VarietyChina China Box Office: ‘The Captain’ Flies to $340 Million After Two Weeks on ReleaseVariety - Patrick Frater Patriotic thriller “The Captain” held on to the top spot at the Chinese box office for the second weekend, again leading from propaganda omnibus “My …
VarietyComcast Inside Sky Studios’ Plan to Be the ‘Biggest European TV Producer’Variety - Stewart Clarke Comcast forked out $40 billion for Sky and is now backing its CEO Jeremy Darroch’s plan to turbo-charge its pipeline of originals. It has created Sky …
VarietyMovies Korean Law To Limit Film Releasing MonopoliesVariety - Sonia Kil The Korean government is to make it illegal to show a single film on more than 50% of screens nationwide. The move is intended to prevent “screen …
VarietyObituaries Sulli Korean Pop Star Found Dead at 25Variety - Sonia Kil K-pop star Sulli, real name Choi Jin-ri, was found dead at home near Seoul on Monday. Choi’s manager found her body and alerted the police. The …
VarietyCyberbullying Korean Pop Star Sulli Dies at 25Variety - Sonia Kil Korean pop star Sulli was found dead at her home near Seoul on Monday. She was 25. The manager reported that the star, whose real name was Choi …
VarietyStreaming AVOD Service Tubi to Launch in the U.K., and Debut Kids’ Service in U.S.Variety - Leo Barraclough Tubi, the world’s largest ad-supported video-on-demand service, will launch in the U.K. early next year, with additional territories to follow as …
VarietyMovies Jason Flemyng, Lucinda Syson Launch Film and TV Indie The Kernel Factory (EXCLUSIVE)Variety - Stewart Clarke Jason Flemyng, fellow actor Ben Starr, casting director Lucinda Syson, and finance expert Cristiano D’Urso are opening The Kernel Factory, a new …
VarietyStreaming Tubi to Launch Tubi Kids, U.K. OffshootVariety - Janko Roettgers Ad-supported video streaming service Tubi is the latest to jump on the children’s entertainment bandwagon: Tubi is set to launch a dedicated kids …
VarietyMovies ‘Hache’ Creator, Director Discuss Netflix’s Next Spanish Original, Dropping Nov. 1Variety - John Hopewell MADRID — On Nov 1 Netflix will drop its fifth Spanish original series, 1960’s-set drug smuggling drama “Hache,” produced by Madrid’s Weekend Studio …
VarietyCelebrity News Behind The Scenes with Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern on ’War of the Worlds’Variety - Ben Croll “To carry a secret is a great thing,” says Gabriel Byrne, reflecting on his latest role. “You never have to show the secret, because the audience …
VarietyMovies Argentina to Build Country’s First Film Restoration Laboratory in Buenos AiresVariety - Jamie Lang Argentina’s Instituto Nacional de Cinematografia y las Artes Audiovisuals (INCAA) and the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires will …
VarietyTV Pre-Sales for ‘Noughts and Crosses’ Lead Scripted Deals for ITV Studios at MipcomVariety - Tim Dams ITV Studios Global Entertainment has racked up pre-sales for its leading Mipcom title “Noughts and Crosses”, and has unveiled a number of other deals …
VarietyTV Talent Agent Joseph Eric Rice Dies at 61Variety - Cynthia Littleton Joseph Eric Rice, a talent agent who headed JR Talent Group, died unexpectedly at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif. He was 61. Rice headed his own …
VarietyMovies Lumière Festival’s MIFC Broadens International Spotlight with Focus on GermanyVariety - Ed Meza The 7th Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) is expanding its international scope this year with more foreign companies …
VarietyDonald Sutherland Donald Sutherland Reflects in Lyon On A Life And Career Marked By CinemaVariety - Ben Croll In a loose and free-flowing on-stage interview held at the Lumière Festival this past Sunday, Donald Sutherland reflected on his decade-spanning …
VarietyTV Elisa Viihde Orders Second Series of Finnish hit Drama ‘All the Sins’ (EXCLUSIVE)Variety - elskes Elisa Viihde, the thriving Finnish SVOD service, has ordered a second season of the local series “All the Sins” whose season one was a critical …
VarietyEntertainment Industry Rob Dyrdek Skates Into 90210 MansionVariety - James McClain Guinness World Record-holding skateboarder-turned-entrepreneurial reality TV star Rob Dyrdek has come a long way since his middle-class upbringing in …
VarietyTV Televisa’s Fabrica de Sueños Leads Content Revamp as ‘Cuna de Lobos’ Debuts StronglyVariety - Anna Marie de la Fuente Televisa’s Fabrica de Sueños (Dream Factory), launched last year under the leadership of Patricio Wills, has begun to reap ratings dividends from its …
VarietyMovies Film Review: ‘Lucky Day’Variety - Peter Debruge It’s been 17 long years since “Rules of Attraction” director Roger Avary has released a film, during which time he was involved in a deadly car …
VarietyTV Mipcom Roundup: A+E Sells, Ovation Buys, Fremantle Dating Format Takes OffVariety - Jamie Lang In Variety’s second Mipcom roundup Ovation announces a raft of series and TV movie pickups, Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical recordings will be …
VarietyTV Lucia Puenzo Talks Fabula-Fremantle’s ‘The Pack’ – ‘La Jauria’Variety - John Hopewell, Emiliano Granada CANNES — Produced by Chile’s Fabula, headed by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, and Fremantle, and showrun by Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”), “La …
VarietyStan Lee Alibaba’s Youku Boards ‘Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten’ With Arnold SchwarzeneggerVariety - Elsa Keslassy Youku, the video streaming platform of Alibaba Group, has signed a deal with Genius Brands International to co-produce “Stan Lee’s Superhero …
VarietyTV AGC Television Secures Spierig Brothers for ‘Ben Walker’ Series AdaptationVariety - Jamie Lang Filmmaking brothers Michael and Peter Spierig have boarded the supernatural thriller series adaptation of the popular literary “Ben Walker” …
VarietyTV French TV Series to Watch at MipcomVariety - Elsa Keslassy Streaming services are boosting French TV production. Pascal Breton, whose Paris-based company Federation Entertainment co-produced “Marseille” and …
VarietyTV Wild Bunch TV Boards RubyRock’s Feminist Horror Anthology Series (EXCLUSIVE)Variety - Stewart Clarke Wild Bunch TV has joined “Her Horror,” the female-led anthology series from recently-minted drama shingle RubyRock Pictures and Clipper Media …
VarietyBear Grylls Bear Grylls, Delbert Shoopman Team With Banijay to Launch The Natural StudiosVariety - Leo Barraclough Bear Grylls, the face of survival and outdoor adventure television, and his longtime producing partner, Delbert Shoopman, have teamed with leading …
VarietyTV Netflix, Amazon Boost French Series While Working With Producers on EU RegsVariety - Elsa Keslassy When Netflix bowed in France in late 2004, industry insiders predicted the U.S. streaming service would struggle to get access to local producers, …
VarietyTV Tomas Yankelevich Analyzes Turner Latin American EvolutionVariety - John Hopewell CANNES — Turner Latin America is a pacemaker. Few companies in the region have evolved so fast, driven into high-end series production with such …
VarietyTV Ran Tellem Talks The Mediapro Studio Signature Series ‘The Head’Variety - John Hopewell CANNES — Set at the South Pole in Winter, shot largely in English but with Danish as well, featuring heavy VFX, co-produced by Hulu Japan and HBO …
