Nothing says "we will not abuse our growing industrial power" like a threat to blacklist everyone who speaks out against you. FFS Canal+. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Amazon va doubler son investissement annuel dans la production de séries et de films français

The Bollorés are steadily taking over French cinema and television, but not without some pushback at least. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

🚨New Netflix publication (as in from the company) available now as it promotes its commercial and cultural impact on the world. Let's hope it gets regular updates! thenetflixeffect.com

As it did with FreeVee in the US, Amazon is combining its AVOD with Prime Video in India and packaging it as a merger to create a bigger ecosystem (as opposed to saying it is giving up on maintaining separate services, at least one of which is not profitable). deadline.com/2026/05/prim...

Meanwhile, an important step in the horizontal integration of Canal+ and Studiocanal as it sets up a formal subsidiary to leverage the literary IP of Hachette, after the Bollorés acquired its parent company. deadline.com/2026/05/stud...

And after closing its UK division a few years ago and betting on big French-language blockbusters, Pathé is getting back into English-language films. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Lots of Euro cinema news coming out in the run up to Cannes, and I will be re-posting some, including this bit of news of another sequel to the remakes of Perfect Strangers. This one's from Germany, but there is also one coming out this year in Spain. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

*Pretends to be shocked gif.* deadline.com/2026/04/netf...

This is how many folks treat Disney Studies—the literal Mickey Mouse degrees—right now. Popular media is one of the most powerful and influential forces on the planet, yet it is so often viewed as unimportant. You can't understand how the world works unless you understand how Mickey Mouse works.

Very starry Argentina slate from Netflix. Two Ricard Darín projects (including S2 of The Eternaut) plus series from Campanella, Trapero and the great Pablo Larraín, among others. deadline.com/2026/04/netf...

Huge news from Belgium where the Constitutional Court has rejected Netflix's attempt to overturn the country's investment obligations on streaming platforms! variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Another major step in the local collaborations between global SVODs and local television networks. How will this deal compare to Amazon's deals to distribute RTVE channels? Will RTVE content still be available next day on its BVOD? Lots to think about here. deadline.com/2026/03/disn...

Some very interesting stats on French film production. Key data points: Streamers contributed €76 mil to the ecosystem in 2025, helping to finance 55 films in total. The average investment has gone down, indicating a likely shift from fully-financed works to pre-buys. cineuropa.org/en/newsdetai...

Amazon with a 'shock and awe' India slate announcement of over 50 titles, some of which are licensed and across a range of formats. At least 7 new theatrical films, including a Mirzapur movie. deadline.com/2026/03/prim...

Spain's quota watchdog the CNMC has published statistics on the film and TV industry from 2023 and the report is full of interesting data, including this factoid: Netflix was the single biggest corporate investor in Spanish cinema that year. (1)

Sarandos dusts himself off after losing WBD and a lackluster Oscar season (KPop Demon Hunters notwithstanding) and turns to the next task at hand: lobbying the EU not to make the new AVMSD too stringent. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Canal+ has caught a falling knife buying African pay-TV and streaming platform operator MultiChoice. This is literally the first quarter reporting its results and it's a disaster thus far. Serious q'ss have to be asked about C+'s due diligence here. www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/ne...

A head scratcher here from C+ - not the first of course - as it shuts down the main growth asset at the South African it just acquired. Was there no due diligence with Showmax's financials? deadline.com/2026/03/cana...

Paramount winning WBD is the worst possible outcome for the the American film and TV industries, and, well, the world. Netflix losing out means it stays the same for now, but the writing is on the wall that it wants a legacy studio. Sony Pictures is the weakest looking zebra on the savannah.

Big signing for D+/Hulu in Latin America. Remember they started with a major deal for Cohn and Duprat and are now engaging another major auteur in an even more important role. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...

Nope.

Interesting story about Netflix repatriating its runaway UK productions. The framing here is about getting WBD clearance, but there is also a more general Trumpian context here too. www.screenglobalproduction.com/news/2026/02...

