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French Studio Mediawan Buys Germany’s Leonine to Form Euro Mini-Major

French studio Mediawan and Germany’s Leonine have signed a deal to merge their operation, forming certainly one of Europe’s largest movie and TV corporations.

The all-stock transaction, introduced Sunday, will create a mini-major with corporations and operations throughout 13 nations and annual revenues of greater than €1 billion ($1.06 billion). Mediawan took a 25 p.c stake in Leonine again in 2020. Each corporations are backed by personal fairness group KKR. The settlement is conditional on regulatory approval.

Mediawan boss Pierre-Antoine Capton will likely be CEO of the brand new, merged group, with Leonine head Fred Kogel main operations in German-speaking territories. Kogel may also be a part of Mediawan’s government committee.

Each Mediawan, launched in 2015 by Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, and Leonine, which Kogel based in 2019, have adopted comparable methods of tapping personal fairness funding to purchase up unbiased manufacturing and distribution corporations in Europe. Among the many titles produced by Mediawan-owned labels embrace Netflix hit Name My Agent, youngsters sequence Miraculous Ladybug, and Bob Marley: One Love. Leonine subsidiaries embrace distribution outfits TMG and Universum Movie and Darkish producers W&B Tv. The group is the main unbiased theatrical distributor in Germany-speaking Europe, with rights to such options as Knives Out, Starvation Video games – The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes, and the John Wick franchise.

“With the addition of Leonine Studios, we have now achieved an essential milestone in Mediawan’s technique to create a pan-European studio with a robust presence in all key markets,” mentioned Capton in an announcement. “I’m delighted to welcome Fred Kogel and your entire Leonine group who’ve constructed a number one unbiased studio through the years – collectively, we’ll grow to be an much more engaging platform for inventive expertise and strengthen our place as a number one studio for premium content material throughout all genres.”

Kogel mentioned the merger was “the following step” in creating “a pan-European powerhouse.”

Philipp Freise, co-head of European Non-public Fairness at KKR mentioned the corporate regarded ahead “to persevering with to work carefully with Pierre-Antoine Capton and Fred Kogel as Mediawan enters the following section in its spectacular development trajectory.”

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‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Last of Us’

Black Mirror, The Final of Us, and Sluggish Horses have been among the many winners of the BAFTA Tv Craft Awards 2024, which have been handed out in London on Sunday.

Silo, The Witcher, protection of the coronation of King Charles III and the Eurovision Music Contest have been additionally among the many winners.

The craft award for greatest drama author went to Charlie Brooker and Bisha Ok. Ali for Black Mirror episode “Demon 79.” Peter Hoar gained the perfect director in fiction honor for his work on The Final of Us.

The ceremony, celebrating the perfect behind-the-scenes TV expertise of 2023, was held at The Brewery within the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an occasions venue.

HBO’s Sport of Thrones prequel Home of the Dragon and the BBC/AMC medical comedy-drama This Is Going to Damage gained probably the most honors on the 2023 BAFTA TV Craft Awards. 

There are extra U.Ok. TV awards to be handed out quickly. The BAFTA TV Awards will probably be held on Sunday, Might 12 at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor (and in addition airing on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer). The Crown and Black Mirror led the nominations, which have been unveiled in late March.

See the complete record of 2024 BAFTA TV Craft Awards winners, highlighted in daring, beneath.

COSTUME DESIGN

AMY ROBERTS The Crown (Episode 8) – Left Financial institution Footage / Netflix
CHARLOTTE MORRIS Silo – AMC Studios / Apple TV+
MATTHEW PRICE Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Broke & Bones / Netflix
SHARON LONG The Nice – Civic Heart Media, MRC / Lionsgate+

DIRECTOR: FACTUAL

GESBEEN MOHAMMAD Inside Iran: The Struggle for Freedom (Publicity) – Hardcash Productions / ITV1
JAMES BLUEMEL As soon as Upon a Time in Northern Eire – KEO Movies, Stroll On Air Movies / BBC Two
JOHN DOWER Lockerbie – Mindhouse Movies / Sky Documentaries
PETER BEARD, BRUCE FLETCHER Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story – Story Movies, Archface Movies / Sky Documentaries

