NEWS BRIEF: Ferrari Films, the outfit led by Florida-based attorney Stacy Kemp Ferrari and her producer husband Bastiano Ferrari, have gone into production on a reality competition series that will give one influencer a chance to star in an upcoming feature film.

Cineflix Rights senior execs Tom Misselbrook, Sandra Piha, Richard Life and Mike Gould outline the company’s content strategies across scripted, unscripted, formats and digital.   Cineflix’s distribution arm, Cineflix Rights, has in recent years cemented its position as a leading player in the global market, combining deep reservoirs of experience with a capacity to adapt as the business evolves. Now into its third decade, the firm’s ability to pivot across cycles, platforms and buyer demands is a defining strength.   From its UK base, the independent company offers a robust mix of scripted and factual titles. At the same time, it is expanding the ways in which its catalogue is monetised, pushing further into FAST, AVoD and YouTube as those ecosystems become core to the distribution landscape.

NEWS BRIEF: BBC Select has ordered a second season of factual series Queens That Changed The World, produced by UK indie Woodcut Media and distributed globally by Sphere Abacus.

NEWS BRIEF: UK public broadcaster the BBC has renewed factual series Stacey & Joe for a third season.

NEWS BRIEF: New ad-free children’s streaming platform Mercury KIDS in the US has announced a programming partnership with German kids’ production and distribution company Studio 100 International.

NEWS BRIEF: Paramount+ has renewed The Madison, its Taylor Sheridan-created drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, for a third season after the show debuted to impressive viewership last month.

NEWS BRIEF: Comcast-owned US streamer Peacock has licensed half-hour comedy Slip produced by Boat Rocker Studios and TeaTime Pictures.

NEWS BRIEF: Amazon’s Prime Video has renewed its Sherlock Holmes origin story Young Sherlock for a second season.

VeYou, the recently launched microdrama app from Hollywood producer Tommy Harper, has acquired a vertical biopic about Elon Musk as it grows its library of shortform programming.

Sonia Fleck, CEO at Bomanbridge Media, outlines her plans to expand the Singapore-based company with catalogue acquisitions and potential mergers, while also focusing on growth in the factual, kids and digital sectors, starting with Content Europe this month.  

What will 2025’s merger with West One mean for Bomanbridge Media? The integration of West One, now Bomanbridge West, is a key step in our evolution from distribution into a more vertically integrated content company. It gives us a strong UK production base and a strategic anchor for developing original IP, particularly across factual and premium unscripted.