Georg Szalai

NBCUniversal owner Comcast has disclosed the 2025 compensation packages for chairman and co-CEO Brian Roberts and co-CEO Michael Cavanagh, who served as president until the start of 2026, along with pay details for other top executives. Comcast’s proxy statement, filed […]

Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter, The Bride!, Crazy Heart) will be the president of the international jury of the competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, running Sept. 2-12. Organizers unveiled the U.S. director, actress, screenwriter and producer as the […]

An 80th birthday sounds like a happy occasion. But things are much more complicated in the case of the powerful Spanish Novak family at the center of The Tribute (El Homenaje), the new SkyShowtime Spanish original series […]

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will celebrate two key milestones during its 2026 edition, organizers said on Tuesday. It will mark the fest’s 60th edition, as well as 80 years since the first […]

Sister Group (Black Doves, Chernobyl, Gangs of London, The Greatest Night in Pop,That Christmas), the independent global studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone, has acquired a majority stake in digital-first creative production company […]

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Sally Phillips, Misia Butler and Elyas M’Barek, will open the 2026 SXSW London film lineup, organizers unveiled on Monday. […]

The upcoming ITV drama Believe Me features established and rising British stars coming together to tell a harrowing British story. Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Mr Burton), Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, The Beast Must Die) and Miriam […]

Countless places across the U.S. bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt. In fact, the German naturalist and polymath has been described as the person with more species – from penguins and monkeys to an […]

Forget about chilling, it’s all about expectations! That is one of the key takeaways from Netflix’s first-quarter earnings update and outlook late Thursday. The latest figures exceeded most expectations, and the global streaming giant stuck […]

The heat is on! Just watch the work of Swiss documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd (Where We Belong, Almost There, Goodnight Nobody). She premiered her fiction feature debut, Don’t Let the Sun, at the Locarno Film Festival last […]

The Roots of Madness. The title of the new documentary from Swiss filmmaker Edgar Hagen (Who Are We?, Journey to the Safest Place on Earth) is provocative. Its goal is ambitious. After all, amid the […]

It’s complicated! The world’s largest solar power plant is being built in Morocco, with the aim of turning arid land into a “green energy source.” So far, so good, you say? But wait, there’s a […]

Austrian director Adrian Goiginger’s deeply emotional film Four Minus Three (Vier Minus Drei), based on a true story full of the tears and the smiles of a clown, has sold to key territories and become […]

“Five, six years ago, we probably were still seeing [YouTube] as a marketing platform,” for example, as a place to release a trailer. Helen O’Donnell, vp of content & creators at BBC Studios, didn’t mince […]

Banijay is a case study for how to grow into a European, and global, production powerhouse via acquisitions, most recently its deal to merge with All3Media. So, it came as no surprise that the mega-deal, […]

It’s not just about the money when it comes to building a film and TV production hub, and Portugal knows it. That was one of the key messages of a panel of local representatives who […]

When Netflix walked away from a bidding showdown for Warner Bros. Discovery at the end of February, its stock popped and Wall Street analysts lauded the streaming giant’s financial discipline. Then it received a $2.8 […]

ACID, the Cannes Film Festival sidebar run by France’s association of film directors whose goal is promoting the theatrical distribution of independent films, unveiled its 2026 lineup on Tuesday, with general delegate Pauline Ginot promising […]

ITV Studios‘ long-running global hit format Love Island took center stage in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday in a session at the inaugural StreamTV Europe entitled “Digital Primetime: The Love Island Case Study.” The panel focused […]

Evan Shapiro raised eyebrows, and provided laughs, during a keynote for an industry crowd in Lisbon on Monday at the first-ever StreamTV Europe conference. His topic, “The New Normal in Streaming,” led him to talk about […]

After years of being sheltered by his father, Ashish, a young man from an island in Kerala, India – leaves his isolated home in pursuit of achieving an unusual goal in memory of his late […]

The Cannes Film Festival 2026 lineup has been revealed, and it will, once again, see stars walking the red carpet to present their latest movies. Some stars will even pull double duty on the Croisette, namely two […]

The Cannes Film Festival 2026 lineup is taking shape in front of the world’s eyes in Paris on Thursday. Artistic director Thierry Fremaux, with president Iris Knobloch by his side, is unveiling the official selection, the popular […]

