International insider: the British broadcaster Shake-Up; CinemaCon wrapping; Cannes Latest

Happy Friday readers, Tommy is piloting an international privileged ship here, read the headlines of the week.

Shake-Up, British broadcaster

Raid: The UK government this week released a historic white paper covering everything from regulating global streamers in the country to Channel 4. SVoD services will be fined up to 5% of their local revenue. According to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, he was found guilty of displaying harmful content. The rules have yet to be passed by Parliament and are expected to go into effect in 2024, meaning Netflix and its teammates still have a few years to push government buttons without fear of reprimand if they so wish. Max had a low level, as well as analyzing various other elements of the government’s vision.

Channel 4 on the block: The government’s controversial and often confusing plan to sell the public broadcaster to a private buyer came one step closer to reality this week. The White Paper confirmed that sales would be made to allow Channel 4 to “diversify its revenue streams and improve its long-term sustainability”. In essence, the government argues that Channel 4’s business model, which prevents it from borrowing significantly to fund programs and technologies and makes it heavily dependent on ad sales, will fail in a global broadcast environment. Private Channel 4 could take on greater financial risk, and to infuriate the independent manufacturing sector, it would be legally allowed to make its programs national for the first time, leveraging its international sales. Basically, no one on British television thinks selling is good, but the graffiti on the wall is there for all to see.

Theater at CinemaCon

You will be served by: This week was the annual Big Screen Exhibition at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and there were a lot of juicy titles. You can follow all of our coverage here, but here are a few options: Robert De Niro’s politically charged speech about receiving the Cinema Verite Award; Nancy’s interview with Renana Tepperberg, CEO of Cineworld; And Disney is adding a Bollywood epic Brahmastra first part: Shiva On your table. Undoubtedly, the most striking moment was the delivery of an unexpected envelope to Olivia Wilde during a presentation at the presentation, the contents of which were Jason Sudeikis’ guardianship documents. Representatives of the actor later claimed that he was unaware that the incident would happen so publicly.

the skin warms up

and disappeared: The skin doesn’t start until May 17th, but business has already been done before the festival. This week, Andreas got the scoop on the first big package and the first big deal this year: Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth will star in a suspenseful thriller. the earth is badThat appears to be the most popular seller, and Mubi has caused a stir by purchasing many territories, including the US and UK, for the title of the Cannes Park Chan-wook Competition. The decision to leave.

Polanski: It looks like Roman Polanski’s new image joins the list of titles on sale at the Cannes market this year. Andreas had a scoop that John Cleese and Gomora Fortunato Serlino has joined the cast BuildingWhich is made in Switzerland.

jury duty: Elsewhere on Cannes News, the festival has named Vincent Lyndon as chair of the competition jury. The Titanium The star will be joined by Rebecca Hall, Numi Rapas, Jeff Nichols, Asgar Farhad, Deepika Padukone, Jasmine Trinka, Laj Lee and Joachim Trier. The Un Certain Regard jury (which opened the film father and soldier) The Italian actress and director Valeria Golino will be in charge.

Change title: Finally, the French festival supported the name change of Michel Hazanavicius z, which will open the event this year. The title took on a new meaning after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and as such the image will now be called coupe! (Cut out!)While the international title remains Ფ Final installation.

Fireworks? What fireworks?

Decreasing votes: Pierre Morgan has managed in part to try to arouse interest in his Talk TV talk show. uncensored Featuring a major showdown with former President Donald Trump, but the fireworks were mostly hot air. After failing the first part of a Talk TV interview on Monday night, he revealed the next night that “spitting” wasn’t a disagreement. Morgan said Trump was “burning with rage,” but the raw footage of the alleged “walk” didn’t seem to show much more than the former president’s frustrated resignation after a long and sometimes tense conversation. However, the vague thing worked, more or less. Peter Morgan uncensoredThe first night had 300,000 UK viewers, but the second night lost 100,000 as the drama faded. More history here.

Amazon Mega India Slate

Salke in Mumbai: That same week, Amazon made significant changes to MGM in the US, and the streaming giant rolled out a huge list in India. Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke and Prime Video International Vice President Kelly Day teamed up with the local Amazon team to unveil a 40-person list at a beautiful event in Mumbai. A confident Salk told the audience: “Talented people want to be part of the Amazon Prime family and put on amazing shows to entertain people not only in India but around the world. We are alone in this. ”According to Indian reports, Netflix cuts 90% of the original shale, while Amazon is in growth mode in India, you can see its flowering.

do an update

For international settings: Upgrade Productions, based in Los Angeles, was launched by Matt Brodlie and Jonathan Kier late last year with the goal of creating local language content from around the world. This week I had my first three duo projects from Japan, Spain and Australia. In the interview, the couple discuss which areas turn them on the most.

Heroes and villains

Flight: This week, Deadline unveiled its debut project of Good Hero, a production team based in New York and Paris supported by Mediawan: Feature Animated Film. Wings of Freedom: Operation Resurgence. I met with founders Laurent Zeitun and Gregory Owenhon to talk about their unique development process.

Essential

🌶️ Here’s the heat: Andy Serkis is a feature film director. giant houseAdaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1996 novel by Elizabeth McCracken for Wildgaze Films.

🌶️ OtherThe actor will be directed by David Harbor bins For very smooth chacha Directed by Cooper Rife.

🌶️ Certainly not anobody: Ხიდი Star Sophia Helen and writer Camilla Ahlgren reunite in cold accident drama Is given.

🤝 Transaction completed: Netflix has signed a multi-image partnership with Japanese animation studio Studio Colorful.

🤝 Other deal: Wasserman Music has acquired a live music management business at Paradigm UK.

🍿 ᲡAlarós: Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets It crossed the $ 200 million mark at the international box office last weekend, raising global box office receipts to $ 280.3 million.

👀 First sight: Here is the first photo of Jodi Commer making her West End debut At first sight.

Jesse Whitock contributed to this week’s International Insider.