• Gabrielle Union is set to star in an upcoming TV series adaptation of the novel “Pretty Little Wife” by Darby Kane, which is currently being developed by Amazon Prime Video 🇺🇸
• An anime film adaptation of Tsuchika Nishimura’s manga “The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store” is being produced by Production I.G. 🇯🇵
• Canal 13 Artear has commissioned a local version of the Israeli game show “Still Standing”. Produced by BoxFish and based on a format by Armoza Formats, the show features contestants answering questions to win a $1 million prize 🇦🇷 🇮🇱
• StudioCanal and The Picture Company are producing an action-thriller movie titled “Control”, which is an adaptation of the Shipworm podcast by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. Filming for the movie is slated to start this summer in Berlin 🇺🇸
• “The Floor”, Talpa’s quiz show format, has been commissioned by Atresmedia in Spain and Kanal D Romania. Mediacrest will produce the show for Atresmedia while Dogan Media International will produce and broadcast the show in Romania this fall 🇪🇸 🇷🇴

• Jackie Chan and director Stanley Tong to collaborate for the tenth time on “The Legend,” produced by Bona Film Group. Chan will play an archaeologist on a journey through time and space, similar in style to their 2005 film “The Myth.” 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
• The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has commenced its first strike in 15 years, with unionised TV and film writers taking to the streets to demand better pay from major studios 🇺🇸
• Bavaria Fiction is set to produce “Der Parkhausmord”, a forthcoming true crime documentary for Sky Original. The documentary will center on the high-profile Munich parking garage murder, featuring exclusive interviews and latest findings 🇩🇪
• Nemanja Ćeranić is shooting “Sunday/Nedelja,” his second feature film, which is a biopic about the life of Serbian folk singer Džej Ramadanovski. The film, supported by Film Center Serbia, covers the years 1976-1992, tracing Džej’s life from his youth to his entry into the music industry. (Serbia)
• Boutique Filmes is developing a series called “Segredos Tropicais” that will narrate the last years of the controversial Brazilian politician PC Farias, who was murdered in 1996 along with his girlfriend, Suzana Marcolino 🇧🇷

• Streamer SonyLIV has renewed seasons for four shows produced by Applause Entertainment, including “Tanaav” (S2), “Undekhi” (S3), “Avrodh” (S3) as well as the new “Scam” franchise titled “Scam 2003: The Telgi Story” 🇮🇳
• TV Tokyo has confirmed that the live-action adaptation of the “Minato’s Laundromat” manga will return for a second season. The main cast, including Takuya Kusakawa and Sho Nisigaki, will reprise their roles 🇯🇵
• Netflix has announced the renewal of the animated comedy “Big Mouth” for its 8th and final season. The streaming giant also revealed that the spinoff series “Human Resources” will end with its previously confirmed second season 🌐
• Bounce TV, a popular network offering entertainment for African Americans across various platforms, has unveiled a new lineup of original content along with the renewal of its successful show “Johnson” for a third season 🇺🇸
• “Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes” renewed for a second series on BBC Two, focusing on the importance of relaxation and connection with nature 🇬🇧

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• Swiss sales agency Lightdox has acquired the documentary film “Dreamers”, which premiered at the 54th Visions du Réel film festival. The film follows Carlos, an undocumented immigrant who has been living in Chicago for 30 years 🇨🇭 🇺🇸
• Indie movie “To Leslie” starring Andrea Riseborough has been sold by Mister Smith Entertainment to multiple international markets including distributors like Kismet Movies, A Contracorriente Films, Kadokawa, Cine Video y TV, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment, Femeway, Femeway, United King Films, Nonstop Entertainment, Filmarti Film, PVR Pictures, JinJin Pictures, Ricochet Digital Media 🇳🇿 🇪🇸 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇮🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇸🇪🇨🇭 🇹🇷 🇸🇬 🇭🇺 🇮🇳 🇰🇷 🇹🇼
• The 3D non-verbal animation show “Noodle & Bun”, aimed at children aged 6-12 is being produced by South Africa’s Polycat has been picked up by several airlines including Emirates, Virgin Atlantic, Air France, and Aegean for inflight entertainment 🌐
• M-Appeal to handle the distribution of the film “Power Alley” by Brazilian filmmaker Lillah Halla, set for a world premiere at the Cannes’ Critics’ Week. The movie is a suspenseful drama set in Brazil, where abortion is illegal, and explores one of the most divisive issues in society 🇩🇪 🇧🇷
• Malaysian distributor MSK Cinemas has acquired South Indian period film “Ponniyin Selvan: Part II” for theatrical distribution 🇮🇳 🇲🇾