The countdown to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival is on! Artistic director Thierry Fremaux and president Iris Knobloch will clue viewers in on which films made the coveted official selection, the popular Un Certain Regard sidebar and […]

“Everything is connected.” This concept, applied to everything from nature to society, including our lives in the digital age amid climate change, was promoted by German naturalist and polymath Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th […]

Finnish video game entrepreneur Ilkka Paananen, the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the mobile gaming company behind Clash of Clans, will be honored with the BAFTA Fellowship at the BAFTA Games Awards with Google Play […]

SkyShowtime‘s Swedish original series The Trio (Trion), an adaptation of the bestselling coming-of-age novel by Johanna Hedman, is described as “a story about love, sex and passion.” The six-part show, starring August Wittgenstein (Das Boot, The […]

Netflix opened new offices in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires on Tuesday and revealed a slate of productions made in Argentina that will premiere in 2026 and 2027. The slate includes series, films […]

With an eye on improving how it serves sports fans, Disney on Tuesday unveiled the launch of ESPN on Disney+ in Europe and select Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets immediately, making the service available to subscribers in 53 countries and territories across the regions. The Asian territories that are getting […]

The fourth edition of the Cannes Investors Circle, the Marché du Film’s initiative connecting private investors with high-end film projects, has unveiled a showcase of eight projects from auteurs for the 79th edition of the […]

A new startup, MUS immersive (short for Modern Uprising Studio), has launched as an independent company with a goal to boost “a new category of entertainment: immersive event cinema” using spatial computing technologies. This type […]

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management unveiled a non-binding proposal to the board of directors of music giant Universal Music Group (UMG), the musical home of such stars as Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, to […]

John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, will world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premiere Selection, organizers unveiled on Thursday. The Apple Original Films movie is an adaptation of […]

The Cannes Film Festival’s market is gearing up for its 2026 edition, running May 12-20, with innovations and superlatives designed to “reaffirm” the Marché du Film’s position as “the premier hub where creativity, technology and […]

Poison Pen Studios, Ben Stephenson’s ITV Studios-backed transatlantic scripted production banner, has named Fern McCauley head of development. She moves into the new role with immediate effect after serving as head of IP acquisitions at […]

Canal+ Group has named Anne‑Laure Tingry its first-ever chief data & AI (artificial intelligence) officer. She will be reporting to Maxime Saada, chairman and CEO of Canal+, and also join the media company’s executive committee. […]

Watch out, Montreal! The Black Mirror Experience is coming! Launching in May at location-based virtual reality (VR) Infinity Experiences in the Canadian city, the 60-minute “immersive experience blending physical space and VR” is based on […]

Family drama Sound of Falling, directed by Mascha Schilinski, and İlker Çatak‘s Berlin Film Festival winner Yellow Letters are leading the nominations for the 2026 German Film Awards, also known as the Lolas, Germany’s equivalent of […]

And the latest content deal between Walt Disney‘s streaming service Disney+ and a big European broadcaster is with… RAI in Italy. The agreement, unveiled on Tuesday, follows a Friday deal with RTVE in Spain that marked the first […]

Global streaming subscription revenue surpassed $150 billion for the first time in 2025, according to a new survey from Ampere Analysis, which highlighted that as “a major milestone” for the subscription market. And streaming subscription […]

The start of a London trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault against disgraced comedian and actor Russell Brand has been pushed back from mid-June to October. The 50-year-old is accused of three counts of rape, […]

Stranger Things star Sadie Sink and Hamnet, The Night Manager and A Quiet Place‘s Noah Jupe are ready for their West End stage debuts in the Robert Icke-directed production of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet. Ahead of Tuesday’s press night, Empire Street Productions […]

Netflix formally opened and inaugurated a new Warsaw office on Monday, 10 years after first launching its streaming service in Poland. “Including Netflix’s only technology hub outside of the United States, this new office brings […]

Walt Disney‘s streaming service Disney+ continues to strike what it has consistently described as “landmark” content agreements with big European broadcasters, on Friday adding RTVE in Spain to its list of partners. “Disney+ and RTVE […]

A second season of the 2018 landmark documentary series The Wall, exploring “the human impact of borders and divisions around the world” and narrated by Matthew Rhys in its international version, was unveiled on Thursday, […]

MARIINKA, a documentary by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue (The Land of the Enlightened) that takes audiences inside young Ukrainian lives shaped by war, has won the audience award of the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary […]