• Prime Video France has revealed a lineup of new Originals, including Glamsquad by Rebecca Zlotowski, Culte – 2be3, a series on the 90s French boy band, and Escort Boys season 2, expanding its IP collection. (🇫🇷)
• Fifth Season has acquired the rights to Amy Chozick’s debut novel Some Part of Her, set to be published by Penguin Random House in 2026, with plans for a film adaptation. (🇺🇸)
• Peacock to develop limited true crime series The Thing About Tommy, a limited series about Thomas Randolph, the “Black Widower.” NBC News Studios, Universal Content Productions, and Blumhouse Productions to be part of the production. (🇺🇸)
• Amazon MGM Studios is developing a Robocop TV series, with Peter Ocko as showrunner and James Wan as executive producer, adapting the iconic film franchise about a cyborg enforcer. (🇺🇸)
• Universal and Atomic Monster have secured Sean Tretta to write a reboot of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, based on a treatment by James Wan. (🇺🇸)

• Disney+ Spain has launched its first original melodrama, Return to Las Sabinas, at Iberseries & Platino Industria. The series features 70 episodes, focusing on family dynamics and romantic entanglements. (🇪🇸)
• Netflix has signed a five-year exclusive partnership with director Hitoshi One for the production and distribution of new series and films, following the success of Tokyo Swindlers. (🇺🇸 🇯🇵)
• MGM+ announced the final season of Billy the Kid, starring Tom Blyth, premiering in 2025. Creator Michael Hirst concludes the acclaimed series exploring unresolved conflicts in Billy’s tumultuous life. (🇺🇸)
• Marco Bellocchio is producing and directing Portobello, a TV series about a significant miscarriage of justice in Italy. This marks the inaugural project from Our Films, led by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli. (🇮🇹)
• Filmax has inked a production deal with Tandem Films and Turanga Films for Superthings: Rivals of Kaboom, Kazoom Power. The CG-animated series is based on Magicbox’s popular toy brand, with a second season and a 2026 theatrical film in development. (🇪🇸)

• Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) has secured global distribution rights for Magnolia Network’s unscripted formats, including Human vs. Hamster, Roller Jam, and Second Chance Stage, debuting at MIPCOM 2024. (🇬🇧)
• IFC Films and Sapan Studios secured U.S. distribution rights for The Luckiest Man in America, partnering with Plenty Good, Fabula, and CAA Media Finance following its Toronto Film Festival premiere.(🇺🇸)
• Tims & B Productions has partnered with Inter Medya for the global distribution of hit Turkish dramas Valley of Hearts and Loveberry, set to debut at MIPCOM 2024 for international buyers. (🇹🇷)
• Miramax has secured global sales for Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, including a key deal with Amazon MGM for the UK and Germany, ahead of its November release. (🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪)
• Off The Fence has secured worldwide distribution rights for We Are Guardians, an Amazon rainforest documentary produced by Appian Way and Highly Flammable, showcasing Indigenous forest guardians’ fight against deforestation. (🇳🇱)

• Australian streaming service, Stan, has acquired Nautilus, a $300 million Disney TV series filmed in Queensland, Australia. Originally commissioned by Disney+ but unscreened, the sci-fi drama is based on Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.(🇦🇺)
• MUBI has acquired Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, securing rights in multiple territories and exclusive SVOD rights in the US, with Utopia handling US theatrical distribution. (🇺🇸)
• Crunchyroll has acquired streaming rights for Solo Leveling – ReAwakening, a fan omnibus film featuring a recap of Season 1 and sneak peeks of Season 2. Sony Pictures Entertainment will bring the momentous theatrical fan experience to North American theaters on December 6.(🇺🇸)
• Czech Television signed an acquisition deal with Blue Ant Studios for All-Round Champion, part of a broader deal featuring 200+ hours of family content, including Old Enough! and Every Body Curious. (🇨🇿)
• Neon has acquired The Life of Chuck, winner of TIFF’s Audience Award. Directed by Mike Flanagan, the film stars Tom Hiddleston and is set for summer 2025 release. (🇺🇸)

