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International Insider: L.A. Wildfires; ‘Pérez’ Sweeps Up At The Globes; BBC Funding Woes
LA Wildfires & Golden Globes feature in this week's Deadline International Insider.
Meanwhile, Brazilian star Fernanda Torres scooped a surprise Best Female Actor award, buzzy Latvian animation Flow won out against big-budget American hits and Netflix’s Baby Reindeer secured two TV gongs, with creator Richard Gadd urging commissioners around the world to keep some budget back “for the little person to tell their story” (smartly, the telecast then cut to Ted Sarandos nodding sagely). Featherstone’s feeling is that Americans have all but ceased putting co-pro money into British drama, leaving numerous shows stuck at ‘soft greenlight’ stage, without a large portion of the funding required to complete the financing puzzle. Basking in its Golden Globes-inspired glow, the slate features a movie from Emilia Pérez outfit Why Not Productions about a pianist who returns to France after a long personal exile, where an encounter with a child who looks just like him leads him to the woman he once loved.
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