Deniz ?a?maz Oflaz Named WBD Turkey Content material Chief
Deniz ?a?maz Oflaz has been named Warner Bros Discovery’s Vice President of Native Unique Productions, Native Channels and Streaming Operations Lead for Turkey. Oflaz was beforehand CEO of streamer BluTV, which WBD acquired on the finish of final yr. She is going to stay in command of the service, whereas taking up channel administration for TLC and DMAX, plus improvement and manufacturing of native Turkish content material. Grigory Lavrov, Vice President of Advertising and marketing, Native Manufacturers & Franchise Administration, Central & Japanese Europe (CEE) and the Center East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT), who had led TLC and DMAX since 2020, will proceed to guide the commerce advertising and marketing groups throughout CEE and MENAT and tackle new obligations outdoors of Turkey. In an interview with Oflaz and WBD Normal Supervisor for CEE, the Baltics, Center East, Mediterranean and Turkey Jamie Cooke, we reported on how BluTV has change into an vital strategic asset for WBD, performing as a testbed for additional streaming initiatives within the MENA area.
Potato‘s Michael Kelpie Stepping Down After 11 Years
ITV Studios’ first in-house manufacturing label, Potato, is saying goodbye to its founder. Michael Kelpie will in December exit the corporate, which makes the likes of The Chase, Beat the Chasers and Sitting on a Fortune. He has been with UK broadcaster ITV since 2007, initially becoming a member of as an government producer with a slate together with 4 Weddings, The Chase and the revivals of Shock Shock, It’ll Be Alright On the Evening and Krypton Issue. After launching Potato in 2013, he made reveals akin to Bear Grylls’ Survival College, Post-mortem: The Final Hours of… and Ninja Warrior UK. “It’s by no means a straightforward determination to go away, however as Van Morrison sang, ‘I do know the time is good’ and the superb group at Potato will proceed to develop and comply with the mantra that has guided us from the start — make what we love and love what we make.” Angela Jain, ITV Studios Director of Unscripted UK, will act as interim MD for Potato working alongside senior execs Martin Scott, Phil Mount and Christina Clayton. Jain stated Kelpie was “really certainly one of a form.”
BBC Participant Increasing In EMEA
BBC Participant, the worldwide streamer from BBC Studios, is launching in Greece, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The on-demand service can be added to Cosmote TV’s streaming platform in Greece, Slovak Telekom’s Magio TV in Slovakia and T-Cellular’s Magenta TV in Czech Republic from November 2024. In Greece, BBC Participant will supply reveals akin to Idris Elba drama Luther, pure historical past titles together with Mammals and cookery competitors The Nice British Bake Off with Greek subtitles. In Slovakia and Czech Republic the content material can be localized in Czech, with voiceover, subtitles and dubbing. The platform will supply the likes of The Following Occasions are Based mostly on a Pack of Lies, Pleasure & Prejudice, The Trump Present, Putin – A Russian Spy Story, Snow Canine: Into the Wild and youngsters’s present Hey Duggee. BBC Participant is already accessible in Poland, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia.
Sharon Stone & Matthew Borderick To Be Honored In Italy
Sharon Stone and Matthew Borderick are to honored by Italy’s Nationwide Cinema Museum with its life achievement Stella della Mole Award, throughout the framework of its forty second Torino Movie Pageant later this month. Stone’s attendance on the competition can be accompanied by a screening of Sam Raimi’s 1995 western The Fast and The Useless, which she co-produced and starred in as deadly gunfighter The Woman, reverse Gene Hackman as her nemesis in a solid additionally that includes Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe. Broderick will contact down on the competition with spouse and actress Sarah Jessica Parker for a chat on his relationship with Marlon Brando through the filming of the 1990 crime comedy The Freshman, by which he was the younger co-star. The movie is being screened as a part of a retrospective devoted to Brando. The Stella della Mole Award takes its title from the Museum’s dwelling of the Mole Antonelliana, which was initially conceived as a synagogue.
Goodbye Kansas Group CEO Stefan Danieli Resigning
Stefan Danieli, the CEO of Sweden’s Goodbye Kansas Group, has tendered his resignation. He’s exiting the VFX group after overseeing a strategic transformation for the corporate, overhauling its route, monetary construction and price administration. He plans handy over to “a brand new growth-focused chief,” consistent with an present board plan. Danieli will stay in submit by a transition interval and can be “on the firm’s disposal all through the discover interval of 9 months.” Chairman of the Board Per Anders Wärn will present extra help. He stated the corporate is now “effectively positioned for worthwhile development contemplating each the gaming and the worldwide movie and TV markets are recovering.” Wärn added: “On behalf of the Board, I want to specific our gratitude to Stefan for his management and dedication over the previous two years.”
