Spotify U.K. Studios Head Joins Wondery as Head of Commercial for Europe (EXCLUSIVE)

K.J. Yossman “The Repair Shop’s” Jay Blades has struck a first look deal with BBC Studios via his production company Hungry Jay Media.Hungry Jay is a joint venture between Blades and production company Hunrgy Bear (“Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel”), which was founded in November 2020 by Dan Baldwin and Juliet Denison Gay.The 1-year deal will mean BBC Studios has first dibs on Hungry Jay’s factual entertainment slate.

Germany’s Leonine Studios is acquiring Berlin-based Hyperbole Medien.

BBC Studios Partners With ‘Repair Shop’ Star Jay Blades & Hungry Bear

EXCLUSIVE: Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up film to Oscar winner Parasite is currently in pre-production at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden.

K.J. Yossman Streaming service BBC Player is set to launch in Poland next month thanks to a partnership between BBC Studios and Canal+.The VOD platform will launch June 1 for Canal+ streaming subscribers as well as satellite users whose set-top boxes are connected to the Internet (the latter will only have access between June 1 and Aug.

EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios has taken worldwide rights to German-Norwegian thriller series The Seed (working title), which is set around the explosive takeover of a seed company and comes from Chameleon writer Christian Jeltsch.

films of the season. It's also a majorly important for fashion, since film premieres require some serious looks on the red carpet. And who's been bringing their style A-game this time around? None other than Anne Hathaway, who has been in Cannes to promote her new film Armageddon Time, a historical drama alongside an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Chastain that is her latest big project after tv series We Crashed.

Emiliano De Pablos Vértice 360, one of Spain’s top indie production-distribution companies, is expanding operations to Latin America, Italy and Portugal, as fruit of its ambitious plan to become a reference on the international film distribution scene.Part of the Squirrel Media group, the Madrid-based distributor is backing a first stage of its international expansion with the investment of more than $100 million in film content for distribution in the 35 territories where it already operates. At the current Cannes Film Market, Vértice is looking for movie deals to expand its international line up.The distributor mainly looks for blockbusters going out to independent industry and prestige projects which are liable to win international awards, but also local productions in both Spanish and English. Vértice has already established business relationships with top independent content providers such as Millennium Media, FilmNation, A24, Studiocanal and Pathé. “We have with them a title-by-title relationship, with a maximum degree of collaboration.

For the past two Mays, Hollywood’s studio lots have remained quiet during the week they should be buzzing with the world’s top international acquisitions execs, excitedly chomping down on In-N-Out burgers and squeezing into grand theater halls at the annual LA Screenings.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios Europe Boss Georgia Brown has said “broadcasters and streamers were not investing enough in the non-scripted space” when she joined five years ago, as the SVoD prepares to unveil a suite of true crime docs with a variety of different tones.

Sky has unveiled a second series of I Hate Suzie and an adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, while confirming Universal Pictures’ Wicked will be one of the first projects to be filmed at Elstree Studios, relocating from the U.S.

Heidi Klum‘s daughter, Leni Klum, is taking after her in more ways than one. The 18-year-old model recycled one of her mom’s red carpet dresses for a picture-perfect prom look over the weekend.

Heidi Klum's daughter, Leni Klum, is taking after her in more ways than one. The 18-year-old model recycled one of her mom's red carpet dresses for a picture-perfect prom look over the weekend.Leni shared a series of Instagram photos on Monday, writing, «Prom night in mamas dress.»The teen looked elegant in the little black dress, which she paired with minimal jewelry. Leni — who normally has her hair blonde just like Heidi — made a statement with a darker do for the night.A post shared by Leni Olumi Klum (@leniklum)Heidi likely had no problem lending the dress to her daughter, and shared the heart-eye emoji in the comments section of Leni's post.

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New York City on Friday.  The Cyrano star, 52, donned a dark blue, nearly purple, blazer over a gray t-shirt and red scarf. Anne stood out in a stylish black cocktail dress with pumps.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU), the UK production powerhouse behind Planet Earth and The Green Planet, has hired BAFTA-winning Mike Davis to lead a major push into CGI.

Neon, the Best Picture Oscar-winning studio behind Parasite, has acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.