DR Sales Tempts World Buyers with ‘Carmen Curlers’ Series (EXCLUSIVE)

K.J. Yossman Kenton Allen, CEO of London-based outfit Big Talk Productions, has plenty to be pleased about.

New World has been temporarily put on hold as an exploit has been discovered that can duplicate gold in the process.Amazon Game Studios shared an update last night (October 21 – thanks, PCGamesN) informing players of the bug, explaining that a “small number” of characters moved servers and encountered a ‘Character_Persist_Failure’ error.Players who were affected by this would be able to transfer gold or items, but log back in with the same inventory as before.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTimothy Simons has joined the cast of “Candy” at Hulu, the true crime series about Candy Montgomery, Variety has learned exclusively.The show tells the true story of Candy Montgomery, a housewife in Silicon Prairie, Texas, who murdered her best friend, Betty Gore, with an ax in 1980. Jessica Biel is attached to play Montgomery, while Melanie Lynskey will play Betty Gore.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new film about the development, regulation and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines from “How to Survive a Plague” director David France has scored a raft of international sales.Documentary specialists Dogwoof have sold the film — which will debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2022 — into Sky in the U.K., Germany and Italy; NRK for Norway; DR for Denmark; SVT for Sweden; Channel 8 and YesDocu for Israel; and HBO and HBO Max in Latin America.Filming on the documentary,

WarnerMedia has been rolling out HBO Max around the world over the last few months and has been ramping up the number of international originals that it orders.

Jamie Lang Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) has unveiled the full list of series projects set to pitch at its upcoming Sanfic Series sidebar, running under the festival’s Sanfic Industria banner Oct. 27-Nov.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPablo Schreiber has signed onto the Hulu true crime series “Candy,” Variety has learned exclusively.The show tells the true story of Candy Montgomery, a housewife in Silicon Prairie, Texas, who murdered her best friend, Betty Gore, with an ax in 1980. Jessica Biel is attached to play Montgomery, while Melanie Lynskey will play Betty Gore.

Amazon Game Studios has announced that server transfers, a long-awaited feature for its new smash-hit MMORPG New World, has been delayed once again.In a post to the New World forums, Kay, a developer on New World posted a message saying: “Hi everyone. We have the final pieces of the server transfer system tested and ready to go, but we are making a difficult decision to hold it until next week.

New World players have created their own minimap to help navigate the world of Aeternum.As spotted by Gamerant, Reddit user Morbrid has – with the help of their friend – created a completely functional minimap in New World.

Amazon Game Studios‘ recently released MMO New World is clamping down on gold farmers and bots in the game, by revoking keys used for those accounts.New World players have been reporting bots for a while now, as most will gather at specific spots to fish and mine for gold, so it looks like Amazon is finally taking action.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentViacomCBS International Studios and Italy’s expanding Minerva Pictures have teamed up on “Miss Fallaci Takes America, a high-profile TV series about the 1958 journey to the U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s True Colours has taken sales on two new titles that it will introduce to international buyers at Rome’s MIA Market: “Prophets,” an ISIS-themed drama by Alessio Cremonini (“On My Skin”) and “A Breath of Life,” a doc about a 97-year-old Italian transsexual woman named Lucy, who is among the few survivors of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp. Both films are in post and will be presented as works-in-progress at MIA, the first in the “What’s Next

New World is down for an estimated five hours to implement patch 1.0.2 into the game.Today (October 13), New World went down at 11AM BST for maintenance that will – according to Amazon Game Studios – take an estimated five hours. This means that while  New World servers are currently offline, they should be back online at around 4PM BST.New World servers are down so that Amazon Game Studios can implement “another swathe of bug fixes” and further setup for upcoming server transfers.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorJan Mojto’s Munich-based sales and production powerhouse Beta Film, whose Mipcom slate includes “Sisi” and “La Fortuna,” has closed pre-sales across the Nordic Region and in the Netherlands’ for the PBS-ITV period drama series “Hotel Portofino.” The British show, created and written by Matt Baker, stars Natascha McElhone, whose credits include “Ronin,” “Californication” and “Designated Survivor.”“Hotel Portofino” has been acquired by DR for Denmark,

Jamie Lee Curtis wore the perfect costume for the premiere.The actress honored her late mother, Janet Leigh, at the costume party premiere for her latest film, held at TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday. Curtis arrived on the red carpet dressed as her mother's iconic character, Marion Crane from .«I am honoring my beautiful late mama, Janet Leigh, but... it's a little more meta than that,» Curtis told ET's Matt Cohen.

Jennifer Tilly as the doll’s lover and partner in crime, Tiffany Valentine. With the series finally premiering on SYFY and USA, Mancini, Dourif and Tilly open up to ET about bringing the franchise back to life.

There are four new queens in the building, and they're telling fans everything they need to know before the premiere of their new series.

Ed Meza @edmezavarGerman sellers returning to Cannes’s Mipcom TV mart will be packing a wide selection of domestic and international TV fare heavy on high-end crime and historical series.With a market that has become increasingly open to different formats, sales companies see good opportunities for diverse offerings.“Crime is still the most in- demand genre in the market, as well as action,” says Julia Weber, head of international sales and acquisitions at Munich-based Global Screen.

EXCLUSIVE: The case of Nikki Addimando, who was convicted of murdering her abusive partner, is to be the subject of a six-part podcast series from Lemonada Media.

< 1 min read In a three year deal that is certain to push much-needed funds into the coffers of Mardi Gras organisers, multinational financial services corporation American Express has signed an exclusive deal with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to become the exclusive principal partner. The deal will also see them partner Sydney World Pride 2023.