• French film “La promesse verte”, a co-production between Nord-Ouest Films, France 2 Cinéma and Belgium’s Artémis Productions has been pre-purchased by OCS, Disney+, and France Télévisions 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
  
• Crave, a Canadian streaming service, has reached a multi-year licensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery for popular franchises such as “Harry Potter”,” Game of Thrones”, and DC Universe, as well as HBO content 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
• Hulu has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the crime heist drama series “Vanda”, an international co-production involving Legendary, indie producer SPi, and Spain’s La Panda 🇺🇸 🇵🇹
• Ovation TV has acquired non-exclusive linear rights for 11 seasons of “Death in Paradise” and 4 seasons of “Shakespeare & Hathaway” from BBC Studios 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
• Platforms Viaplay, Nine, TVNZ, ProSieben and Play Media have acquired news crew docu- series “First on Scene” 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇧🇪

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• Netflix to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to produce Korean TV series, movies and unscripted shows, doubling its investment in the market since 2016 🇰🇷
• Velocity MSC has partnered with Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) to enhance its digital delivery of theatrical content to cinemas across the US. As part of the partnership, Velocity will be the preferred provider for terrestrial distribution to cinemas 🇺🇸
• Hoho Entertainment has launched a kids’ app called Bubblebox, which will feature four of the indie producer’s popular titles, including Cloudbabies and Shane the Chef. The app will provide on-demand episodes of the shows and offer interactive games and activities for children 🇬🇧

• Cinionic has entered a five-year partnership with National Amusements to equip the latter’s theaters worldwide with laser projection. The deal includes the replacement of xenon equipment with Barco laser solutions, and joint marketing initiatives across the more than 500 auditoriums owned by the circuit 🇧🇪
• Wild Capture is using volumetric capture technology to create digital humans with their Unify Solver tool that turns volumetric footage into standard 3D animated assets. This technology automates volumetric video character interaction with the CG world and reduces data footprint by up to 90 percent 🇺🇸
• The Axibo PT4 is an AI-powered camera that can track both its own position and that of subjects passing through its view, allowing it to update virtual scenes in real-time without external sensors. The PT4’s built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) enables it to do this without requiring the high GPU power that traditional virtual production systems typically demand 🇨🇦

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• Picture Shop has expanded and renovated its Sunset and Seward facilities in Hollywood, adding five DI theatres, 13 color bays, 22 online edit rooms, and 55 offline rental rooms 🇺🇸
• Amazon Prime Video has launched their global Prime Preferred Fulfillment Vendors (PFV) program wherein twelve companies have been selected including ODMedia, Hiventy, Visual Data Media Services, Deluxe, Vubiquity and Oxobox. 🌐
• Clear Cut has opened a new facility in Digbeth, Birmingham. The facility, based in the Grade II listed Walker Building, offers adaptable suites for offline, online, and grading work, with initial capacity for up to 40 remote and onsite suites 🇬🇧
• Vidby, a Swiss-Ukrainian company, is revolutionizing language translation through its patented translation and dubbing software powered by AI. The software is being utilized by a wide range of clients, from governments to YouTube content creators 🇨🇭

• Basilic Fly Studio launches Lightrunner Studio, a UK-based VFX company. The company aims to provide high-quality VFX with a focus on hero environments, animated creatures/characters, and FX 🇬🇧
• Blue Zoo, the animation studio behind “Pip and Posy”, has received an Epic MegaGrant to develop MoPo, a new production tool that combines VR technology and Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 to produce animated content in real-time 🇬🇧
• Magicbox’s Superstudio mobile virtual production trailer is a complete virtual production studio that includes an LED volume with camera tracking and computer control. The trailer has a 25x25x10-foot footprint with a 21x17x10-foot 1.3mm pixel pitch LED volume inside and a hard-shell exterior that keeps the inside volume dark, quiet, and cool 🇺🇸

