10 Stories You Should Know: 10/10/2022

Here are the stories that should be on your radar.

Here are the stories that should be on your radar for Thursday, November 10th, 2022:

Masaharu Morimoto Sushi Competition & Michael Strahan-Produced Cupcake Docu Ordered At Roku (Deadline)
Roku is cooking up a pair of new original non-scripted series. The streamer has ordered sushi competition series Morimoto’s Sushi Master and The Cupcake Guys from Michael Strahan.

Miral And Warner Bros. Discovery Announce Harry Potter Themed Land Coming To Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island (Zawya)
Abu Dhabi, UAE: Miral, Abu Dhabi’s leading creator of immersive destinations and experiences, in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery, announced today a Harry Potter themed land, a first in the Middle East, will be coming to Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, within the world’s largest indoor theme park, Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi.

Netflix's Free Cash Flow Is About To Explode (The Motley Fool)
After years of building up a massive catalog of original and licensed content, spending more and more money every year to do so, Netflix is finally happy with its level of content spending. In other words, management doesn't think spending more on content will move the needle enough on subscribers and engagement to make the extra outlay worthwhile. At the same time, the prospects for a return to meaningful revenue growth in 2023 are looking strong.

Women Dominate Australian Directors Guild Award Nominations (Variety)
For the first time ever, women dominate the major feature film categories with five out of the seven directors nominated for best direction in a feature film (budget A$1 million or over) being women and four of the six nominees in the best direction in a debut feature film category also being women.

ProSiebenSat.1 Reportedly Interested In Acquiring Sky Deutschland From Comcast (Digital TV Europe)
Rumours regarding a proposed break up of Sky’s European empire are gathering pace. Having first been mooted in October, news agency Reuters has reported that ProSiebenSat.1 is looking at acquiring Sky Deutschland for around €1 billion.

Netflix's New Dragon's Lair Is Going To Be Interactive (Collider)
Dan and Kevin Hageman, who wrote Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and earned story credit on The Lego Movie, have been tapped to write the script. Reynolds will play a knight named Dirk the Daring who must rescue Princess Daphne from the clutches of an evil dragon known as Singe and the wizard Mordroc.

Australia Reports Record Drama Production Expenditure Of $1.5BN; Spend Shifts Towards Local Films & Series As Streamers Ramp Up Investment (Deadline)
Production expenditure on Australian scripted content reached an all-time high of A$2.29BN ($1.47BN) in the 2021-2022 period to June, according to Screen Australia's annual drama report, with a record A$1.51BN ($977M) spent on Australian titles and A$777M ($503M) on foreign productions.

Australian Monarchist League Are Urging Viewers To Boycott 'The Crown' And Netflix (Far Out Magazine)
The AML has raised concerns over a scene in which Prince Charles meets with Major to discuss ousting Queen Elizabeth II from the throne. Major responded by writing in the Daily Telegraph, “Fiction should not be paraded as fact.” Chairman of the AML, Philip Benwell, added his thoughts on the matter.

He said, “Even before Sir John issued a statement saying that that fictitious conversation was ‘a barrel-load of malicious nonsense’, it is fundamentally clear that Prince Charles would never have spoken about the Queen abdicating because he of all people knew that because of the oath her majesty swore at her coronation, she would never abdicate as the commitment she gave was for life.” 

‘Britain’s Got Talent‘ Judge David Walliams Accused of Making “Sexually Explicit” Remark (The Hollywood Reporter)
Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams has been accused of making “derogatory and sexually explicit remarks” about contestants on the talent show.

Al Arabiya Launches Digital Platform Akthar (Arab News)
Angus said the new platform is a “journey” into the digital world and it will be offering stimulating content covering various topics and targeting younger generations. 

The new digital platform boasts nine shows across genres such as luxury, travel, health, finance and lifestyle.