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NewsFifth Season Cuts 12% of Workforce, Blames Strikes
US-based producer, financier and sales company Fifth Season – formerly known as Endeavor Content – is cutting 12% of its workforce as a result of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes.
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Industry Trends
Edinburgh TV Festival 2023: Crisis, Risk-taking, and AI
There was much to be concerned about at the recent Edinburgh TV Festival, but as Michael Burns reports there were also some bright sparks to cheer the industry.
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News
Banijay Launches AI Creative Fund
Super indie group Banijay has launched an AI Creative Fund which will provide development funding for its production companies to create formats using artificial intelligence and technology.
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Thought Leadership
PFX, a leading Full Service Post-Production Studio, Streamlines its services with Qumulo’s Centralized Approach
Petabyte-scale file post-production by consolidating multiple locations and workflows onto the Qumulo File Data Platform.
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News
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA President Priya Dogra to depart
Priya Dogra, Warner Bos. Discovery’s President & Managing Director for EMEA, is to leave the company later this year.
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Industry Trends
Pixar’s Elemental Lays Foundation for AI Powered Workflow
New Pixar animation Elemental is the Walt Disney Company’s most technically complex feature film to date and required a new data storage pipe that lays the foundation for use of AI, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Daily News
Gallery Agnostics: Fast-paced pressures of live-to-air
Live media production workflows have seen a world of advancements, via device-agnostic, gallery-agnostic and hybrid ways of working.
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Daily News
Dramatify introduces cloud-based budgeting for production planners
Aiming to eliminate the need for Excel and similar programmes, Stockholm-based Dramatify has unveiled Dramatify Budgeting, a cloud-based platform for production budgeting.
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Daily News
Qvest enables FAST play for American Football across Europe
As the European League of Football (ELF) approaches its Championship Game in Duisburg on September 24, playout for its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has been handled this season by Qvest, using its latest all-in-one cloud playout product, makalu. The league has 17 teams in three conferences across nine ...
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News
Viaplay Group Restructures Nordic Operations and Team
Viaplay Group is restructuring and has announced a new Nordic country-based operating model and changes to its executive management team.
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News
Louis Theroux to Deliver Edinburgh TV Festival’s 2023 MacTaggart Lecture
Broadcaster, author and podcaster Louis Theroux is to deliver this year’s James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, the flagship address of the Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Industry Trends
Artificial Intelligence: Myths and Realities
While discussions around the ethics of AI are raging in boardrooms across the globe, there are still many misconceptions about the technology. John Maxwell Hobbs takes on the task of separating fact from fiction…
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News
MovieLabs Launches This Year’s 2030 Showcase Programme
MovieLabs has launched its 2023 Show Programme which will recognise organisations in the M&E industry that have successfully applied emerging cloud and production technologies.
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News
Amelia Brown Named CEO of Fremantle UK
Fremantle has appointed Amelia Brown as CEO of its business in the UK, replacing Simon Andreae who left the company this month.
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Industry Trends
IBC2023 Accelerators: Final Eight Projects Revealed
Eight projects have been announced which will unite game-changing media companies and cutting-edge technology partners for this year’s IBC Media Innovation Programme, writes Sheryl Hickey.
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News
Fremantle Appoints Marco Tombolini as CEO of Italian Division
Fremantle has promoted Marco Tombolini to CEO of Fremantle Italy.
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News
Red Planet Pictures’ Alex Jones Appointed Pact Vice-Chair
UK producers’ alliance Pact has elected Red Planet Pictures joint managing director Alex Jones as its new vice-chair. He takes up the post with immediate effect.
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Banijay appoints head of M&A as it seeks further acquisitions
International producer and distributor Banijay has appointed Stéphane Préfol as head of mergers and acquisitions.
