France’s Asacha Media Group Acquires Majority Stake In ‘Death In Paradise’ Producer Red Planet Pictures

Matt Damon is wrapping up his time at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!

Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for its third day with the premieres of 'Lingui', by Chadian filmmaker Mahamat Saleh Haroun, and the US film 'Stillwater' presented outside of the official competition.

Saban Films has acquired the North American and UK rights to “Ida Red” starring Frank Grillo, Melissa Leo and Josh Hartnett, the distributor announced on Thursday. John Swab wrote and directed the action thriller, and the supporting cast includes Sofia Hublitz, William Forsythe, Deborah Ann Woll and George “Slaine” Carroll.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch grew up in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, which he says is “quite violent,” during the late ’70s and early ’80s when hip-hop was emerging in France. In the mid-’90s he moved to Casablanca, where he is now based, and became involved with the sprawling shantytown of Sidi Moumen on that city’s outskirts, a wasteland where extreme poverty and hopelessness have been known to breed Islamic terrorism.

Jamie Lang MPI Media Group has acquired U.S. and international sales rights, outside the U.K.

It’s a loose riff on the Amanda Knox story, basically. A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit.

Mediawan & Leonine Studios, the joint venture between France’s Mediawan and Germany’s Leonine, has acquired 51% of UK drama producer Drama Republic.

Idris Elba loves being a cowboy.

Cannes 2021 will make history, as for the first time the festival’s jury will be majority female.Among the jurists are actress-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actress-director Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and French singer Mylene Farmer.Director Spike Lee will preside over the jury, which includes Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho, South Korea’s Song Kang-ho, and French actor Tahar Rahim.More to come…

Christopher Vourlias To succeed in the motley and polyglot world of 21st-century media, where the borders between film and TV have grown porous, and global streaming platforms have become such a disruptive force that the very word “TV” seems old-fashioned, one could do worse than get a schooling in the rough-and-tumble world of Ukrainian television in the post-Soviet era.With the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago, the old ways of doing business were crumbling, new players were

Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager Development. The deal was made public via an interview with Yager Development managing director Timo Ullmann (conducted by German outlet gameswirtschaft.de), where funds will be utilised to push forward with production on the Berlin-based studio’s latest title, The Cycle.The first-person shooter released into early access on Steam in August 2019 and will be looking to relaunch based on feedback gathered from the

Palm NFT Studio, whose founding partners include film producer and owner of Heyday Films, David Heyman, and the founder of leading art house publisher HENI Group, has named Straith Schreder to the new role of executive creative director.

Netflix smash hit “The Crown,” has been accused of mishandling a sexual harassment complaint, according to an expose published in The Guardian on Monday.Freelancers Holly Bourdillon and Laura Johnston were working on the post-production of “White Lines,” another Netflix show produced by Left Bank, in December 2019 in London.

Left Bank Pictures, the Sony-owned producer behind The Crown, has defended its handling of a sexual assault complaint against former producer Chris Croucher.

Naman Ramachandran Paris-headquartered content creator Asacha Media Group (AMG) has acquired a majority stake in the U.K.’s Red Planet Pictures, producers of hit shows “Sanditon” and “Death in Paradise.”Red Planet, led by joint MDs, Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones, was founded in 2006 by showrunner Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chair.

Ben Croll If no distributor can ever handpick its audience, once Netflix sent its ribald and irreverent reframing of the U.S.’ foundational myth to the French animation festival, the streamer certainly came awfully close.Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and directed by “Archer” producer Matt Thompson, the decidedly hard-R “America: The Motion Picture” played to a room primed to react when it screened in France as part of Annecy’s Midnight Specials sidebar this past Friday.Though the

Emiliano De Pablos Barcelona-based private investment fund Suma Capital has taken a 40% stake in Adolfo Blanco’s A Contracorriente Films, aimed to boost the Spanish distributor’s movie acquisition capacity, to transform it into one of Europe’s leading indie distribution houses.Estimated at about €15 million ($17.9 million), the investment combines a capital increase with the purchase of shares from some minority partners.Under siblings Adolfo Blanco, CEO, and Amalia Blanco, president, A

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Signer, who has held executive posts at Dimension Films, AwesomenessTV and most recently Quibi, has been hired as EVP Production & Content at Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. He will report directly to Allen and is based in Los Angeles.