Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here relaying a hugely busy week in the world of film and TV as the post-Christmas blues are very much washed away. Read on.
27.12.2022 - 17:49 / deadline.com
Elon Musk’s reluctant $44BN Twitter buyout and Warner Bros’ merger with Discovery were the most market-shifting M&A deals of the year but outside the U.S. there were several major developments that have impacted the global market.
Scroll through the gallery above for a reminder of the other splashy M&A deals of 2022.
The agency world sat up in June when UTA unexpectedly announced the acquisition of British literary and talent agent Curtis Brown Group, which our sources have speculated is the first step in the “Americanization” of the UK market. Look out for WME and CAA making moves in Europe before long.
UTA wasn’t the only North American company getting in on the European management action, as we revealed in March that Lionsgate had taken a minority stake in London’s 42, which represents the likes of Jesse Armstrong, Julian Fellowes, Claire Denis and Charlie Brooker.
But it wasn’t all Americans taking over European companies. Quite the opposite in the case of France’s Mediawan, best known as the firm behind Netflix’s Call My Agent, when it shocked the world later in the year by buying a majority stake in Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. France has a complex relationship with the international market, despite running film and TVs biggest industry events, but it is emerging as a European powerhouse as Mediawan, Banijay, Asacha Media Group and Newen Connect continue to grow in strength and buy companies.
In super-indie land, Fremantle made the most headlines. Tasked by parent RTL with doubling revenues to €3BN ($3.2BN) by 2025, the Got Talent maker acquired several prominent indies, including the hot Irish drama firm Element Pictures, producer of BBC3 and Hulu’s Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Banijay,
Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here relaying a hugely busy week in the world of film and TV as the post-Christmas blues are very much washed away. Read on.
EXCLUSIVE: Original Wild Bunch co-founders Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua bid farewell to the legendary company name they created in 2002 at a party in Paris on Thursday evening.
One of murder suspect Bryan Kohberger‘s neighbors in Pullman, Washington claims the alleged killer asked if they’d heard about the University of Idaho student murders in the days after they happened.
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Pamela Brown has a new role at the network as chief investigative correspondent, joining the network’s investigative team after the death of Drew Griffin last month.
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In Palm Springs they do it all a little differently. At least that is the impression you might have gotten if you attended last night’s 34th Annual International Film Awards gala which kicked off the Desert Film Festival, back in action for the first time since January of 2020, just weeks before Covid would shut everything down. However the bejeweled and upper crust of Palm Springs society were gathered again at the massive Palm Springs Convention Center to celebrate a select group of stars who not so coincidentally all happen to be among the most buzzed of Oscar contenders. With a red carpet that doesn’t stop at the front doors, but actually continues all the way through the huge lobby and then into the actual ballroom itself, this event was, and by the looks of it, a must stop on the way to the Dolby in March.
Hugh Jackman owes his success as a Hollywood A-lister to his breakout role as Wolverine in Bryan Singer‘s first two “X-Men” films in 2000 and 2003. But while Jackman recognizes the debt he owes those films, he doesn’t think Singer’s on-set behavior would fly in moviemaking today.
Last week we were pleasantly surprised when police went from no known suspect at all to making an arrest in the University of Idaho murder investigation.
True crime and “true crime” may have finally intersected in the form of one suspected killer.
A chance meeting? Angelina Jolie was spotted having coffee with Paul Mescal amid rumors that he and Phoebe Bridgers quietly split.
Saying goodbye. Christine Brown will no longer be traveling to Arizona following her split from Kody Brown.
More information has come out following Orlando Brown’s Thursday arrest.
Former That’s So Raven star Orlando Brown has been arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Ohio, police confirmed to Deadline.