Berlin Film Festival 2025 Begins

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Tilda is the city's talk: The Berlin Film Festival began Thursday evening with a short party, despite all its German sensitivity, belonging to the Scottish actor Tilda Swinton. She was the city's Academy Award winner to receive the festival's award, and delivered an exciting speech to global policy. “It was inhuman on our watch,” she was raising the theater, before she continued in Donald Trump to reprimand it, “the efforts of the occupation, colonialism, acquisition, ownership, or the development of Rivera's property.” The increasing dominance of signs should be “encouraging them to spend a large part of Squillions to build and expand cinema theaters in every region they reach”, and later called Swinton, as she turned her attention to the current scene of the industry. The speech was successful with the Berlinaly audience, the credit for the dynamics of Swinton. She is almost always represented in the festival circuit, which captures this type of award several times a year, but she remained a participant and principled artist. It was called by the head of the Berlinali jury, Todd Heinz – who put himself in some political opinions yesterday – as “preserved”. This morning, Swinton revealed that she will not photograph any other films this year and instead plans for extended periods at her home in Scotland. The opening night ended with a festival opening movie, TOM TYKWer's a lightWhat was described by our references to Stephanie Bonbury as “Farrago from Narra”. Great use of “Farrago”. There was a lot that was happening in the snowy German capital, including policy on the red carpet and a lot of packages to see your. Follow the Berlin and EFM coverage here and here, and our growing list of reviews here.

Farel farewell

Amazoff: In the executive world, The Big News this week was Max and Stewart's Scoop, which reveals the exit of Amazon MGM Studios on the International Front, James Farrell. After it was with a PRIME video for a decade and head of international assets since 2018, he is Exec that eventually gave green light to huge strikes including Clarkson Farmand Maxton Hall – the world between us Romcom was injured Culpa TuyaWhich was offered the United Kingdom, FaultyIt was launched this week (we talked to its directors before Valentine's Day today). Under his leadership, Amazon has grown to about 150 original TV programs and films per year from 17 offices around the world. He was confirmed in a memo for employees, as he could not help slip to the administration in speaking, noting that he would take the “preferred” principle of leadership-“bias for work”-to his new work, a young man who focuses on adults production work. Looking at his success, we can forgive it. The news came a week after our teammate Anthony de Alensandro managed a story indicating that Amazon MGM is looking for a theatrical distribution arm that will be launched early next year, as Amazon renewed its interest in theatrical windows after the purchase of MGM in 2022 for $ 8.5 billion. Perhaps Amazon MGM studios have the global distribution of the future 007 Anthony wrote that the film would calm some of the fears of James Bond Barbara Brocoli.

Geo policy

Stars ’attractiveness: Today in India, a new broadcast service is hit by the market with an ambition constantly “shining one billion screens.” JIOHOTSTAR is the Jiocinema and Disney Hotstar+ service that came out of the deal that linked the assets of the media to the Rellence Industries and Disney India. I sat (digitally) with the three executives who are leading an introduction – Kiran Mane, Kevin Fawz and Sangingg Gopta – and I heard about the striking plan. Jiohotstar Library: Indian offers from Viacom18 and Star India, Disney+ Hotstar Originals, IPL cricket rights from Jiocinema and American studio fee (VAZ is believed to be the only service in the world with rights in all studios content). Almost everything is called to multiple Indian languages, and there is a desire to see the service that goes beyond the Indian borders. However, as the head of Mane Al -Dakrami notes, all this does not come cheap. This is an industry in which the size of the reputation means little. He says: “Resonance, importance and ensuring that we are part of daily life means everything … on a large scale, we cannot fail,” he says. Let's see how many of these screens are a billion screens lighting up.

