• 🚨[ATTN: Production Companies] Discover over 400 global Documentary projects in Development with Vitrina’s Global Project Tracker. Explore new financing, co-production, and partnership opportunities.
• Blue Ant Media has commissioned five new titles and renewed four for T+E and Cottage Life, including the Indigenous-focused paranormal series Ghost Lands. The new and returning shows debut in 2025, with a second window on Blue Ant’s FAST channels. (🇨🇦)
• Awesomeness TV has acquired TV rights to That Friend, Sabrina Brier’s debut audiobook, for a Gen Z-driven comedy series. The show follows an aspiring influencer in NYC balancing friendship, finances, and podcasting ambitions. (🇺🇸)
• Focus Features, Hyde Park Entertainment, and Mario Kassar Productions are teaming up to adapt Ryū Murakami’s cult horror novel Audition. Danish director Christian Tafdrup will helm and co-write the feature, with his brother Mads. (🇺🇸)
• Story Kitchen and Sandfall Interactive are developing a live-action film based on the upcoming video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The game, releasing April 24, 2025, will be adapted into a cinematic experience. (🇺🇸)
• Lena Dunham has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Netflix, developing scripted projects through her production company, Good Thing Going. Her first project under the partnership is “Too Much,” a 10-episode romantic comedy about a New Yorker moving to London, blending heartfelt storytelling with unexpected twists. (🇺🇸)

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• 🚨[ATTN: ProdCos Looking for Co-Pros] Find over 1350 Animation Titles now currently In Development and/or In-Production across the across the globe with Vitrina’s Global Project Tracker.
• Guy Ritchie’s Wife & Dog adds James Norton, Paddy Considine, and Pip Torrens to its star-studded cast, joining Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike, and Anthony Hopkins. Produced by Ivan Atkinson and Black Bear’s John Friedberg, the film dives into the scheming world of Britain’s upper class and is now in production. (🇺🇸)
• Netflix has confirmed a third and final season of The Empress, the global hit series about Empress Elisabeth of Austria. With Katharina Eyssen as showrunner and Sommerhaus Serien GmbH producing, the historical drama will conclude its acclaimed run, following its success in Netflix’s Top 10 across multiple countries.(🇺🇸 🇦🇹)
• HBO’s House of the Dragon Season 3 starts filming in 2025. James Norton joins as Ormund Hightower, with the season set to feature the intense Targaryen civil war, including the Battle of the Gullet. (🇺🇸)
• Production is underway in Glasgow for The Inner Circle, a new BBC One quiz show hosted by Amanda Holden and produced by Tern TV in partnership with BBC Studios. The show blends general knowledge with strategy, offering contestants a chance to win cash prizes while navigating alliances and trust. (🇬🇧)
• PBS Masterpiece has commissioned Marble Hall Murders, the final installment in Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan reprise their roles, with filming set to begin in March. (🇺🇸)

• 🚨[ATTN: Content Buyers: Pre-Buy Opportunities] Vitrina’s Global Project Tracker is now featuring over 400 Crime titles currently in development. Explore now!
• Filming for One Piece Season 2 is complete, featuring new characters like Mr. 3 and Dr. Kureha. Produced by Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, it’s expected to release in late 2025. (🇺🇸)
• Production has wrapped on The Dreadful, a gothic horror film starring Sophie Turner and Kit Harington. Set during the War of the Roses, the film is directed by Natasha Kermani and produced by True Brit Entertainment. (🇺🇸)
• Jackie Chan’s The Shadow’s Edge wraps filming in Macau, directed by Larry Yang. It stars Chan, Zhang Zifeng, Wen Junhui, and Tony Leung Ka Fai. Produced by Victoria Hon, distributed by Golden Network Asia. (🇺🇸 🇭🇰)
• Filming for Taylor Sheridan’s The Madison has wrapped, with post-production underway. The drama stars Michelle Pfeiffer as matriarch Stacy Clyburn, alongside Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, and Patrick J. Adams. The show, previously known as 2024, focuses on a family’s journey at a ranch, blending NYC lifestyle with rural life. (🇺🇸)
• Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, produced by Disney+, has wrapped filming in Vancouver, featuring Walker Scobell as Percy. This season follows Percy’s quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Sea of Monsters. (🇺🇸)