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• ABC has launched a new FAST channel called “General Hospital Spotlight” in celebration of the 60th anniversary of their popular daytime drama series “General Hospital” 🇺🇸
• Environmental FAST channel, Love The Planet, launched on Samsung TV Plus in Europe . It offers shows like “Australia On Fire: Climate Emergency”, “Pridelands: Wilderness Reborn”, “Nature Future”, “Youth Unstoppable”, “The Carnivore’s Dilemma”, and “Looking Forward” 🌐
• Electric Entertainment’s ElectricNow has launched ElectricNow en Español, a Spanish language version of its OTT app and FAST channel. The channel will be available on various FAST channel platforms in the US, including the TCL Channel, Local Now, and Plex 🇺🇸
• Comcast to add more than 20 FAST channels to its Xfinity Stream app. The channels are from Comcast’s FAST and AVOD offering Xumo Play, NBC, and Sky, and will be available to all Xfinity customers at no extra cost 🌐
• FreeCast is partnering with Playing For Change to launch a new ad-supported TV channel created with FreeCast’s FAST channel creation service. The channel aims to promote Playing For Change’s mission of bringing people together through music and legendary musicians, and will be available across all streaming platforms 🇺🇸

• “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” , the final adventure of the Guardians as they confront the formidable character of Adam Warlock, gets a worldwide theatrical release. 🌐
• Disney+ viewers were taken into the life of global star Ed Sheeran recently with the original four-part series “Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All.” 🌐
• The leading Spanish language streaming service Vix has released the first three episodes of its original reality series “Enamorándonos: La Isla” 🇺🇸
• “Maharashtra Shahir” a Marathi-language musical-biographical film based on the life of Padma Shri Shahir Sable released in theaters 🇮🇳

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• All six of the scripted series produced by Dick Wolf, including “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” and “Chicago P.D.,” have been renewed by NBC for 2023-24 🌐 🇺🇸
• “The Windsors”, the comedic TV series on Channel 4, is renewed for season 4 with British comedian Harry Enfield reprising this role as Price Charles 🌐 🇬🇧
• The Swiss crime-comedy series “Tschugger”, which is set in Valais and follows a chaotic police unit in the mountains, has been renewed for third and fourth seasons after the success of its initial two seasons 🇨🇭
• Netflix has renewed “Rana Naidu”, the Indian adaptation of “Ray Donovan”, for a highly anticipated second season 🌐 🇮🇳
• ABC has given a greenlight for the seventh season of “The Good Doctor” ahead of its Season 6 finale 🌐 🇺🇸

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• “Anselm,” a 3D documentary about German artist Anselm Kiefer, will premiere at Cannes. HanWay Films will handle global distribution, and deals are in place with Les Films Du Losange and DCM for distribution in other regions 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
• Super RTL’s animated spy-fi adventure comedy series “Agent 203” has been pre-bought by Rai Kids, TVP ABC, MBC3, PT Spectrum Film, AMC Networks Central Europe and The Media Pioneers at MIPTV 2023 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 🇮🇩 🇨🇳
• TrustNordisk has secured distribution deals for Martin Skovbjerg’s psychological drama “Copenhagen Does Not Exist” in three European territories via Cinemania Group, Filmin and September Film 🇷🇸 🇸🇰 🇭🇷 🇧🇦 🇪🇸 🇧🇪
• Sales Agent Utopia has acquired North American rights to the emotional drama “Drift”, months after its debut at Sundance Film Festival 2023. The film is based on Alexander Maksik’s 2013 novel “A Marker to Measure Drift” 🇺🇸
• MAD Solutions has secured global distribution rights for “Goodbye Julia,” the debut film by director Mohamed Kordofani, making it the first Sudanese film to be included in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie is set in post-war Khartoum, following the end of the Civil War in 2005 🇸🇩 (MENA)

• iSIZE and MultiCoreWare have partnered to showcase a new video optimization and encoding solution at NAB 2023. The collaboration combines iSIZE’s BitSave video pre-processing with MulticoreWare’s x265 HEVC encoder for improved video quality and efficiency in various industries 🌐
• Sony introduces Virtual Production Tool Set to improve pre-production and on-set workflows for VENICE camera and Crystal LED, addressing virtual production challenges for enhanced visual effects
• ZD | OAG, a new on-air graphics solution by Zero Density, provides broadcasters with a comprehensive software and hardware package to effectively utilize Unreal Engine in a variety of productions, such as news, entertainment, elections, and others 🇹🇷

