All Eyes Are on the AFM:
Success at Any Cost
It’s going to be a crucial year for the 43rd edition of the American Film Market (AFM). It has to be successful in order to survive, considering that close to (…)
All Eyes Are on the AFM:
The Pre-Markets Edition:
Fall Trade Events Preview
Let’s start with the mother of all international TV trade shows: MIPCOM, coming up on October 17-20, 2022, with MIPCOM Jr., the children’s TV market, taking place during the preceding (…)
MIP Cancun To Gain as
LATAM In-Between Market
Being sandwiched between MIPCOM and NATPE Global (which will take place in Nassau, the Bahamas), MIP Cancun is sure to have an effect on both as far as the LATAM (…)
Broadcast TV Saved By
Streaming Platforms’ Bell
Forecasting gurus the world over have dire predictions for broadcast television, which, according to those naysayers, will succumb to SVoD or streaming in general over the next few years. There (…)
MIP Africa: A New Market
That Bets on Proven Formula
A new TV market is coming — thanks to RX Africa, part of the RX Group that includes RX France (which organizes, MIPTV, MIP China, MIPCOM, and MIP Cancun), and (…)
Hot Summer For French TV: New Services, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
The Americans are coming, and will be bringing the Paramount+ streaming service to French viewers later this year as part of a long-term partnership with Vivendi’s Canal+ Group.
The Canadians, though, (…)
L.A. Screenings Are Back:
Studios, Indies, Buyers
So far, over 45 exhibiting companies — some with multiple suites — have confirmed that they will be setting up shop at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel for the indie (…)
Book Review: Time-Traveling
Across Marvel Comics
Pop culture author Douglas Wolk offers a deep dive into the awe and wonder of Marvel Comics for freshly acquainted fans and superhero junkies.
Where does one begin in the (…)
Play-by-Play of the First In-Person
Post-Pandemic MIPTV Market
MIPTV 2022 kicked off on Monday, April 4 under sunny skies — although frigid temperatures (which continued for the all three days of the market) made things colder than usual (…)
With Non Fungible Tokens, it’s
VCR Déjà Vu All Over Again
Could the various Non Fungible Token (NFT) controversies in Hollywood become a redux of the infamous fight between Universal Studios and Sony Betamax? In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (…)