• A24 has acquired worldwide rights to Sorry, Baby, a breakout hit at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Written, directed, and starring Eva Victor, the film explores a college professor’s recovery after sexual assault. (🇺🇸)
• French-U.K. sales company Alief has acquired the international rights to Bokshi, a supernatural folk horror by Bhargav Saikia. Set to premiere at Rotterdam, the film will be represented by Alief in key global markets. (🇬🇧)
• NEON has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Together, a supernatural romance film written and directed by Michael Shanks, starring Alison Brie, Dave Franco, and Damon Herriman. The movie will open in cinemas on August 1st. (🇺🇸)
• Gazer has secured numerous global deals. Memento International has brokered sales for the film, including North American rights to Metrograph Pictures, and regional distribution agreements with Rialto Distribution (Australia & NZ), Gulf Film (Middle East), and others across Asia and Europe. (🇦🇺 🇳🇿)
• Sphere Abacus has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Making Manson, a true-crime documentary series produced by Renowned Films. The series, featuring exclusive insights and interviews, has been sold to Channel 5 / Paramount+ in the UK and Bell Media in Canada. It originally premiered on Peacock in the US in November 2024. (🇬🇧 🇨🇦)

𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎+𝑻𝑽 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔-𝒊𝒏-𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 [𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕]:

Netflix 650+ 🆚 Amazon 550+

• Canal+ acquires Shane the Chef, a CG-animated preschool series from Hoho Rights. Launching February 2025, the deal follows successful European expansion, including sales to MTV Hungary, RTV Slovakia, and digital growth. The series is about an energetic chef Shane who runs a restaurant with his young daughter Izzy. (🇬🇧)
• Amazon’s Prime Video and Lionsgate have struck a multiyear theatrical output deal, with Prime Video securing an exclusive streaming window for Lionsgate’s films after their initial run on Starz. This deal will start with Lionsgate’s 2026 theatrical releases, including high-profile titles like The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping and Now You See Me 3. (🇺🇸)
• Max secures Paul American, an exclusive eight-episode reality series following Logan and Jake Paul. Premiering March 27 and running through May 15, the show offers an inside look at the Paul family’s lives. (🇺🇸)
• Comedian Kelsey Cook’s second special, Mark Your Territory, has been acquired by Hulu for a global premiere on February 11. The special will also debut on YouTube simultaneously. (🇺🇸)
• Peacock secures Married at First Sight in a major acquisition, ordering Seasons 19-21 from Kinetic Content. Previously airing on Lifetime, the hit reality series will now stream exclusively on Peacock, expanding its unscripted content lineup. (🇺🇸)

𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎+𝑻𝑽 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔-𝒊𝒏-𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 [𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕]:

BBC 300+ 🆚 Vivendi/Canal+ 225+

• Fox Corporation’s Q2 revenue grew 20% year-on-year to $5.08 billion, with net income rising to $388 million. Growth was driven by higher political ad revenues, strong sports programming, and gains at Tubi, reinforcing CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s strategy of live news, sports, and digital expansion. (🇺🇸)
• Paper Owl Films has launched a new 5,000-square-foot studio in Belfast to expand its in-house productions, strengthen international partnerships, and support its growing creative team across animation, production, and post-production. The new hub will drive projects like “Pablo: Boy Meets School” for BBC Children’s and “Nikhil & Jay” for CBeebies. (🇬🇧)
• Spanning 21.5 acres, the $262 million London’s Eastbrook Studios launches with 12 state-of-the-art soundstages and three acres of backlot space. Backed by Hackman Capital Partners and The MBS Group, the studio will support blockbuster films and TV, creating 1,200 jobs and adding $44 million annually to the local economy. (🇬🇧)
• The Midgard Film Commission in Norway plays a key role in transforming Frøya Island into a prime filming destination. Through strategic efforts and collaborations with local authorities, the commission has helped showcase Frøya’s dramatic coastline and unique setting, making it a go-to location for films. (🇳🇴)
• Newly launched Studio of the Americas joins forces with Georgia Film Academy to support Native American talent. Based at Tyler Perry Studios, it aims to authentically portray Indigenous stories through film and television. (🇬🇪)