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• Evertz launched virtualized Live Production, Media Asset Management, Automation, and Playout solutions on Google Cloud at NAB 2023. Featuring its Emmy® Award-winning DreamCatcher suite, Evertz offers a comprehensive solution for ingest, playback, live editing, and slow-motion replay in live production 🌐
• Centific announced Honeybee, a toolkit that supports multipurpose AI systems for localization of content. Honeybee helps reduce localization costs by evaluating machine translation accuracy, and claims to make language-based and localization tasks up to 50% more efficient
• Ross Video partners with AR specialist DreamWall to bring together the advanced technology of Ross Video’s Voyager platform and DreamWall’s design to create a new standard for live video production 🌐
• Sony Adds 4K HDR Reference Monitor for Color Grading, Live Production, Post. The BVM-HX3110 has a Sony-designed, dual-layer, antireflection LCD panel with Sony proprietary signal processing, which Sony says supports a higher peak luminance of up to 4000cd/m² while maintaining deep, no-compromise blacks 🌐
• Assimilate has released Live FX 9.6, a real-time VFX software for LED wall-based virtual production workflows and greenscreen compositing. It offers projection mapping, virtual set extensions, and image-based lighting via pixel mapping, enabling immersive virtual environments and cost-effective media server reduction 🌐

• Palatin Media and Backbone’s joint-venture FAST Media to launch the anime Fast Channel Yu-Gi-Oh! across Europe and Africa 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 (Northern Europe and Africa)
• All3Media International to launch “Gardening with Monty Don” as a new FAST channel for North America. It will feature exclusive compilation episodes hosted by the renowned horticulturist, writer, and broadcaster Monty Don, and producer Alexandra Henderson 🇺🇸
• Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment to add new line-up of FAST channels from Fremantle, Revry, and Love Stories TV to its Redbox Free Live TV service
• Vidgo, the live TV streaming service, to offer Imagicomm Entertainment’s Cowboy Way FAST channel as part of its lineup 🇺🇸
• Vialma, a French streaming service with focus on classical music and jazz, has partnered with OKAST Channels to introduce its FAST channel on the Samsung TV Plus platform 🇫🇷

• Disney+ Original limited series “Rennervations” premieres with popular Marvel star, Jeremy Renner. It follows his lifelong passion of giving back to communities around the world by reimagining unique purpose-built vehicles to meet a community’s needs
• “Evil Dead Rise” adds a new level of bloodshed and unnerving horror to the iconic Evil Dead franchise, making its mark with gruesome intensity in theatres this April 🌐
• Jennifer Garner takes on the role of a woman on a quest for answers, alongside Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Apple TV+ series “The Last Thing He Told Me” 🌐
• “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” takes the stage one last time as the final season releases on Amazon Prime Video 🌐
• “Ponniyin Selvan 2” has become the first South Indian film to be released in 4DX, that offers a unique cinematic and immersive experience 🇮🇳 🌐

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• Endeavor and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have signed a definitive agreement to merge UFC and WWE into a new, publicly listed company. The new company will be worth over $21 billion, with Endeavor holding a controlling interest of 51% and WWE shareholders holding 49% 🇺🇸
• EndemolShine Germany and celebrity chef Tim Mälzer have founded Potatohead Pictures, a new label focused on developing new culinary formats. The label is led by EndemolShine Germany’s MD Fabian Tobias and Executive Director Sven Steffensmeier 🇩🇪
• Sister, the media group co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone, and Stacey Snider, has partnered with Yes Yes Media, a new TV and tech entertainment company founded by Richard Bacon. Sister has taken a significant stake in Yes Yes Media to support its growth in unscripted entertainment 🇺🇸
• ZOO Digital has acquired remaining 49% of ZOO Korea, after acquiring 51% of ZOO Korea in March last year. Since then the Korean unit has expanded to deliver an in-territory servicing hub for top names in entertainment 🌐
• Channel 4 has teamed up with second-hand fashion platform Vinted to launch their biggest cross-platform branded partnership to date. The partnership, includes a new short digital series on Channel 4’s YouTube channels and a complementary TV ad campaign, both created by 4Studio 🇬🇧

