World Screen

LORETO: Bandai has been appointed as the European master toy licensee for Rainbow S.p.A.’s new animated series PopPixie, which will launch in spring 2010. PopPixie is based on the characters from the second season of Winx Club. To date, PopPixie …

NEW YORK: Profit at News Corporation was flat in the third quarter at $2.72 billion, as compared with $2.69 billion in the year-ago period, on revenues of $7.37 billion, which were down 16 percent. "Our third-quarter results directly reflect the continuing …

TORONTO: Peter Miller has stepped down as the COO of Canada’s S-VOX, the parent company of VisionTV, with Mark Prasuhn, the company’s chief content officer, adding that role to his mandate. Miller joined S-VOX a year ago and led the …

HAWORTH: The new Global ImageWorks (GIW) website features more than 10,000 videos available for viewing and download, along with advanced search options and improved site functionality. GIW has chosen to digitize entire sequences averaging 3 to 5 minutes in length. The company …

BURBANK: A second season of Aaron Stone is on order from Disney XD, which has just announced a new original sitcom, Viper Slap (working title), about a teenage boy who becomes the lead guitarist of his favorite rock band. The …

HYDERABAD/PARIS: DQ Entertainment (DQE) has signed a co-production deal with MoonScoop for its new 3-D animated series The Jungle Book, budgeted at 9.2 million euros. Based on the Rudyard Kipling classic, the 52×11-minute show, unveiled at MIPCOM, has also scored ZDF, …

MIAMI: Telelatino in Canada is to debut the Telemundo Internacional telenovela Without Breasts There is No Paradise today in a 6 p.m. time slot. The novela has aired with strong results in Bolivia and Colombia, and to date has been …

LOS ANGELES: Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has unveiled a new website for its clients ahead of the L.A. Screenings, with the revamped FoxFast.com delivering show information, marketing and publicity materials and video. Replacing the previous FoxFast.com on May 4, the …

LUCERNE: The recipients of this year’s Golden Rose awards were unveiled on the final evening of the 49th annual Rose d’Or Festival, with I Survived a Japanese Gameshow winning out as Best of 2009. I Survived a Japanese Gameshow from Small World …

HAMBURG: Discovery Networks Germany will use the Brightcove Internet video platform to deploy ad-supported content, both short- and long-form, on its DMAX.de website. The Brightcove platform will be used to add promotional clips, current and archived episodes and online premieres …