International Insider: Mipcom Back With A Bang; ‘The Crown’ “On Edge”; MIA Kicks Off; Amazon’s Handmaid’s Deal
deadline.comWelcome to the International Insider, Max Goldbart here. We’ve been all over the proverbial shop this week with Mel and Jesse in sunny Rome and Zac racing round London at the speed of light to cover LFF.
Read on for the biggest news in international TV and film. Three years off: A palpable sense of excitement has settled over the global TV community as buyers, sellers, execs, journalists (of course) and everyone in between gets set to jet to Cannes for Mipcom.
This year’s market, rebranded Mipcom Cannes, is effectively the first in person for three years (last year was hybrid) and there was a real sense of positivity when I spoke with five senior sales bosses for my annual preview. “People need people and this is a people business,” Fremantle’s Jens Richter told me, almost beaming.
There is renewed optimism, negating the ‘market fatigue’ that may have crept up in years gone by. Chatting to execs in the runup to the event, they expect a Mipcom that will be all about the face-to-face interaction, although many stressed that major distributor-to-buyer deals may not make up a huge part of the market – a sign of the times.
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