Taiwan TV Companies Brings Full Slate to Mipcom

Reese Witherspoon‘s family just grew by four paws!

As the American Film Market shifts to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a coalition of topagencies, film sales agents, production companies, and financiersare following the virtual lead. Per an announcement today, a coalition of more than 30 companieshave confirmed participation for an online market timed to coincide with AFM from Nov.

Scott Foley is heading to HBO Max for Ellen’s Next Great Designer!

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVScandal and Whiskey Cavalier alum — and amateur furniture maker — Scott Foley has been tapped as co-host and lead judge on Ellen’s Next Great Designer, HBO Max’s furniture design competition series starring and executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres.In Ellen’s Next Great Designer, design aficionado DeGeneres will give eight forward-thinking furniture designers the chance to push their creativity to the limit.

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Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentGerman film and TV company Leonine Group, which was formed through the merger of Tele München Gruppe, Universum Film, i&u TV, Wiedemann & Berg Film and W&B Television, has rearranged its long-term group financing.The financing includes long-term loans and revolving credit lines totaling Euros 189 million ($222 million), which also cover the company’s film production financing, with the exception of the publicly listed Odeon Film AG, which also

Monopolistic companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and others have become far too powerful.They thwart competition and abuse their power, whether it's by failing to protect users' privacy and data or by controlling one of our most basic freedom — free speech —  in hopes of influencing, if not, swaying elections.

Perthshire stores in the balance.The Carlisle-based retailer, which has two EWM branches in Perth, one in Blairgowrie and another in Pitlochry, has been hit hard by a drop in tourists and the older sector of the clothing market staying away from stores during COVID-19.Last week it was revealed that the EWM group teeters on the brink of administration, with up to 21,500 jobs at risk across the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group.Measures to prevent parents parking outside primary school are welcomedEWM

Manori Ravindran International EditorMiles Ketley, the CEO of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture, has died unexpectedly. He was 52.Pegg announced the executive’s death via Twitter on Monday.

Suzanne Somers is opening up about just how she fell down the stairs in an accident along with her husband, Alan Hamel.

The Mipcom international television market — typically the buzziest and most industry-defying event of the year — wrapped without much fuss on Friday. The virtual-only MIPCOM Online+ had plenty to recommend it — including A-list virtual Q&As with the likes of Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and multi-hyphenate Tyler Perry (this year's MIPCOM Trendsetter award winner)— and there was a steady flow of announcements and deals.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThom Tillis received more than $30,000 from entertainment companies and their trade associations last quarter, as he tries to fight off a challenger in one of the key races that will determine control of the Senate.Lindsey Graham, who is also in a tough race, has received contributions from the Motion Picture Association, Comcast, AT&T and the Internet and Television Association, which represents the cable TV industry.As much of Hollywood is trying to flip the

South Korea's Big Hit Entertainment, the company that manages global pop sensation BTS, had a dynamite trading debut Thursday in Seoul, helped by the zeal of its loyal fans. Big Hit's shares nearly doubled after their initial public offering netted more than $800 million.

Britney Spears' conservatorship battle against her father, Jamie Spears, continues, and it appears they could be making some leeway.The 38-year-old singer, who is currently fighting to have her dad removed from her 12-year conservatorship, had a small victory on Wednesday when her petition request was granted that would allow her to expand her legal team. Britney was not present for the latest hearing, though her mother, Lynne Spears, her attorney, Samuel Ingham, and her dad were present.Just

Time for some R&R!

As NASA gets set to return to the moon in 2024 and head to Mars several years later, the space agency awarded a number of U.S. companies with contracts worth $370 million to help make these plans happen.

Christopher Vourlias “Game of Thrones” co-executive producer Vince Gerardis is setting up a production company in Italy, Variety has learned.The new venture, dubbed CIAO, or Creatività Italiana Americana Organizzata, is the latest move from the Miami-based executive, who specializes in packaging and selling large-scale, world-building film and television projects based on literary properties.Gerardis is in talks with an Italian publisher for a deal that would give CIAO access to a range of