By Leo Barraclough
Pan-European pay TV service Sky and ITV have joined forces with Ginx TV to launch Ginx eSports TV, the U.K. and Ireland's only 24-hour TV channel devoted to eSports, in which videogaming is elevated…
By Patrick Frater
Signal Pictures, a new production company that is jointly owned by Korean investors and "Batman" producer Michael Uslan's Uslan Entertainment, is kicking off with a trio of superhero and action movie…
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By Emilio Mayorga
ANNECY– Felix Massie's "Rain or Shine," which is co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories and London-based Nexus Productions, was presented by first time ever at this week's Annecy Festival. "Rain" is…
By Lamarco McClendon
Pitching "Super Special" and presenting Google Spotlight Stories' "Rain or Shine," Felix Massie is one of this year's young stars at Annecy. Variety talked to him about "Super Special (Best…
By Maria Cavassuto
Just one week away from the highly anticipated premiere of Season 7, the “Pretty Little Liars” cast and creator hit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for a spooky Freeform-a-palooza, featuring a…
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By Maria Cavassuto
Directed by Lluis Sanchez Jorge and produced by Bes Animation's Jessica Hopcraft, who co-wrote the scripts with Sanchez Jorge, "The Jan & Rai Show" is one of the buzzed-up projects being pitched at…
By Emiliano De Pablos
CineZebra, the Stuttgart-based prodco run by thesp-producer Peter Ketnath, is teaming with Brazil’s Anaya Produçoes Culturais to co-produce Tania Anaya’s "Nimuendaju," an adult animated feature…
By Patrick Frater
Village Roadshow Pictures Asia and Heyi Pictures will co-produce and co-finance the Jackie Chan futuristic sci-fi thriller "Bleeding Steel," written and directed by Leo Zhang ("Chrysanthemum to the…
By Emiliano De Pablos
Lima-based Origami Studio is boarding Jimy Carhuas’ animated family feature "Nuna: The Last Myth of the Wamany," a pioneering 2D tech toon pic project for Peru, selected to be pitched at Annecy‘s…
By Patrick Frater
Celebrities and business folk including Sheryl Sandberg, George Lucas and Jerry Bruckheimer were on hand Thursday in Shanghai at the official opening of the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disneyland in China…
By Nick Vivarelli
ROME — Italy is forging closer ties with France in the field of animation production, seeking to tap into the expertise of continental Europe's leader in this sector and set up some co-productions…