BBC Studios Promotes Maggy Chan to Managing Director, Global Distribution

The BBC will donate £700,000 ($856,000) to the U.K.’s Film and TV Charity in support of coronavirus relief.

Cinq Music Group has hired Fotemah “Tmah” Mba as head of A&R for U.S.

By Jake Kanter

BBC Studios and China’s Huawei Video have struck a deal in which British TV content is supplied to Huawei consumer mobile devices in 26 countries. The deal was announced to coincide with the launch of Huawei’s P40 cell phone.

By Tom Grater

By Dino-Ray Ramos

The prime minister on Monday evening announced new stringent measures to limit activity in the UK, and although it wasn’t specifically labelled, it’s fair to say the region is now under a ‘lockdown’.

Just days after Elon Musk said he was ready for Tesla to start making ventilators to combat and aid medical professionals in the fight against coronavirus, he’s delivered a handful already.

A man from Perth currently working in China has sent an encouraging update back to a Fair City mental health organisation.

China’s main state-owned distributor plans to issue a batch of half a dozen films, from which cinemas will keep all income, in order to get the country’s exhibition sector back on its feet after long closures due to coronavirus, it has said.

“We can’t stay closed forever"

Research by Chinese ticketing agency Maoyan appears to show that Chinese people have not lost their taste for feature films during the recent coronavirus-enforced closure of cinemas.

At least one cinema in China’s far west officially reopened its doors Monday after shuttering for nearly two months due to coronavirus prevention measures, it has said — but no viewers came the first day.

Spotify Australia is in the hunt for a new managing director for its Australia and New Zealand activities.Karen Lawson, who took the reins last June at the Australasian business, based in Sydney, is departing for undisclosed reasons.The tech company has started the recruitment process for her successor, Billboard can confirm.A spokesperson for Spotify, which doesn’t typically comment on employee movements, declined to discuss the MD’s exit.Lawson, the former CEO of start-up accelerator

Sometimes when things get the darkest, you just have to have a good morbid laugh.

China’s Midnight Blur Films has sold the rights to Chinese arthouse title “Wisdom Tooth” to French firm ASC Distribution, which will release it theatrically in France later this year.

French video game company Ubisoft has named company vet Marie-Sophie de Waubert as the new managing director of Ubisoft Paris, the studio behind such franchises as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Just Dance. De Waubert has been with the company for more than 20 years, most recently serving as vp of corporate affairs.