“If you look at the history of Hollywood, 50%, 60%, maybe 70% of the stories are based on books or IP or games. There’s a big gap between how Europe thinks about developing television and the Hollywood system,” producer Erik Barmack reflected a few months back.
“There’s just tremendous opportunities now as the market’s tightening to find source IP where, you know, there’s an installed audience,” he added.
Now Europe and indeed Latin America is catching up. In one of its biggest innovations of 2023, Ventana Sur has launched a Buenos Aires version of Shoot the Book! offering IPs from a clutch of Argentina’s highest rated novelists and a best-selling French author, as one star attraction of its multitudinous titled El Principio del Film.
In another departure, Brazil and Andalusia offer screenplays whose themes capture the zeitgeist – whether in the battle to reconstitute family, odes to sorry, the exploration of cross-generational relationships,...
“There’s just tremendous opportunities now as the market’s tightening to find source IP where, you know, there’s an installed audience,” he added.
Now Europe and indeed Latin America is catching up. In one of its biggest innovations of 2023, Ventana Sur has launched a Buenos Aires version of Shoot the Book! offering IPs from a clutch of Argentina’s highest rated novelists and a best-selling French author, as one star attraction of its multitudinous titled El Principio del Film.
In another departure, Brazil and Andalusia offer screenplays whose themes capture the zeitgeist – whether in the battle to reconstitute family, odes to sorry, the exploration of cross-generational relationships,...
- 11/28/2023
- by John Hopewell, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
WCW may be best remembered for the Nwo angle. A storyline that basically made wrestling “cool” back in the 90s. But there was so much more to World Championship Wrestling… like ridiculous gimmick matches, some of which are considered the worst matches of all time. Though that’s not really fair, it’s not the matches fault, or the wrestlers who took part in them. WCW is to blame for these profoundly stupid match types.
In the right hands with the right participates some of WCW’s dumbest stipulations could become legendary battles talked about for generations. Or at the very least a mild laugh on a Monday night. Here are five WCW matches that WWE needs to bring back and give a fair chance.
5. Piñata On a Pole Match
Vince Russo seemed to believe the ticket to exciting television was to have two or more people fight it out...
In the right hands with the right participates some of WCW’s dumbest stipulations could become legendary battles talked about for generations. Or at the very least a mild laugh on a Monday night. Here are five WCW matches that WWE needs to bring back and give a fair chance.
5. Piñata On a Pole Match
Vince Russo seemed to believe the ticket to exciting television was to have two or more people fight it out...
- 2/12/2013
- by Chris Librizzi
- Obsessed with Film
Barry Diller's e-commerce empire will change its name to InterActiveCorp, the company said Thursday, shedding the name USA Interactive and any lingering link to its past in entertainment with assets like the USA Network. Diller said the rebranding, effective Monday, follows a year of transformational changes at the company, including selling its entertainment assets to Vivendi Universal SA and moving to buy back its publicly traded subsidiaries Ticketmaster, Hotels.com and Expedia. "We began as Silver King (a television broadcaster), and over these last eight years -- as we built the company up -- we changed the corporate name several times to reflect our leading business interests," Diller said in a statement. "We kept the USA name when we contributed our entertainment assets to a joint venture with Vivendi in 2002, knowing that it had limited descriptive value but at least would keep confusion to a minimum during the transition."...
- 6/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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