Stewart Clarke

"Global" is in the name above the door and industry-watchers are weighing the international ramifications of Skydance's $8B merger investment in Paramount. Paramount Global top brass has said it is business as usual until the deal is over the line, but international analysts are already considering…

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has handed Darwin detective duo Dulcie Collins and Eddie Redcliffe another case. We can reveal the streamer has greenlit a second season of Deadloch, the Australian crime comedy that was a breakout hit for Amazon last year, with leads Kate Box and Madeleine Sami…

EXCLUSIVE: British agent Holly Bott has launched Little Arrow, a new management company that counts Traitors host Claudia Winkleman among its clients. Bott is the former Global MD of YMU Entertainment and her new operation is pitched as a business development hub and management company for a select…

EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski worked together on Top Gun: Maverick and the pair have re-teamed for Apple Original Films' F1. They won't be getting airborne this time but are applying high-octane lessons gleaned from their previous effort as they buckle up for the motor-racing…

Viggo Mortensen did not plan to be in The Dead Don't Hurt but had to dust off his cowboy boots and appear in the movie when another, unnamed, actor dropped out. That meant Mortensen added starring in, to writing, producing, directing and creating the music for the Western. "I had not planned to act…

A co-production session at the Munich International Film Festival yielded insight into Prime Video's strategy in Europe and saw a hopeful update from the German Film Fund on a hugely anticipated 30% tax incentive for film and TV. Dennis Maly, Head of Business Affairs at Amazon Studios in Germany…

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Continent has landed ahead of the world premiere of the horror-drama at the Munich International Film Festival on Thursday. A Brazil, France, and Argentina coproduction, the movie is written and directed by Davi Pretto. A car weaves through Brazilian countryside and one of…

Influential German producer Max Wiedemann has said the likes of OpenAI and Google need to let content owners share in the upside created by new artificial intelligence tools. "You have to let the rights holders participate in your productivity gains," he said, before suggesting a body similar to…

German producer Nico Hofmann has unveiled a slate of projects he is working up as part of a partnership with Beta Film. Veteran producer Hofmann left UFA Film to strike out on his own, partnering with longtime collaborator Jan Mojto, CEO of Beta Film, and Beta Film/Intaglio Films producer Jan Wünschmann…

Kate Winslet was feted before the European premiere of her film Lee at the Munich International Film Festival and told the packed crowd about starring in, and producing, the movie about war photographer Lee Miller. Taking the stage to accept the Festival's CineMerit award, Winslet said that the…

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish actress and director María Valverde and superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel are making El Canto de las Manos (Song Of The Hands). The feature documentary will tell the remarkable story behind a deaf choir's unique production of the Beethoven opera Fidelio. Valverde will direct the…

Singapore Turbulence Doc Sells Around The World A wealth of broadcasters have funded a fast-turnaround doc about turbulence following the tragic Singapore Airlines disaster. Turbulence: How Safe is Your Flight? has landed investment from ITV (UK), Seven (Australia), WELT (Germany), TV4 (Sweden), MTV…