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International Insider: TIFF’s Russia Problem; UK Spend Shrivels; Gaiman Projects On Pause
TIFF pulling 'Russians at War', Pact's TV Census revealing spend is way down and Neil Gaiman's projects on pause feature in International Insider.
Check back with us to see who grabs the coveted People’s Choice Award and head over to our Toronto Studio for video interviews with the directors and casts of new films The Wild Robot, The Assessment, I’m Still Here and Relay among others, plus singer-songwriter Paul Anka, and J.K. Simmons and Damien Chazelle on the tenth anniversary of Whiplash ‘s release. British telly’s big bosses behaved in a “callous” and “cloth-eared” manner, according to McVay, who said the mid-range, which we have covered plenty in recent weeks, is “where my members live.” Unsurprisingly, the UK production sector contracted by £400M ($520M) last year, but perhaps more surprisingly, spend from the streamers remained steady, with the majority of the decline coming from multichannel operations such as Sky and UKTV. Later, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and RedBird founder Gerry Cardinale sat down to talk everything from the UFC to Kamala Harris’ Presidential debate performance, before major sports figures such as Javier Tebas, President of Spain’s La Liga, discussed the devastation of piracy.
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