DIRECTOR: FICTION sponsored by 3 Mills Studios

JOSEPH BULLMAN Partygate – Halcyons Coronary heart Movies / Channel 4
LEWIS ARNOLD The Lengthy Shadow (Episode 6) – New Footage / ITV1
PETER HOAR The Final of Us – Sony Footage Tv Studios, PlayStation Productions, Naughty Canine, Phrase Video games, The Mighty Mint, HBO / Sky Atlantic
WILLIAM STEFAN SMITH High Boy (Episode 6) – Cowboy Movies / Netflix

DIRECTOR: MULTI-CAMERA

JULIA KNOWLES An Viewers with Kylie – Lifted Leisure, BMG / ITV1
JULIA KNOWLES The Coronation Live performance – BBC Studios / BBC One
NIKKI PARSONS, OLLIE BARTLETT, RICHARD VALENTINE Eurovision Music Contest 2023 – BBC Studios / BBC One
PAUL MCNAMARA FA Cup Closing – ITV Sport / ITV1

EDITING: FACTUAL

CHARLIE HAWRYLIW Lockerbie – Mindhouse Movies / Sky Documentaries
EDITING TEAM As soon as Upon a Time in Northern Eire – KEO movies, Stroll On Air Movies / BBC Two
EDITING TEAM Components 1: Drive To Survive – Field to Field Movies / Netflix
MICHAEL HARTE Beckham – Studio 99, Ventureland / Netflix

EDITING: FICTION

ALEX MACKIE Time – BBC Studios / BBC One
JOE CAREY Completely happy Valley (Episode 6) – Lookout Level, AMC / BBC One
SAM WILLIAMS Sluggish Horses (Episode 1) – See-Noticed Movies / Apple TV+
ZSÓFIA TÁLAS Sluggish Horses (Episode 6) – See-Noticed Movies / Apple TV+

EMERGING TALENT: FACTUAL

BEN CHEETHAM (DIRECTOR) Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son? – 5 Mile Movies / Channel 4
FOLA EVANS-AKINGBOLA, JORDAN PITT (DIRECTOR) Untold Tales: Hair on Set – Good Woman Productions, One Umbrella Productions, Doc Hearts / Sky Documentaries
FRED SCOTT (DIRECTOR) London Bridge: Going through Terror – Uncooked TV / Channel 4
TED EVANS (DIRECTOR) Rose Ayling-Ellis: Indicators for Change – Rogan Productions / BBC One

EMERGING TALENT: FICTION

ANDREW BOGLE (WRITER) Kirkmoore Fudge Park Productions / ITVX
HAOLU WANG (DIRECTOR) Our bodies – Moonage Footage / Netflix
KAT SADLER (WRITER) Such Courageous Women – Numerous Artists Restricted / BBC Three
MAWAAN RIZWAN (WRITER) Juice – Numerous Artists Restricted / BBC Three

ENTERTAINMENT CRAFT TEAM sponsored by Hotcam

DICCON RAMSAY, PADDY FLETCHER, RIKKI FINLAY, JAMES TINSLEY, MATHIEU WEEKES, BEN NORMAN Squid Sport: The Problem – Studio Lambert / Netflix
JAMIE HEATH, NICK HARVEY, GREG MENZEL Banged Up – Shine TV / Channel 4
JULIO HIMEDE, TIM ROUTLEDGE, KOJO SAMUEL, MICHAEL SHARP, DAN SHIPTON Eurovision Music Contest 2023 – BBC Studios / BBC One
NIGEL CATMUR, TOM BAIRSTOW, KEVIN DUFF, STEVE NOLAN, STEVE SIDWELL, SIMON HAW The Coronation Live performance – BBC Studios / BBC One

MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN sponsored by ScreenSkills Excessive-end Tv Abilities Fund

CATE HALL, EMILIE YONG-MILLS, FIONA ROGERS The Crown (Episode 8) – Left Financial institution Footage / Netflix
LISA PARKINSON The Lengthy Shadow (Episode 6) – New Footage / ITV
LUCY SIBBICK Sluggish Horses – See-Noticed Movies / Apple TV+
SHARON MILLER, KYM MENZIES-FOSTER, KELLY TAYLOR Three Little Birds – Tiger Side Productions, Douglas Highway Productions / ITVX

ORIGINAL MUSIC: FACTUAL

ED HARCOURT Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story – Story Movies, Archface Movies / Sky Documentaries
GEORGE FENTON Wild Isles – Silverback Movies / BBC One
SIMON ROGERS A Time to Die – True Imaginative and prescient / ITV1
SIMON RUSSELL As soon as Upon a Time in Northern Eire – KEO Movies, Stroll On Air Movies / BBC Two