“I victory for you to stop“

Choose through PIKES Palaver: A few weeks ago, Zac broke the news of a feature film based on the life of Ibiza Footney Tony Bike, one of the most popular balleric islands. Pre -approval, Mr. PixThe High Fliers films, will look at the troubled events in the guesthouse in San Antonio, where the celebrities of the nineties will gather the parties away from the lenses of the photographers in the photographers and where Wham! Shot on the video clip of “Club Tropicana” (beverages were free, and there was enough for everyone, remember?). Soon after a preliminary script, a mysterious picture appeared as Zach and learned that the publisher and participant in the biography of the Pike, “Mr. Pix: The story behind the myth of Ibiza” wrote a message of stop and support, claiming the film was passing through that he relied on the book. Mr. Pix The book, Irvin Wales and Dean Kavanagh, participated in a previous embodiment of the film that was developed from the book while it was under the choice with Layer cake Actor Tamer Hassan. With the expiration of this option now, and the rights with a different production company that has not been named, the competition is the High Fliers movie that is not fairly used from BIOG. Higher flies denied confirmation, saying that his movie depends on independent research. There was no Pike's position, who died of cancer in 2019, believed to be worth a party. Read more.

Channel+ In the spotlight

Swamps Diana got an interview with the candidate of the week, and she linked studios and CEO of Anna Marsh in a large -scale conversation at the company’s headquarters in Paris extending everything from BadtingtonThe future of the continuous pursuit of the purchase of African broadcasting and the giant broadcast is multiple. Marsh discussed the last Canal+list in the UK stock market, an unusual step for a French media company, describing it as a “great opportunity”. Although the public subscription is not going according to the plan – its initial value was 2.5 billion pounds ($ 3.1 billion) much lower, each Bulori's step at scrutiny in his homeland. Marsh also discussed the timeline of the controversial media in Disney+ signed to reduce the current 17 -month theater window to only nine against content obligations. Its president, Maxime Saada, was strongly criticizing this step since the channel+ is now much more, apparently less. More about it and a lot can be found here.

Basics

🌶 Hot one: Catherine Zeta Jones will play a TV adaptation to Aidan Truhen “Gonzo Thriller” The price you pay For the main video, Fremantle and Steel Springs.

🌶 More fire: Bill Negi is about to climb to the BBC series Clifftops from english language Writer Hugo Blake, Jake's disclosure.

🌶 Very hot: Stewart was for the first time with the news for the first time in the documentary director of Samer Mendes would serve as a DOC from the BBC about the liberation of Bergen Bilsen camp.

🌶 Even more spices: Documentary Moritz, the Oscar -nominated screenwriter from September 5He is linked to director Alereza Golafshan on the drama of the court hall titled AI ZumaI mentioned a mile in the exclusive.

🪖 Wu Story: Andreas had a scoop on the image of Rick Roman Wu Action, from the British MA Favorite Championship, Jason Statham.

🌍 Globe: Drama series in Gail Al Jazeera Our global penetration was this week.

⚠ Exit: Collen of accounts Commissioner Alison Horbert Burns of the Foxtel group in Australia.

🍝 Sauce: Drama Commissioner ITV Helen Ziegler left the UK network to get the new Sony Sauce.

🪓 Bala Al -Baz: Our men sat with the best black book in The Biz for the first time with Ralph Fiennes and continued with an interview with Anthony Maki.

⛺ festival: Series will welcome the series such as Amanda Severid, Pamela Adlon, James Norton and Sally Winreret.

🤏 Feeling of pyramid: Jake reported the era of “austerity” in financing the UK drama chain.

🍿 box office: Ne zha 2The box office in China got $ 1.4 billion, third in the total ever for a moving movie.

🖋 I signed: Find Ola and Four girls Hind Sabri's star in the Middle East and North Africa region. CAA continues the actor of Netflix actress internationally.

👀 First view of the deals: In Europe, the Secuoya Studios in Spain cooperated with BlackBox media in the United Kingdom, and in Brazil, where entertainment, entertainment, medal and bus were followed for real crime content.

👀 First look at: In the work of Russell's Martial-Arts MonsterCurrently, the shooting in Australia and Thailand.

Jesse Whituk wrote this week from the international interior for this week and edited by Max Gulbert. Zac NTIM contributed.