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Top Brazilian production company Gullane Entretenimento is ramping up efforts to widen its scope through Gullane+, the company’s fast-growing distribution arm. Partners Fabiano and Caio Gullane will now focus on production, with Débora Ivanov taking over the distribution operation. Gullane+ inherits the company’s rich catalog of over 40 projects, including Karim Aïnouz’s “Mariner of the […]

In the latest consolidation move among content creators in Scandinavia, Sweden’s top production banners Art & Bob and streaming-oriented Breakable Films have come together under the newly formed media group CoStudios, owned by H&M heir Tom Persson’s private investment group C0_Made.  Joining the two film and TV production outfits in the new group is Scandinavian podcast […]

Shout! Studios has acquired North American distribution rights to family adventure feature “Pet Investigators” from indie European distributor Plaion Pictures. The deal was negotiated by Shout! Studios’ executive VP Melissa Boag, Mark Balsam, Bruce Eisen of Eisen Law, and Steven Katz, Shout’s VP of business affairs, and film writer and producer Werner Kienberger of Plaion. […]

A work whose hybrid form is rooted in a hybrid protagonist — a human who was once a merwoman, but now walks the earth — Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s feature debut “Sirens Call” is politically and artistically radical. Like its subject, the part-fiction, part-documentary feature defies easy categorization, living somewhere in the overlap […]

South Korea’s premium streaming market demonstrated robust growth in 2024, with Netflix maintaining its leadership while homegrown platform Tving surged to nearly match its market share, according to new data from Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report reveals that Korean viewers streamed a whopping 131 billion minutes of premium VOD content last year, marking an […]

Acclaimed Japanese animation director Masaaki Yuasa has announced the launch of his own animation studio, ame pippin. Teaming up with industry giants Asmik Ace, Inc., Aniplex Inc. and CoMix Wave Films Inc., Yuasa’s new venture promises to bring fresh and innovative content to the world of animation. Yuasa, known for his unique and imaginative storytelling, […]

Golf has been part of Disney’s DNA ever since the Mouse House’s Magnolia Golf Course opened on the same day as the Magic Kingdom in 1971. Disney how has four golf courses in Orlando, with the PGA Tour having hosted tournaments at Magnolia and Disney’s Lake Buenta Vista Golf Course over the years. Now, Disney […]

Paquita la del Barrio, the emblematic Mexican singer-songwriter known for her anthemic ranchera ballads, died on Monday at her home in Veracruz. She was 77. Her family confirmed the news on social media early Monday morning, but did not list a cause of death. “With profound pain and sadness, we confirm the sensible death of […]

“Sound of Freedom” distributor Angel Studios has released a new trailer for “The King of Kings.” Based on the book “The Life of Our Lord” by Charles Dickens, the sweeping animated feature chronicles the life story of Jesus Christ. Oscar Issac will voice Jesus and star alongside Kenneth Branagh (Charles Dickens), Uma Thurman (Mrs. Dickens), […]

There’s a thin, squiggly tattoo running down the forearm of diligent hospital nurse Floria, always visible past the short sleeves of her royal-blue scrubs, but hard to really get a look at, since her hands are constantly in motion, doggedly busy. Occasionally, as we follow her through the exhausting nighttime rounds that make up “Late […]