#‘House of the Dragon’, ‘The Penguin’ Stars Eve Best, Carmen Ejogo Lead Nicôle Lecky’s New Drama

#‘House of the Dragon’, ‘The Penguin’ Stars Eve Best, Carmen Ejogo Lead Nicôle Lecky’s New Drama

House of the Dragon star Eve Best and The Penguin‘s Carmen Ejogo will lead a new BBC drama from Nicôle Lecky, Wild Cherry. Following the success of Lecky’s BAFTA-winning Mood, the BBC and production firm Firebird Pictures (Wilderness, The Jetty) on Wednesday unveiled the cast for the new six-part series. Imogen Faires (Goldie’s Oldies, Marcella)…

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#MIPCOM Wrap: Safe Bets Dominate a Slow Market

#MIPCOM Wrap: Safe Bets Dominate a Slow Market

It was back to basics at this year’s MIPCOM, the world’s leading television market, which wrapped in Cannes this week, with buyers and sellers alike, still reeling from the 2023 Hollywood strikes and a sluggish advertising market, embracing a more conservative approach. The message was clear: the era of high-risk, big-budget productions is giving way…

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#Red Sea Film Fest Books ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Santosh,’ ‘Familiar Touch’ for Festival Favorites Program

#Red Sea Film Fest Books ‘Black Dog,’ ‘Santosh,’ ‘Familiar Touch’ for Festival Favorites Program

The Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has picked 12 movies for its Festival Favorites selection of standouts from the fest circuit, including U.K. Oscar submission Santosh, an Indian police procedural about two women who form an unlikely alliance directed by Sandhya Suri, and Chinese auteur Guan Hu’s Black Dog, which won the Un…

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#‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ ‘Witches’ Feature on Longlist for BIFAs Raindance Maverick Award

#‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ ‘Witches’ Feature on Longlist for BIFAs Raindance Maverick Award

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, about out-of-work theater actors who try to stage a production of Hamlet within the video game Grand Theft Auto during the COVID lockdown, and Witches, Elizabeth Sankey’s doc that posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering, are among 13 feature films on the longlist for this year’s Raindance Maverick…

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#Bhansali Productions CEO Prerna Singh on Bringing Big Bollywood to the Small Screen with Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’

#Bhansali Productions CEO Prerna Singh on Bringing Big Bollywood to the Small Screen with Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’

After executive stints at such Indian media giants as Eros International, Abundantia Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment, Singh joined Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bhansali Productions in 2019, heading up operations at the Bollywood powerhouse. Singh has expanded the company’s business to the small screen with the epic series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, a Netflix original about the…

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#Timo Tjahjanto Talks Netflix’s The Shadow Strays

#Timo Tjahjanto Talks Netflix’s The Shadow Strays

If there were an AI prompt behind Indonesian action maestro Timo Tjahjanto’s latest Netflix movie The Shadow Strays, it would probably go something like this: “Give me John Wick but make it Indonesian women with uzis and samurai swords — and more brutal.”  Not that anything feels remotely artificial about the viscerally kinetic setpieces that…

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