Category: 5. Entertainment

Buying Brad Pitt‘s Plan B Entertainment was the ticket into the U.S. that France’s Mediawan Group craved, delegates heard today at MIPCOM.

During an on-stage interview, Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO of Mediawan’s film arm, Mediawan…

YouTube has arrived on the Croisette.

For the first time in the company’s 20-year history, the content behemoth — owned by Google — has come to MIPCOM and used its first keynote session to laud the platform’s partnership with BBC…

Writing for Variety Magazine, International Correspondent Naman Ramachandran reported on Twickenham Studios’ partnership with Samsung to enhance its virtual production capabilities.

 

Naman…

Djo and Sabrina…

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SMITHSONIAN SHUTDOWN. The Smithsonian Institution, a government-funded museum network in Washington, D.C., was forced to close this weekend due to the continuing government shutdown, reports Alex Greenberger for ARTnews….

Revered filmmaker Mira Nair will present Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s “Cactus Pears” (Sabar Bonda) for its North American release, with support from Payal Kapadia, whose “All We Imagine as Light” earned international acclaim last…

This year’s overarching theme for MIPCOM‘s Women In Global Entertainment Power Lunch? Resilience.

Some of television’s most senior industry execs flocked to Cannes’ Hotel Majestic on Monday as MIPCOM formally kicks off another…