• RTL, MTV, and TV2 have acquired local adaptations of Banijay’s adventure format The Summit, originally created by Endemol Shine Australia. The series, now in six countries, challenges contestants with physical and moral tests to reach a mountain peak while managing trust and strategy. (🇬🇧  🇫🇮)
• Paramount+ is bringing a new series The Associate, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan, focusing on the intricate lives of two generations of gangsters. The series will be produced by 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios. (🇺🇸)
• Drew Hancock will write and direct My Wife and I Bought a Ranch for Amazon MGM, a supernatural horror film about a couple encountering a malevolent spirit in Idaho. (🇺🇸)
• Crayola Studios and Hallmark are reviving Rainbow Brite with a new TV series and theatrical movie. Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher are producing the film, while Cake Entertainment develops the series, focusing on themes of friendship, teamwork, and optimism. (🇺🇸)
• UCP and Dinner Party Productions have secured the rights to adapt Susan Rieger’s novel Like Mother, Like Mother: A Novel into a TV series, exploring three generations of women and their family secrets. (🇺🇸)

• ITV has commissioned a third season of Trigger Point, starring Vicky McClure as a bomb disposal expert. Produced by HTM Television and All3Media International, with Chris Brandon as lead writer. (🇬🇧)
• Denmark’s DR1 has ordered a local version of the French format The A Talks, produced by Fremantle’s Strong Productions. Titled En Særlig Samtale, it premieres on December 25, featuring Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and singer Thomas Helmig. (🇩🇰)
• Firecracker Films to showcase The Great Kim Kardashian Robbery, a compelling 60-minute documentary for BBC Three at MIPCOM, exploring the notorious incident’s impact on celebrity culture and public perception. (🇬🇧)
• Netflix is set to expand its partnership with comedian John Mulaney and his company, Multiple Camera Productions, by launching a live weekly talk show in 2025, following the success of “Everybody’s in LA.” (🇺🇸)
• Apple TV+ has renewed the British spy drama Slow Horses for a six-episode sixth season. Produced by See-Saw Films, the series stars Gary Oldman and features executive producers including Jamie Laurenson and Iain Canning. (🇺🇸)

• A24 has secured a distribution deal with Picturehouse Entertainment for the UK-Ireland release of Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, set to premiere in cinemas on December 6, 2024. (🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇪)
• Eccho Rights has secured distribution rights from O3 Medya for Kağıt Ev, a Turkish drama series produced for Show TV. The series will debut at MIPCOM 2024, highlighting compelling family dynamics. (🇸🇪 🇹🇷)
• PBS Distribution has signed a deal with Florentine Films for Ken Burns’ Leonardo da Vinci. The two-part, four-hour documentary, co-directed with Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon, premieres on PBS November 18-19, 2024. (🇺🇸)
• ZDF Studios has secured a distribution deal for the second season of Space Nova, featuring 15 new episodes. The series, produced by SLR Productions, will be distributed internationally, excluding Australia and New Zealand.  (🇩🇪)
• Blue Ant Studios has partnered with Humble Bee Films to distribute Wild Side of the Moon, a 3×60’ nature series that investigates animal connections to the Moon. (🇨🇦)

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• MTV has secured an acquisition deal with Banijay Rights for The Hardacres, a rags-to-riches series, to air in Finland. The show follows the Hardacre family’s journey from a fish dock to a country estate in 1890s Yorkshire. (🇫🇮)
• France Télévisions has acquired Les Braises from 24 25 Films, directed by Thomas Kruithof and starring Virginie Efira and Arieh Worthalter. Filming is set to begin soon. (🇫🇷)
• Hulu has acquired Christmas On The Ranch from Nicely Entertainment for the U.S. market. Nicely will showcase 16 films, including The Holiday Exchange at MIPCOM 2024. (🇺🇸)
• TV Brasil and SIC are teaming up for an exciting new addition to their lineups with the much-anticipated telenovela The Secret (Sangue Oculto) which follows the story of three sisters. (🇧🇷)
• Arte has has acquired I Know Your Soul by the Oscar-nominated Jasmila Žbanić from Beta Film for Germany and France. (🇩🇪  🇫🇷)

