World Screen

BALTIMORE: An Associated Press survey found that states competing for projects awarded $1.8 billion in tax breaks, among other advantages, to the entertainment industry from 2006 through 2008. The argument is that either the tax breaks pay for themselves in …

LOS ANGELES: EchoStar Communications has been ordered to pay TiVo $103 million plus interest from a long-running patent dispute for lifting DVR software technology, adding to the original $105 million in penalties. Courts ruled five years ago that EchoStar was …

LOS ANGELES: At the L.A. Screenings, Dirk Schweitzer, the senior VP of program acquisition and sales for the RTL Television & Media Group, RTL Germany, found the dramas and comedies he viewed to be of very high quality, but saw …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Jean-Briac Perrette has been named president of digital and affiliate distribution and content distribution strategy for NBC Universal. Perrette had previously been president of digital distribution, and will continue to report to Jeff Gaspin, the president and COO …

MIAMI: Broken Heart, produced by Telemundo and Argos, premieres today in Serbia on Fox in a 3:30 p.m. time slot. The telenovela, which stars Danna Garcia, Jose Angel Llamas, Saby Kamalich and Carlos Torres Torrija, is directed by Moises Ortiz …

NEW YORK: A new agreement between FitzRoy Media and Magic Lantern Entertainment will bring the iconic Heathcliff character into the 21st century with the development of animated and live-action programming for theatrical, television and direct-to-DVD releases worldwide. Targeting a broad …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG: Sony Entertainment Television Asia will debut the hit Bravo series The Real Housewives of New York City on June 5. Centered on the lives of real women living in high society in New York City, the series follows …

OTTAWA: Amberwood Entertainment has concluded a DVD deal for RollBots with Magna Home Entertainment for the release of the first season of 26 half-hours across Australia and New Zealand following the broadcast on Network 10. The CG animated series premiered …

TORONTO: The first season of Lucasfilm Animation’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars will launch on TELETOON in Canada this fall, with season two to follow. TELETOON will also broadcast the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film, while the …

MUNICH: Starting in July, Nat Geo Wild will be available on the Sky Welt platform in the German and Austrian TV markets together with National Geographic Channel HD. Further enhancing the Sky HD offering, National Geographic Channel HD showcases high-quality …