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VarietyEN

NBCUniversal, Hornbill Capital Back EloElo, Parent of Indian Microdrama Platform Story TV, in $80 Million Funding Round

NBCUniversal and India-focused investment firm Hornbill Capital have co-led an $80 million Series C round in EloElo Group, the Bengaluru-based company behind Indian microdrama platform Story TV. MIT Investment Co. joined the round alongside existing backers Play Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Waterbridge Ventures and Griffin Gaming Partners, among others. The ra

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DeadlineEN

Paramount+ Drama Slate: Series Moving To HBO, Sarah Aubrey & Francesca Orsi Sharing Oversight Among Options Explored Post-Merger – The Dish

Almost a month into Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery into Skydance, pieces are still coming together, and there is probably no area with more pieces to sort out than Skydance’s Direct to Consumer. With the content operations of Paramount+ and HBO/HBO Max combined under Casey Bloys, now Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer, Skydance DTC, […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

‘Hinotama: Ball of Fire’ Review: Gentle, Handsomely Shot Domestic Drama Is a Promising Debut for Yaza Takenoshin

The early moments of “Hinotama: Ball of Fire,” the debut feature from young Japanese director Yaza Takenoshin (who graduated from Harvard this past summer), almost move like clockwork, finding a pleasing rhythm in everyday mundanities — matching the repetition of numbers being called out for test papers to a mother having groceries counted at the […]

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VarietyEN

‘Just Before Dawn’ Producer Prevails in Cult Horror Courtroom Drama

A surreal legal battle unfolded last month in a courtroom in West Palm Beach, Fla., where a retired accountant faced off against a distributor of cult horror DVDs over ownership of a 1981 slasher film. The distributor, David DeFalco, goes by “The Demon” and taunted the accountant in a series of unhinged livestream videos, calling […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
DeadlineEN

Titan1Studios Adapting Stephen R. Bown’s ‘The Company: The Rise and Fall Of The Hudson’s Bay Empire’ As Historical Drama Series

EXCLUSIVE: This one’s being billed as “The Crown meets Peaky Blinders” – albeit set on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Calgary’s Titan1Studios has secured media and adaptation rights to Stephen R. Bown’s historical book The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire, and is developing a TV drama series titled […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
DeadlineEN

‘Worth’ Detective Drama From Mike Diliberti, Jake Coburn & Jack Carr In Development At NBC

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Diliberti is developing a new detective drama series titled Worth for NBC and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The series, on which Diliberti is writer-EP, revolves around decorated Army Ranger Will Worth, a brash war hero turned bestselling author and pop-culture celebrity who stops coasting on his fame when he […]

Entertainment🇺🇸 US
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‘Carrie’s Mike Flanagan Reflects On Supernatural YA Drama & Says ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Series Has “Very Cool And Unexpected On-Ramp”

Editor’s note: This article features minor spoilers on Carrie Season 1. With a second season of YA horror Carrie now greenlit, the Prime Video show’s showrunner, Mike Flanagan, has been reflecting on Season 1. The horror guru also assessed the genre’s ongoing moment in the sun and why working on the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 series […]

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Ukraine-Set Drama About a Trans Man Barred From Fleeing War, ‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming,’ Wins Tokyo’s Ethical Film Award

German director and screenwriter Isabelle Stever’s “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming” has won the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Ethical Film Award. The award, set up in 2023 with sponsor Sumitomo Corporation, highlights films that shed light on issues such as the environment, poverty and discrimination. A jury picks the winner from three nominees drawn from [

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DeadlineEN

New Japanese Drama Series ‘The Employee’ Is Smashing Stereotypes About Women In The Workplace, Says NHK Producer

EXCLUSIVE: A new Japanese drama series is turning stereotypes around women in the workplace on their head, according to one of the top producers at public broadcaster NHK. The Employee launched a fortnight ago and has got Japanese people talking about “the double bind” women face as they progress up the career ladder, Akiko Ueda, […]

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VarietyEN

Siddhant Chaturvedi, Alizeh, Jimmy Shergill’s 1990s British Punjabi Music Drama ‘Bolo Bolo Bolo,’ Directed by Vikas Bahl, Wraps U.K. Shoot (EXCLUSIVE)

Bollywood filmmaker Vikas Bahl has finished filming in the U.K. on “Bolo Bolo Bolo,” a coming-of-age musical drama set during the boom in Punjabi music across Britain in the early 1990s. Jimmy Shergill, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Mona Singh and Alizeh lead the cast. Katha Studios is producing the film alongside Good Co, Fusion Flicks and Monk […]

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Digi24RO

Dosarul de la Securitate al lui Eugen Ionescu. Cum a încercat regimul comunist să-l influențeze pe dramaturg: rolul lui Radu Beligan

Plecat în Franţa înainte de război şi devenit unul dintre cei mai cunoscuţi dramaturgi ai lumii, Eugen Ionescu nu a ieşit nicio clipă de sub lupa atentă a autorităţilor comuniste de la Bucureşti care au încercat fie să absoarbă din faima dramaturgului, fie să-l izoleze. În anii ’60, Securitatea a încercat să-l convingă să revină în România, folosindu-se de p

Culture🇺🇸 US
VarietyEN

Tokyo Asian Future Drama ‘Jani Be Good’ Probes Silence and Motherhood in a Chinese-Indonesian Family, Marking Ariani Darmawan’s Return

Indonesian filmmaker Ariani Darmawan stepped away from directing for years to raise a family. Her first feature, “Jani Be Good,” which is playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition, turns that experience into a portrait of four women across three generations. “I stopped making films for over 10 years because I was […]

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