Film Bazaar explores post-Covid landscape for Indian filmmakers
Streamers are keeping India’s more story-driven filmmakers busy, but are also taking their attention away from indie films.
Amazon India web series ‘Tandav’ agrees to make changes following controversy
Series starring Saif Ali Khan is testing issues of OTT regulation and freedom of speech in India.
Netflix orders YA adaptation ‘Heartstopper’ from See-Saw, Euros Lyn
Alice Oseman’s graphic novel will be adapted as an eight-part series.
“It was pretty insane, all of the time”: Antonia Campbell-Hughes on filming her debut feature during Covid
Despite tier changes during the shoot, the film shot in October and November.
India’s Storiculture launches South Asian producers programme
Residency in Goa in March aims to help participants produce local projects for international markets.
Film, TV workers arriving in UK must quarantine following removal from Covid exemption list
The exemption was removed at 4am on Monday, January 18.
Armie Hammer departs ‘Shotgun Wedding’ ahead of production
Role opposite Jennifer Lopez to be recast.
Mary McCartney to direct Abbey Road Studios documentary
John Battsek’s Ventureland is producing in a new development deal with Mercury Studios.
BFI opens applications for Film Fund director role
Job will be a three-year fixed term, with potential for two more years.
Idris Elba’s Green Door joins with Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures on film & TV deal
Partnership will augment Green Door’s production capabilities.
Im Sang-soo to make Hollywood debut with ‘Soho Sins’ adaptation
Donna Smith’s 2W Network in the US will co-produce the adaptation with Korea’s Yulmae Entertainment.
KFTV launches new International Production Guide 2021
The new issue is full of insights from leading production figures about their experiences filming in a variety of locations and what they have to offer.
Netflix leases two studios outside Seoul in Korean production push
The streaming giant stated its investment in Korean content from 2015 to 2020 reached $700m.
UK government says film, TV production can continue despite tighter lockdown
Prime minister warns of hardest weeks ahead.
US guilds recommend SoCal production pause as hospital bed crisis deepens
Epicentre LA County reports more than 800,000 infections.
Nadine Labaki joins Arabic-language ‘Perfect Strangers’ remake as shoot dates set
Production, which was postponed twice in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic, to shoot in early 2021.
Revolver plans first Dutch feature around MH17 plane disaster
English-language political thriller takes inspiration from events in the aftermath of tragic crash.
Chinese producer of Netflix’s ‘Three-Body Problem’ poisoned in alleged murder attempt
Yoozoo Group chairman Lin Qi is currently in a stable condition in a Shanghai hospital.
Hong Kong broadcaster ATV returns to production with UK’s Phoenix Waters
First project, suspense thriller Lockdown, was filmed across five countries during the pandemic.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Malkovich pandemic thriller ‘The Survivalist’ wraps
Red Sea Media handles international sales.
