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Peyo Productions, the production arm of Peyo Company, home of the beloved Smurfs characters, has confirmed that the fourth season of its 2021 global hit CG-animated series “The Smurfs” is currently in production, sharing a first-look at a colorful new setting, featuring the iconic legacy characters created by Peyo. The 52 11-minute episodes will be…

New thriller – which debuts exclusive first-look images – stars Josephine Park (“The Ox,” “Baby Fever”) as Chief Investigator Nora Søby. Leading Denmark’s top crime unit, she’s forced to investigate when a dockland security guard is murdered and a large shipment of pills containing a lethal opioid goes missing.

One of Fremantle’s top new gameshow formats, the high-stakes “Stacks of Cash,” has initiated its international roll-out with Australia’s Seven Network joining CBS in the U.S. in the latest series commissions.

One of the hottest topics at this year’s Creative Investors’ Conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival is the likelihood and the effects of a U.S. federal tax credit for film production. Speaking at a panel titled “Europe’s Current Challenges and Opportunities,” Lorenzo de Maio of De Maio Entertainment said he doesn’t believe the measure…

Finnish director Miia Tervo didn’t have to look far for the inspiration for her third feature “You Crazy Thing,” about Aino, a mental health nurse who’s preparing a performance with her patients for a talent competition.

Spain – Madrid-based Latido Films has picked up international sales rights to Isaki Lacuesta’s “Flamenco Sketches” (“Jaleos”), the latest film from Isaki Lacuesta, one of Spain’s most singular filmmakers, which plays this week at the San Sebastian Film Festival

A total of 10 projects are taking part in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Latin America and Europe WIP competition showcases, which will help the winning projects jump their last hurdles towards release.

Hollywood Ventures Group (HVG), Canadian film finance and production outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Productions are teaming up to bring bestselling Moroccan crime thriller “The Final Bet” to the big screen. 

Nicholas Weinstock, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” has boarded “Tongue,” an Indian fantasy-horror feature written and directed by Krishnarjun Bhattacharya and starring Sayani Gupta.

Helen Mirren, Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans, Erin Doherty and James McAvoy star in three of the biggest U.K. titles world premiering at Toronto and making Variety’s 2026 selection of 20 International Titles to Track at this year’s Toronto.Jodie Comer sings (very creditably Variety suggests), in a fourth U.K. package, gothic rom-com “Stuffed” as romance takes…