Puerto Rico’s native son, René Pérez Joglar, better known as Residente to his legions of fans, has dominated the music industry for decades — and now he’s looking to disrupt Hollywood. Residente, a four-time Grammy and 29-time Latin Grammy Award winner, is gearing up to make his feature film directorial debut with Porto Rico, an epic […]

EXCLUSIVE: ReelShort, the microdrama service based in L.A., has set a date on the next instalment of its popular Bound By… romantic drama franchise Bound By Love will debut in two weeks on May 28 on the ReelShort app, and we’ve got exclusive artwork above and a poster below. The vertical drama series is based […]

Central European Media Enterprises has joined the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the coalition tasked with fighting piracy worldwide. CME is a media and entertainment company operating in Central and Eastern Europe. It operates television stations in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania and Moldova, Slovakia and Slovenia. The ACE coalition, launched in 2017, is […]

James Corden was in brutally honest mood this afternoon as he reflected on his least favorite Gavin & Stacey episode at the BBC Comedy Festival. “It’s a very very very bad half hour,” he said of Season 1 Episode 2 of his beloved BBC sitcom. “It’s an awful episode.” So why is Corden so damning? […]

Swedish filmmaker and author Sigge Eklund has directed Ruben, a feature documentary about Ruben Östlund and the making of his latest film, The Entertainment System Is Down.  The Entertainment System Is Down was shot over the last few years and is currently in post-production. The film is expected to compete at next year’s Cannes Film […]

Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, talked about the power of Japanese IP – and how entertainment culture has become both more niche and more global – in a Cannes Marche keynote celebrating Japan as this year’s Country Of Honor.  He also talked about the resilience of theatrical releasing, as well […]

Comcast’s UK-owned pay-TV giant Sky is reshuffling its unscripted pack. Shirley Jones has been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Entertainment Commissioning at the SNL UK network, while Barbara Lee will leave her role as a commissioning editor in October after 14 years. Her exit follows that of Dwayne Easton in March. […]

Reflecting on the breakout success of Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets, BBC comedy chief Jon Petrie is pleased that his team failed to land an American co-producer. With nearly eight million views after its first 28 days, Small Prophets is the BBC’s biggest scripted launch of 2026 and one of its biggest of the decade. Petrie […]

Nearly five years after the Noel Clarke scandal, Britain’s independent bullying and harassment complaints body is finally about to launch its landmark whistleblowing service. The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) will roll out its hotline in September and says those who report concerns to CIISA may be entitled to additional legal protections under UK […]

EXCLUSIVE: FilmSharks has completed a deal at the Cannes Market with Federation Films for a French remake of the German comedy No Hit Wonder.  No Hit Wonder is a Warner Bros Germany and Pantaleon title. The film debuted at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. The film was released in Germany last year by Warner Bros.  […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Improv, the famed stand-up comedy club chain dating back to the 1960s, has returned to its roots with a new club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, marking its 25th U.S. location. The move places the company back in New York for the first time in three decades. Founded by Budd Friedman, The Improv originated as a […]