Staying strong. When it comes to her daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s cancer battle, Mama June Shannon said there are good days and bad days.
17.04.2023 - 13:37 / deadline.com
“It feels like the TV bubble has burst,” Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh said today.
The French powerhouse has been making TV for around six years and Marsh used a Mip TV keynote to say things feel like they are slowing down, following a boom period.
“We were experiencing greenlights after very short develpoment periods beforehand but now it feels like these decisions are stretching out,” she added. “Some shows aren’t getting over the hump and it’s not as easy as in the past to get a second or third season. It feels like the TV bubble has burst.”
There are great challenges today and “upheaval” but Marsh stressed that Studiocanal remains committed to TV.
In film, she said Studiocanal, which she claimed was 2022’s leading indie theatrical distributor, is at a “crossroads” following the “dark and dim” Covid-19 period. Her team is receiving around 500 movie and 200 TV scripts per year, she revealed.
Marsh also talked up the opportunity for spreading IP across gaming, advertising, publishing and music using the might of Canal+ and owner Vivendi, coming on the same day media vet Evan Shapiro used his Mip TV keynote to signal a new IP era.
“Being a global entertainment company gives us a unique position and great playground to build IP,” added Marsh. “There’s a lot of talk about franchises. Super Mario has really rekindled that word.”
Marsh said Studiocanal’s best example is Paddington. Deadline revealed earlier this month that the third Paddington movie – Paddington Goes to Peru – will start production in July.
Marsh also used her keynote to reveal Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Matt Haig adaptation How to Stop Time will enter production next year as a TV series, while she confirmed Studiocanal’s investment in Vigil EP James
Staying strong. When it comes to her daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s cancer battle, Mama June Shannon said there are good days and bad days.
Arthur Thomas (Alfie Clarke) and Marshall Hamston (Max Fletcher) are officially boyfriends in Emmerdale, and all is right in the world. The two boys, as viewers know, have long had feelings for one another, with Arthur taking the first step late last year when he asked Marshall out on a date shortly after coming out.
On last night's episode of The Chase, one lucky Scot took home the jackpot after beating The Sinnerman.
Netflix has released the trailer for Hannah Gadsby’s next comedy special, titled “Hannah Gadsby: Something Special,” which will premiere globally May 9.
Upcoming rail strike dates were not picked intentionally to collide with the Eurovision finals in Liverpool, according to a Union boss.
Marvel bosses regretted the sacking of Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn.Gunn was dropped by Disney after the first two Guardians films in 2018 when a series of controversial tweets allegedly written in the past by him, surfaced online.Cast members of the franchise rallied behind Gunn and he was eventually rehired in March 2019 to direct the the third film.Now Feige has said that Marvel bosses never interviewed anyone to replace Gunn during his absence.“We didn’t even put a preliminary list together just because we couldn’t do it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “We couldn’t stomach it.”Gunn also said Disney film chairman Alan Horn regretted the decision to sack him and he was having trouble sleeping over it.“It’s a 100 percent because Alan Horn felt sick.
Emmerdale fans jumped to praise troubled teen Marshall Hamston (played by Max Fletcher) on Friday night’s instalment of the long running ITV soap, as he bravely stood up to his homophobic dad and called him out for his abusive behaviour. As regular viewers will know, the youngster has been living with Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson) and Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) in recent weeks, after he revealed he was gay, just like the couple’s son Arthur.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed The Walt Disney Co.’s lawsuit over his effort to strip the company of authority over its sprawling Walt Disney World property.
Chip and Joanna Gaines will celebrate 20 years of wedded bliss in May. Like most married couples, Chip admitted there have been ebbs and flows in their relationship, but this particular milestone made him reminisce on how quickly time passed by. In an essay for the summer issue of their Magnolia Journal, Chip recalled proposing to Joanna and buying their first house "just yesterday." He wrote, "All the old folks in our lives warned us that these years with young kids and big dreams would go by fast.That one day we’d look back and wonder where the time went.They were right." "We've had to fight like hell for our family and learn to hold loosely what we can't control.
Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) in Emmerdale, revealing the reason why he’s been so unhappy as of late. The teen, who moved in with Laurel earlier this year after she discovered he was being abused by homophobic dad Colin (Mark Noble), has been struggling in recent scenes, with Laurel knowing full well that there is something on his mind.
The Bling Empire reality shows will not be returning for more seasons on Netflix.
A Scot took home a share of the jackpot on the Chase today after his team came out victorious.
Anna Nicole Smith's ex Larry Birkhead and the former couple's daughter, Dannielynn, are working together to create their own documentary of the model's life using "never before seen" diaries and footage. The news comes as Netflix released a trailer for "You Don't Know Me," which claims to interview some of Smith's "closest friends." However, Birkhead along with Dannielynn are not involved.
MipTV and Mipcom, Cannes two TV trade fairs, announcing final figures of 5,560 participants, including 5,510 on-site delegates. That said, attendance was sizeably down on pre-pandemic levels – 9,500 attendees in 2019 – with major European drama sales companies literally counting the cost of attendance and exhibition space versus Mip-driven sales. In a fast-evolving TV landscape, the future and identity of MipTV still remains uncertain. 10 takeaways from this year’s edition:
MipTV 2023 is coming to an end, with many international execs and stars having jetted in for the 60th edition of the sales confab and Canneseries events. Despite large portions the Croisette being dug up as construction work went on before the Cannes Film Festival next month, there was a positive feel. That will please organizer RX France, which has faced down of ongoing talk of the event’s reduced status in the post-Covid 19 era. Footfall was notably lighter than pre-pandemic, but a less frenetic pace isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Read on for our key takeaways.
A Scots The Chase contestant has been branded as one of the 'worst ever' as the team collectively brought in what is thought to be the lowest recorded score in the programme's history.
Studiocanal and SunnyMarch are to soon enter production on the Beneditch Cumberbatch-starring How to Stop Time, which has been rejigged from a feature to a TV series.
Studiocanal is gearing up to shoot “How To Stop Time,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and with D.C. Moore (“Mary & George”) and Tomas Alfredson (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) on board as key creative talent. Production on the title by Studiocanal and SunnyMarch will be announced by CEO Anna Marsh on Monday at her keynote at Cannes’ MipTV trade fair. In it, she also looks set to confirm that Studiocanal has acquired an equity stake in London-based Strong Film & Television, co-founded in late 2020 by “Broadchurch” director James Strong and Matt Tombs, a former executive at the BBC and Paramount.
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched season 4 of Love Is Blind and the reunion special, proceed with caution.
Love Is Blind” cast reunited for the first time since filming wrapped on their chaotic season for Netflix’s live reunion special — despite an hour delay. While it didn’t stream everywhere when it was supposed to, when the reunion did begin, it was filled with drama. To refresh your memory, here’s who said yes at the altar in the season finale: Tiffany and Brett, Chelsea and Kwame and Bliss and Zack — who, in the biggest twist of the season, first broke up in the pods, but then got engaged after he called it quits with his first fiancée, Irina, when they couldn’t make things work in Mexico.