ORIGINAL MUSIC: FICTION

ADIESCAR CHASE Heartstopper – See-Noticed Movies / Netflix
ATLI ÖRVARSSON Silo – AMC Studios / Apple TV+
BLAIR MOWAT Nolly – Quay Road Productions / ITVX
NATALIE HOLT Loki – Marvel Studios / Disney+

PHOTOGRAPHY: FACTUAL

BENEDICT SANDERSON The Detectives: Taking Down an OCG – Minnow Movies / BBC Two
BERTIE GREGORY, TOM WALKER, ANNA DIMITRIADIS Animals Up Shut with Bertie Gregory – Wildstar / Disney+
JEAN-LOUIS SCHULLER The Man Who Performed With Fireplace – Uncooked TV / Sky Documentaries
NARAYAN VAN MAELE, PATRICK SMITH Dublin Narcos – Blast! Movies / Sky Documentaries

PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING: FICTION

EBEN BOLTER The Final of Us – Sony Footage Tv Studios, PlayStation Productions, Naughty Canine, Phrase Video games, The Mighty Mint, HBO / Sky Atlantic
ED RUTHERFORD The Lengthy Shadow – New Footage / ITV1
RIK ZANG The Sixth Commandment – Wild Mercury Productions, True Imaginative and prescient / BBC One
STEPHAN PEHRSSON Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Broke & Bones / Netflix

PRODUCTION DESIGN sponsored by Microsoft

ANNA HIGGINSON The Lengthy Shadow – New Footage / ITV1
BEN SMITH Nolly – Quay Road Productions / ITVX
GAVIN BOCQUET, AMANDA BERNSTEIN Silo – AMC Studios / Apple TV+
UDO KRAMER Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Broke & Bones / Netflix

SCRIPTED CASTING

AISHA BYWATERS Three Little Birds – Tiger Side Productions, Douglas Highway Productions / ITVX
AMY HUBBARD Time – BBC Studios / BBC One
AMY HUBBARD, SHANNON DOWLING-MCNULTY Smothered – Roughcut Tv / Sky Max
JINA JAY Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Broke & Bones / Netflix

SOUND: FACTUAL

GEORGE FOULGHAM, PHILIP MOROZ, ALEX GIBSON, TOM VERSTAPPEN, ADAM PRESCOD If These Partitions May Sing – Ventureland, Mercury Studios / Disney+
NICK RYAN,  BEN BAIRD, KIRSTIE HOWELL, JACK WENSLEY, JAMIE MCPHEE, ALEXEJ MUNGERSDORFF The Enfield Poltergeist – MetFilm, Concordia Studio / Apple TV+
SOUND TEAM The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla – BBC Studios / BBC One
SOUND TEAM Components 1: Drive To Survive – Field to Field Movies / Netflix

SOUND: FICTION

CHRIS ASHWORTH, LEE WALPOLE, STUART HILLIKER, MARTIN JENSEN, SAOIRSE CHRISTOPHERSON, IAIN EYRE The Crown – Left Financial institution Footage / Netflix
JULES WOODS, JAMES DRAKE, OSCAR BLOOMFIELD-CROWE, PADDY MCGUIRK Boiling Level – Ascendant Fox, Matriarch Productions, It’s All Made Up Productions / BBC One
MATTHEW COLLINGE, JAMES BAIN, ROBERT FARR, TOM MELLING, MATT DAVIES, ALYN SCLOSA The Witcher – Netflix Authentic Sequence / Netflix
SOUND TEAM Sluggish Horses – See-Noticed Movies / Apple TV+

SPECIAL, VISUAL & GRAPHIC EFFECTS

ANDY SCRASE, PATRICIA LLAGUNO, BEAU GARCIA, OLIVER WINWOOD, HUW EVANS, JODIE DAVIDSON The Wheel of Time – Little Island Productions / Prime Video
BEN TURNER, REECE EWING, FRAMESTORE, RUMBLE VFX, ASA SHOUL, CHRIS REYNOLDS The Crown – Left Financial institution Footage / Netflix
DANIEL RAUCHWERGER, STEFANO PEPIN, RICHARD STANBURY, RAPHAEL HAMM, IAN FELLOWS Silo – AMC Studios / Apple TV+
TIM CROSBIE, CAIMIN BOURNE, JET OMOSHEBI, DAN WEIR, CINESITE, DAVID STEPHENS The Witcher – Netflix Authentic Sequence / Netflix

