Sweeney a full glam squad, a black and white filter and ‘90s-inspired ensembles and it turns out that she looks nearly identical to Anna Nicole Smith.