• BluTV & Warner Bros. Discovery, are expanding their partnership. BluTV will now offer discovery+ and HBO content simultaneously, making it the first digital channel to do so. The collaboration also includes the addition of Cartoon Network and Boomerang children’s channels to the platform 🇹🇷 🇺🇸
• MBC Group has formed MBC Anime, a new venture led by anime expert Stu Levy, to promote, license, and produce anime content. MBC Anime will invest in world-class quality anime titles and expand its anime content on Shahid 🇦🇪
• India and Australia signed an audio-visual co-production agreement that offers financial incentives of up to 30% to filmmakers in both countries, benefiting small filmmakers 🇮🇳 🇦🇺
• MNC has opened Movieland, a US$2.3 billion studio facility in Indonesia’s Lido City SEZ. The 3,000-hectare space is designed for TV and drama productions with an indoor studio, outdoor filming areas, and modern post-production facilities 🇮🇩
• Fulwell 73, a production company based in the UK and US, has launched its first UK label called Bitachon365 in partnership with Sheldon Lazarus. The new label will specialize in factual content such as true crime, contemporary documentary, and reality TV 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

• Atomos is enabling NDI connectivity for a wide range of cameras. This allows for wireless or wired NDI transmission, live monitoring, and recording from a single, battery-operated device, providing a cost-effective alternative to SMPTE 2110 🇦🇺
• Sony Electronics has unveiled its first Spatial Reality display. Called SonyELF-SR2, it allows users to see 3D images without 3D glasses 🌐
• Red Digital Cinema has announced the Red Connect Module for Red’s V-Raptor and V-Raptor XL cameras, allowing capabilities of up to 8K live cinematic streaming, the ability to real-time stream RAW R3D files direct from camera systems over IP to a camera control unit (CCU), opening a range of creative applications, from live broadcast to virtual production to true 8K VR 🌐

• Plex is adding two new channels: “Nashville” for the drama series and “The Midnight Screening” for various movies. The latter features English, international, and Hollywood films, including both well-known and obscure titles 🌐
• Founded by veteran audio engineers Johnny Wilson and Bennett Yashon, Big Bamboo Post open’s Hawaii’s first and only Dolby-certified audio post studio. It’s first project was to provide ADR services for upcoming HBO series, “White House Plumbers” 🇺🇸
• Elemental Post, a Canadian post-production company, has launched a new studio in Vancouver’s Railtown district. The studio boasts a 4K theatre with laser projection, three color suites, two sound stages, and additional suites for titling, finishing, and dailies 🇨🇦

• Artico Distribution, a Spanish international sales unit for documentaries, is venturing into production with Kobalt Productions to create ‘Picasso and Bullfighting’, a film exploring the influence of bullfighting on the life and work of artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso 🇪🇸 🇩🇪
• 7awi Media Group and Rise Studios are teaming up to create a 10-episode Arabic series called “Madraset Banat Alyaum” about the daily lives of three high school girls in the GCC region 🇦🇪
• Biodun Stephen announces sequel to the 2020 comedy drama “The Kujus” titled “The Kujus Again”. The film will be produced by Bisola Aiyeola and Winifred Okpapi 🇳🇬
• Yassine Marco Marroccu to direct the film “Scirocco,” produced by Mirage Film and Eclipse Films, with a budget of 1.5 million EUR. The film is to be co-produced by Rif Film Morocco and supported financially by the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, the National Film Institute – Hungary, and the Hungarian Film Incentive 🇭🇺 🇲🇦
• Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the director of the Oscar-winning “Summer of Soul,” is set to helm a live-action/CGI remake of Disney‘s “The Aristocats.” The movie will be a hybrid of CGI and live action, similar to “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” 🇺🇸

• Hong Kong based distributor, O4 Media, has acquired the sales rights for 1+1 Media’s dramedy “Romeo & Juliet From Cherkassy” and comedy “Frostbitten” for Asia, Australia, and New Zealand 🇭🇰🇺🇦
• MAD Solutions has acquired worldwide sales & distribution rights to Omar Mouallem’s documentary “The Lebanese Burger Mafia”. The deal was brokered by Film Associates International, with the film set to make its festival debut at Hot Docs Festival in Canada 🌐
• All Rights Entertainment, an indie sales agency, has secured pre-sales for the animation film “Lendarys” from several distributors including KMBO, Flins & Piniculas, Another World Entertainment, Njuta Films, Outsider Films, Blitz Film, Five Stars Distribution, Selim Ramia and Co., The Film Group Kino, Swiat Nashe Kino, ACME Film, and Madness Entertainment 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇵🇹 🇮🇱 🇬🇷 🇨🇾 🇵🇱 (Ex-Yugoslavia, Middle East and North Africa, CIS excluding Baltics, Baltic States, Mexico, Sweden)
• Cote Ouest is bringing African telenovela “Legacy” dubbed in neutral Spanish to Latin America. Produced by Multichoice Studios, it will be the first African soap opera dubbed into neutral Spanish 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

