International Insider: Karlovy Vary Begins; Broccoli on Bond; BritBox; French Wage Strikes

Good day Insider team. Max Goldbart is back from Glastonbury with all the news, analysis and sunburn you need as we look back on the last week of June. read it.

Karlovy Vary begins

Check: The film festival calendar is in full swing this summer, with the amazing Czech festival starting today and ending next Saturday in Karlovy Vary. Deadline covers Diana Louderhose and our new Senior International Film Correspondent Melanie Goodfellow’s Prague festival, which featured 33 films in three sections from five continents. Relationship drama by Italian director Paolo Genovese Super heroes will open and George Miller’s Cannes title Three thousand years old Longinusg will close and leading Liev Schreiber, Geoffrey Rush and Benicio del Toro will be present. Diana gave us two big takeaways when discussing in more detail how KV went on to direct a culturally relevant, “haunted” movie and directing Eastern Promises. The latter is in its infancy compared to KV’s rich 50+ year history and talked about how distributors, sales agents, producers, and festival programmers prepare.

confrontation: No current festival is uncontested and KV hasn’t been able to catch up with this trend. Festival president Jiri Bartoshka, CEO Krzysztof Mucha and artistic director Karel Och had to defend the event after the Russian film was invited. Captain Volkogonov escaped. Joining the Horizons sidebar despite promises to ban Russian state-sponsored movies due to the war in Ukraine. A large number of Ukrainian filmmakers invited to screen films at the festival published an open letter on Tuesday protesting the move. “By showing the film, we are able to organize a public discussion focusing on the overlapping of the main theme of the film with current events,” the trio of festival directors said. The tricky issue was one that nearly every festival grappled with in recent months as the war in Ukraine ended and approaches changed. The term will be during the week to assess the reaction.

Base meets broccoli

two more years: Intrepid Deadline International Editor Baz Bamigboy Scores Goal Of The Week After Corner Kick james link Legend Barbara Broccoli at a special, star-studded event honoring her and her brother, Michael Wilson, with BFI Scholarships. Barbara told Buzz that the “reimagining” of spy Daniel Craig is underway, with two years left in production. It won’t reveal anything about Craig’s replacement (he said “There’s no one on the run”), but at the time of writing, several bookies are putting pressure on Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy, and Tom Hardy. Bridgerton Starring Rege-Jean Page. Elsewhere in the evening, at the Claridge’s Hotel, people like Ralph Fiennes paid tribute to the Broccoli/Wilson brothers, who truly are two marvels of cinema. More here.

Great BritBox bonanza

“Transatlantic Puddings”: There’s no denying that Streamer Wars is in full swing, but one platform that may have flown a bit under the radar in recent years is BritBox International, which has quietly amassed 2.6 million subscribers, mostly in North America, with the excellent British thriller. mystery. and reality shows. open death in heaven spinoff (pictured) This week, BBC CEO and ITV-owned broadcaster Rema Sakan and creative director Diederic Santer spoke to a room full of some of the world’s biggest drama producers. a sin Director Nicola Schindler and sherlock Producer Sue Vertue, who briefed the commission because they said they did a lot of work. Not “transatlantic puddings” (where international partners with different agendas push and push products in different directions and it all results in chaos) For Santer and Sakan who want to make nearly 30 programs a year, mostly on BBC and ITV. Deadline spoke to several producers who were impressed by the short film’s strategic simplicity and wished to work for BritBox, who, while not caught fire in the UK, could become a bigger player across the pond and elsewhere. . to come

French tariff strikes

The struggle for public broadcastingThousands of television and radio workers attended a demonstration outside the National Assembly parliament building in Paris on Tuesday against Emmanuel Macron’s plan to phase out his 138-euro ($146) annual license fee. The plan was revealed during Macron’s successful presidential campaign in March, and unions say it will leave a 3.7 billion-euro ($3.9 billion) funding gap for France Télévisions, which is currently set to compete with the commercial broadcasting giant. The TF1 and M6 and their increasingly daring streaming rivals. William Mounier, general secretary of the French union SNRT-CGT Audiovisual, said Macron’s plan threatened independence, diversity and cultural diversity. Mel and Nancy had a report.

Dani De La Destructive

keep in mind: Dani de la Torre is one of the Spanish writers who sit down and take notes on the world. My colleague Jesse Whittock had a long talk with the creator of Movistar+ after receiving the International Disruptor report for Deadline. Unity (Union). The Galician screenwriter talked about the rise of Spanish drama and how the American showrunner model has changed the local industry. Read here; You know you want it.

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🌶️ Hot: best boy Director Brady Hood directed the film in England. Click, It’s about a young criminal who gets the opportunity to work in a private prison restaurant.

🌶️ Other: Paramount’s Channel 5 continued its renaissance by hiring British television legend Stephen Fry to present Doctor Who Dinosaurs.

🌶️ Other: Nancy received praise for her remake of Paramount Pictures’ South Korean detective thriller. Gangster, cop, demon.

🌶️ I’m hot as hell: Our Rosie Cordero brings us some news about Starzplay yellow (working title), Monday is a Spanish dramatic comedy produced in Mexico City.

🏪 set up a shop: English football specialist Copa90 founded the studio production business Copa90 Studios. Jesse broke it.

🤝 big companiesTwo key appointments were made in Asia this week: Rishi Negi, CEO of Endemol Shine India, and Akira Ishizawa, Chairman and CEO of Nippon TV.

🖼️ foundry: old talented america Contestant Yurian the Retriever to Make Headlines on Netflix’s Japanese Billboard Queen of evil.

✈️ to carry: NATPE – Miami to Bahamas. Anyone want to travel?

🎥 introduction video: Mel received first images of Lars von Trier kingdom speech