Disney Innovates in Indonesia, Launching Hotstar Variant of Streaming Platform

Ben Croll French outfit Atlas V, the production company behind the critically acclaimed “Gloomy Eyes” and one of the industry leaders in narrative VR, has just launched production on its newest animated project, a 20-minute standalone film called “The Little Mouse.”Sharing details of the project with Variety, Atlas V co-founder Antoine Cayrol called the film “a narrative driven fairy tale” that acts as the origin story for the Gallic equivalent of the tooth fairy (known in French-speaking

Ben Croll Responding to an online distribution landscape driven primarily by the patterns of the video game industry, organizers of the leading international VR festivals have started on a plan to carve out a niche all for themselves – and for the artistically minded project their festivals champion.“The creative or artistic content in VR do not have an identifiable place to be hosted [online],” Venice Film Festival VR curator Michel Reilhac, an expert in interactive and immersive media, tells

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCoronavirus has brought the theater and concert business to its knees. Until there’s a vaccine in place, it’s unclear when people will feel safe returning to Broadway and other live events.

threatened to pull its NBC Everywhere channels — which includes content from NBC, Bravo, E! and USA, among other channels — from Roku, along with 46 NBC apps.Also Read: Roku Adds 43 Million New Accounts in Second QuarterAfter initially debuting for Cox and Comcast customers on April 15, Peacock made its full launch mid-July, but was missing from the two biggest streaming platforms, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.

As the great streaming glut of 2020 threatened to drown audiences in content—Disney+, HBO Max, AppleTV+ Peacock, etc.— in the confusion of it all (and untimely pandemic), viewers were content to skip the new microcontent mobile app and streaming service, Quibi.

Dan Patrick is launching a new podcast.

Late night personality Stephen Colbert is getting in on helping Americans get out and vote with a newly launched state-by-state resource guide, which the Late Show hostdebuted during his Tuesday night show. Titled "Better Know a Ballot," the nonpartisan voter information campaign aims to eliminate the confusion around getting registered to vote and casting a ballot in the upcoming 2020 presidential election with its series of informational videos.

Nicola Shindler, the award-winning British TV veteran and producer of such hit shows asHappy Valley, Queer as Folk and, most recently, Harlan Coben's The Stranger for Netflix, is launching a new scripted label within ITV Studios. Shindler, founder and current CEO of the Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company, is set to join the unit of U.K.

Julien Christian Lutz — better known as Director X and his signature music videos for Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Usher and Justin Bieber — has his own name for Canada's annual advertising award shows:The Whities. "The room is unreasonably White.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorProject Power, the Netflix action movie starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon Levitt, cracked Nielsen’s recently inaugurated weekly top 10 of streaming titles in the U.S. for August 10-16.The film was joined by another Netflix feature, The Last Husband, which stars Carly Pope and Kevin Alejandro.The Umbrella Academy again topped the list, which is comprised entirely of Netflix titles.

Megyn Kelly is launching her own independent production company, Devil May Care Media, with podcasts as key content in its pipeline. Front and center will be Kelly's own podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, to feature interviews with newsmakers and other guests.

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticVeteran Broadway general manager Nathan Gehan is opening his own New York City general management firm, ShowTown Theatricals, with a roster of clients including the international musical production of Notre Dame de Paris at Lincoln Center in 2022, the Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol (Broadway, National Tour), American Prophet (Arena Stage), Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals) and planned productions of Romy & Michele The Musical, Room, Syncing Ink and

Ed Meza @edmezavarSweden’s Plattform Produktion is teaming up with Dutch production group Lemming Film on director Ena Sendijarević’s colonial drama “Sweet Dreams.”The film, which is set to shoot on location in Southeast Asia next year, follows tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son – the child of his Indonesian housemaid – upending not only his Dutch family’s plans but also

BTS is truly taking over the globe with their universally-loved music as Dynamite is the recent success story for the history books. Not only did the septet's single debut at No.

Selena Gomez just launched her new beauty line Rare Beauty and you can check out all of the products right here!

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe new distribution platform Altavod is about to give filmmakers — especially independent filmmakers — more control of their work.With Utopia founder and filmmaker Robert Schwartzman and Cole Harper founded the new platform launches which launches today.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAltavod, a new platform pledging to help indie filmmakers more easily distribute and profit from their movies, launched Wednesday. The company’s founders say that it will allow moviemakers to cut out third parties who they usually turn to in order to find distribution platforms.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn what is being touted as a first, the Venice Film Festival’s opening ceremony is streaming live this evening in roughly 100 Italian movie theaters, followed by the fest’s opening film, Daniele Luchetti’s “The Ties.”The film’s distributor, 01 Distribution, is previewing “The Ties” in cinemas across Italy as a double bill in conjunction with the fest’s opening ceremony.“It’s the first time this has ever been done anywhere in the world,” says 01