Mattel Studios Boss Robbie Brenner Talks ‘Masters of the Universe,’ ‘Polly Pocket’ and ‘Magic 8 Ball’ at MIPCOM: “‘Barbie’ Blew the Doors Open for Us”

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Hot off the main stage at MIPCOM, Mattel Studios President Robbie Brenner caught up with The Hollywood Reporter about the company’s epic slate. Mattel’s upcoming projects include a Polly Pocket live-action film with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine attached and Lily Collins starring as well as Travis Knight’s Masters of the Universe with Nicholas Galitzine, Camila…

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Johannes Jensen on Co-Leading Banijay’s Scripted Charge: “We Want Bold New Stories”

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Johannes Jensen knows a thing or two about the laws of the TV jungle. After all, started his industry career in 1992 as a freelancer at Swedish production firm Strix Television, where he later played a key role in producing the original version of the Survivor format, known in Sweden as Expedition: Robinson, for public…

#MIPCOM Wrap: Safe Bets Dominate a Slow Market

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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…

#Mattel and ‘Chicken Run’ Studio Aardman Team-Up on Stop-Motion, Animated ‘Pingu’ Series

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Barbie giant Mattel is teaming up with award-winning animation studio Aardman (Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, Wallace & Gromit) to co-develop a new stop-motion, animated Pingu television series. The series is inspired by Mattel’s beloved cheeky penguin who lives in the South Pole and has stayed on our screens for decades, famous for his mischief…

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

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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…

#All3Media CEO Jane Turton on that .4B Deal and Why DEI Helps the Bottom Line

#All3Media CEO Jane Turton on that $1.4B Deal and Why DEI Helps the Bottom Line

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The $1.45 billion sale of production powerhouse All3Media to Jeff Zucker and Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird IMI, which closed in May 2024, was by far the biggest professional challenge Jane Turton faced this year. The CEO of All3Media — the global production giant that produces more than 4,000 hours of content annually, including such hits as Emmy-winning…

#MIPCOM: Global TV Industry Braces for Downturn, Disruption and “Blood in the Water”

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Major construction work along Cannes’ famed Croisette has turned this most glamorous of French seaside towns into a chaotic building site. Television executives, in town for the MIPCOM Cannes international TV confab, which runs through Thursday, Oct. 19, have been forced to run a gauntlet of concrete slabs and roped-off danger zones. It’s an apt…

#MIPCOM: Banijay Launches Program to Support Women Creatives in the Non-Scripted TV Business

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Leading independent production company Banijay has launched a global accelerator program designed to support women creators in the non-scripted television business. Sharon Levy, CEO of Endemol Shine North America, announced the new program together with Banijay Chief Content Officer James Townley, at the international television conference MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. The program, Banijay Launch, will…

#MIPCOM: EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu Calls on Studios, Streamers to Put Real Money Into Telling “African and Black Stories”

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Efforts to diversify the global television industry have fallen short, argued Nigerian-British Media Mogul Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Media, in a keynote on diversity and inclusion at global film and television industry at the MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. Despite much-ballyhooed D&I attempts by studios and streamers, Abudu said she still sees a startling lack…

#MIPCOM: ITV Studios’ Cattleya Sets Up Production Company With ‘Gomorrah,’ ‘Django’ Writers

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ITV Studios-owned Italian production company Cattleya is joining forces with Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, Italian writers whose credits include such cross-over TV series as Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero and Django to launch Dedalus, a new production company which will develop drama projects for the big and small screens. Dedalus has two projects far along in the…