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The E.U. Media Freedom Act
Could Be Great if Understood

In 1939, Winston Churchill said, "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in (...)

The L.A. Screenings
Phoenix Rises. Event Dates

VideoAge’s symbol for this year’s edition of the L.A. (...)

Moving Talent from Social
Media to OTT, Legacy Media

Below is a transcript of a podcast with Bianca (...)

February 2025

TV outlets keep multiplying with SVoD, AVoD, and FAST. The number of quality TV production keeps dropping. Overall, advertising money keeps increasing. Linear TV outlets continue to be profitable. And yet, the content distribution industry is crying in unison: “No one is buying.” What gives? (…)

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A Close Look at Intimacy Coordinators

March 31st, 2025|0 Comments

"The role of intimacy coordinators was developed within the mainstream film and television industry. This profession gained prominence following the #MeToo movement around 2017, highlighting the need for safer practices during the filming of intimate scenes," explained Anarella Martinez-Madrid (pictured (...)

New Salutation: “Are You in Lille?” (For Series Mania)

March 27th, 2025|0 Comments

Cannes has helped Lille make Series Mania an even bigger success than previous years. The closing of MIPTV, which took place in Cannes, in the south of France, in early April, has moved an even larger business crowd to Lille, (...)

E.U. Films in Public Pockets

March 24th, 2025|0 Comments

In 2022 — the latest year for available figures for European theatrical fiction films — financing continues to be based primarily on five different financing sources: direct public funding, production incentives, broadcaster investments, producer investments, and pre-sales. Direct public funding (...)

Bert Cohen’s Worldvision: After Seven Owners, Its Success Became Its Downfall

In his business life, Bertram (later legally changed to Bert) (...)

John Laing: Crisscrossing The World With a RoboCop Promo Under His Arm

It was a big mistake to ask John Franklin Scott (...)

Joe Wallach: Political Intrigue Did Not Undermine His TV Challenges

When Joseph "Joe" Wallach was working at Brazil's Globo TV (...)