EXCLUSIVE: European streamer Viaplay has picked up Nordic, Baltic, Dutch and Polish rights to UK comedy Hapless, which was also picked up by Netflix in the UK last year.
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The past year has been a fantastic one for the world of formats, as offerings from developing content giants such as South Korea travel the world and innovative ideas pop up in all corners. Below, Deadline has identified five key formats to watch out for next year, which we could see replicated in many more territories in the years ahead.
Make Up Your Mind (The Netherlands)
The wild success of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has been remade in the Netherlands and is soon to launch a World Cup-style
EXCLUSIVE: European streamer Viaplay has picked up Nordic, Baltic, Dutch and Polish rights to UK comedy Hapless, which was also picked up by Netflix in the UK last year.
The year 2021 was the year of Squid Game.
A Dumfriesshire farming family was stunned by a highly unlikely “five alive” delivery of lambs this week.
Sweet Home, is currently in talks to return for a second season of the show.Yesterday (December 23), South Korean news publication Biz Enter claimed in a report, citing multiple sources, that Song was set to reprise his role as Cha Hyun-soo in the popular apocalyptic horror Netflix original series.Song’s agency, Namoo Actors, has since responded to the report, noting that the actor is in talks to return to the series, but has not officially accepted the role.
Snowdrop, has been launched as backlash over the series mounts.On December 18 and 19, JTBC aired the first two episodes of its hotly anticipated winter drama Snowdrop, which had been embroiled in controversy over its alleged distortion of history even before it premiered.
YG Entertainment had reportedly called it quits with girl group 2NE1 after the company was unable to “control” a particular member.On December 17, YouTuber and former entertainment reporter Lee Jin-ho made several claims about the nature of 2NE1’s disbandment back in 2016.
BTS‘ RM has opened up about the pressures of representing South Korea at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this year.Speaking to Vogue Korea, the 27-year-old musician reflected on the experience and shared how he felt about it.When asked whether the group’s role as representatives of the country was a limitation to their music or if it was a source of artistic inspiration and new opportunities, RM replied that it was “all of those things”, per a translation by Soompi.“At times,
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will be moved online in 2022 for the second consecutive year due to growing concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant across Europe. It’s the first major European film festival to take the virtual route in 2022.The decision comes four days after the Dutch government announced that a strict nationwide lockdown will be enforced starting Dec.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs Europe copes with yet another wave of COVID-19 infections and skyrocketing cases of the Omicron variant, prospects for a full-blown comeback for the international film festival circuit are looking less likely every day.The Netherlands and Denmark have taken the strictest measures so far, while France and Germany have closed their borders to U.K. travellers.
SEOUL, South Korea -- Anupam Tripathi said his grandfather sometimes read his palm and told him he’d be rich one day. His joking response?“Where is my money!”The 33-year-old Tripathi was rightfully doubtful.
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Connors, the former chief operating officer of Marvel Studios, has joined the studio arm of Asia-based video game company Nexon.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has been allowed to maintain its 2022 edition on-site by the Dutch government. The upcoming edition will take place Jan.
Porter Robinson has announced his first UK and European headline tour in five years, with a string of dates booked in for Spring – check them out below.Kicking off in Germany on April 8, 2022, Robinson will visit Denmark, Netherlands and France before a trio of shows in the UK.Tickets for the shows go on sale 10am GMT on Friday December 17 from here, but fans can get access to a special Spotify pre-sale from tomorrow morning (December 15).The tour is in support of second album ‘Nurture’, which
Naman Ramachandran Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” Japan’s entry to the Academy Awards’ international category, looks to be the odds on favorite from Asia to win the category.The drama with a theater world backdrop follows the trajectory of South Korean four-statuette winner “Parasite” in that it began its winning ways at Cannes and is festooned with awards en route to the Oscars.
Gong Yoo is in a new Netflix thriller!
According to a new report, Saturday Night Live is heading across the pond.
According to Deadline, “SNL” representatives are reportedly in London having talks with Comcast-owned Sky, a sister network of NBC under the same American telecommunications conglomerate.NBC has not yet responded to The Post’s request for comment.While still in its fledgling stages, English “SNL” could potentially become the highest-profile iteration of the Lorne Michaels-created series, which has been adapted everywhere from Germany to South Korea.
Space has long been the go-to location for sci-fi projects and it’s easy to see why. A void that is cold, dark, and deadly, outer space thrives as much on the unknown as it does known variables.