VR company Jaunt, which is financially backed by Sky, ProSiebenSat.1 and Disney, has announced a new production deal to produce Invisible, an episodic action-adventure series created in immersive virtual reality. This is the latest project in Jaunt and Condé Nast Entertainment’s collaboration in serialised storytelling Set in modern day Manhattan, the series will unravel the […]
Apple’s first foray into original programming will star rapper and entrepreneur Dr Dre. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Apple’s debut original series, entitled Vital Signs, is a gritty semi-autobiographical drama featuring Andre Young, a.k.a. Dr Dre. The rap legend is also credited as an executive producer for the show, having previously produced Straight Outta Compton, […]
After the success of the Vatican Museums 3D and Florence and the Uffizi 3D, St Peter’s and the Papal Basilicas of Rome 3D will be arriving in cinemas soon – a new film production by Sky 3D and the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) in collaboration with Nexo Digital, Magnitudo Film and Sky Arte HD. During […]
Amazon has ordered four 13-episode seasons of new Amazon Original Kids Series Thunderbirds Are Go for its Prime Video streaming service. Thunderbirds Are Go is a reinvention of the 50-year-old classic Thunderbirds. The first season is scheduled to debut on Prime Video in the US later this year and will subsequently air on Prime Video […]
The Walt Disney Company has reported record quarterly earnings of $2.9 billion (€2.6bn) for its first fiscal quarter ended January 2nd 2016 compared to $2.2 billion for the prior-year quarter. “Driven by the phenomenal success of Star Wars, we delivered the highest quarterly earnings in the history of our Company, marking our 10th consecutive quarter […]
Channel 4 Chief Executive David Abraham and Director of Film4 David Kosse have announced a major boost to the corporation’s commitment to film, increasing the funding budget of Film4 from £15 million to £25 million in 2016 – with the ambition of maintaining similar increased levels of Film4 funding in future years. The announcement was […]
A new multimillion pound media studio complex has opened in the heart of London, designed to provide cutting-edge facilities to the city’s media professionals and to creative industries students at London South Bank University (LSBU). ‘Elephant Studios at LSBU’ is a £4 million (€5.17m) interlinked media space, offering high-specification production facilities at the forefront of […]
Gary Davey, Managing Director, Content, Sky, has suggested that going forward, the pan-European broadcaster will focus increasingly on entertainment, declaring that done properly, the genre could be just as engaging as football, a mainstay of Sky’s UK business and an important component of its German and Italian operations. In a Royal Television Society ‘In conversation […]
YouTube has confirmed that it will premiere the first of its YouTube Red Originals on February 10. Writing in the YouTube blog, Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content, says that in addition to getting all of YouTube uninterrupted and a premium YouTube Music experience, a YouTube Red membership will now give users exclusive access […]
Streaming service Netflix, which was in the vanguard of 4K streaming with House of Cards back in 2014, is set to concentrate on High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology for forthcoming drama productions. Speaking to Digital Trends, Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix, said he thought HDR was “more visibly different than 4K”, noting that […]