World Screen

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has firmed up a number of deals from its feature-film catalogue, with new sales to Latin America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.  Globosat in Brazil went for nine TV movies, including Seventeen and Missing, Man Maid and Trouble with …

SHEFFIELD: Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, is to screen at the Sheffield Doc/Fest on November 7 at 2:30 p.m. at the Showroom Cinemas.     Now in its 16th year, Doc/Fest will be held November 4 to 8, and will …

LOS ANGELES: Microsoft is pulling out of its recently announced deal with FOX to exclusively sponsor a variety show from Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane to promote the new Windows 7 operating system. Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced a deal with …

LAUSANNE: Through an extension of its existing sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Visa will continue as the exclusive payment card and the official payment system for the Olympic Games through to 2020. The announcement was made at a signing ceremony held …

LONDON: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts today announced the nominees for the 2009 EA British Academy Children’s Awards, taking place in London on November 29, hosted by comedy duo Dick and Dom.  In addition to presenting awards in categories like …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Ricky Gervais will host the upcoming 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, set to air on NBC on January 17, airing live across the U.S. at 5 p.m. PST and 8 p.m. EST. This is the first time since 1995 …

LONDON/NEW YORK: Babelgum is expanding its comedy channel with the addition of a new sci-fi/horror block of programming, which will launch with four new series that have been exclusively created and produced for the mobile and online destination.  Among the …

MILAN: A Milan court has ruled that Mediaset engaged in "unfair competition" in refusing to accept advertising from SKY Italia but will not compel the Italian media giant to immediately begin running ads from its pay-TV rival. Last month, News …

LONDON: JimJam has secured carriage with Israeli satellite broadcaster YES, which will launch the preschool channel as a 24-hour service in January 2010.  The channel will be included as part of the platform’s basic tier, reaching 560,000 subscribers. JimJam will …

NEW YORK: The comedy series Hot in Cleveland and Retired at 35 have been given cast-contingent pilot orders from TV Land.  Marking TV Land’s foray into scripted comedy, the shows are being developed for TV Land PRIME, the network’s programming …