‘Slow Horses,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Crown’ Directors Confront Streamers Over Pay: ‘Royalties Are a Lifeblood’

Spanish director Eva Libertad’s debut solo feature Deaf (Sorda), about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the 2026  European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award. The award continues a prizewinning run for the film which world premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2025, where it was feted with the audience award and […]

EXCLUSIVE: British directors including Asif Kapadia, Andrew Haigh and Otto Bathurst have signed an open letter venting frustration at the streamers for failing to engage over residuals. The just-published letter organized by Directors UK comes more than 18 months after the trade body threatened to withhold its members copyright from the streamers if they didn’t […]

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is returning to its A Comedy Thing YouTube channel for a second year with new formats including Pun Battle. Channel 4 said A Comedy Thing, which publishes weekly long-form programming for YouTube with up-and-coming comics, has delivered 6.5 million views on YouTube, clocking up 165,000 hours of watch time with an audience […]

U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences. The technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original […]