The Box: Three Year Agreement Reached with Anonymous Content Brazil and RT Features with Armando Bo
The Best is yet to come - mediawan africa
Africa: Mediawan Africa, the Republic of Benin, and TV5 Monde are co-developing the series The Best Is Yet To Come. The ambitious project intends to create a daily show featuring pan-African talent across all disciplines. The series will revolve around students from wide and diverse backgrounds navigating through adulthood, caught between tradition and modernity.
Amazon Prime Video has teased Season 2 of the African Original series LOL: Last One Laughing Naija. The unscripted series follows a competition between comedians to resist laughing for six hours and the winner receives the opportunity to donate 40 million NGN to a charity of their choice. Amazon Studios produced the series in partnership with Nigeria’s LiveSpot360 Productions.
Showmax has announced that they will discontinue their services outside Africa starting December 1st as Showmax Pro will be phased out by November 30 and existing Showmax Pro subscribers will be transitioned to DSTV Stream. Showmax will be debuting a new and improved version of its service in early 2024.
OUTtv will debut the original series The G-List. The G-List is a reality series that delves into the lives of three dynamic queer individuals as they navigate the world of South African entertainment and media. The first episode of The G-List will also be available for streaming on e.tv's eVOD service.
Netflix has announced that the series Élite has been canceled after eight seasons, but a cross-over of characters with Élite's Las Encitas in Madrid and Blood & Water's Parkhurst College in Cape Town will do a student-exchange program. Fikile in Blood & Water, portrayed by Khosi Ngema, will arrive in the 7th season of Élite while Ivan, portrayed by Andre Lamoglia, will arrive in the 4th season of Blood & Water.
Arvin chen - Jesse Grant / Stringer
Asia: Disney is considering selling their Indian operation for $10 Billion in a deal to sell a majority stake to rival Reliance Industries. They intend to reconfigure US global operations to lower costs.
Korean webcomic platform Manta has named its first CEO, Travis Kim. The company intends to cement autonomy from RIDI Corporation and build IP for its future.
Film-making duo Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah released the new Netflix series Cigarette Girl on November 1. The series follows a wealthy family uncovering the origins of their family’s fortune through herbal cigarettes and a hidden romance. The series will jump from 2001 to the 1960s and highlight the overbearing societal pressures on women.
Arvin Chen (Love in Taipei) will direct Coolie an eight-part limited series. The series will be set in the mid-1800s in Cuba after the African slave trade was abolished, plantations began to trafficking indentured servants from China and other parts of Asia. The series will star Louise Wong, Joseph Chang (Eternal Summer), Mauricio Henao (La Herencia), Camila Arteche (El acompanante) and Sian Chiong (La Mexicana y el Guero).
Netflix has picked up the rights to the Japanese drama series Trillion Game. The show’s story was based on a manga written by Inagaki Riichiro and illustrated by Ikegami Ryoichi and follows two young men who have their early career moves thwarted and decide to start their own trillion-dollar company. The series will star Meguro Ren (member of the J-pop idol group Snowman), Sano Hayato (Tokyo MER), Imada Mio (Tokyo Revengers), and Kunimura Jun (Kill Bill).
Yalitza Aparicio - Vittorio Zunino Celotto
Latin America: Anonymous Content Brazil and Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features will collaborate with screenwriter-producer-director Armando Bo (Birdman) and his companies, About Entertainment and Rebolucion, to co-produce content for the Latin American market. The three-year agreement will call for sourcing IP and original content from writers across Latin America.
Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) will star in Prime Video’s series Cometierra, meaning Eartheater, and created by Daniel Burman. The series is inspired by the bestselling debut novel of Dolores Reyes. The story is a supernatural drama with elements of magical realism and follows Aylín, a young girl from the rough outskirts of Mexico City.
Paramount+ plans to roll out its Premium subscriptions in Australia, Canada, Brazil and Mexico on November 16. The move comes after its release in 45 international markets.