One Australian-produced film on Netflix's Aussie slate (there is nothing from NZ). There are also several American films that Nflix uses sleight of hand to add them to the announcement and two series based on famous films. about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

A very helpful snapshot of the VOD market in Japan, where Netflix has the biggest share of revenues (from subs and ads), whereas Amazon has the highest number of users. Also some color on content preferences, with local leading the way. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

Copyediting is under way and the new book project is now website official. Locating Media Industries, coming to a bookstore/library near you in June 2026 (tentatively)! www.routledge.com/Locating-Med...

Lots of Amazon Prime Video news out today as it holds an event to promote its 'international' output. The most comprehensive piece comes from Deadline with a profile of Mercedes Ron and the growing number of adaptations on the platform. (1) deadline.com/2026/02/amaz...

Apple taking more measures to own and control its IP. A handy piece for understaning the strategic rationale for doing so. deadline.com/2026/02/appl...

Copyediting is under way and the new book project is now website official. Locating Media Industries, coming to a bookstore/library near you in June 2026 (tentatively)! www.routledge.com/Locating-Med...

A (brief) interview from Deadline with Amazon's new head of international content Nicole Clemens. Along with a new project announcement, the int will help readers learn about Prime Video jargon like 'out of country' hits and its editorial line of 'populist literature'. deadline.com/2026/02/chlo...

And another from the Philippines, where 2 films are among the Netflix original works coming in 2026. about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

Catching up on more Netflix intl slate announcements from last week. These include the Thailand slate, on which we find 5 original films. And the announcement also has some interesting info on the local market. about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

More color on the German AV law, its nuances and complexities, and some of the immediate pushback from the group representing platforms and TV companies. If the latter is angry, it is likely good news for the country's producers. deadline.com/2026/02/germ...

Germany's Min of Culture (finally) reveals its planned revisions to its investment obligations for streaming platforms. A huge leap forward, let's see now how the negotiations go at the parliamentary level. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Yet another intl slate announcement from Netflix, this one from India, where the co. is getting back into the original film business after a while betting more on Pay 1 windows of theatrical releases. 11 films on the 2026 slate, 9 of which will be made in Hindi. about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

As predicted, Netflix has announced its German slate for 2026 this week. Among the many announcements are six feature films. about.netflix.com/en/news/what...

A helpful round up of the performance of Netflix original movies on the platform in 2025. www.whats-on-netflix.com/what-to-watc...

X's AI tool Grok reportedly produced 3 million sexual deepfakes in 11 days - today the Commission reacted and opened another formal investigation into X under the Digital Services Act. Here is what the investigation is about ⬇️🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Netflix's 2026 Japan slate includes 4 films (one of which is in the anime section) and a growing relationship with Japanese major Toho, about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

Yet more executive upheaval at Amazon Studios, this one yet again moving APV closer to explicitly copying the Netflix template. deadline.com/2026/01/amaz...

Some coverage of the trainwreck that is Amazon's Melania Trump documentary, a film that is shaping up to be a nadir for the streaming era on multiple levels. ca.news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-u...

Netflix's intl slate announcements keep coming in, this latest one from Spain. Nflix reports on Spain a lot, so the 3 new originals come in addition to a slew of projects debuting in 2026. Two films among the new announcements, including a new feature from Oriol Paulo. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

A particularly interesting announcement for European cinema watchers comes from Italy, where Netflix's slate includes 5 original films and two series that are based on films. (1) about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Yet more Netflix international slate announcements incoming last night and today. First up is Mexico, where two features and some interesting series were unveiled. Notable among the films is Takedown, the follow up from the producer and director of Counterattack. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

And one I missed last week: Indonesia, where there are 4 original films on the slate. about.netflix.com/en/news/next...

Moving to South Korea, Netflix's 2026 slate includes at least 4 original films. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...

Lots of Netflix news this week, including earnings and a new engagement report. A series of international slate updates are also incoming, starting with Poland, where there are at least two films have been revealed. deadline.com/2026/01/netf...

We're used to these by now, of course, but this is a pretty irksome claim to make without figures or methodology. How popular could APV's other German original films have been? deadline.com/2026/01/der-...

An addendum to the Sony/Netflix film deal is that Sony will continue to use Netflix as a dumping ground for projects that it feels are not commercially viable. (Here it sounds like a dud, but bear in mind that Sony thought the same about KPop Demon Hunters.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...