• The Irish government has announced an 8% increase in the film and television tax incentive, raising it to 40% for local productions with budgets up to €20 million, alongside a new 20% incentive for unscripted projects.(🇮🇪)
• Director Sophia Banks and producer Damiano Tucci have launched Getaway Entertainment, focusing on compelling storytelling across film and television, with projects like Blood on Snow and In the Hand of Dante.(🇩🇪)
• Belgium’s Caviar has acquired a 45% stake in Versus Production, alongside its sister companies Inver Invest and O’Brother Distribution, aiming to develop larger-scale international projects in film and television. (🇧🇪)
• Veteran producer Charlie Haykel has launched Extra Special Entertainment, an independent production company focusing on live specials, unscripted series, and game shows, aiming to innovate and engage audiences. (🇬🇪)
• Chile’s Rizoma and Atlanta-based Condeco have launched Rizco Content Sales to capitalize on the growing international demand for Latin American and Spanish content, following their success with Cecilia Incomparable and Salvajes.(🇨🇱)

• Comcast has deployed CommScope’s Full Duplex (FDX) DOCSIS amplifier, delivering multi-gig symmetrical services in its network. This is a major milestone in scaling FDX DOCSIS 4.0, improving connectivity, security, and performance.(🇺🇸)
• Mediaproxy will showcase its new A3SA certification and compliance monitoring systems, including ATSC 3.0 stream decryption, at NAB Show New York. Their LogServer now offers cost-effective encrypted signal monitoring for broadcasters.(🇦🇺)
• At NAB Show New York 2024, Black Box will showcase its Emerald Unified KVM-over-IP product line and Boxilla KVM Manager, highlighting secure, scalable control room solutions with advanced video processing and low IP bandwidth usage. (🇺🇸)
• Hallmark Media, known for family-friendly programming, partners with Globecast to manage distribution for its three channels, aiming to improve content delivery, viewership growth, and ad sales across digital and traditional platforms. (🇺🇸)
• Nevercenter has launched Silo 2024.0, introducing a new File Instance system for external file referencing, and Milo 2024.0, which adds a gradient background feature to its real-time renderer.(🇺🇸)

• Warner Bros. Discovery has launched an AI-powered captioning solution using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, expected to cut production time by 80% and costs by 50%, initially focusing on unscripted programming. (🇺🇸)
• Pika 1.5 introduces “Pikaffects,” allowing surreal transformations of video subjects with effects like explode, melt, crush, inflate, and cake-ify, using advanced recognition to seamlessly integrate props and interactions.(🇺🇸)
• Newsmax partners with SyncWords to offer live AI translations of breaking news in local languages, starting with Spanish. This initiative aims to broaden global access to U.S. news coverage.(🇺🇸)
• Yellow launched its AI Character Generator, a Daz Studio plugin that streamlines 3D character creation, ensuring ethical use and high-quality results while maintaining creative control for users during character design.(🇺🇸)
• Nvidia has introduced new plugins for Unreal Engine 5 that enhance the creation of AI-powered characters. These tools, unveiled at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, include on-device plugins for Nvidia Ace and an Audio2Face-3D plugin for Autodesk Maya, allowing for synchronized facial animations.(🇺🇸)

• Unity has launched SpeedTree 10.0, featuring new tools for generating vines, refining tree forms, and customizing hero trees. It also unifies Games and Cinema editions into one exportable version. (🇺🇸)
• iTooSoft has released Forest Pack 9.0 for 3ds Max, featuring ForestIvy, a new plugin for generating 3D ivy. The update helps in object scattering, supporting large scenes with improved viewport response. (🇪🇸)
• Digital Domain partners with AWS to advance its Autonomous Virtual Human (AVH) technology, utilizing AWS’s cloud infrastructure and AI services. This collaboration aims to improve scalability and global accessibility of virtual humans. (🇺🇸)
• NIM Labs has launched NIM 7.0, updating its studio management platform with a revamped project scheduling system, conflict detection, and resource tracking options, providing a locally installed alternative to cloud-based solutions. (🇺🇸)
• Figment Studio launches in Thailand with a 200M baht investment from The Studio Park, StageFor, and Supreme Studio, aiming to become South East Asia’s leading virtual production facility for global projects.(🇿🇦)

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