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Record milk production highlights gains in genetics and farm performance.

Milksolids rose 4.5 percent, with artificial breeding at a three-decade high and beef-on-dairy sales up 25 percent.

Invercine, Gema Films and Gaman Cine, top producers on Latin America’s film-TV scene, will bring to market their latest productions at Sanfic Industria in its industry centerpiece, WIP Iberoamericana. Turning on Alejandro Zambra, one of Latin America’s most-read novelists whose “Poeta Chileno” is currently being adapted by Oscar winning Sebastián Lelio (“A F

‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘Cloud Atlas’ producer Alex Boden talks incentives, the importance of lower-budget productions, the win-win of international shoots and why Japan shouldn’t forget about film tourism.

The seismic changes at Netflix have rippled across the pond, with up to 3% of the streamer’s London HQ laid off, it has now been confirmed. The aftershocks from last month’s U.S. re-org have also claimed U.K. and EMEA production VP Anna Mallett, who has exited amid the shake-up. Mallett, who was vice president of […]

The former CEO of ITN and BBC Studios top executive was hired by the global streamer's London office in November 2020.

Les difficultés économiques se renforcent pour Javier Milei en Argentine. Plombée par la politique d’austérité du président ultralibéral, l’économie devrait entrer en récession technique le mois prochain. En cause notamment, une consommation en berne et une chute de la production industrielle, qui se fait sentir dans la région de Cordoba, où le secteur autom

Egypt’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mahmoud Esmat reviewed research projects aimed at using locally available raw materials to produce phosphoric acid, upgrade phosphate ore and extract potassium, alongside the development of a new technology for seawater desalination. During a field visit to the Nuclear Research Centre at the Egyptian Atomi

Indonesian pharmaceutical company, Dexa Group, has announced plans to expand its operations in Nigeria, with local production of its Boska pain-relief tablets expected to begin in 2028. The Director of PT Fonko International Pharmaceuticals, Benny Suwarno, disclosed this on Saturday, during a courtesy visit by officials of the Indonesian Embassy in Nigeria,

Experts have identified poorly treated STIs, prolonged sitting, smoking, and alcohol as factors contributing to low sperm production in Nigerian men. Read More: https://punchng.com/why-nigerian-men-are-battling-low-sperm-production/

Japan’s production committee system, in which a group of companies jointly finance a film and share its rights, has helped spread risk across the industry. But it can also cap budgets at what the industry itself can raise, make it harder for overseas investors to take part and slow decisions when every rights holder must […]

HBO has been feverishly working to align the schedules of the main stars of Big Little Lies to start full production on season three of the thriller series. But before that, the show shot one day of production, featuring Merrin Dungey, in order to keep its California tax credit. Deadline has confirmed that Dungey, who […]

The farmers are awaiting an assurance from the Centre even as the cane crushing season has been delayed amidst prospects of cane yield getting reduced this year due to drought: CM

Filming on the long-awaited Season 3 of HBO’s “Big Little Lies” got underway this week — sort of. The series shot for one day at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank’s The Ranch Lot on Thursday; among those in front of the camera was recurring star Merrin Dungey, who has played Detective Adrienne Quinlan on the series […]

Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.

When veteran producer John Morayniss hung out his shingle as Blink49 Studios five years ago, he knew the company’s work would be markedly different from his past experiences at Alliance Atlantis and Entertainment One. But Morayniss had no idea how dramatically the industry would shape-shift in ways that suited his young and nimble operation. “When […]

L’idée qu’il y aurait un lien de causalité entre un surnombre d’élites et les crises de société fournit aux milieux conservateurs une explication au malaise de la jeunesse contestée par nombre de sociologues. Pour eux, le désenchantement provient du fait que l’égalité des chances promise ne parvienne pas à se concrétiser.

Indian regulators have escalated action against India's largest drugmaker, Sun Pharma, barring ophthalmic drug production at its Assam factory until it submits a satisfactory compliance report.

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A meeting at TIFFCOM in 2023 brought Italian co-producers to “The Violinist,” the animated feature that went on to win the top prize at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival this year, Singaporean filmmaker Ervin Han told a panel at the Tokyo market. Han, co-founder and CEO of Singapore’s Robot Playground Media, spoke at “Anime’s […]

Warner Bros. International TV Production, the division that operates around 20 production companies around the world that make international versions of formats such as The Bachelor, has a new home within Skydance. The unit, which is run by President Ronald Goes, will sit under Skydance TV Studios and will be overseen by Warner Bros. Television […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dancing with the Stars is a Hollywood fixture, and the team behind The Next Pro wants the spinoff to join its parent show in Los Angeles. Deadline understands that BBC Studios is looking to move production of the ABC summer hit to California after its first season was shot in Australia. The company has […]

Les deux géants de l’aéronautique, en retard sur leurs promesses de livraison pour 2026, affichent des résultats en demi-teinte au troisième trimestre. Le groupe américain a même dû se résoudre à revenir sur ses objectifs officiels de cadencement industriel.

The announcement Wednesday is the latest action by the allies, who have repeatedly expressed alarm over China's growing assertiveness in Asia.

