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$130 crore Netflix acquisition, a TikTok-born whodunnit moving to the big screen, and Marvel closing out Phase 6 with its next Spider-Man chapter set the tone this week. From platforms doubling down on franchise continuity and global formats to major bets on production infrastructure and anime scale, the industry’s next phase is taking shape in real time.
Every headline below signals where momentum is building next.
IP Deals
Hottest IP [Stories, Formats, Books, Games, Podcasts] to be turned into the next big blockbuster- The Wonder Company, producers of ‘Sacramento’, optioned the film rights to Jaden Payne’s whodunnit novel, ‘There Are 3 Women & 4 Men’. The mystery novel gained traction due to the author’s TikTok marketing efforts. (🇺🇸)
- Warner Bros. is partnering with David Heyman’s Heyday Films to adapt Chloe Benjamin’s upcoming novel, ‘Under Story’. The book, from the author of The Immortalists, is set to become a feature film. (🇺🇸)
- NBCUniversal Formats licensed the format rights for the US hit ‘Hollywood Game Night’ to Edutainment TV in a new deal. The local version of the popular celebrity party game show will premiere in a prime-time slot early in 2026. (🇲🇳)
- JioHotstar announced ‘The 50’, a “groundbreaking reality entertainment format” produced by Banijay Asia. The show brings fifty players together in a Mahal for a high-stakes competition with no rules. (🇮🇳)
- ITV Studios secured the first global sale for its new reality quiz format, ‘Nobody’s Fool’, which combines strategy and psychology. NRK acquired the rights to the eight-part series, which will be produced by ITV Studios Norway for a 2026 launch. (🇳🇴)
Production + Seasonal Renewal
Sneak peak into recently announced production projects worldwide- Paramount+ renewed Taylor Sheridan’s West Texas drama ‘Landman’ for a third season following strong popularity. The series, which stars Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, follows oil fixer Tommy Norris facing business and personal pressures. (🇺🇸)
- Director Rajkumar Hirani has reportedly finalized the script for ‘3 Idiots 2,’ with filming expected to begin in late 2026. The sequel, a continuation of the 2009 hit, will reunite the original main cast, including Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi. (🇮🇳)
- Creator Dan Fogelman confirmed that the dramedy ‘Honeymoon with Harry,’ starring Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal, is finally set to begin filming in March. The long-developed project will be directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra for Amazon MGM. (🇺🇸)
- Apple TV+ renewed the comedy series Platonic for a third season. The show, which follows two reconnecting former best friends, is produced by Sony Pictures Television and stars and is executive produced by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. (🇺🇸)
- Blackpink member Lisa, alongside Don Lee and Lee Jin-uk, is set to star in the new Netflix action-thriller ‘Tygo’. The film, which expands the Extraction universe, is being produced by Big Punch Pictures and AGBO. (🇺🇸)
That’s a Wrap: Filming Is Complete!
Projects that have concluded filming are now moving into post-production- Principal photography has reportedly concluded on Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ superhero film, ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’. The movie, which stars Tom Holland, is the last Phase 6 film before the Avengers sequels. (🇺🇸)
- Director Timo Tjahjanto announced that filming has wrapped on ‘The Beekeeper 2’, the sequel to the action-thriller starring Jason Statham. The sequel, which was picked up by Amazon MGM Studios, promises an even more violent action experience. (🇺🇸)
- The film ‘Spaceballs 2′, a sequel to Mel Brooks’ 1987 parody, has wrapped principal photography. The movie stars Josh Gad (who also co-wrote/produced) and features returning cast Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, and George Wyner. (🇺🇸)
- Actor Saif Ali Khan has wrapped up shooting for director Priyadarshan’s upcoming film, ‘Haiwaan’, a Hindi adaptation of the Malayalam thriller Oppam. The film also stars Akshay Kumar and is scheduled for a 2026 release. (🇮🇳)
- CBS’s long-running reality competition ‘Survivor 47’ has officially finished filming in Fiji and a new champion has been crowned. The show, hosted by Jeff Probst, is now in post-production and is expected to air in 2026. (🇺🇸)
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Distribution Deals
Distributors securing worldwide content across different genres, languages and format types- Dekanalog acquired US theatrical distribution rights for the Brazilian sci-fi drama ‘The Blue Trail’ from sales agent Lucky Number. Directed by Gabriel Mascaro, the Silver Bear winner is about an elderly woman who defies a government relocation order. (🇺🇸)
- Kino Lorber acquired the North American distribution rights for the critically acclaimed Argentine psychological drama ‘The Currents’. Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler and starring Isabel Aimé González Sola, the film was sold by sales agency Luxbox. (🇺🇸)
- Level 33 Entertainment acquired the distribution rights for Ryan Francis’s action-thriller ‘Speed Train’, with the deal negotiated by Marc Clebanoff of Odyssey Motion Pictures. The film, produced by Hillin Entertainment and Everbright Pictures, is available on-demand from December 5, 2025. (🇺🇸)
- Serial Maven Studios acquired exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the documentary series ‘50,000 First Dates: A True Story’. The two-part doc, produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios, follows a Toronto woman with sudden memory loss. (🇺🇸)
- Neon acquired US, UK, and Australian rights to director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film, ‘Sheep in the Box’. The futuristic Japanese drama, starring Haruka Ayase and Daigo, was sold by Gaga Corporation and Goodfellas. (🇺🇸)
Acquisition Deals
Streamers & channels acquiring latest content across the world- Netflix secured worldwide exclusive streaming rights to the anime film ‘100 Meters’, an adaptation of the Uoto manga. The sports drama, produced by Rock’n Roll Mountain, will premiere on the service on December 31, 2025. (🇺🇸)
- The BBC acquired the forthcoming six-part drama series ‘Hamburg Days’ for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The drama, which chronicles the early years of The Beatles in Hamburg, is a co-production involving W&B Television and Turbine Studios for ZDF. (🇬🇧)
- Crunchyroll acquired licenses to stream five anime in 2026, including ‘Tamon’s B-Side’ and ‘Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! 2’. The deal secures streaming rights across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East. (🇺🇸)
- Criterion Channel acquired exclusive North American rights to Wong Kar-wai’s 24-hour drama, ‘Blossoms’. The period series, starring Hu Ge, Maggie Cheung, Tang Yan, and Xin Zhilei, is set in 1990s Shanghai. (🇺🇸)
- Netflix acquired the streaming rights for both parts of the spy thriller ‘Dhurandhar’ for a reported ₹130 crore from the producers, Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, and Arjun Rampal. This deal is considered Ranveer Singh’s biggest streaming sale to date. (🇮🇳)
Partnerships / M&A
Cross-Border Collaborations, Joint Ventures, M&A and Partnerships!- Netflix is set to acquire Warner Bros., including HBO Max and its studios, from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for about $$82.7$ billion enterprise value. This transaction, which merges Netflix’s global reach with iconic libraries like ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ is expected to close in 2026. However, Paramount Skydance has submitted a rival, all-cash, $108.4$ billion hostile takeover bid for the entire WBD company, casting uncertainty on the Netflix deal. (🇺🇸)
- Canadian media group Stingray announced the acquisition of the global audio streaming platform TuneIn for up to US$175 million (US$150 million initial payment). The deal strengthens Stingray’s position in the digital audio market by merging its infrastructure with TuneIn’s monetization and advertising expertise. (🇨🇦)
- ARRI and The Helm announced a strategic partnership, making The Helm the first global live solution partner for ARRI’s multicam technology. The Helm will provide turnkey solutions for integrating ARRI’s cinematic look, via systems like the ‘Alexa 35 Live – Multicam System’, into live broadcast and production environments. (🇩🇪)
- Saudi studio Telfaz11 formed a key partnership with music platform MDLBEAST for film music licensing and integration. The collaboration will see Telfaz11 leverage MDLBEAST Records’ catalog to incorporate authentic Saudi and regional sounds into its upcoming feature films and original productions. (🇸🇦)
- GKIDS and IMAX announced a partnership to release 4K restorations of several Studio Ghibli films in North American IMAX theaters throughout 2026. The films, overseen by Ghibli’s Atsushi Okui, follow the successful IMAX run of ‘The Boy and the Heron’. (🇯🇵)
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Companies Making Headlines
Launch and Expansions of facilities, studios, services & technologies- Turkish distributor Inter Medya formed a co-production alliance with Rise Studios (MENA) to jointly produce the Turkish drama ‘Caged Love’ (‘Tutsak Sevda’). Inter Medya will serve as executive producer and manage global distribution. (🇹🇷)
- The S16 Film Festival founders unveiled plans to launch a dedicated distribution arm, a film lab, and monthly film screenings starting in 2026. This expansion, including a partnership with Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) for distribution, aims to build infrastructure for Nigerian auteurs. (🇳🇬)
- Salman Khan Ventures announced plans to build a Rs 10,000 crore integrated township and film studio project in Telangana. The development, welcomed by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, aims to create a self-contained creative district, boosting the regional real estate market and media infrastructure. (🇮🇳)
- UFO Moviez India Limited’s subsidiary, Scrabble Entertainment DMCC, partnered with Shenzhen Timewaying Technology Co. Ltd. to exclusively distribute HeyLED DCI-certified LED cinema screens in the Middle East, India, and SAARC nations. The screens feature advanced HDR-capable technology for an improved viewing experience. (🇮🇳)
