Marlene Edmunds Media Consulting

05/06/2023

No brainer frankly.

MPs are debating plans to change the rules to allow asylum seekers to work more, whether or not they have been granted settled status. Refugees currently have to be in the country for six months before they can take paid employment, and even then they are limited to a maximum of 24 hours a week. The...

12/08/2022

Brilliant!

Music video by P!NK performing Irrelevant (Official Video). (C) 2022 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

11/08/2022

Excerpt: "The men still have more opportunities throughout the world, but to have equal prize money in the major championships really sends a strong message. I keep telling people, it’s not about the money. It’s about the message.

In this 50th anniversary year of Title IX, we revisit an interview with Billie Jean King on her activism and career.

11/08/2022

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/studios-collective-response-showrunners-demand-abortion-safety-protocols-1235338583/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=371242_08-10-2022&utm_term=280278

After more than a thousand showrunners behind some of the most popular shows in the world mobilized to demand specific abortion safety protocols be put in place at the studio level, those studios a…

09/08/2022

Oh goodie. More old men doing what they've done for millennia, sacrificing the young and women and children, and taking what they want by force in an effort to feel more powerful..

Tensions high as Taiwan begins live-fire drills and China continues military exercises it started after US speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei last week

09/08/2022

Refreshing coverage from The Verdict.

Debut director Thomas Hardiman's off-beat single-shot murder mystery 'Medusa Deluxe' is a dazzling catwalk show of spiky comedy, fluid camerawork and fabulous hair.

21/07/2022

Well done Elsa Keslassy

Variety has promoted Elsa Keslassy to senior international film editor. In her new role, Keslassy will continue to be based out of Paris, where she will cover the entertainment industry spanning fi…

19/07/2022

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-q2-earnings-1235318787/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=366054_07-19-2022&utm_term=280278

Netflix reported its second-quarter 2022 earnings Tuesday, revealing it lost 970,000 subscribers during the three-month period that included the launch of the first part of “Stranger Things& #…

06/07/2022

Heads up on Locarno:

The Locarno Film Festival has announced the full line-up and juries for its 75th edition, which is due to unfold August 3-13. The festival will get a starry kick-off on August 3 with the internatio…

04/07/2022

https://variety.com/2022/film/global/tomas-alfredson-miso-film-svt-team-on-tv-adaptation-ingmar-bergmans-faithless-1235308718/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=globaldaily&utm_content=363122_07-04-2022&utm_term=280278

Tomas Alfredson, the Swedish director of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Let the Right One In,” is set to direct a TV series adapted from “Faithless,” a 2000 fi…

28/06/2022

Heads up people:

Last week, the Belgian Parliament adopted the local transposition of the Copyright Directive and by doing so also introduced a new right to equitable remuneration for authors and performers to be managed via the collective management system. This new right, which is one step further than the Directi...

20/06/2022

Latest pick up in M&A frenzy

Studiocanal has acquired a majority stake in Dutch FilmWorks, a leading film production and distribution company operating in Benelux. Launched in 1998, Dutch FilmWorks produces and distributes 25 …

13/06/2022

"Prey' - first film to feature Commanche language AV track

Prey is reportedly the first movie to feature a Comanche-language voice track

09/06/2022

Anti-diluvian front: In this day and age, a 17 month theatrical window is simply absurd. Half the world would have pirated it by then.

Disney will not release "Strange World" in French cinemas and will instead send its upcoming animated adventure film straight to the company's streaming platform, Disney+. The entertainment giant is…

29/05/2022

Excerpt: "So that was Cannes this year: some excellent movies by Park Chan-wook, Lukas Dhont, Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch being rewarded – and the great big flashy and conceited flattire/satire Triangle of Sadness."

