World Screen

HONOLULU: Hawaii Film Partners and Toonzone Studios are bringing three animated series to Cannes: Guardians of the Power Masks, Action Dad and Ape Escape. Guardians of the Power Masks is a 26×30-minute animated series centered on a typical young American …

SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecom’s IPTV offering mioTV has delivered a major blow to rival pay-TV service StarHub, beating it out for the rights to English Premier League for the next three seasons beginning in 2010 and scoring a number of flagship …

LONDON: ITV has re-commissioned the game-show format The Cube from Objective Productions for a second season, and ALL3MEDIA International will be launching the series at MIPCOM. Objective Productions has also secured a commission with FOX in the U.S., according to …

MAINZ: A collection of titles in ZDF Enterprises‘ catalogue commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, including the 2×50-minute Busting the Berlin Wall. The HD Busting the Berlin Wall is a co-production from HISTORY, RAI and …

NEW YORK: 4Kids Entertainment has been named worldwide licensing agent for merchandise based on the Mini Ninjas video game, excluding Japan and Korea, and the U.S. kids’ outfit also secured a deal for Penguin Young Readers to serve as global …

NEW YORK: Comcast Corporation is one of several companies in talks for a stake of NBC Universal, published reports indicate, with the cable giant said to be eyeing anywhere from a 20-percent to a 50-percent stake. Comcast has formally denied …

LONDON: The Russian pubcaster Rossyia Channel is the first to commission the Endemol entertainment format The Best Years of Our Lives in Central and Eastern Europe. While the deal marks the series first commission in Russia, The Best Years of …

NEW YORK: Surveying 27 markets around the world, Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse reports that the decline in ad expenditures has slowed, with the Asia Pacific driving the beginnings of a rebound in the market. Adspend was down by 6.8 percent in …

MIAMI: At MIPCOM, APA International Film Distributors will be offering a number of Colombian soap operas from the writer Jorge Ospina.  The portfolio includes titles such as Where is Soledad Going?, Following the Tracks, Taboo, The Chosen, The Other One in Me and …

LONDON: LIVING in the U.K. has ordered a second season of Four Weddings, which has been a smash hit for the Virgin Media Television-owned entertainment channel, from ITV Productions. The week on week ratings for the series peaked at 769,000 …