Canada and Europe have been moving closer together politically, and now their media production bodies are doing the same. CEPI, the European Audiovisual Production Association, has welcomed the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) and the Association Québécoise de la Production Médiatique (AQPM) as its first international observer members. CEPI repres

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Dillistone has made her first big hire at Channel 4’s in-house production biz. Dillistone has snapped up The Cube creator Adam Adler as Creative Director and he will lead on the creation of new shows for the nascent unit. Adler is a highly-regarded British formats executive who is best known as creator of […]

Tokyo and Washington agreed to establish a facility in Japan to assemble key air-to-air missiles.

SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's leading automaker, s...

SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its third-quarter net...

Japan and the US have agreed to set up a Japanese facility to jointly produce advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles used in F-35 fighter jets.

The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria warns that Nigeria may miss its 3mbpd oil production target due to equipment, funding and skills shortages. Read More: https://punchng.com/nigeria-may-miss-3mbpd-oil-production-target-petan/

Stenzin Tankyong’s debut feature “Kakthet” (Idiot), set in the remote high-altitude region of Ladakh, has been selected as the winner of the inaugural INR40 lakh ($42,000) feature film co-production fund run by Humans of Cinema and Safarnaama Pictures. The Ladakhi-language project was selected from nearly 400 entries after an extensive screening and evaluati

New York City Film Commissioner Rafael Espinal, seated in February by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, may be the first in the job to see New York production spend outstrip California. A sweetened New York State tax incentive, one of the best in the nation, has converged with faster permitting and smoother communications across city agencies under […]

France‘s Les Arcs Coproduction Village has unveiled the 17 European feature film projects selected for its 18th edition in December. One of the most convivial coproduction markets of the year, the showcase is part of the alpine Les Arcs Film Festival’s Industry Village program, which has previously showcased films such as Oscar-winning animation Flow and […]

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Waidi Shaibu, has reaffirmed the Nigerian Army’s commitment to supporting indigenous defence manufacturers like PROFORCE. Read More: https://punchng.com/coas-backs-local-production-of-military-equipment/

The decision highlights China's intense shortage of the AI memory chips, essential to a push to develop domestic alternatives to Nvidia.

Forrestania Resources has tabled a 25,800oz gold resource at its Symes Find project, adding inventory ahead of a planned mid-December restart at its Edna May plant in WA.

Après l’attentat de Trappes, le chercheur, auteur de « Sociologie des racismes », premier manuel en français à synthétiser la recherche en sciences sociales sur les racismes et les antiracismes, explique, dans un entretien au « Monde », l’évolution des discours racistes.

Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan have made their first film together. “The Land of Jinn,” a supernatural horror feature directed by Kevin Rahardjo (“Smothered”), was unveiled at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market as the first co-production between the two countries. The story centers on a young Indonesian woman who journeys to Kyrgyzstan in search of a mystical healer [

BUA Group Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, says Nigeria must translate President Tinubu’s economic reforms into jobs and production by expanding its industrial Read More: https://punchng.com/nigeria-must-turn-reforms-into-jobs-production-bua-chief/

The Television Academy Foundation is launching a 10-week production assistant training program for Los Angeles-area high school students in a partnership with consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. Through funding from Best Buy, the after-school program will be free for students, providing them with training for entry-level positions from PAs, production co

Boeing is set to brief investors on its aircraft production outlook when it reports quarterly results before the market opens Tuesday.

Finance chief’s comments come as German sports-car maker returns to the black as restructuring gathers pace

“Tokyo Vice” producer Alex Boden and Netflix production policy director Deb Richards urged changes to Japan’s international production incentive at the Motion Picture Association’s annual seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival, as the government prepares a new body to bring its scattered content-industry support under one roof. Boden, the London-ba

Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, president of the competition jury at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, talked about the significance of ‘A-list’ ratings for film festivals at the jury press conference today. Tokyo has recently had its status as an A-list festival reaffirmed by the Fédération Internationale des Associations des Producteurs de

EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse will be releasing the Ari Gold-directed one-shot musical Brother Verses Brother for awards consideration this season. The movie, touted as a heartbreaking family odyssey through the streets of San Francisco, is executive produced by five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola, and is inspired by Coppola’s concept of “live cinema.” Bro

Mohamed Abou Bakr, Chairperson of the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation (AOI), received Salah Gamblat, Minister of State for Military Production, in the presence of Abdel Rahman Othman, Director General of the AOI, alongside several heads of the organisation’s factories and companies and executives from military production companies. The meeting focuse

The film and television production industry has spent the past several years navigating real headwinds. Productions have followed cost savings overseas, technological innovation has evolved from a talking point to a daily reality on set and in the writers’ room and a widening field of state and international incentive packages has pushed some markets into […

Following its brief pause while director Matt Reeves deals with a family issue, The Batman Part II star Robert Pattinson has confirmed that production is back up and running. “I think they’re in production already,” Pattinson told Games Radar in a new interview. “And I’m starting in a couple of days.” Steven Soderbergh has stepped […]

Organized by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), the 2026 Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) will take place from November 6 to 9, 2026, at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 2, 7F. The event continues to serve as a key platform connecting Taiwan with the global content industry, showcasing three flagship pillars: Pitching, Market, and […]

Egypt aims to expand its cultivated area to 12.5 million feddans, increase annual domestic car production to more than 100,000 vehicles and raise local content in automotive manufacturing to 60%, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said in a speech at Egypt Forum 2026. Madbouly outlined the government’s development achievements over the past 12 years and its […]

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