Christian De Gallegos will be joining Insurgent Media’s Los Angeles team as head of international sales. De Gallegos will report to CEO Ezna Sands and will oversee international sales for Insurgent Media’s growing slate.
Most recently, De Gallegos ran sales for Green-Light International for titles including: Imperium starring Daniel Radcliffe; Urge starring Pierce Brosnan; and Custody starring Viola Davis, among others. Prior to Green-Light, De Gallegos served as president of International Film Trust, with titles including: Cymbeline starring Ethan Hawke, Milla Jovovich and Dakota Johnson which premiered at the Venice Film Festival; Stephen King’s Cell starring Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack; and Werner Herzog’s Salt & Fire. De Gallegos previously served as VP of sales at Voltage Pictures and handled international distribution for over 70 titles, including Academy Award®-winning The Hurt Locker, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon, Academy Award-nominated Dallas Buyers Club and Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep. De Gallegos started his career at Paradigm Talent Agency.
Insurgent Media recently partnered with VICE Films, 20th Century Fox and Chimney Pot to produce and finance Lords of Chaos, co-written and to be directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Valter Skarsgård and Sky Ferreira. Insurgent Media’s current and past slate projects include Cathy Conrad’s TV thriller Cicada 3301; Academy Award®-winning documentary The Cove; and the Leonardo DiCaprio documentary, Before The Flood.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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