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JAFF Market & Indonesia’s Booming Industry; Netflix-Warner Bros Deal

Before we dive into updates on what’s happening in Indonesia, a few thoughts on the Netflix deal to acquire Warner Bros for $83bn, announced yesterday, which happened a lot faster than anyone was anticipating. Reactions globally have been mixed from it being another nail in the coffin of legacy

Suzannah Mirghani's Cotton Queen won the Audience Award at Doha Film Festival

Southeast Asia

Autumn Markets Part Three: Philippines Updates & Doha Film Ambitions

There’s been a flood of news out of the second half of the autumn festival circuit from events including the Philippines’ QCinema, India’s Film Bazaar, Indonesia’s JAFF Market, Cairo Film Connection and the first Doha Film Festival. Among these, I only attended QCinema and JAFF Market, but

Korea & Japan

Autumn Markets Part Two: Japan & Taiwan’s International Strategies

This edition of Streamlined is a recap of activity at Tokyo International Film Festival, its accompanying contents market TIFFCOM and Taiwan Creative Content Fest, also touching on the international strategies of Japan and Taiwan, which are currently looking like two of the healthier film and TV economies in East Asia,

Taiwan Creative Content Fest is one of a growing number of project markets

Korea & Japan

Autumn Markets Part One: Are We Heading Into An Era Of Over-Supply?

We need to talk about project markets, or at least reassess what is happening at these events, which undoubtedly have an important role to play, but perhaps are becoming too much of a good thing. Streamlined attempts to publish the line-ups of all the project and pitching events in Asia,

Korea & Japan

Warner & CJ ENM Deal; Lessons From Levies; YouTube At Mipcom

EU Commission building in Brussels [©Shutterstock, gnepphoto & laraslk]

Europe

Streamlined Guides: Streaming Levies & Investment Obligations Part One

Part One of this guide looks at how the EU and some member states are regulating streamers to ensure investment is flowing into local-language production and producers are holding on to IP rights.