Jan Koeppen, President, The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East, and Africa, revealed the company’s plans to invest in the UK and continental Europe focusing on producing blockbuster movies and TV shows, expanding Disney+ and its parks business.
Eighteen of the titles will receive their world premieres at TIFF. More than 30 of the films are sales titles that will go to Toronto looking for distribution.
Women and girls made up just 30% of the leading film roles in the top-major motion pictures of 2023, representing a 14 percentage point drop from the year before. The report also found that only 11% of 2023’s top 100 movies were gender-balanced, meaning women/girls in about half of all speaking roles, also a number even with 2007.
28 dramas have been nominated in category of TV movies, miniseries, and series, including Netflix's "3 Body Problem", Disney+'s "Moving", and Tencent's "Blossoms Shanghai".