Global Entertainment Supply Chain Digest (January 2023 #1)

Global Entertainment Supply Chain Digest (January 2023 #1)

The entertainment value chain globally is massive, fragmented, and complex! It begins with content stories & IP and ends with the theatrical, streaming, broadcasting, and inflight devices that deliver content to consumers. We keep a track of all the global action, in the supply chain across content development, production, post-production, VFX, animation, localization, promotions, distribution, and deliveryโ€ฆ so you don’t have to!

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IP Deals

Hottest IP [Stories, Formats, Books, Games, Podcasts] to be turned into the next big blockbuster

  • Paramount+ to adapt Jane Casey’s book The Killing Kind, an international bestseller, for their next series ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Element Pictures, a Fremantle company, has acquired rights to the book, Bellies (A Queer Love Story) after a heated auction for the book which will be published in 2023 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Muck Media announced adapting Miguel Angel Vega’s memoir ‘El Fixer’ which is about fixers who escort foreign journalists into the darkest corners of the Mexican drug traders ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce the film adaptation of the stage musical Beautiful starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Carole King ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Reality format The Island to get a Danish version. Warner Bros Discovery Denmark has commissioned The Island Denmark (ร˜en VIP) for their Danish networks Kanal 4 and Discovery+. This local version is being produced by Banijay’s Nordik Film TV ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ

New Global Arrivals

Recent biggest releases across the globe!

  • Critically acclaimed, Indian National Award-winning Marathi film Goshta Eka Paithanichi released in theatres in Dec 2022 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • French Documentary Par Coeurs Un Film Benoit Jacquot starring French actors Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini get a theatrical release in France in Dec 2022 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Tom Hank’s much awaited movie, A Man Called Otto, based on a Swedish novel, releases at the end of 2022 ๐ŸŒŽ
  • South Korean film, Broker (Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor (Song Kang-ho)) released in theatres in the US ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Samuel Goldwyn Award winning screenplay based film Inspector Sun y la maldiciรณn de la viuda negra comes to the theatres in Dec 2022 ๐ŸŒŽ

Production Deals

A sneak peak into recently announced production projects, worldwide

  • Hombale Films well known for KGF is producing their next venture in Tamil with Raghu Thatha, starring Indian National award-winning actor, Keerthy Suresh ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • Pro-wrestler Ric Flair teams up with Peacock for the biographical documentary Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • NBCU commissions DreamWorks Africa for Inspiration Station Africa, the first live-action series set in Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • On Stan Lee’s 100th Birthday, Disney+ announces a documentary based on the legendary artist which is scheduled to release in 2023 ๐ŸŒŽ
  • UK’s Channel 4 commissions 2 shows with indie Spirit Studios: a 6-part comedy series named Fundraiser and a 10-part true crime series Outsmarting ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

Distribution Deals

Distributors securing worldwide content across different genres, languages and format types

  • Finnish sales agent The Yellow Affair closes multiple deals with distributors around the globe for Welby Ings’ directorial debut Punch ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ
  • German distribution company Global Screen closes deals with Bir Films (Turkey), and Sena(Iceland) among other distributors across the globe for Sky’s animated film The Amazing Maurice ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Rom-Com ‘The Threesome’ scores multiple Pre-Sales deals by Mister Smith Entertainment ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
  • Dutch distributor, Fortissimo Films, sells the German film We Might As Well Be Dead which has done well in the film festival circuits, to global distributors ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • UK-based distributor TVF International renews its first-look deal with Singaporean media giant Mediacorpย  ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ

Acquisition Deals

Streamers & channels acquiring latest content across the world

  • Mehdi Fikri’s first feature film Avant que les flammes ne sโ€™รฉteignent is pre-bought by leading broadcaster & streamers such as France TV, OCS Network and Netflix ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Abacus Media sells 400 hours of programming to several broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand. The varied set of programming spans across scripted as well as unscripted shows. Buyers include Foxtel, SBS, Madman Entertainment, Warner Discovery New Zealand, TVNZ, and Acron TV ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • The Media Pioneers UK take the Portuguese animated series Boris & Rufus to Hong Kong and the Nordic region ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
  • Reality show RuPaulโ€™s Drag Race picked for production of Brazilian, German, and Mexican versions by MTV ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Netflix acquires Season 2 of the Japanese reality show Old Enough ๐ŸŒŽ

Partnerships/M&A

Cross-Border Collaborations, Joint Ventures, M&A and Partnerships!

