The fear of new technologies has accompanied the entertainment industry and film culture from the very beginning. Ultimately, colour and sound film were just as unstoppable as private television and "internet videos". The...... is experiencing a deeply unsettling disruption.

You're always smarter afterwards. We are quick to offer explanations after the event. This applies to the Euro2024, stock market prices and cinema successes. A cause-and-effect relationship or even a risk impact assessment in advance......

Media consumption is changing: genre films are booming in cinemas, while franchises once thought to be immortal are losing their appeal. Authentic short stories are replacing long-running series. Programme television will die out with the possibilities of AI,......

Ownership of companies in the creative industries is set to change dramatically. At one of Europe's largest investor congresses in Berlin last week, leading market players discussed potential investment opportunities, refinancing and sustainability.......

While the annual Nostradamus Report attempts to look into the future, Cannes discussed the findings from the past year. How has the global market been affected by strikes, war and market shifts......

A tsunami of money is flooding the creative industry. It is not the production volumes of broadcasters and streamers that are filling the order books. Neither subsidies nor licence revenue guarantees are boosting in-house productions. Capital flows in with......

"Your focus is on the current project. That is the most important thing at this moment. Everything else must be subordinate to that. Just a few more to-dos on the list and then it's......

The German Federal Pension Insurance (DRV) is increasingly narrowing the assessment of previously typical activities of self-employed persons. Most filmmakers are already employed on a temporary, project-related basis. The corresponding collective labour agreement is currently being negotiated. The......

Last Thursday's 25th Film Industry Forum at the Media Days focussed on forecasts for short and medium-term developments from various perspectives. The central question was how production capacity utilisation......

The motto these days could not be clearer. In more and more regions of the world, people are favouring deadly confrontation over other conflict resolution strategies. Viewed from the outside, the......