• The animated preschool series “Rookie Robot Explores the World” has been acquired by NRK, ERR, and Filmin. Produced by Sine Lege Film and Leiss Post Production, the non-dialogue series follows a friendly little robot on its adventures 🇳🇴 🇪🇪 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇦🇹
• US-based distributor Bellon Entertainment has sold rights for competition-based show “American Ninja Warrior” to broadcasters across the globe namely SIC, RTL, KC Global, DBS, TB4 & FBC 🇵🇹 🇳🇱 🇮🇱 🇸🇪 🇫🇯 (Asia)
• Award-winning documentary “Afghanistan: No Country For Women” has been acquired by multiple broadcasters. Channel 8, YLE, TV2, SVT and Telefonica have acquired the rights from Passion Distribution 🇮🇱 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇪🇸
• National Geographic Channel has secured exclusive broadcast rights for “Bichero,” a documentary series produced by Glowstar Media about a young conductor with Autism Spectrum Condition 🇧🇷 🇦🇷
• Legendary Entertainment’s crime heist drama “Vanda” has been picked up by Canal+, SBS and Lionsgate+. The drama, produced by Legendary with indie SPi and Spain’s La Panda Productions, will be aired on Polar+ 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇦🇺

• Pocket.watch and Fubo have joined forces in a FAST channel partnership, with two of Pocket.watch’s branded channels set to be featured on Fubo’s sports-focused live TV streaming service by the end of the year 🌐
• Insight TV is launching “Streetball with Kenny Dobbs,” a basketball-themed original series co-produced with bspoketv, as part of its expansion of its FAST TV portfolio 🌐
• Samsung TV Plus has added new FAST channels to its UKS line-up, including LOL! Network, Telemundo Regional News Channels, and Horror 24/7, expanding its 250+ premium channel offering in the UK and US 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
• Speedvision is offering its auto entertainment network as a free linear channel on Amazon Freevee in the U.S. Freevee customers can stream Speedvision’s lineup of diverse and compelling vehicle entertainment titles for free, supported by ads 🇺🇸

• Nintendo and mobile firm DeNA launch joint venture Nintendo Systems. The new company aims to create new systems and services to deliver entertainment 🌐
• NVIDIA unleashes the power of neural graphics in PC Gaming at GDC with DLSS 3, featuring new AAA Games like Diablo IV
• AMD unveiled FidelityFX Super Resolution v3, or FSR 3.0, a solution for upscaling games to save performance. FSR 3 is a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s deep learning super sampling (DLSS), which uses AI to improve performance in games
• Players now have the option to control Pedro Pascal’s version of Joel from the HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” Part 1 through a newly developed PC mod 🌐

• Spy series “Citadel” had its first grand premier in India in the first week of April 2023 on Prime Video starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden as elite agents 🌐
• Cedars Art Production released eight drama series for Ramadan, 3 Egyptian titles, “The Genius”, “Al Maddah”, and “Change of Mood”; 3 titles from the Levant “Al Zennd Wolf of El-Assi “, “And Finally” and “Fire on Fire”; 2 Moroccan series “Dirty Money” and “Salamat et ses Filles” 🇪🇬
• It’s raining game adaptation films in April 2023 with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves getting an amazing response on the box office recently 🌐
• The 80s favourite game’s film adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie hits the theaters worldwide 🌐

• Sohonet has acquired 5th Kind, a cloud-based video collaboration platform that offers a secure asset management and discovery platform. It facilitates global collaboration, simplifies workflows and optimizes the entire content lifecycle 🇬🇧
• Jellysmack and Pocket.Watch announce a $25 million fund to support kid-friendly content creators. The fund will be financed by Jellysmack and exclusively available to Pocket.Watch’s content creators 🇺🇸
• Hello Sunshine, a part of Candle Media, announced the launch of Solar, an in-house social agency helping brands connect with women through story-driven advertising 🇺🇸
• Fremantle’s Documentaries division has introduced a new label, Undeniable, focused on developing high-quality feature docus and series in collaboration with renowned talents and project commissioners