TITLES & GRAPHIC IDENTITY

DAN MAY, JAMES COORE, PAINTING PRACTICE, REALTIME VISUALISATION Physician Who (Wild Blue Yonder) – Unhealthy Wolf, BBC Studios Productions – BBC One
PETER ANDERSON STUDIO Good Omens – BBC Studios Comedy Productions, Narrativia, The Clean Company / Prime Video
STUDIO AKA Queen Charlotte – shondalandmedia / Netflix
TAMSIN MCGEE, BEN HANBURY, HUGO MOSS, PAUL MCDONNELL Wilderness – Firebird Footage, Amazon Studios UK, Nomadic Footage / Prime Video

WRITER: COMEDY

JACK ROOKE Massive Boys – Roughcut Tv / Channel 4
JAMIE DEMETRIOU A Complete Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou – BBC Studios Productions Comedy, Responsible Get together Footage / Netflix
KAT SADLER Such Courageous Women – Numerous Artists Restricted / BBC Three
MAWAAN RIZWAN Juice – Numerous Artists Restricted / BBC Three

WRITER: DRAMA

CHARLIE BROOKER, BISHA Ok ALI Demon 79 (Black Mirror) – Broke & Bones / Netflix
JESSE ARMSTRONG Succession – Mission Zeus, Hyberobject Industries, Gary Sanchez Productions, Sizzling Seat Productions, HBO / Sky Atlantic
SALLY WAINWRIGHT Completely happy Valley – Lookout Level, AMC / BBC One
SARAH PHELPS The Sixth Commandment – Wild Mercury Productions, True Imaginative and prescient / BBC One

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Korean Rock Band The Rose on Coachella Debut, New Album

Korean pop-rock group The Rose closed out their current Coachella efficiency with their 2023 music “Surprise,” bringing the College of Southern California marching band out for the efficiency.

“It was like a dream come true in a method,” essential vocalist and keyboardist Dojoon tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom name from Seoul.   

The Rose consists of 4 members — singer and guitarist Woosung, bassist Jaehyeong, drummer Hajoon and Dojoon. The quartet launched their first single “Sorry” in 2017. Two years later, Dojoon, Jaehyeong and Hajoon went on hiatus to finish their necessary army service. Woosung, who didn’t need to enlist, spent that point releasing solo music.

The group reunited in 2022, releasing their first full-length album Heal. “I imply Heal was the basic … the deep spine of our music,” says Dojoon. The album earned the group a No. 4 spot on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart.

Final fall, The Rose launched their second full-length album, Twin. Dojoon explains that the group needed to experiment extra with it. “It went fairly nicely, and we liked how the album got here out,” the 31-year-old shares.

The Rose’s Coachella efficiency signified the top of their current Daybreak to Nightfall tour — the second world tour the band has launched into within the final two years alone. Dojoon describes it because the “important model” of the tour — “brief however highly effective” as he places it.

“Now, we’re again in our dwelling resting, and if we glance again to our movies and images, it doesn’t really feel prefer it’s a factor that occurred to us,” Dojoon jokes about their Coachella expertise. “It seemed stunning.”

Bringing the USC marching band out for the efficiency performed into the “huge image,” as Dojoon places it, in line with the size that the group sees for his or her music. “After we write the songs, we’ll at all times think about about huge-scale stadiums,” Hajoon provides.

Woosung of The Rose performs at Coachella.

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The Rose has carved out an area for themselves on the competition circuit. They performed a number of Lollapalooza dates, together with the primary competition in Chicago final August. The quartet says different teams they noticed throughout these festivals impressed them. General, they attribute their competition success to an earnest appreciation for what they do.  

“We really feel like we love music a lot,” Dojoon says explaining that he looks like that comes throughout once they’re enjoying stay.  

Submit-Coachella, The Rose has just a few issues on the horizon. The group not too long ago launched a unisex perfume Black Rose, named after their beloved followers. Dojoon says the group was very concerned within the creation course of, noting that they’d 20 scents made and used a voting course of to assist determine.