Ruben Östlund’s super-rich satire is an unworthy winner, particularly given the calibre of competition on the Croisette

25/05/2022

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20220523-sexism-is-everywhere-–-so-are-we-feminist-riposte-hits-cannes-film-festival =_

French women took on the patriarchy on the big screen and the red carpet with the Cannes screening of “Riposte féministe”, by Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon, about the feminist activists whose influential…

24/05/2022

Director's Fortnight entry:

After she ascended to the Competition last year with Bergman Island, it’s bittersweet to see Mia Hansen-Løve back in the ranks of Directors’ Fortnight with the deeply personal film One Fine Morning…

23/05/2022

Second protest in Cannes by women activists.

A group of feminist protestors staged a dramatic scene at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, releasing plumes of smoke from handheld devices and displaying a long banner for the global press. At t…

22/05/2022

https://deadline.com/video/riley-keough-war-pony-gina-gammell-cannes-studio-interview/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Deadline_BreakingNews&utm_content=353047_05-22-2022&utm_term=280278

Back in 2015, Riley Keough befriended two extras on the set of American Honey—Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy. She introduced them to her best friend Gina Gammell, and a creative foursome was bor…

22/05/2022

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/france-falls-out-of-love-with-roman-polanski-1235272794/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=353050_05-22-2022&utm_term=280278

There was a time, not so long ago, when Roman Polanski was the toast of the film industry in France, where the director has been living since 1978, when he fled the United States before sentencing …

22/05/2022

Interesting and fresh approach to a review. https://deadline.com/2022/05/return-to-seoul-all-the-people-ill-never-be-cannes-review-un-certain-regard-1235029978/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Deadline_BreakingNews&utm_content=353044_05-22-2022&utm_term=280278

22/05/2022

Slippery slope, banning Russian culture.

One day after dissident Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, members of the Ukrainian film industry took to the Croisette to call for…

18/05/2022

https://variety.com/2022/film/global/juliette-binoche-the-pot-au-feu-gaumont-sales-1235269432/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=intlnewsalert&utm_content=351904_05-18-2022&utm_term=280278

One of the hottest European projects on sale at Cannes, “The Pot Au Feu,” Tran Anh Hung’s period romance starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel has already been nabbed by major in…

17/05/2022

New details unveiled on Coppola's passion project.

Forest Whitaker has shed new plot details about Francis Ford Coppola’s mystery project “Megalopolis,” which is set to start shooting in August. The actor-producer, who is in Canne…

16/05/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/16/cannes-film-festival-2022-top-gun-elvis-triangle-sadness

The French cultural institution, which turns 75 this year, has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it so essential

13/05/2022

Europe's K-pop crush: and unveil the metrics and investors eager to cash in on the Euro passion for K-pop https://mediatainmentfinance.com/k-pops-big-splash-in-europe-will-more-investors-dance-to-its-tune/?fbclid=IwAR3O5c8F7LbmyGLSFW5z0Vj9u5fhDTVqlgUZ5pwJCyWU244GHMczR4J4nf0

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08/05/2022

Heads up people:

See the list of feature films selected in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings, and download the press kit.

06/05/2022

Netflix topper braves stormy weather to announce more expansion.

Reed Hastings made the trek to Rome to open Netflix’s new Italian headquarters in an elegant building just off the Via Veneto of “La Dolce Vita” fame — and the Roman rain gods mad…

06/05/2022

https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/kim-cattrall-camila-cabello-power-of-women-new-york-1235260169/ =85fd298c10c3fcb2f5eca7490d2912238e50603c81395736b436593b4b61eca1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=349059_05-06-2022&utm_term=280278

Even on a night to celebrate empowerment, the edge in the room was unmistakable. The shocking revelation this week that the U.S. Supreme Court is moving to overturn Roe v. Wade was evident not only…

27/04/2022

Domino effect of merger mania in the entertainment business: Excerpt: "While MGM notably released Daniel Craig’s James Bond swan song “No Time to Die,” its slate was largely populated by mid-budget, adult-skewing fare — the kind of content that media companies have been diverting to steaming services in a theatrical landscape dominated by established intellectual property and superhero adventures."