Baz Luhrmann is reimagining his Oscar-winning 2008 movie, “Australia”.
14.06.2022 - 18:07 / deadline.com
The e-auction’s over, and became clear yesterday, Viacom18 is the big winner of Indian Premier League cricket rights. The company bagged digital rights in India for 410 games over the next five years for $2.6B and today followed up with the international rights for three of the other big cricketing nations — Australia, South Africa and the UK — for around another $420M.
Disney, the previous streaming home of the tournament, keeps TV rights for the 2023-2027 period, paying $3B, while Indian firm Times Internet took the U.S. and MENA (rest of world) rights.
The agreements are game-changing for two key reasons. Firstly, the combined value of the deals (about $6.2B) means the IPL is now the second-most valuable sports tournament in the world behind the NFL in terms of value per match, overtaking the English Premier League soccer and giving the rights holding-Board of Control for Cricket in Indian (BCCI) a massive payday.
Secondly, it reshapes the ultra-competitive Indian streaming market, with Viacom18 — a joint venture of Paramount Global, Reliance Industries and James Murdoch-owned Lupa Systems — propelled into a starring role it has not had before.
Viacom18 operates Jio, a free streaming service popular with mobile-phone users, and will launch Paramount+ in India in 2023. It’s not yet clear where the IPL matches will be played or how they’ll be windowed but there are ample opportunities for growth if handled properly.
For Disney, whose Star India subsidiary previously owned all Indian subcontinent rights, losing streamed matches with inevitably cost Disney+ Hotstar subscribers but will save it a huge chunk of cash. For context, in 2017 Disney paid less than half of combined value of digital TV and rights of this year’s figure
Baz Luhrmann is reimagining his Oscar-winning 2008 movie, “Australia”.
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Elvis Presley.Baz Luhrmann — director of the upcoming biopic “Elvis” — recently revealed that he has a much longer cut of the musical drama.“I mean, I have a four-hour version, actually,” the Australian filmmaker, 59, told Radio Times.He also noted that there were a lot of extra scenes he wanted to include that would have helped complete the story of Elvis, portrayed by Austin Butler. However, there are serious time constraints. “You have to bring it down to 2 hours 30 [minutes],” he said.“I would have liked to lean into some of the other things more,” Luhrmann went on.
David Bowie, explaining how they almost worked on a project together in Berlin.The director, who worked with the late musician on the soundtrack for 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, told NME about how Bowie’s classic track ‘Changes’ impacted his life.“From the moment I first heard this song, I was a huge Bowie fan,” Luhrmann said. “I eventually worked with him [on the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack] and then towards the end of his life, he became a very good friend.“He used to come round and we’d walk the dogs.
Tom Hanks only understood the magnitude of what he took on when he saw Austin Butler in full Elvis Presley garbs.
Viacom18 has bowled out the opposition and caught the sought-after streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament.
Indian Premier League cricket tournament, one the world’s richest sporting events, have been sold for a combined $5 billion, according to several reports.The successful bidders have not been named as the auction, which started on Sunday is ongoing and may run to a third day.The TV rights went for $2.72 billion and the digital rights for $2.28 billion, for a five-year deal covering the 2023-2027 tournaments. In both cases the rights packages are limited to the Indian subcontinent.There are two more rights packages on offer – for selected tournament games including the playoffs, only for the Indian subcontinent; and TV and digital rights for the rest of the world.
Harry Styles in a new interview, saying the singer “embodies so much of Elvis”.The director’s biopic about the king of rock’n’roll will be released in cinemas in the UK on June 24 and is simply called Elvis.Speaking to The Times about the new movie – which stars Austin Butler in the titular role – Luhrmann observed that Elvis had “incredible style”. “Before people talked about [gender] fluidity, he had knitted bolero tank tops with his midriff hanging out, truck driver sideburns, make-up and dyed black hair,” he said. “He wore what would have been called, in the 19th century, dandy clothes.”When Styles was mentioned to him as the modern version of that, the filmmaker replied: “I know Harry well.
Austin Butler’s version of «Trouble» from the upcoming biopic -- and rightfully so. On Saturday, the film’s director, Baz Luhrmann confirmed to fans that it is in fact Butler’s vocals in all of the young Elvis performances from the film.
Harry Styles and Elvis Presley are both pop-culture sensations who crossed over to movies after wildly successful music careers. But for “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, their status as generational icons made Styles a poor choice to play The King in his new biopic.