International Insider: Apple’s Record Deal; Europe Travel Ban; Banijay’s $2.2BN Endemol Takeover

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterHappy Friday, Tom Grater here. Here’s a rundown of the key pieces of international news from this week.

If you want to subscribe to get this alert in a timely fashion, sign up here.Flexing financial muscle: If you thought the film biz was tightening its belt and cautiously waiting out the pandemic, think again.

This week, Apple triumphed over Warner Bros in a frenzied Cannes auction by sealing a remarkable $120M deal for Antoine Fuqua’s thriller Emancipation, which is set to star Will Smith as a runaway slave.

That’s not just a record for a festival pact, it blows any previous deal out of the water. Sign of the times: It was telling that a streamer triumphed over a studio (though it sounds like Warner.