Starzplay Acquires HBO Max’s “Tokyo Vice”; DAZN does the European key rental; Vice’s Flight MH370 Doc sells – Slip TV Mip

Starzplay acquires HBO Max crime thriller “Tokyo Vice” Ken Watanabe

HBO’s next crime thriller Max Vice President of Tokyo Starzplay is launching a streaming service in Europe. The Starz Streamer has won rights in Austria, Germany, German-speaking Switzerland, Ireland and the UK and will make its debut in two episodes on Sunday 15 May. The Endeavor Content series, written by JT Rogers, is based directly on the American journalist Jake Adelstein. Tokyo Metropolitan Police report in the late 1990s. It stars Ansel Elgort as Adelstein and Hiroto Katagir, a detective who guides Jake into the neon-soaked bosom of the city.

DAZN has hired former Sky M&A executive Alice Mascia for a major role in Europe

Sports entertainment broadcaster DAZN has hired former Sky Deutschland CEO Alice Massia as CEO in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She will join on May 1 to take control of a strategically important region where DAZN is eligible for the German Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League, Italian Serie A and Spanish Liga. DAZN has undergone a series of management changes in recent months, following the appointment of Group CEO Shay Segev. Massia was hired shortly after Bosco Aranguren was named head of Spain, while Franco Bernabeu and Stefano Azi were appointed to oversee Italy.

Story Board Vice and Paramount + Doc ‘MH370: The Last Flight’

Cable Channel History is between three buyers of Paramount + and a three-part document from SBS MH370: Lost flight (Job title). TV2 in Denmark and Viaplay (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland and Pan-Baltic) also filmed the three-part series that Vice Distribution launched this week on Mip TV. MH370: last flight The unexplained disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight in March 2014 is seen through the eyes of the victims’ families. Paramount + originally commissioned a document produced by The Vice World News in collaboration with Australian public broadcaster SBS.

Paramount Pluto TV adds A + E networks to UK fast streaming service

Paramount’s free streaming service Pluto TV has added a couple of channels from A + E Networks UK. Inside Crime UK and Mystery TV are the latest channels launched on the FAST service, which currently offers over 1,000 channels worldwide. Inside Crime will offer others like it The crime that shook Britain Y Britain’s darkest taboosAnd Mystery TV includes a series of supernatural investigations by William Shatner miss that.

Film and TV VFX House Misc Studios opens in London

London’s newest visual effects house is Misc Studios, which was opened this week by post-production veterans Adam Luckwell and Michael Elson. The company, based north of the Soho post-production hub, is already working on Amazon Drama platformLucas Film’s porter trapper And Disney + European original Nautilus. Lowell and Elson, who also run the Direct Mail Unit, plan to implement a progressive Misc culture based on sustainability and prosperity.