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Turkish producer Onur Güvenatam founded Ogm Pictures in 2019, and has since shepherded a steady stream of hit series and movies such as drama “The Red Room,” the widely-sold “Golden Boy” and “One Way for Tomorrow,” the first Netflix original film out of Turkey.

For Netflix, Ogm has also made Turkish original film “Paper Lives” and the series “The Gift.” Güvenatam is at Mipcom with new shows “Stickman” (Çöp Adam), “Miracle of Love” (Yüz Yıllık Mucize), and “Broken Destiny,” (Toprak ile Fidan) being sold by his recently launched in-house sales company Ogm Universe.

He spoke to Variety about the secret to Ogm’s success, and vented frustrations about the business model imposed by U.S. streamers.

“Golden Boy” was the most-watched television drama last year in Turkey and has been sold to over 100 countries. Why does it connect so well with audiences?

It’s about two young sisters affected by marriage.

Disney Imagineers who 55 years ago introduced the world to the concept of audio animatronics, in the form of singing birds in the Polynesian-themed Tiki Room at Disneyland, again are looking to the heavens for inspiration in the latest evolution of the technology.

The company unveiled what its calling “Stuntronics figures,” robots who perform aerial maneuvers with precision. The Imagineers’ objective was to create a robot with an acrobat’s timing and reflexes. It’s all part of an effort by Disney to create autonomous characters for its theme parks that appear more flexible and interactive and less, well, robotic and anchored to a diorama, reciting the same lines over and over again.

The result is a 90-pound humanoid figure packed with enough onboard sensors to make decisions in real time, literally on the fly.

“It knows when to tuck its knees to perform a somersault, when to pull its arms...

The Stickman comes to those who sleep. This month, Syfy is premiering two new horror films as part of their annual 31 Days of Halloween marathon, both directed by Sheldon Wilson (The Hollow). We showed you the trailer for NeverKnock earlier today, premiering on the network Sunday, October 15, and now we’ve got your first look at Wilson’s […]...