“The notion that the strikes saved the company is wildly overstated,” Bob Bakish said of Paramount today. The Paramount Global boss acknowledged that “the strike is accretive to cash in 2023 and that is true for the [whole] industry” but rubbished the notion of the labor action saving the company, calling it an “overstatement.” “We
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George Kay looks conflicted. Speaking to Deadline before the resolution of the writers strike, the British WGA member had put down his pen on an Amazon Studios movie project and ducked a U.S. publicity round for his Apple TV+ series Hijack. But it’s fair to say that the strikes coincided with Kay having a serious
EXCLUSIVE: Sung Kang is swapping the Fast & Furious franchise for a doc series on car cultures around the world. The actor is co-producing and starring in The Ride Life with Sung Kang, a multi-country car culture show that’s set to hit Mipcom Cannes next week. Kang’s Raison D’Etre Stories is making the show with
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere tonight, the Zorro TV series adaptation has landed a trio of European deals, as Mediawan Rights leans further into big-ticket IP. M6 Groupe in France, Mediaset in Italy, DPG Media’s TVM channels in Flemish-speaking Belgium and RTL Klub in Hungary have acquired the series, which is a Secuoya Studios
EXCLUSIVE: The major U.S. studios heading to Mipcom are proving global streaming and third-party licensing “can co-exist and work together,” says the event’s director. Lucy Smith, Director of the Entertainment Division at Mipcom Cannes organizer RX France, told Deadline the “assumption of recent years that streaming would somehow upend what happens in distribution” had faded
C*A*U*G*H*T, the Sean Penn-starring war satire series, is opting out of next week’s Mipcom Cannes following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East. “In light of the current situation unfolding in Israel, we have taken the decision not to showcase C*A*U*G*H*T at Mipcom this year,” said a spokesman from the show’s distributor,
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Literary, part of Oppenheimer producer Atlas Entertainment is headed to Mipcom Cannes next month to launch a docuseries about ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances. Atlas is debuting Seen & Heard alongside global sustainable development consulting firm Chemonics International. Each planned season will spotlight overlooked narratives from people around the world, with season one
Mipcom Cannes is putting AI and FAST channels at the center of its conference program this year. The annual TV industry get-together this morning unveiled a program that also includes co-production sessions, a new awards show and plans for several Media Mastermind keynote series events. World premiere screenings will be revealeded at a later date.