  • Fremantle acquires majority stake in Israeli Documentary production studio Silvio Productions ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Banijay Americas strengthens its footprint in Brazil by acquiring a major stake in A Fabrica, the company which produces trending TV sitcoms ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Brad Pittโ€™s Plan B Entertainment, the producer behind Moonlight and The Big Short, has been bought by Franceโ€™s Mediawan in a rare transatlantic deal that values the US group at more than $300mn in cash and shares ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธย ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • London & Singapore based 108 Media has acquired a stake in film and TV financing company Piccadilly Pictures (UK) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
  • UK giant BBC Studios buys stake in premium indie company Turbine Studios, producers of Munich: The Edge of War (Netflix) ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

Companies Making Headlines

Launch and Expansions of facilities, studios, services & technologies

  • Netflix to build one of the largest fully integrated production facilities worth $848M in New Jersey ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Global VFX Studio The Mill announced the next step in its international expansion with a new studio in Seoul, South Korea ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • DNEG opens VFX Studio in Sydney Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
  • OTT platform ITVX, launches with 10,000 hours of programming and has replaced ITV Hub as the home of all ITV content ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
  • Amazon Studios debuts AWS-Powered Virtual Production Mega Stage. It announced the opening of Stage 15, its new virtual production stage, and the formation of the new Amazon Studios Virtual Production (ASVP) department ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Featured New Specializations

Global innovations & breakthroughs in the Entertainment supply-chain

  • In the movie Avatar, Wฤ“tฤ FX adopted a global illumination system called Spherical Harmonics for lighting. This innovative service pre-calculates the lighting contributions for a scene and allows characters and environments to be placed within it, while also enabling the ability to move the light around them dynamically ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • Unreal Engine 5.1 – With over 300 LED VP stages, of which 50 are high-end VFX stages and another 50 that are high-end Broadcast stages, the UE5.1 release offers some serious improvements ๐ŸŒŽ
  • The new major feature of the new MetaHuman Plugin for Unreal Engine, is Mesh to MetaHuman. This enables users to take their own custom facial mesh and convert it into a MetaHuman, fully rigged and ready to animate. Characters in Death Stranding 2 will be developed with Unreal Engine 5 MetaHumans ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Toon Boom is celebrating the release of their latest software versions, Storyboard Pro 22 and Harmony 22, by commissioning Mercury Filmworks to produce an animated project using these updated tools ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • DNEG is an early adopter of TPN+, a new platform launched by the Motion Picture Association (MPA)โ€™s Trusted Partner Network, the worldโ€™s leading content security program ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

Localization & Post-Production

Latest updates in the world of content Localization & Post-Production

  • Shark Tank Season 14 gets dubbed in South Indian languages by Treasure Tower for streaming platform Voot ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • Urban Post Production Canada provides complete post-production services for TIFF screened film Alice, Darling ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • CD Cine Dubbing Italy dubs the second season of Attack of the Giants (Amazon Prime Video Show) for the Italian audience ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
  • Formosa Group concludes post-production for season 1 of Netflix’s series BEEF ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Hiventy Media (Poland) delivers the first Ukrainian dubbing of Jack Ryan, Season 3 for Amazon Prime Video ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ

Animation, VFX & Virtual Production

Latest global updates in Animation, Visual Effects VFX & Virtual Production

  • DNEG delivers 502 VFX Shots and 179 assets for the iconic show Doctor Who ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
  • BeloFX is working on VFX for much awaited HBO show The Last Of Us ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • Famous Studios India delivers its first regional film music video via the Unreal Engine pipeline ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • 14Kalidor Media Group, Viskatoons, Xentrix Studios, and virtual world/social platform Netvrk have announced their partnership to release the animated series called Jungle Freaks โ€“ The Animated Series on the Metaverse. The series is based on the NFT project Jungle Freaks ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Rodeo FX Animation, the new animation division of the award-winning visual effects company, has provided animation services for the film Canary using Houdini software ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

FAST Channels

World of FAST channels & related market moves

  • UK-based broadcaster Da Vinci Media launches its FAST Channel. The same named FAST channel has been launched with SLING and TLC Channel ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • German production & distribution company Splendid Film launches its first FAST Channel on Freevee ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Fuse Media partners with OUTtv, the world’s first LGBTQ+ network to launch a FAST channel OUTtv Proud on their platform. OUTtv Proud will cater to the audience with some original programming with the top as well as up-coming talent ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • German streaming service waipu.tv and sports platform DAZN come together to launch a new DAZN-branded FAST channel. Named DAZN FAST, the channel is the sports streamerโ€™s first free channel ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Video API and infrastructure platform Zype assists WMX to launch its first FAST Channel exclusively on the Roku Channel ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Cancelled Deal/Shows

Recently cancelled!

  • The WarnerMedia and Discovery merger which may lead to one streaming platform for the company, has seen multiple shows being cancelled from HBO. A few cancelled shows are Raised by Wolves, Made for Love, Time Traveler’s Wife, Gentleman Jack, Close Enough, Gordita Chronicles, Chad, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Camping, Vinyl, Mrs. Fletcher, Run, and Here and Now ๐ŸŒŽ
  • DC Extended Universe (DCEU) cancels Wonder Woman 3 Man of Steel 2 and Aquaman to revamp and recast the franchise movies ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Acclaimed show As We See It Canceled After One Season on Amazon ๐ŸŒŽ
  • Starz has canceled Dangerous Liaisons after one season โ€” despite that the historical drama was renewed in Nov 2022 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Netflixโ€™s The Midnight Club has been canceled after one season. The cancellation comes on the heels of executive producers Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy exiting their overall deal at Netflix for a new pact with Amazon Studios ๐ŸŒŽ
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