- Payroll and accounting firm Wrapbook acquired the film scheduling platform Cinapse for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition integrates production planning with financial management, providing an all-in-one solution for film and television production companies. (🇺🇸)
Featured New Specializations
Global innovations & breakthroughs in the Entertainment supply-chain- Insydium released Fused 2025.4, the latest version of its Cinema 4D plugin bundle. The update introduces the new procedural animation toolset ‘Jidou’, alongside smoke and fire simulation features and new liquid solvers for the NeXus particle effects plugin. (🇬🇧)
- Esri released CityEngine 2025.1, updating its procedural 3D city generation software. Key features include new CGA operations for creating complex building forms and an experimental Python 3 scripting API. (🇺🇸)
- Unity released Unity 6.3 LTS, a Long Term Support release of its game engine, with new features for artists. These include the ability to create terrain shaders in the Shader Graph and the use of the xAtlas algorithm for more efficient lightmap packing. (🇺🇸)
- Foundry released Mari 7.5, the 3D texture painting software update, which features the new ‘Multi-Paint’ system, developed with Wētā FX. This feature allows artists to paint into up to eight texture channels simultaneously to streamline texturing workflows. (🇬🇧)
- Leopoly released Shapelab Max 2026, the newest version of its VR and desktop sculpting software. The update includes a reworked 3D gizmo system and a new Elastic Move tool, based on Pixar technology, for quickly posing 3D characters. (🇭🇺)
Localization & Post-Production
Latest updates in the world of content Localization & Post-Production- Beeble launched Beeble Studio, a desktop application that brings its AI relighting technology ‘SwitchLight 3.0’ fully on-premise. The software provides VFX studios with unlimited, secure 4K rendering and full Physically Based Rendering control. (🇰🇷)
- Software developer Wondershare released Filmora V15, which features AI tools to optimize video creation. Key new capabilities include the ‘AI Video Improver’ for clarity, ‘AI Extend’ to lengthen clips, and the ‘Pen Tool’ for precise animation control. (🇨🇳)
- AudioShake released new streaming-capable SDKs for real-time music detection and copyright-safe audio cleanup. The technology allows broadcasters to automatically remove infringing music while preserving dialogue and background sound effects from live and post-production content. (🇺🇸)
- Kling AI unveiled its unified multimodal model, O1, alongside the ‘Video 2.6’ model, which features native audio generation. This suite of generative AI tools aims to remove fragmented workflows by integrating video generation, editing, and audio creation into one cohesive system. (🇨🇳)
- Boris FX released Optics 2026, its software for cinematic photo effects, with four new AI tools. Key additions include ‘Face ML’ for automatic facial masking, ‘Depth Map ML’ for 3D depth, ‘DeNoise ML’, and ‘UpRes ML’ for improved image quality. (🇺🇸)
Animation, VFX & Virtual Production
Latest global updates in Animation, Visual Effects VFX & Virtual Production- LG Electronics showcased its dedicated virtual production LED solution at ‘Studio V’, a cutting-edge VP stage within StudioCube. The solution, engineered with Brompton Technology, sets a new broadcast-grade standard for K-content creation. (🇰🇷)
- VFX firm Wētā FX and tech giant AMD signed an agreement to develop next-generation visual effects tools, including new rendering and AI technologies. The partnership aims to optimize VFX workflows and refine the process of transferring actor performance to creatures. (🇳🇿)
- AI video platform InVideo launched ‘VFX House’, powered by the Kling o1 model, offering studio-level AI tools for editing and generating consistent video. The platform provides control over multi-shot continuity, camera retargeting, and environment reconstruction for commercial workflows. (🇺🇸)
- Maxon released Cinema 4D 2026.1, updating its 3D software for motion graphics and VFX. Key additions include the new node-based ‘Advanced Distribution’ type in the Cloner object and the ‘Liquid Flow’ emitter for simplified liquid simulation workflows. (🇺🇸)
- South Korean studio Studio Freewillusion launched its production-ready AI VFX pipeline, AFX, for Hollywood filmmakers. AFX integrates neural rendering-based re-lighting, AI video outpainting ‘Xpanza’, and the automated lip-sync system ‘Taylor Dub’. (🇰🇷)
Press Release
Major Capital Investments in Film & Television Production- Vitrina, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, facilitated a record number of Producer–Financier Virtual Meetings at the ‘BIG Picture Summit 2025’ for Indian projects. (🇺🇸)
- Netflix will acquire Warner Bros.’ film and streaming assets, including HBO Max, from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for approximately $72 billion in equity value. The deal is set to conclude in 2026. (🇺🇸)
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