World Screen

LOS ANGELES: This year’s Produced By Conference (PBC), taking place June 4 to 6 at 20th Century Fox Studios, includes featured speakers from hit shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, Mad Men, The Simpsons, Cougar Town and more. …

BURBANK: The drama Moonlight has joined The CW’s Thursday night lineup, and will air starting June 3 after encore episodes of the first season of The Vampire Diaries. In the series, Mick St. John (Alex O’Loughlin) is an immortal private …

LOS ANGELES: Saban Capital Group is setting aside more than $500 million for the acquisition of a portfolio of properties to kickstart its newly formed Saban Brands venture, which will be led by former Fox L&M chief Elie Dekel as president. Saban …

STAMFORD: Vince McMahon, chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, hailed the company’s “significant growth” in the first quarter, with revenues up to $138.7 million and profit increasing to $24.7 million. The company noted, however, the factors impacting comparability with …

MUMBAI: Raju Venkataraman has been appointed as the VP and general manager of the newly re-named Disney Media Distribution in India. Venkataraman will be responsible for the licensing of branded and non-branded content to all platforms in the Indian market. …

LONDON: 4Kids Entertainment has been appointed as the licensing agent for BRB Internacional’s Suckers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland. Suckers has 104 shorts, 2 minutes in length each. Each short episode depicts the world through the eyes …

LOS ANGELES: Several licensing deals have been closed by Toei Animation for Digimon Data Squad, Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seiya. Editorial Vertice in Argentina has signed up to create coloring books for Digimon Data Squad. In Brazil, Algazarra will …

HYDERABAD: DQ Entertainment International has signed an exclusive publishing licensing deal for The Jungle Book with Hachette Livre for the French-language market worldwide. Hachette takes the rights for publication of story books, activity books, novelty books, workbooks and home learning, …

NEW YORK: David Ellender, the global CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises, discusses the strengths of the company’s portfolio, its aspirations to expand its drama business in the U.S. and the importance of building brands in this video interview.         With …

CHICAGO: Playboy Enterprises has narrowed its net loss from $13.7 million in Q1 2009 to $1 million, despite a fall in revenues from $61.6 million to $52.1 million. The 2010 first quarter included restructuring and impairment charges of $1.1 million, …