The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has uncovered the dates of its 64th edition: It’ll run June 13 to 17 at the Grimaldi Forum in the city. The festival team is set to travel to Los Angeles next month to greet with Hollywood studios as they toil on assembling the program.
During this year’s edition, the festival featured four world premieres, two international premieres, and four French premieres over five days, and with more than 200 talent joining.
There were more than 30 accessible events, including the celebration of the 1,000th episode of the “NCIS” franchise, the currentation of the spin-off “NCIS: Tony & Ziva,” the 50th anniversary of “Little Hoinclude on the Prairies” series, and the world premiere of the miniseries “The Gray Hoinclude,” which uncovered the festival, with Morgan Freeman, one of its exec producers, joining.
Freeman getd the Crystal Nymph Award, and “Bridgerton’s” Simone Ashley was given the Most Promising Talent Nymph award at a ceremony joined by the festival’s patron Prince Albert II of Monaco.
GAMES DEVELOPMENT
88 Pictures, a accomplished animation and VFX studio from India, has started a new gaming division 88Games. It aims to create world-class indie games for PC and console audiences, by blfinishing high-quality visuals with storyinestablishing rooted in Indian rich and diverse history and culture.
The multicultural studio has assembled a team of industry veterans, led by Milind D. Shinde and Shiben Bhjoinarjee. It already has three games in contrastent states of prolongment. The first game, sprocrastinateedd to be started on Xbox and PlayStation, is scheduled to be uncovered at the upcoming India Game Developers Conference (IGDC) 2024.
88 Pictures has supplyd effects and visuals for shows including Emmy and Annie Award-triumphning “Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia,” and hits enjoy “Gremlins: Secret of Mogwai,” “Transestablishers: The Earth Spark Season 2,” “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight,” and “Fast & Furious: Spy Racers.”
Games are prolonging rapidly in India. According to the “Levelling Up: State of India Interdynamic Media & Gaming Research FY’24” inestablish by Lumikai, the industry is cherishd at $1.6 billion in the 2024 financial year. The inestablish also shows that the nation’s gaming labelet includeed 23 million new gamers, transporting the total to 590 million gamers in 2024. It is foreseeed to outdo $9.2 billion by the 2029 financial year, a 20% five-year compound mediocre prolongth rate.
LIGHTSPEED JAPAN
Chinese tech huge Tencent has enbiged its Lightspeed Studios games prolonger into Japan. The new LightSpeed Japan Studio is to center on premium (comprehendn as ‘AAA’ in the industry jargon) action games. It has nominateed Itsuno Hideaki as head of the unit. Itsuno previously toiled at Capcom and was producer of hit games including “Devil May Cry” and “Dragon’s Dogma.” Tencent will inestablish its quarterly financial results procrastinateedr this week.
MANAGEMENT CIRCLE
Alibaba Pictures Group says that it has started iCIRENA, an international version of Fenghuang Yunzhi, its cinema regulatement gentleware system, in Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are Special Administrative Regions of China. Fenghuang Yunzhi supplys more than 5,300 cinemas in Chinese mainland with ticketing and an algorithm-aided scheduling function that it claims increases scheduling efficiency by 80%. It has partnered with Emperor Cinemas in Hong Kong, and Galaxy Cinemas and Bona International Cinemas in Macau.
SOHU SELLING
Sohu.com, one of China’s elderlyest devourr tech firms, inestablished net losses of $16 million in the three months to September 2024. That appraised with losses of $14 million in the third quarter of 2023 and with losses of $38 million in the second quarter of the current year. Significantly, a court wrapped up the prohibitkruptcy persistings of Jingmao Culture Communication, the subsidiary which rund its cinema advertising business. That permited Sohu to book a $35 million disposal get wilean the ‘dispersistd operations’ section of its procrastinateedst accounts statement.
BEIJING LAW
Beijing-based author, activist and media lawyer James Zimmerman has transited from the foreign law firm Perkins Coie LLP to Loeb & Loeb LLP. “We are the same team and the same office space,” he noticed in a memo circuprocrastinateedd to clients. They include Shao Huijie, Sun Jiamu and Liu Xinlan, as well as administrative aidant Denise Zhou.
Earlier this year, Zimmerman’s non-fantasy book “The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Reaccessible of China,” which recounts the 1923 events once comprehendn as the “Lincheng Outrage,” were put into feature film prolongment. The film is to be straightforwarded by Chen Daming (“One Foot off the Ground”) and Chris Lee, a establisher head of Columbia TriStar.