Korean Rock Band The Rose on Coachella Debut, New Album

Black Rose by The Rose Eau de Toilette

Woosung provides that the group at all times had an concept of a signature scent that they and their followers would connect with their exhibits. “We undoubtedly needed to create that have of at all times strolling into our present and smelling this,” the 31-year-old singer says.

The group has one other essential goal for this time: Relaxation. “I believe after such an extended tour and simply fixed festivals, excursions, albums, I believe we needed to relaxation a little bit bit,” Woosung says. “However I’m fairly certain whereas we’re resting, we’re going to really feel like we have to do one thing,” he provides noting that the group will begin speaking about their future plans “very, very quickly.”

Throughout this relaxation time, they’ve some particular person plans as nicely. “I’m going to work out each single day,” Hajoon says, immediately met with questions from his bandmates. The 29-year-old drummer assures them that he’s already doing that. In the meantime, Jaehyeong’s plans appear fairly clear. “I’ll take a relaxation each single day,” the 29-year-old bassist explains.

Whereas it’s clear relaxation is rightfully on the forefront for The Rose, they’re actually considering of their future. Woosung says they’re “after all” going to place out one other album however aren’t certain when. Nevertheless, he does share one tidbit that followers will likely be glad to listen to.

“I may confidently say that we have already got the subsequent album principally,” Woosung shares. “We’ve all of the songs. We simply obtained to make the small print proper, however we’ll relaxation for 2 months and are available again quickly.”

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Nicola Coughlan on Palestine Support, Call for Ceasefire

Nicola Coughlan opened up about her assist for Palestine and the way she was advised it may have an effect on the performing gigs she’s supplied.

In a Teen Vogue cowl story, the Bridgerton star sat down to debate the present’s upcoming and extremely anticipated season three. Within the dialog, she additionally received candid about her assist for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Coughlan has been vocal on social media about her assist for the individuals, particularly the youngsters, of Palestine, who’re caught in the midst of the Israel-Hamas Warfare. She acknowledged her assist stems from a “ethical duty to provide again” due to her privilege as a white lady.

The actress famous her advocacy started earlier than she landed her breakout function on Derry Women. She was concerned in several causes, like going door-to-door campaigning for marriage equality in her house nation of Eire and marching for abortion rights.

“I’ve all the time cared about causes and social justice,” she advised the publication. “To me, it all the time turns into about supporting all harmless individuals, which sounds oversimplified, however I feel you’ve received to have a look at conditions and simply assume, ‘Are we supporting harmless individuals irrespective of the place they’re from, who they’re?’ That’s my drive.”

The Massive Temper star has been warned concerning the precarious state of Hollywood amid the battle, particularly in regard to what’s occurring in Gaza. She’s heard that sure brokers, companies and studios might not need to work together with her due to her assist, however she continues to put on her Artists4Ceasefire pin.

“You do get advised, ‘You received’t get work, you received’t do that,’” she admitted. “However I additionally assume, deep down, if you recognize that you just’re coming from a spot of ‘I don’t need any harmless individuals to endure,’ then I’m not frightened about individuals’s reactions.”

She defined to the publication that she looks like social media has boxed individuals into corners that make it look like the Israel-Gaza battle is black or white when that’s not really the case.

“Extra of us ought to be attempting to know,” Coughlan mentioned, “how upsetting and traumatizing that is for Jewish individuals, and the way horrific it’s that each one these harmless individuals in Palestine are being murdered.”

The Barbie actress isn’t the one superstar to vocalize their Palestine assist, regardless of the potential of being singled out for it within the trade.

Scream VI star Melissa Barrera was dropped from the franchise’s seventh installment after she shared a sequence of social media posts expressing her assist for Palestine on social media. Spyglass, the corporate behind the horror movies, issued an announcement on the time saying it had “zero tolerance for antisemitism.”

“None of this makes me blissful,” Barrera beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter concerning the Scream fallout. “It was simply all unhappy as a result of I actually, deeply care concerning the franchise. It’s simply unhealthy that it needed to occur like that.”

Coughlan and Barrera aren’t alone. Shortly after Hamas’ terrorist assault on Israel on Oct. 7, a whole bunch of celebrities (together with Andrew Garfield, Kristen Stewart, Oscar Isaac and Quinta Brunson) signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to name for a ceasefire in Gaza. On the 2024 Oscars, Ramy Youssef, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell and Ava DuVernay have been among the many celebrities carrying an Artists4Ceasefire pin.