• Adobe has introduced a new family of AI models called Firefly, to incorporate AI into its range of apps and services
• Nvidia has revealed its latest cloud services aimed at training generative AI models on customized data. The cloud services include Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso for generating image, video, and 3D content. These come with pretrained models, data processing frameworks, APIs, and support from Nvidia’s engineering team
• Filmustage an AI platform secures $550,000 in funding from Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Vesna Capital and Imaguru. The platform provides first-of-its-kind service that streamlines pre-production in the film industry providing the ability to break down scripts, and categorize them into scenes, elements like props, costumes and characters 🇺🇸
• RED, a high-end digital cinema camera manufacturer, has introduced the RED V-Raptor S35 camera that comes with a Super 35 Sensor that enables full 8K resolution capture, even at 8K 120fps, without downscaling.
• UK-based Digital Camera Systems has launched the LDT-V2, a wireless lens encoder that streams frame-by-frame lens data directly to production units 🇬🇧

• Anuvu announces three new content partners, Mindvalley, TheSoulPublishing and WaterBear Network to bring creative content to aviation and maritime clients 🇺🇸
• Anna Valley and Garden Studios are partnering to create a virtual production studio in central London. The new studio will offer a 150sqm+ volume, crew, and technology at Garden Studio’s premises 🇬🇧
• Planetcast Media Services has invested in Desynova, a cloud-native content lifecycle platform, to expand its cloud-based content management capabilities for the global market 🇮🇳
• London and Paris-based VFX studio One of Us has formalised its partnership with Doncaster based VFX Roto and Paint team Firebrand VFX to come together for prestigious VFX projects. 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

• Banijay Belgium will produce a local version of Banijay reality format SAS: Who Dares Wins, known as Special Forces: Wie Durft Wint, for Belgian broadcaster VTM 🇧🇪
• Apple Studios to develop Cesca Major’s novel Maybe Next Time as an Apple Original Film, with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine as producer and the author as executive producer 🇺🇸
• ITV Studios America has acquired adaptation rights to three romantic comedy novels – Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune, Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop and Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club by Canadian author Roselle Lim 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
• Warner Bros. to adapt the Spanish version of the ITV franchise Reality Queens (Echte Meisjes) for European markets. To be called In search of Nirvana the show will air in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇫🇮
• Conqueror Entertainment to produce a Mandarin adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi novel Supernova Era as well as an English Movie & TV series in the US 🇨🇳 🇺🇸

• Turkish-German director, Ilker Çatak, announced his next feature, Yellow Letters, a tense drama that explores the moral dilemma faced by a Turkish artist couple who are forced into exile 🇩🇪 🇹🇷
• Agustina Chiarino’s new prodco Bocacha Films to co-produce To Say Goodbye, a documentary based on women’s friendship along with Brazilian outfit, Syndrome Films 🇺🇾🇧🇷
• Korean actors Kang Ho Dong, Lee Seung Gi, and Bae In Hyuk to star in Brother Ramen, a new reality TV show co-produced by TV CHOSUN and Discovery Channel Korea 🇰🇷
• Israeli network HOT has commissioned a romantic drama series from Banijay-owned prodco MoviePlus Productions. Corduroy, follows the story of forbidden love 🇮🇱
• Chicken & Egg Pictures and Netflix to launch the Chicken & Egg Pictures R&D Grant, that will provide funding and mentorship to 30 filmmakers for their next documentary 🇺🇸

• Swiss distributor, Lightdox, has acquired the global distribution rights to docu-movie Motherland, which is premiering at the CPH:DOX competition 🇸🇪, 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🌐
• DR Sales has acquired sales rights of Behind Every Man, an unconventional restaurant drama from former actors and screenwriting duo Julie Rudbæk and Jesper Zuschlag 🇩🇰
• Shloka Entertainments to release Rangamarthanda in the US, an emotional & heart touching tale from South India 🇮🇳 🇺🇸
• Distributor Curzon buys UK and Ireland rights for Lois Patiño’s Samsara from Bendita Film Sales, which won the special jury prize at Berlin’s Encounters strand 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇸
• Syndicado acquires global rights to The Gamer, a docu following Verneri Bona Junkala, a 17-year-old aspiring to be the best e-athlete in Finland. The film debuts at CPH:DOX festival, screening in Nordic:DOX competition 🇨🇦  🇫🇮

