Clover Films Harvests Multi-Territory Rights to Giddens Ko’s ‘Till We Meet Again’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix’s South Korean series blockbuster series Squid Game repeated atop Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for the week of September 27-October 3, dominating the Top 10 rankings and becoming only the sixth title to surpass 3 billion minutes viewed in a week’s span. It also marks the best title performance of 2021 in the U.S. rankings.

Kristen Stewart attempted to fully embody the late Princess Diana in The 31-year-old actress admitted to ET's Lauren Zima that donning the royal's wedding dress replica in the movie was «a spooky» moment for her.«When we put that dress on, it is embedded in a montage that kind of flashed her life before you.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFresh off her recent Emmy win for the comedy series “Hacks,” Jean Smart is ramping up development at her production company, SmartAngel Entertainment.

Joe Goldberg, is that you? Fans have been binging season 3 of Netflix’s You since its debut earlier this month — and one fan pointed out a potential filming flaw that has viewers shook.

Emiliano De Pablos HBO Max has picked up first window U.S. pay TV rights and Outsider Pictures the remainder of U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefRising Chinese-Singapore entertainment group GHY Culture & Media has revealed that its proposed takeover of producer and distributor Clover Films is not going ahead.GHY announced plans in mid-June to acquire a 51% stake in the 12-year-old indie film company without revealing financial details.In a stock exchange filing, GHY said that its MOU with Clover and its period of exclusive negotiations had expired.

Netflix has had some significant successes recently, most notably the top-rated South-Korean drama, Squid Game.

Ed Meza @edmezavarParis-based Carlotta Films, a leading player in the distribution of heritage cinema, is preparing a number of major releases next year, including a retrospective of Pier Paolo Pasolini and a showcase of works by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSamuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to “True Things,” Harry Wootliff‘s critically acclaimed sophomore film headlined by “The Affair” star Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke. The psychological drama world premiered at this year’s Venice and went on to play at Toronto and London film festivals.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company Thursday unveiled twenty new titles in Asia as it expands the footprint of its Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar streaming services in the world’s most populous region.The streaming service is currently available in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, with upcoming launches in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November 2021.“We aim to create fifty original series and shows by 2023,” said

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Manori Ravindran International EditorGlobal markets can’t seem to get enough of lego.South Korea is the latest country to sign up for a local adaptation of Fox reality competition series “Lego Masters.” Distributor Banijay Rights has sold the format into leading broadcaster MBC, which will air and co-produce the hit show’s Korean debut with Los Angeles- and Seoul-based production company B&C Content.The deal will see “Lego Masters” become the only non-Korean unscripted format to air on

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTop South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae is thoroughly enjoying the extra burnish to his already distinguished career that has come from the global success of “Squid Game,” Netflix’s hit survival game TV series. However, he says that the phone is not ringing off the hook with new offers from Hollywood.“No proposals or requests have come my way,” he told Variety.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chilean Constanza Fernández’s sophomore pic “(Im)patient” (“El Pa(de)ciente”) is celebrating its world premiere at the Busan Intl. Film Festival in South Korea on Oct.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDistrib Films has acquired U.S. rights to a flurry of high-profile foreign-language films, including the Cesar Award-winning animated feature “Josep,” the Isabelle Adjani starrer “Sisters,” and “Tokyo Shaking” with Karin Viard.

Jung Ho-yeon is one of the breakout stars of the new Netflix series Squid Game and the popular new show marks her acting debut!

Foreign-language drama streamer Walter Presents has inked a multi-territory deal with Italy’s largest commercial broadcaster Mediaset for five of its programs for the 2022/23 period.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAndy Cheng has earned tremendous kudos as the fight choreographer of the bus scene in Marvel’s recent “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The scene took nearly a year to plan and execute, but serves to demonstrate Simu Liu’s previously-hidden skills to an open-mouthed Awkwafina, and has since been released by Marvel as a standalone YouTube clip.Cheng is now hard at work trying to shape the next Asian superhero as action director, stunt coordinator and