Why Netflix Is Investing Nearly $2 Billion Into More Than 90 European Productions

by | Mar 13, 2017 | tv broadcast |

The US internet TV group has invested $1.8bn into licensed, original and co-productions in Europe since 2012, and will continue to spend more on new shows this year. These will include two productions with the BBC; Troy: Fall of a City and Black Earth Rising, and a third new series, The Spy, which will be co-produced and released on French cable network Canal Plus.  The company is also pushing ahead with plans to bring Netflix to TV set top boxes with operators in Europe.  “We have integrated Netflix with operators like Orange, Vodafone, Liberty Global and BT, signed a deal with Telenor to bring Netflix to their box. Today, we are bringing Netflix in Germany to Unitymedia subscribers,” said chief executive Reed Hastings in Berlin.  Netflix’s announcement comes on the back of EU pressure on on-demand services to invest more in local content and productions. Last year the EU revealed plans that could force internet TV providers, including Netflix and Amazon, to devote “at least” 20 per cent of their catalogues to European films and TV shows, as part of an overhaul of broadcasting rules.  The negotiations are continuing, with MEPs trying to push the minimum to 30 per cent, according to people close to the discussions. The law would also require promotion of European content on web services’ homepages. Salminen explained that though its U.S. catalog may be shrinking, that’s not the company’s strategy elsewhere. In April 2016, his site reported some interesting numbers. For instance, Netflix’s Canadian library had grown from 3,021 television and film titles to 3,365 since January 2014. The numbers in Great Britain were somewhat similar with an...

Most drones are just cameras that fly.

by | Oct 26, 2016 | tv broadcast |

Cheaper and easier to use than helicopters, drones can add aerial photography and overhead shots at low cost to films, where they form part of the director’s toolset. Liam Young, a speculative architect based in the United kingdom, teamd up with writer Tim Maughan to create a film shot entirely by autonomous drone cameras. That film, In the Robot Skies, will premiere at the London Film Festival on October 8. The trailer was released online last night, and we can already discern some of the features of the world. There’s aerial surveillance, and hulking security drones. The machines identify and label people, and behaviors, recording anti-social actions and confining the anti-social to their homes. And there are other drones, flown by the confined as a way past the robotic sentries. This is hardly Liam Young’s first foray into new media as a way to explain future cities. In 2012, he collaborated with authors and artists to imagine a future city in “Under Tomorrows Skies” (no apostrophe). In 2014, Liam Young created a virtual City of Drones, soundtracked by John Cale, where viewers see through the eyes of a flying robot as it navigates an endless world of aerial machines and skyscrapers. In the Robot Skies feels like a continuation of this work, an exploration of human-built space by human-built...

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