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Warner Bros. Pictures Animation to adapt "Meerkat Manor" from Animal Planet into an animated feature. (🇺🇸)
Apple TV+ orders series adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel "Down Cemetery Road," that explores a mysterious Oxford disappearance. (🇺🇸)
Critical Content signs first-look deal with ITV Studios France and distribution pact with Be-Entertainment in Belgium for its formats. (🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇧🇪)
Nekki's cyberpunk video game "Spine" collaborates with Story Kitchen for film and TV adaptations, broadening its multimedia universe. (🇨🇾)
Flooxer to develop "Hunting Season," a series based on Talpa Studios' format that has digital creators as hunters pursuing fugitives in real space. (🇪🇸)
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Lionsgate Television and Park Chan-wook collaborate on an English TV adaptation of Park's "Oldboy." Park and Syd Lim produce, with Lionsgate overseeing. (🇺🇸)
W9, part of M6 Group, greenlights Season 2 of "The Power," a strategy game where celebrities vie to identify a Power Player to avoid elimination. (🇫🇷)
Kanal 7 renews Turkish drama "Winds of Love" for Season 2. To be distributed by Eccho Rights. (🇹🇷)
Paramount Pictures and producer Walter Hamada collaborate on an R-rated live-action adaptation of IDW's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin" comics. (🇺🇸)
Netflix renews "The Witcher" for a fifth and final season. Season four, currently in production, will adapt three of Andrzej Sapkowski's books. (🇺🇸)
Beta Film teams with NRK and ZDFneo for "A Better Man," a Norwegian drama about an internet troll's redemption. (🇩🇪 🇳🇴)
GRB Media Ranch sells "Blind Dating" format to ABY Media and acquires Emmy-winning docuseries "Medical Stories" for diverse storytelling. (🇺🇸)
Secures global distribution for "Sherlock & Daughter," starring David Thewlis and Blu Hunt. (🇫🇷)
ARTE Distribution adds "Right-Wing Extremism: The New Terrorist Threat" by Roche Productions to its current affairs documentary catalog. (🇫🇷)
FilmRise has acquired exclusive AVOD and FAST rights to the Canadian comedy series Corner Gas, including six seasons and the movie. (🇺🇸)
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ORF Enterprise secures multiple deals for period drama "Kafka" at MIPTV, including Ceska Televize, RTVS, Polyband, RTV Slovenjia, YLE, SVT, Channel 4, and more. (🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇩🇪 🇸🇮 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇬🇧 🇲🇽 🇨🇭)
Global Screen's "Davos 1917" sells to SBS Australia, TVP Poland, Big Tree Entertainment India, depicting espionage during WWI in Switzerland. (🇦🇺 🇨🇭 🇮🇳)
Konami Cross Media NY sells "Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens" to RTL Croatia and Pro Plus Slovenia, introducing the Rush Duel format for faster-paced dueling. (🇺🇸)
Hungary's TV2 Media Group expands its international content with the acquisition of "Vencer El Pasado" and "Vivir de Amor" from TelevisaUnivision. (🇭🇺)
Blue Ant Studios secures global distribution for "Stormy," a documentary on Stormy Daniels, while UKTV commissions a reboot of crime drama "Bergerac." (🇨🇦)
MediaCo Holding Inc. acquires Estrella Media's network, content, and digital operations, including EstrellaTV and FAST channels. (🇺🇸)
Asylum Entertainment Group strategically invests in Dare Pictures, renowned for factual and documentary content. (🇺🇸 🇬🇧)
Bending Spoons acquires StreamYard, entering the live streaming market and enhancing its digital offerings. (🇮🇹)
MediaGenix acquires Media-Alliance's program management division, enhancing its global portfolio with advanced software expertise. (🇧🇪)
TextShuttle and Supertext merge, combining tech and language expertise for industry growth. (🇨🇭)
Plans for Stirling Studios, a 210,000 sq ft space on Ministry of Defence land, signal a big development for Scotland for offering state-of-the-art production facilities. (🏴)
HarbourView Equity Partners ventures into the LatinX market with an investment in Mucho Mas Media. (🇺🇸)
Plex achieves a milestone with 1,000+ FAST channels, expanding streaming options to offer diverse content for users. (🇺🇸)
Ross Video acquires Bannister Lake, enhancing real-time rendering and expanding HTML5 graphics capabilities. (🇨🇦)
Accedo, Brightcove, and JUMP partner with Al Sharqiya Group to launch SVOD platform 1001. (🇸🇪)
Grass Valley collaborates with Globo to modernize Rio de Janeiro production facilities for Big Brother Brasil. (🇨🇦 🇧🇷)
Zixi aids Family Entertainment TV's move to IP video, enhancing distribution for 50 US affiliates, optimizing costs and reliability via cloud infrastructure. (🇺🇸)
Sinclair debuts "Broadspan" NextGen TV datacasting platform, facilitating data distribution in ATSC 3.0 markets. Edgio becomes its inaugural user. (🇺🇸)
Synamedia introduces Media Edge Gateway mini broadening B2B video distribution with cost-effective, software-based processing for small channel delivery. (🇬🇧)
Lightcraft's Jetset: iPhone-based virtual production solution syncs with SeeMo for real-time Unreal Engine pre-visualization
Papercup raises $20M in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Local Globe, Sands Capital, Sky, Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First, and BDMI. (🇬🇧)
VFX veteran Andreas Wanda launches Atmos Studios, a cloud-based post-prod studio, providing remote solutions for film & TV. (🇦🇺)
Jellyfish launches a creative framework, embedding Gen AI to link content, data, and media in real-time through the integration of Pencil Pro. (🇬🇧)
Kartoon Studios reveals Gadget A.I., an in-house generative AI toolkit for animated content creation. (🇺🇸)
EditShare collaborates with Atomos to integrate camera-to-cloud workflows into MediaSilo, boosting video collaboration. (🇺🇸)
Digital Domain introduces Masquerade3, a Markerless MoCap Facial Tracking System, eliminating actor markers to save time and costs while enhancing precision. (🇺🇸)
Former FuseFX CTO and Co-Founder Jason Fotter launches Bind Studio, a cloud-based platform on AWS to streamline VFX production setup. (🇯🇵)
Evertz adds enhancements to DreamCatcher BRAVO Studio, including AI-driven Metadata and Highlight Factory. (🇨🇦)
Adobe debuts Adobe Express mobile app, integrating Firefly generative AI features like Text to Image and Generative Fill on mobile devices. (🇺🇸)
Planar and OptiTrack to showcase broadcast and media technologies, including vibrant LED platforms and DirectLight Pro Series video walls. (🇺🇸)
