The Cypriot media market is undergoing its most significant terrestrial television infrastructure upgrade in a decade and a half. On July 1, operations officially ceased for Velister, the legacy platform responsible for broadcasting private digital channels for the past 16 years.
Bona Film Group’s historical military blockbuster Crossing clinched the number-one spot at the mainland China box office over the weekend.
A complex legal battle is unfolding around the recently announced live-action/animated feature film Leopold. U.S.-based firm Rubstein Properties has issued a formal pre-litigation cease-and-desist notice to Dmitry Litvinov, owner and CEO of the Welcome Media production company.
Twenty-six years after the release of the inaugural installment, the Scary Movie comedy franchise, created by the Wayans brothers, has surpassed the $1 billion milestone in cumulative global box office grosses. The historic threshold was breached on the back of the commercial success of the newly launched reboot.
Russia is preparing a regulatory overhaul of its theatrical distribution sector, designed to establish a new funding pipeline for national cinema. The country plans to introduce mandatory financial levies on the distribution and screening of foreign films.
International analytical agency Glance, a specialist in television and video content market research, has published its latest One TV Year in the World study.
The highly popular mobile format of micro-dramas is expanding beyond smartphones to Russian television screens for the first time. Short-form vertical series, adapted for full-scale television broadcasting, will join the programming grid of the CHE! TV network (part of National Media Group).
Football fans in the United Kingdom and Japan have been introduced to a fundamentally new way of experiencing matches during the ongoing FIFA World Cup.
French infrastructure operator TDF has announced the launch of a major new phase in its 5G Broadcast technology trials. Pilot broadcasting zones have already been activated across several major urban agglomerations, including Paris, Reims, Bourges, and Le Havre.
The Antoine Fuqua-directed biographical drama Michael has cemented its place in cinematic history. Following its tenth weekend in global distribution, the Lionsgate feature generated $977.4 million, officially emerging as the highest-grossing biopic of all time.
