EXCLUSIVE: Film-focused tech firm Gathr is rolling out a pay-it-forward distribution model with what the company says is greater transparency than schemes like the one used by Angel Studios on 2023 blockbuster Sound of Freedom. A handful of films are set to deploy the model in the coming months: Brown…

If you’ve been keeping up with distribution news recently, there’s been one name you’ll have seen pop up again and again: Vertical. Since the pandemic, the bottom has fallen out of the film business, with more quality indie packages hitting the marketplace than there are distributors willing to take…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian indie Boat Rocker Studios has struck a deal with Shark Teeth Films for a trio of upcoming unscripted shows. The agreement includes the greenlight of Secrets in the Ice season 4 and new factual series Discovered By Disaster and Secrets in the Dark — the latest in the Secrets In…

EXCLUSIVE: By his own admission, Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon does not fit the bicoastal profile of the typical film executive. At the start of an hour-long interview with Deadline at New York's Greenwich Hotel, the Tribeca venue owned by Robert De Niro, Harmon acknowledged that he was on only the…

Here’s a first look at Hagen (working title), the German-Czech fantasy drama epic, which now counts Fremantle as its worldwide distributor. Based on Wolfgang Hohlbein's bestselling novel 'Hagen von Tronje’, the series is a reimagining of the medieval Nibelungen folk saga, which is widely considered…

EXCLUSIVE: SkyShowtime’s drama original Codename: Annika is taking its art crime sensibilities around the world. In one of the few international distribution stories you’ll read this week not directly related to the London TV Screenings, Mediawan Rights has snapped up sales rights to the…

Such has been the chaos in international TV over the past 12 months that you could argue Cineflix Rights’ Head of Scripted, James Durie, is underplaying things when he says it has been “a hell of a year.” Distributors around the world have watched on in horror as the streaming sector crumbled and the…

Welcome to Deadline’s London TV Screenings list, our definitive look at next week’s buzzy event taking Soho by storm. If you’re wondering who’s exhibiting, what’s on offer and want to dive deeper into the distribs’ strategy, we’ve done the hard work for you, presenting profiles from nearly 30 exhibiting sa…

Welcome to Deadline’s London TV Screenings list, our definitive look at next week’s buzzy event taking Soho by storm. If you’re wondering who’s exhibiting, what’s on offer and want to dive deeper into the distribs’ strategy, we’ve done the hard work for you, presenting profiles from nearly 30 exhibiting sa…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its bow at Series Mania, French sci-fi drama Sea Shadows been picked up for distribution. France TV Distribution has acquired rights to the show, which is from Mintee Studio and Thalie Images and is for the sale house’s stablemate, France 2. The series, originally known as Riv…

Sony Pictures Television has struck a deal to rep six titles from Taiwan’s Studio76 in 11 Asian markets. The multi-year, multi-territory distribution agreement covers Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei and other parts of South East…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Blue Ant Media execs Solange Attwood and Asha Daniere have launched an “internationally-focused, next generation studio business” out of Canada. Serial Maven Studios has been launched around a strategy of unscripted IP ownership, with Attwood CEO and Daniere the President. The…