‘Fauda’ Outfit Yes Studios Behind Doc About Man Who Spent 44 Hours Locked Inside His Own Body

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor BMG posted its strongest year of growth in 2022, with annual revenues of $911 million (up 30% over last year) and made more than $400 million worth of acquisitions in the booming catalog market, the company announced Thursday in its annual earnings report. The company’s annual operating EBITDA was up by more than 35% to $205 million. Founded in 2008, the Berlin-based company has been a steady presence in the music industry, basing its strength on tried-and-true artists and catalogs that range from Adam Lambert to Cypress Hill, from T. Rex to the Trojan reggae label. Its publishing division is one of the biggest in the industry, and it has made bold moves into the music documentary business — including a major stake in the critically lauded David Bowie doc “Moonage Daydream.”

Sergio Aguero reckons Erling Haaland can be the key difference for Manchester City against Bayern Munich when they lock horns in the Champions League quarter-finals next month - but admits his former employers will need more to go all the way this season.

Manchester City have been told that their summer transfer priority is to replace Joao Cancelo, although Erling Haaland’s arrival means the Blues are still a more rounded team.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Kelvin Harrison Jr. spent up to six hours a day playing the violin in preparation for his latest film “Chevalier.” The period drama, set before the French Revolution, follows the life of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, also known as Black Mozart. The Searchlight Pictures film also stars Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Marton Csokas, Alex Fitzalan and Minnie Driver. Speaking with Variety, Harrison Jr. said despite being raised in a musical family (his father was a classical musician and a music teacher) he didn’t know about Chevalier. “I had no clue who he was, but he was pretty bold, and I was blown away by him,” he says.

Federation Studios has nabbed worldwide distribution rights to French political comedy and Series Mania winner Under Control.

EXCLUSIVE: The most critically acclaimed John Wick of all-time, Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4, is seeing the franchise’s best Thursday previews of all-time at around $8M per industry estimates tonight.

Sky Studios CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz has called the plethora of shows on the market “really confusing” for viewers.

The countdown to the Made in Chelsea wedding is well and truly on as Jamie Laing jets off for his stag do at a ski resort in France, this comes after wife to be Sophie Habboo had an intimate but lavish hen do in London. Fans of Made in Chelsea would have remembered watching Jamie and Sophie's relationship grow through the years as they took the leap from being best friends to becoming a couple to announcing their exciting engagement in December 2021.

Ben Croll Speaking at a panel organized by Series Mania’s Forum, executives from Sky Studios touted flexibility and autonomy as their keys to success, teasing further synergies with fellow Comcast-owned services like Peacock and SkyShowtime while emphasizing that such broadcast bids were but one option among many. “[We take things] very case-by-case,” said Meghan Lyvers, director of original drama at Sky Studios U.K. “Not all projects that we develop as Sky Originals in Europe will go into the SkyShowtime cluster of territories, [but] they can. And we [welcome] this flexibility, because it allows projects to come to us with other territories attached.”  

Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will air at a new time tonight (18 March) as the programme moves to make way for a sports broadcast.The Geordie duo’s hit ITV series recently returned for its nineteenth series and has been delighting viewers with its usual mix of hilarious sketches, pranks and competitions with huge prizes.The programme usually airs at 7pm but will be on later as ITV airs coverage of the Six Nations rugby tournament throughout the afternoon and early evening. ITV will broadcast the France vs Wales game, which starts at 1.55pm, followed by Ireland vs England at 4.30pm.

‘My King Charles’ Doc Picked Up Around The World

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The blockbuster French cast of Amazon Prime Video’s third season of “LOL: Qui rit, qui sort” speaks volumes about the Japanese variety format’s tremendous popularity in France. The Amazon Original series, adapted from the format “LOL: Last One Laughing,” scored its biggest launch to date on Prime Video in France since bowing on March 10. The show is one of the streamer’s first unscripted originals in France and has been a major coup as a brand exercise that’s succeeded with limited resources — certainly in comparison to scripted comedy. Adaptations of “LOL” have also thrived in Italy and Germany where they have ranked as the most watched local titles on the service, respectively. Local versions are also available in Spain, Canada, Mexico and Australia (hosted by Rebel Wilson).

The BBC’s Premier League output is in freefall as mutinous presenters and pundits stage a protest over the suspension of Gary Lineker.

Heartbroken dog owners have told how their pet died within hours of eating something it picked up from a footpath.

EXCLUSIVE: The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has responded to Reed Hastings’ claim Netflix is the “biggest builder” of cross-country culture in the EU.

New research has predicted that 2023 will be the final year American consumer’s spend on TV and film rises before hitting a steady decline over the coming years.

Holly Jones France-U.K. sales-production-distribution house Alief (“Matadero”) has closed U.K. and Irish theatrical sales for on Tallinn Black Nights Grand Prix winner “Driving Mum, with Newcastle upon Tyne-based exhibition and distribution outfit Tull Stories (“A Clever Woman”) ahead of its bow in at the Glasgow Festival on Monday. Warsaw-based Aurora Films (“I Love My Dad”) has simultaneously snapped up Polish theatrical rights. “We could not be happier to have found the perfect match for ‘Driving Mum’ in the U.K and Ireland, key markets in our company’s DNA. What a joyful day, I’ll finally be able to take my mother to one of our movies in London,” Brett Walker, president of Alief, told Variety.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” has surpassed over 150 million hours viewed since its release on Oct. 14, 2022. The film, which dominated the BAFTA Awards in London with a record-breaking seven wins, including best film, director (Edward Berger), adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, original score and non-English language film, climbed up to No. 2 on the global list, according to numbers released by Netflix. Berger’s World War I epic tells Paul’s (Felix Kammerer ) journey from being a young, enthusiastic school boy wanting to join the army to a tired, worn soldier. It has been on the global Top 10 Non-English Film list for 14 weeks and has reached the Top 10 Films in 91 countries, including Germany, the U.K., U.S., Australia, France, Mexico and South Korea.

Maya Jama has taken a quick break from her busy Love Island presenting schedule to head to Paris Fashion Week with her pals, after recently seeing four Islanders dumped from the ITV2 show.The TV presenter, 28, recently jetted to South Africa to deliver the news to the Love Islanders before heading off on a one-night trip to Milan with her celeb pals. Maya has now headed to France for Paris Fashion Week with a group of friends, and she's been busy documenting the lavish trip on her Instagram Stories with her 2.7 million followers.

For every successful Love Islander, influencing is the next stop. And since winning the 2021 series, Millie Court has become a style icon. From her signature blonde bob to her girly wardrobe, the 26 year old has made quite the fashion statement in the city of love, just in time for Paris Fashion Week.