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Amazon MGM Studios Japan To Double Investment In Original Content; ‘One Piece’ & ‘Kingdom’ Producers Talk IP Strategies – TIFFCOM
Buddy Marini, Amazon MGM Studios‘ new head of Japan, says the company has doubled its investment in original Japanese content, including an expanded slate of live-action films and series....
Bill Kramer Talks International Film Category Submissions & Youtube
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will expand the list of festivals that can serve as standalone qualifiers for the International Film Oscar category, AMPAS CEO Bill...
RisingJoy Signs International Distribution Pact With NTT DOCOMO
Singapore-based RisingJoy has signed a distribution pact with Japanese outfit NTT DOCOMO Studio & Live. The deal, which was announced this afternoon, covers the international distribution of the Japanese...
‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Has “More Story To Tell” In A Season 4
If Netflix wants this, Erin Foster is ready to serve up a fourth season of her Jewish romantic-comedy. Following the release of Nobody Wants This Season 3, the series...
Quentin Tarantino Shows First 17 Minutes Of ‘Cliff Booth’ At AFI Fest
Quentin Tarantino surprised the crowd during a Q&A and screening of his 10-time Oscar-nominated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on Friday night at AFI Fest in Los Angeles...
‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Peter Berg’s Powerful True WWII Story Takes Four Star Players From The Glory Of The Football Field To The Hell Of The Battlefield – AFI Fest
There have been so many films about WWII, both during and after, so many different takes and personal stories told, that now 81 years since it ended it is...
Billy Porter, Leslie Jones & Phoebe Robinson Front ‘Places, Dahlingz!’
EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter, Leslie Jones and Phoebe Robinson are launching a comedy podcast exploring live performance. The 48-part weekly comedy series, Places, Dahlingz!, will see theater icon Porter, theater...
Ex-Disney & NBCU Execs Among New Advisory Board At Pzaz
EXCLUSIVE: Former Disney, NBCUniversal and Bloomberg TV execs have formed part of a new advisory board at storyboarding and previsualisation platform Pzaz. Paul Robinson, Rose Stacey, Lindsey Oliver, Jonathan...
Banijay Confirms Senior Leadership Structure
The newly-minted Banijay Entertainment has set out its senior leadership team following the merger with All3Media. The Survivor and The Traitors company had already installed RedBird IMI CEO Jeff...
‘Other Desert Cities’ Broadway Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Gets Serious
It’s hard to imagine any secrets or hints of repressed trauma surviving long in the glare of Palm Springs sunshine that keeps things bright in the airy, open-floor, large...