Netflix Strikes Eight Film Slate Deal With Saudi Arabia’s Telfaz11

Refresh for latest…: DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age led the weekend in China with a $19.2M debut, outpacing local titles One Second and Caught In Time. This is the third best bow for a studio movie in the Middle Kingdom during the pandemic era (behind Tenet and Mulan).

Eurogamer, Misk confirmed it would soon purchase another 17.7 per cent of SNK in a statement released following the sale.This additional sale will take the stake to 51 per cent, giving the foundation majority shareholdings when it goes through.The development is the latest in a long line of moves by bin Salman to increase Saudi Arabia’s cultural reputation.

James McClain If nothing else, 2020 has been an exciting year for fans of midcentury modernist master Richard Neutra. A bumper crop of his greatest works — many of them astonishingly well-preserved — have come up for sale, architectural treasures located everywhere from Palm Springs to Connecticut, and from Santa Monica to Montecito.Just in time for the holidays, another Neutra gem has popped up on the open market, this one located in L.A.’s tony Bel Air neighborhood.

Naman Ramachandran Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” based on the 2018 Thai caves rescue mission, will start filming in March in Queensland, Australia.Australia will provide A$13 million ($9.6 million) to MGM and Imagine Entertainment towards the production, with Queenland’s Gold Coast hinterland doubling up for Thailand.Produced by Oscar-winner Brian Grazer, P.J.

Jon Burlingame Billie Eilish’s nomination for the new James Bond theme, “No Time to Die,” breaks with long-held Grammy precedent: it appears to be the first nominated in the “best song written for visual media” category for a movie that won’t open for months.The song was released during the 2019-2020 eligibility period, on Feb. 13, in anticipation of an April release of the movie.

The Adam Project, a new sci-fi adventure film from Netflix.The actor will be starring opposite Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, and Ryan Reynolds who will be playing the lead character, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.Reynolds stars as a man travelling back in time to seek help from his 13-year-old self (played by newcomer Walker Scobell), and together the pair go out in search of their late father.Ruffalo will be playing Reynolds’ character’s father, who is a physicist,

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefGlobal streaming giant Netflix has acquired three high profile feature films and added four new series from South Korea. The country is currently riding a cultural high with movies, TV dramas and K-pop music all finding wider international audiences.

Hardly a week goes by where a movie doesn’t opt to move out of their current theatrical release window. The reasons remain obvious.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix’s “Delhi Crime” won best drama series at the 48th International Emmy Awards while iconic British actor Glenda Jackson and 13-year-old Billy Barratt won the acting categories.The awards were announced during a live ceremony hosted by actor Richard Kind on Monday.Jackson added to her BAFTA leading actress win for BBC TV movie “Elizabeth is Missing,” while Barratt won for another BBC TV movie, “Responsible Child,” which also won the TV movie/mini-series

Even if you’re a diehard fan of Robert Rodriguez, you might not connect with his family films.

Ted Johnson The California Labor Commission has concluded that Celine Dion has to pay commissions to ICM Partners and partner Rob Prinz, ruling that she still owed for a lucrative contract with AEG because the deal was negotiated by her former agency.“The abundance of extrinsic evidence present here supports the Labor Commissioner’s conclusion that a valid talent agent contract was formed between the parties,” CLC concluded.The dispute centers on a concerts deal valued at nearly $500 million

St Mirren when Joe Shaughnessy was sent packing early in the second half on Saturday afternoon. Having created very little in the opening 45 minutes, the prospect of playing the majority of the second period with ten men didn’t fill me with confidence that the Saints were about to start hammering on the Queen’s Park goalkeeper’s door.But the key moment actually managed to swing the game in the visitors’ favour.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentCairo-based film marketing and distribution outfit MAD Solutions is launching MAD Rising Celebrity, a new unit dedicated to launching up-and-coming film and TV acting talents from across the Arab world.The new MAD Solutions subsidiary has recruited a rich roster of rising Arab actors comprising Saudi Arabia’s Fatima AlBanawi (pictured) – who starred in groundbreaking Saudi comedy “Barakah Meets Barakah,” and more recently landed a small role in new

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen the coronavirus pandemic shut down film and television production, Hollywood had to come up with new ways to allow casts and crews to continue to work safely. L.A.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs it begins to ramps up production in the Middle East Netflix has announced a partnership with Saudi Arabian digital media studio Telfaz11 to produce eight new feature films.The deal segues from the two companies’ previous collaboration on the short film collection “Six Windows in the Desert,” which was an “incredible success,” according to a Netflix statement.The announcement follows the launch last week of Netflix’s most ambitious Arabic original

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate has acquired the horror spec script “Video Nasty” for Seth Rogen’s Point Grey and Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures to produce, Variety has learned exclusively.“Video Nasty,” written by Chris Thomas Devlin, centers on three teens who rent a cursed VHS and are pulled into an ’80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them forever.