What’s Selling at MIPCOM: Spy Thrillers, Royal Romances and a Zulu Epic
With vertical video, AI and YouTube upending the TV business, buyers heading to Cannes will find that everything old is suddenly new again.
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With vertical video, AI and YouTube upending the TV business, buyers heading to Cannes will find that everything old is suddenly new again.
They play two young people who run away to the same farmhouse in the British countryside in screenwriter and director Kieran Bourne’s feature debut, the first feature from producer Candid Broads.
Isabelle Huppert has yet to be pushed aside by AI, the French star said at the Busan International Film Festival, though she has heard she may soon be speaking Korean and Japanese. “I didn’t know I spoke Korean. I just know how to say ‘annyeonghaseyo’ [hello],” Huppert said at a press conference for
The much-discussed feature, which won the special jury prize at Venice, expanded to 30 cities in its second weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: Marina Hyde, whose sharp and incisive columns have called out many public figures in British and U.S. society, is going solo – and it looks like she’ll be Always On. We can reveal the broadcaster, podcaster and writer, who contributed to Apple TV series The Studio, is teaming up with Gary
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Beta Film has closed major deals for two of its female-led highlights: royal drama “Queen Silvia” and upcoming series “La Vida Barcelona.” Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT has acquired the Swedish second window rights after Prime Video to “Queen Silvia” ahead of its world premiere in Cannes, while Ge
Audiovisual from Spain, ICEX Spain Trade & Investment’s umbrella brand, will bring some 50 companies and institutions to Mipcom this year, showcasing the breadth of the country’s film, TV, animation and production industries. Taken together, the companies heading to Cannes highlight where much of th
EXCLUSIVE: The hugely anticipated documentary series with unheard audio of Princess Diana is heading to Prime Video in the UK. The streamer has scooped the UK and Ireland rights to the series, which it will launch as Diana: Her Secret Confessions. The three-parter’s original title is Diana Unheard,
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest shows at this year’s MIPCOM has revealed a big sale on day one of the market. Italy’s Rai has bought the Fox and Fremantle reboot starring Stephen Amell, Brooks Nader and Noah Beck after its first window deal with Prime Video Italy runs down. Distributor Fremantle is la
EXCLUSIVE: A+E Global Media is leaning into the “extraordinary power” of K-pop, and has been for some time. International boss Patrick Vien and Korea chief Youngsun Soh detailed a strategy that taps into the popularity of K-pop stars from those first breaking through at local agencies to when they b
EXCLUSIVE: French-German network Arte has jumped aboard Steven Moffat’s series Number 10 about a fictional UK Prime Minister. Arte is co-producing the Rafe Spall-starring Channel 4 series about goings-on inside the UK Prime Minister’s dwelling, joining pre-buyers HBO Max Australia, New Zealand’s TVN
Studiocanal has boarded “kiDnap Game,” a survival thriller series created and directed by Japan’s Yusuke Kato (“Last Friends”) which unfolds across seven cities in Asia. Produced by Kato for Fuji Television, Hong Kong’s MakerVille and South Korea’s Simstory, the 11-part series will be presented to b
London-based Cineflix Rights, shopper of the Int’l Emmy-winner “Tehran” and BBC hit series “The Walsh Sisters,” has inked a raft of major sales on the Nordic blue crime “Hildur,” based on Finnish author Satu Rämö’s literary phenomenon. Rights on the six-part series in English and Scandinavian were s
TF1 is bringing hit British comedy format “Taskmaster” to France as part of its big push into premium unscripted entertainment. “Taskmaster,” created by British comedian Alex Horne and originally launched in the U.K. in 2015, pits five celebrities against one another in a series of increasingly absu
EXCLUSIVE: SOKO remains a big seller internationally, with a raft of buyers snagging the German crime drama. As MIPCOM started in earnest, ZDF Studios shared news of recent international sales with Deadline. Long-running crime series SOKO has traveled to 12 broadcasters this year, including Walter P
When the Beach Boys played Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Sunday night, no major announcements were made from the stage, but the sense of import for fans on hand was palpable, with many believing they might be witnessing Mike Love’s last show leading the touring edition of the group. That wasn’t just
EXCLUSIVE: Radial Entertainment is reviving another franchise from the New Dominion Pictures library. The Oaktree Capital Management-backed distribution and free-streaming/FAST channel company has ordered 16 episodes of A Haunting, which will be produced in partnership with Snapped and How to Catch
John Oliver caught heat in some quarters last week for not addressing the (then) pending merger of Paramount and Last Week Tonight’s parent company, Warner Bros. But after that deal closed this week, the late-night host did not let the opportunity slip by again. At the end of a segment in which he t