• Amazon has finalized its acquisition of select assets from MX Player, integrating the free streaming app with Amazon miniTV. This merger aims to improve advertising capabilities and expand content offerings, utilizing MX Player’s 250 million unique users while preserving its free service model. (🇮🇳)
• Mediapro Group has strengthened its virtual production capabilities with a new 210-square-meter LED screen in Barcelona, supplied by Unilumin. This addition expands their international operations, including similar technology in Miami and New York. (🇪🇸)
• Hungary has emerged as Europe’s second-largest film production hub after London, with spending soaring to €835 million in 2023—quadrupling since 2018—thanks to a unified tax rebate and expanded infrastructure. (🇭🇺)
• The UK Government has launched the Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC), providing 53% relief on qualifying expenses for productions under £15 million, requiring a UK writer/director and starting after April 1, 2024. (🇬🇧)
• Finnish kids’ animation company Gigglebug Entertainment has opened a new studio in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, expanding its operations from Helsinki. Led by co-founders Anttu Harlin and Joonas Utti, the studio aims to grow to 150 employees, drawing from local and global talent. (🇫🇮)

• The Inkscape team releases Inkscape 1.4, featuring improved filter, font, and color palette browsing, extended Shape Builder tool support, and Affinity Designer file import capabilities. (🇺🇸)
• Adobe releases After Effects 25.0, featuring a modern UI design with multiple themes, improved hardware acceleration, decluttered 3D model import, and enhanced text styling controls via Expressions. (🇺🇸)
• The Open 3D Foundation has released O3DE 24.09, featuring a dedicated mobile rendering pipeline, up to 400% performance improvement on mobile devices, and reduced editor startup times by up to 90%. (🇺🇸)
• NVIDIA has launched NVLM 1.0, an open-source multimodal large language model that excels in both vision-language and text tasks, showing significant accuracy improvements and handling diverse multimodal inputs effectively. (🇺🇸)
• Assimilate’s Live FX 9.8 pre-release enhances macOS workflows with USD 3D support, improved projection mapping, and better OpenColorIO v2.3. It boosts virtual production capabilities for high-resolution playback and lighting management. (🇺🇸)

• Adobe has launched Photoshop 26.0, introducing AI-powered distraction removal, stable versions of Generate Background and Generate Similar, plus enhanced support for OpenColorIO, ACES color management, and 32-bit HDR images. (🇺🇸)
• Colorfront has launched new SDR/HDR workflow tools for cinema and television, featuring the Colorfront Engine to preserve visual integrity across displays. Key tools include SDR-to-Dolby-Vision-Round-Trip and DCI-to-Dolby-Vision Conversion, ensuring creative intent is maintained. (🇭🇺)
• M-Audio has launched the Forty Series studio monitors, featuring Bluetooth 5.0 streaming and DSP-powered sound customization, designed for modern creators seeking precision, adaptability, and professional-grade audio performance. (🇺🇸)
• DTS has launched DTS Clear Dialogue, an AI-based feature that enhances dialogue clarity in movies and TV shows, allowing users to personalize their audio experience for improved intelligibility. (🇺🇸)
• AssemblyAI has integrated with Langflow, a low-code platform, to simplify incorporating speech-to-text features in AI applications, enhancing development with advanced transcription and understanding capabilities for developers. (🇺🇸)

• Marmoset releases Toolbag 5.0, introducing UDIM support, material layering, vector texturing tools, hybrid rendering, hair groom rendering, and significant speed boosts in ray-traced renders. (🇺🇸)
• Foundry releases Mari 7.1 in beta, introducing a new 2D Painting Mode for editing images directly within the software and a Switch node for creating texture variations. (🇬🇧)
• DeepMotion launches SayMotion 2.4, enhancing its text-to-animation service to generate full-body animations in FBX, GLB, and BVH formats, allowing users to create sequences from text prompts and refine animations with inpainting. (🇺🇸)
• Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11, introducing an experimental modular rigging framework for procedural character rigs and cloud simulation wedging in its multiphysics plugin. (🇺🇸)
• Realtime has launched a new Virtual Production division, led by Annie Shaw, to support film, TV, and game developers with proprietary tools that visualize 3D environments and enhance production processes. (🇬🇧)

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