• MBC Group and NBCUniversal have signed a multi-year licensing deal to broadcast Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation titles on MBC2 🇺🇸 🇦🇪
• Disney+ and Walter Presents have acquired Mobile 101, a Nokia Story, a six-part series about the Finnish phone company’s rise and fall. (Italy, Netherlands and Belgium, 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
• Swiss network RTS has obtained the rights to the 3D-animated kids series Runes, produced by French studio Les Armateurs, based on a 12-year-old boy who is in danger of being assassinated. 🇨🇭
• Marquee TV has partnered with The Washington Ballet and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to showcase new and exclusive content on its platform 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
• FilmRise acquired exclusive rights to over 200 hours of content from National Black Television Media’s library for distribution in the US, and the Caribbean 🇺🇸

• Zattoo, a streamer and technology specialist, has launched its first proprietary FAST channel, Netzkino, that offers a broad range of movie genres 🇩🇪
• Amagi and Mainstream Media AG have partnered to launch “Starke Frauen,” the first female-focused FAST channel 🇩🇪
• Blue Ant Media is launching Love Pets, a new pet-themed FAST channel that will be available on Sling Freestream in the United States 🇺🇸
• DAZN Rise, a new free FAST channel devoted to women’s sports, is being launched by streaming service DAZN 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇦🇹
• Rakuten TV added two localised FAST channels in Poland: Grjngo, the world’s largest western film streaming brand with localised versions in German, Spanish, and English, and Bjgtjme, featuring English content dubbed in Polish, both owned by Amogo Networx 🇵🇱

• Dolby launched the Dolby Atmos Renderer that combines the functionality of the Dolby Atmos Production and Mastering suites into a single application to enable content creation across music, home theater, television, podcast, and gaming
• Dynamic Captioning has partnered with AI-Media to offer their automated captioning solution, LEXI. This three-year partnership enables Dynamic Captioning to sell, bundle, and deploy LEXI as a LEXI Preferred Partner
• A tool capable of producing dialogues for non-playable characters (NPC) has been created by Ubisoft, the French video game publisher responsible for popular franchises such as Prince of Persia, Far Cry, and Assassin’s Creed 🇫🇷
• Telestream has unveiled PRISM MPP, a new line of multi-format rasterizers designed for post-production. It comprises three models – MPP 100, MPP 200, and MPP 300 – that support high-end video formats like 12-bit RGB for 4K/UHD applications in both SDI and IP 🇺🇸

• NantStudios has created the world’s largest virtual production site at Docklands Studio, Melbourne. The two new LED in-camera VFX stages include a 25,000 sq.ft stage, featuring a radiused wall of 6,000 panels measuring 40 feet in height 🇦🇺
• Vū, a virtual production service provider, is partnering with London-based video production agency Cube to expand its Vū Studio Network outside of North America 🇺🇸
• Dreamworks Animation has made its in-house rendering software, Moonray, available to the public as open-source software 🌐
• Unreal Engine’s version 5.2 is set to bring the new MetaHuman Animator feature that will make high-fidelity performance capture to MetaHumans very easy

• Sesame Workshop will release its first digital collectibles based on Sesame Street, featuring the beloved character “Cookie Monster” as the first NFT on the VeVe app🌐
• Sony has filed a patent to allow PlayStation gamers to trade NFTs across platforms 🌐
• NounsDAO Web3 community approved Nouns: A Movie, an animated feature produced by Atrium, with continued production of episodic content. Multiple artists will contribute to create the first cinematic content introducing Nouns to the world 🌐
• Geometry Ogilvy Japan has partnered with Alt.vfx, T&DA, New Holland Creative, and THINKR to create a virtually produced film for the launch of aU, a new Web3 metaverse platform brand created by KDDI and WPP 🇯🇵

• Keanu Reeves’s franchise film John Wick: Chapter 4 gets a global theatrical release 🌐
• Middle East streamer, Shahid, has launched Kamel El Adad, a Ramadan mini-series starring Egyptian actress Dina El Sherbiny and Sherif Salama 🇪🇬 🇦🇪
• Recent highest box-office grossing Hindi movie Pathaan starring Shahrukh Khan gets its OTT release on Amazon Prime Video🌐
• Japanese fantasy anime film Suzume gets a South Korean theatrical release 🇯🇵🇰🇷