Category Archives: Variety
NBCUniversal International Posts Record Pre-Tax Loss Following $130 Million Write Down on Investments
NBCUniversal International has posted a record pre-tax loss following a write down of 99,297,000 ($130 million), its latest accounts show. The accounts, which were filed at U.K. business registrar Com...
Oct 18, 2024
Must-See International TV at Mipcom 2024
"Artistock Game" CJ ENM The new shiny-floor music show from Korean powerhouse CJ ENM. Viewers receive virtual game money to invest in a choice of 48 artists ranging from the indie scene to K-pop. Only...
Oct 18, 2024
Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh Unveils Its Classic Film Strategy at Lumière as the Powerhouse Adds Melville’s ‘Les Enfants Terribles’ to its Vault (EXCLUSIVE)
French production-distribution-sales powerhouse Studiocanal, which holds one of the largest film libraries in the world with some 9,000 titles, has completed its Jean-Pierre Melville collection with t...
Oct 18, 2024
Cannes’ Critics Week Opener ‘Ghost Trail,’ Starring Breakout Actor Adam Bessa as Syrian Refugee, Lands U.S. Distribution Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
Music Box Films has bought U.S. rights to “Ghost Trail,” Jonathan Millet's tense revenge thriller, from MK2 films (“Anatomy of a Fall”). Millet's feature debut p...
Oct 18, 2024
Canneseries Reveals Plans to Build Industry Heft Via Networking, Discussion Clubs (EXCLUSIVE)
Having hit new highs in 2023 and 2024, staging world premieres of Apple TV+'s "Silo" and "Franklin," Amazon's "Dead Ringers" and Disney+'s "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld," Canneseries, one of Europe's most ...
Oct 18, 2024
Peak TV Heads for Cannes as Mipcom Kicks Off With More Execs and Shows as the Hunt Is On for Game Shows and Unscripted Series
While MipTV is moving to London, Mipcom Cannes has emerged stronger than it's been in many years with participation on the rise for its milestone 40th edition. The TV industry has been hit by a quadru...
Oct 18, 2024
El Gouna Artistic Director Marianne Khoury on Festival’s Full Return: ‘If I Am Convinced Something Needs to Happen, It Will Happen’
After canceling the 2022 edition for a "reset" and postponing the 2023 edition from October to December due to the war in Gaza, the El Gouna Film Festival is back in full force for its seventh edition...
Oct 18, 2024
El Gouna Film Festival Brings Back Window on Palestine Strand for a Second Year: ‘This Is Touching Us All’
After canceling the 2022 edition, the El Gouna Film Festival team was looking forward to returning in full force in 2023 but was faced with having to postpone the festival three times due to the war i...
Oct 18, 2024
Ava DuVernay, Chloë Sevigny Talk Female Gaze, Agnes Varda and Claire Denis at Miu Miu’s Tales & Tellers Opening for Art Basel Paris
Ava DuVernay, Chlo Sevigny, Cailee Spaeny and Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch were among the luminaries who took part in the chic vernissage (preview) hosted by Miu Miu for its first ever...
Oct 18, 2024
Finnish Producers Reveal Mipcom Slate, Including Shows About a Forensic Odontologist Taking On Dictators and ‘Demon-Summoning Family Next Door’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Audiovisual Producers Finland (APFI) has unveiled its Mipcom slate. The "diverse" lineup "highlights the extraordinary storytelling coming out of Finland," teased executive director Laura Kuulas...
Oct 18, 2024