EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas and Utopia are teaming up to co-sell Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson as a veteran Las Vegas showgirl reinventing her life, and will launch sales in Cannes.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events. The feature is going live initially in the U.S., U.K., Sweden and Australia, with additional markets to follow at an undetermined date. Now, any certified artist on TikTok can use the in-app ticketing feature to promote their AXS live dates, according to the company.
TikTok has let users in the U.S. purchase live event tickets via a partnership with Ticketmaster since 2022, and last December expanded the Ticketmaster pact to encompass more than 20 new markets, including Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Ireland and Australia. Under the agreement with AXS, TikTok becomes an official discovery partner in the AXS Anywhere program, alongside the likes of Spotify and Bandsintown.
AXS Anywhere lets venues, artists and other partners generate sales through targeted ticket offers and experiences. To use the AXS in-app ticketing feature on TikTok, eligible artists and partners can simply add their AXS event links to videos before publishing. “TikTok’s partnership with AXS allows us to connect millions of users with legendary artists, venues and festivals, and allows artists to promote their live dates and reach their audience in a whole new way,” said Michael Kümmerle, global music partnership development lead at TikTok.
EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas and Utopia are teaming up to co-sell Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson as a veteran Las Vegas showgirl reinventing her life, and will launch sales in Cannes.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor SAG-AFTRA will license Nielsen‘s streaming content data, which the union will to enforce the terms of its 2023 contract with Hollywood studios. Under the deal for Nielsen’s Streaming Content Ratings, SAG-AFTRA will have “an objective source of domestic viewership data for original streaming programming,” the parties announced.
Naman Ramachandran The Jeffrey Archer Company and Dream Bay Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to adapt the bestselling author’s works for television and film internationally, with an initial focus on Indian, Asian and the Middle Eastern markets. DBE was founded in 2023 by former Amazon Studios executive Thomas Drachkovitch. Former CAA agent Jason Hafford recently joined as co-founder and head of DBE Management.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter of 2024, topping analyst expectations, fueled by the ecommerce giant’s move to serve advertising by default in Prime Video in multiple markets. Advertising sales for the quarter were up 24% year over year and marked a new Q1 record. The revenue beat Wall Street expectations for the quarter of $11.7 billion, according to StreetAccount.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Following their collaboration on hit horror Talk To Me, A24 and filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou are re-teaming on original horror movie Bring Her Back, we can reveal.
In a matter of days, The Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. While this is impressive enough, the couple have been in one another's lives for more than twenty years. Very few of us need reminding that the royal couple met when they were both students at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2001.
EXCLUSIVE: Wattpad/Webtoons has hired Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane, Horizon Line) to adapt I’m The Grim Reaper from the Webtoon created by Grave Weaver.
Princess Kate has a 'crazy' hobby that Prince William just cannot get his head around. The Princess of Wales, who is currently receiving chemotherapy after receiving a cancer diagnosis, once opened up about her fascinating pastime during an appearance on Mike Tindall's podcast, The Good, The Bad and The Rugby. Catherine gushed about her love of sports, as she mentioned one particular activity that William calls her ‘crazy’ for.
Scottish estate, Balmoral Castle. Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle may be invited by King Charles to spend some time with the Firm over the season this year.
EXCLUSIVE: Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is partnering, through his Seth MacFarlane Foundation, with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation to fund the first-ever, curated restoration of historically significant animated shorts from the 1920s to 1940s.
Riley Strain’s family is beyond upset by the “appalling” behavior of his fraternity brothers after he went missing.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Viaplay‘s streaming service — specializing in award-winning Scandinavian series and films — is now available as an add-on subscription on Amazon‘s Prime Video Channels in the United States. Starting Wednesday, Prime members in the U.S.
1 min read A glimmer of hope has emerged in the ongoing fight for LGBTIQ+ rights in Uganda. Twenty-two brave individuals, including prominent activists like Dr. Frank Mugisha and Jacqueline Kasha Nabagesara, have […]
Lloyds Bank has warned that more than £1 million could already have been lost by music fans in the UK to fraudsters pretending to offer Taylor Swift concert tickets. Over 600 customers with the Lloyds Banking Group have already come forward to report being scammed.
J.K Rowling has said that Harry Potter stars can 'save their apologies' in a furious rant on X, formerly Twitter. The renowned author has publicly criticised celebrities who "used their platforms to cheer on" the transitioning of children, suggesting she would not forgive the film franchise's stars even if they apologised.
Immediately off the back of its inclusion in the Cannes competition line-up, Ali Abbasi‘s The Apprentice has dropped a first look of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
Alex Ritman The first-look image of Sebastian Stan as a young, pre-TV star and pre-president Donald Trump in buzzy upcoming biopic “The Apprentice” has been revealed. Ali Abbasi’s feature — which has just been announced as part of the 2024 Cannes main competition — charts Trump’s ascent to power through what is described as a “Faustian deal” with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (seen in the still being portrayed by Jeremy Strong).
Auli’i Cravalho, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Sasha Colby and Gettin’ Rad Productions Founder Naomi Scott. “Moana 2” and “Thai Cave Rescue” Screenwriter and PEAK Co-Founder Dana Ledoux Miller will moderate the panel.
Prince William has always held a close bond with his father King Charles and when it came to his future with Kate Middleton, the pair had a life-altering conversation. Amidst a challenging time for the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales is balancing royal duties, parenting three young children, and supporting his wife, Kate, through her preventative chemotherapy.
Annika Pham On the heels of its successful world launch at IDFA, the critically-acclaimed anti-colonial pic “Our Land, Our Freedom,” sold by First Hand Films, has landed a deal with BBC Africa Eye. “Our Land, Our Freedom,” a Kenyan/U.S./Portuguese co-production, and the upcoming India-set “Kalari,” to be pitched in Visions du Réel docu festival’s Swiss Preview showcase, epitomize what First Hand Films stands for.