Leonine And Lionsgate Strike Germany/Austria Film Deal; Channel 4 In Big MAFS UK Order; Endemol Shine Australia Ups Execs – Global Briefs

Thousands across the UK have been 'glued' to a nail-biting plane-spotting channel streaming live from London's Heathrow Airport. Big Jet TV fans tuned into the YouTube channel, which has garnered 174,00 subscribers, to watch the moment jets attempted to land on the runway at Heathrow Airport during Storm Eunice which has recorded gusts of 122mph.

I can't afford a house deposit - fact. I'll tell you why - after graduating from university, I moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and around half of my wages went on having a roof over my head. A rented roof.

The full-length trailer for “Moulin Rouge!” director Baz Luhrmann’s flashy new musical biopic about Elvis Presley has arrived.

Paramount+, which has been rolling out to dozens of global territories over the past year, will reach the key European market of France as part of a wide-ranging partnership with Canal+.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video and Germany’s Leonine Studios are expanding their existing partnership with a multi-year license agreement.Under the deal, Prime Video gets exclusive second window SVOD-rights for a six-month period to upcoming theatrical feature films and home entertainment titles from Leonine’s slate and also includes non-exclusive SVOD rights to titles from Leonine’s content library.Titles include Keanu Reeves’ “John Wick 4” and its spin-off “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas; Channing Tatum’s directorial debut “Dog”; Roland Emmerich’s “Moonfall,” starring Halle Berry; Nicolas Cage action-comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”; Guillaume Canet’s “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom,” with Gilles Lellouche, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel and soccer star Zlatan Imbrahimović; Jennifer Lopez starrer “Shotgun Wedding”; and Leonine Studios co-production “The School of Magical Animals 2,” the sequel to Germany’s most successful theatrical release of 2021. Leonine Studios CEO Fred Kogel said: “It’s fantastic that we can expand our long-standing partnership with Prime Video by this agreement and achieve another important milestone for our licensing business with premium content.

Geordie Shore’s Ricci Guarnaccio, he of first-man-to-put-a-ring-on-VIP-Vicky-Pattison fame, has made his acting debut in an indie horror film from Down Under.Yep, in a pivot away from reality TV and DJing, Ricci has given his acting chops a go and we have to say, he’s not half bad.Ricci posted a clip of his starring role in the 2017 film Boar to his Instagram and wrote, “My Australian @universalpictures debut, on a @christopherleesun film.

Peter Andre has opened up about finally reuniting with his family his family in Australia after it was announced the countries' borders will open up to double vaccinated travellers later this month. Writing in his weekly new! magazine column, singer Pete admits the news "didn't feel real" after having to go over two years without seeing his elderly parents and sister Debbie. Here, he also discusses a terrifying incident from his past and the announcement that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will be known as Queen Camilla when her husband Prince Charles is crowned king.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLola Arabia, the United Arab Emirates label of Oscar-winning Spanish producer Andrés Vicente Gómez (“Belle Epoque”), has struck a 12-movie co-production deal with Dubai-based Charisma Group.The alliance will take in a range of titles, from $2 million-budgeted contemporary comedies to banner productions budgeted at $40 million, revolving around contemporary and historic stories of West Asia.The partners aim to produce an average of four films a year, said Charisma Group co-president Ayham Al Ziyoud.Development has begun on the whole slate. “Although in principle we plan projects with modest budgets, these will be increased in the following year once we find the rights partners outside the Gulf States,” Gómez said.

EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla cast member Ken Watanabe has joined his upcoming New Regency film True Love in a role originally to have been played by Benedict Wong, following the latter actor’s departure due to scheduling conflicts.

Naman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Television and WarnerMedia have extended their content deal across Central and Eastern Europe, which will see titles from the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) slate of current and upcoming films shown exclusively on HBO channels and streamer HBO Max across the region.The slate includes “Spider-man: No Way Home,” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Unchartered,” “Morbius,” “Happiest Season,” “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” “Monster Hunter” and “The Father.”The deal also includes titles from popular SPE franchises such as Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man, Peter Rabbit and Jumanji and the Sony Pictures Television library of TV series titles.Countries covered under the deal are Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia. HBO Max replaces HBO Go in the region on March 8.

the union announced Wednesday night.While actual vote numbers have not been made public, according to the union, voter turnout was 67%, with 89% voting yes. The so-called ‘Black Book’ agreement will cover “Drivers, Dispatchers, Animal Trainers/Handlers, Wranglers, Mechanics, Auto Service and now DOT Administrators, with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),” the union said.

EXCLUSIVE:  Lionsgate has renewed its first-look film deal with 3Pas Studios, the production company run by producer Ben Odell and bilingual star Eugenio Derbez, Deadline has learned.

Netflix has shown its commitment to the German-speaking creative scene by unveiling 19 projects from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSky executive Jane Millichip, a distribution leader and a driving force behind the company’s sustainability drive, is leaving the company after almost 10 years.News of the executive’s departure was revealed to staff in a memo from Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz on Tuesday morning. Millichip, who currently serves as chief content officer for Sky Studios, is leaving the company after nine years.

Netflix is more than ready to keep fans entertained this year, thanks to their star-studded slate of upcoming films!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMaybe you’ve been patiently waiting two years for director Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” sequel. It could be the team-up of Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas in “The Gray Man” that strikes your fancy.