• LightWave 2025 adds procedural modeling, enhanced rendering, and Rhiggit rigging updates. New features include RIPR preview, Steppit animation tools, LW Construct generator, and a powerful Cel Shader for stylized rendering. (🇬🇧)
• Adobe now offers unmetered access to over 19,000 materials, 3D models, and HDR lights in the Substance 3D Assets library for all Substance 3D subscribers, eliminating restrictions and usage points. (🇺🇸)
• Panasonic introduces four new 4K 60p 10-bit camcorders—the AG-CX20, AG-CX18, HC-X1600, and HC-X1200—featuring a 25mm wide-angle lens, 24x optical zoom, improved viewfinder, and enhanced network connectivity. (🇯🇵)
• Pulldownit 6 for Maya debuts the Edge Fracture Tool, dynamic long cracks, and better performance for instanced shapes, giving VFX artists more control over realistic destruction effects and polygon budgets. (🇪🇸)
• Sony’s Burano 2.0 firmware update, arriving in March 2025, introduces new recording formats, enhanced monitoring, 1.8x de-squeeze, metadata improvements, better autofocus, expanded exposure tools, and increased user customization options. (🇺🇸)

• OpenUSD 25.02 refines API functionality, boosts performance, and strengthens multi-threading. Updates improve memory management, error handling, and scene composition, ensuring smoother, faster, and more stable production pipelines for VFX and CGI professionals. (🇺🇸)
• FilmLight launches REMOTE, a low-latency remote color grading solution for Baselight and Daylight. It integrates JPEG-XS streaming, NICE DCV, and full control surface support for high-fidelity, off-premise post-production workflows. (🇬🇧)
• Unreal Engine 5.6 improves virtual production with optimized Lumen for better cinematics, World Partition Bookmarks for easier navigation of large environments, and Megaworlds biomes for procedural world creation. (🇺🇸)
• The new Relax Deformer for Houdini allows artists to transform stiff geometry into smooth, elastic forms like latex, ideal for VFX work. It offers real-time relaxation with minimal computational overhead for flexible, organic shapes. (🇺🇸)
• Banijay partners with BASE Media Cloud and AWS for a cloud-first content ecosystem, migrating 200,000+ hours of content to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and monetization through AI-powered media workflows and a unified content hub. (🇬🇧)

𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎+𝑻𝑽 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔-𝒊𝒏-𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 [𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕]:

Disney 700+ 🆚 Paramount 350+

• Giant Animation has opened a new Barcelona studio to expand co-productions and leverage Spain’s tax incentives. The studio will split production between Dublin and Barcelona for projects like Rachel’s Pet Parlour and Milo. (🇮🇪)
• ROE Visual and Ross Video collaborate on XR solutions for premium broadcasting and corporate communication. At ISE 2025, they showcase integrated LED and video production technology for immersive storytelling and engagement. (🇸🇪)
• ITOOSOFT, the developers of ForestPack 9.1 updates ForestIvy with 3D ivy generation along 3ds Max splines and growth without surfaces. The update expands Forest Pack’s parametric scattering for plants, rocks, buildings, and animated objects. (🇪🇸)
• Boris FX releases Optics 2025, adding AI-based mask generation, Particle Brushes for fire and water effects, and multi-layer Looks presets, bringing VFX-style effects to Photoshop and Lightroom users. (🇺🇸)