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Manori Ravindran International EditorITV Studios is the latest super-indie to bow out from October’s Mipcom market in Cannes — traditionally the largest annual confab for the global TV industry.The production-distribution giant joins the likes of “Peaky Blinders” distributor Banijay, whom Variety revealed was skipping the market back in June, and content powerhouse BBC Studios, which also pulled the plug on its February Showcase event.
Sources tell Variety that “Got Talent” super-indie
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Plot twist!h/t @amanfirdaus pic.twitter.com/gvQMzixYtSTikTok users who are part of the test can see the new feature, aptly dubbed “TikTok Stories,” by swiping on their screen within the app. As on other platforms, TikTok users can comment on other users’ Stories.
UPDATED with Microsoft vaccine policy, return-to-office date. Microsoft has become the latest large corporation to require all of its workers to have the Covid-19 vaccine, and the same goes for anyone visiting its U.S. offices.
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Assassin’s Creed art director Raphael Lacoste has left Ubisoft to join the independent developer, Haven Studios.The news comes from Lacoste’s Twitter where he shared he would be leaving the company after 16 years.
Nightdive Studios, which is known for remastering classic FPS titles, is teasing a potential Exhumed remaster on Twitter.So far, Nightdive has remastered Doom 64, Turok 1 and 2, and System Shock: Remastered. According to a tease from Nightdive’s CEO on Twitter, the next project will be Exhumed.
Note to self: do not get old. The alternative, i.e., death, may not be very pleasant but, sedate and dignified and swathed in vaguely biblical white sheets, it doesn’t get anything like the bad press that old age does in Gaspar Noé‘s “Vortex.” Let’s not forget that in “Enter the Void,” this same director made death seem like quite the trip – infinitely preferable to the progressively demeaning ravages of dementia or the Sword of Damocles that is a dodgy ticker.
broken his silence over his recovery from a horror injury. Ben, a former Sky Sports presenter who now works for ITV, hosting daytime TV favourite Tipping Point, shared a new update on Instagram.
When teenaged environmental activist Greta Thunberg made her now-famous speech at the UN Headquarters in 2019, she was met with equal parts admiration and derision, likely an unfavorable imbalance toward the latter. For every A-list celebrity who reposted a clip on their Instagram story, adorned with enthusiastic heart emojis, surely another handful of Internet trolls lurked in the comments and left discouraging messages.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is no stranger to success at the Cannes Film Festival. While the three films of his that have premiered at Cannes haven’t won the coveted Palme d’Or, two have won other prizes at the festival.
What do we really know about children? Until the Renaissance, artists were still painting them as freakish shriveled adults. Only in the last century-ish did American society decide they probably should go to school instead of laboring all day in sweatshops.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWscripted has unveiled its inaugural Cannes Screenplay List of scripts in the English language to option at Cannes.Wscripted is the first online marketplace for sourcing and curating excellent work written by women and women-identifying writers in film TV, and publishing.
While Disney+ is coming up on its second birthday and the streaming service already did very well at last year’s Emmys, earning dozens of nominations, it appears the domination of the Mouse House just needed a boost from Marvel Studios to really push it over the edge with this year’s awards season, as both “WandaVision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” pick up a slew of Emmy noms today.
Premiering in competition at this year’s Festival de Cannes, Nanni Moretti’s wild melodrama “Three Floors” is based on a 2017 Israeli novel called “Shalosh Qomot” from writer Eshkol Nevo and begins with an undeniably tragic event. One dark night on a quiet street of Rome, a drunk driver runs over a lady crossing the road, narrowly avoids hitting a pregnant woman, then finally crashes into a building, landing straight into a family’s living room.
Naman Ramachandran The FilmPhilippines Office of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has trebled its annual filming incentives budget from $1 million to $3 million, effective from 2022.The Philippines offers a range of incentives, including rebate schemes for local and international projects.“Electric Child” by Swiss Simon Jaquemet, produced by Switzerland’s 8horses GmbH with local production company Epicmedia Productions, was recently approved to receive a 20% cash rebate on
Christopher Vourlias Moroccan producer Khadija Alami and Nigerian producer and Africa Intl.
Like father like son, and just like that, there’s competition in the Panahi family for the best filmmaker.