World Screen

NEW YORK: Continuing its growth strategy for this year, TV Latina, World Screen‘s market-leading Latin American media industry publication, has promoted Rafael Blanco to executive editor. Blanco contributes to all of World Screen‘s Spanish-language print publications—with the flagship TV Latina, plus TV Niños and TV Formatos—as …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES: Peace Arch Entertainment Group and ContentFilm have restructured their North American home-entertainment business, which is led by Berry Meyerowitz, transferring a majority interest in the venture to Meyerowitz’s new outfit, Phase 4 Films. Peace Arch has sold all …

LONDON: All3Media International and BBC Worldwide are among the some 100 businesses that received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade this year, recognizing substantial growth in a company’s international earnings and commercial success. BBC Worldwide demonstrated a 33-percent increase in overseas revenues …

LOS ANGELES: NATPE has confirmed the changes to its exhibitor setup for 2010, with at least four more floors of suites available at THEhotel and the nixing of the convention hall show floor in favor of using ballrooms at the Mandalay …

SAN FRANCISCO: The Brazilian terrestrial broadcaster SBT has signed up for a 51-episode second season of VIZ Media’s anime series Naruto. The series, which follows a young boy in training to become a ninja, had a first season of 52 …

LOS ANGELES: The newest member appointed to PorchLight Entertainment’s board of directors is Rick Eldridge, the president and CEO of the post-production outfit The Film Foundry. “With over 30 years in the entertainment business as a musician, producer, director and …

AMSTERDAM: Eyeworks International’s hit format The Italian Dream continues its successful rollout across Scandinavia, with Swedish broadcaster TV4 as the latest to commission a local version. The show, which sees four couples competing for their own bed and breakfast in …

LOS ANGELES: The motion picture and television industry in the U.S. supports 2.5 million American jobs, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which today released the results of its biennial nationwide economic impact report. Of those 2.5 million …

LOS ANGELES: The original film Natalee Holloway, spotlighting a missing American teen who vanished while on vacation in Aruba, came out strong on Lifetime Movie Network, delivering the highest ratings ever in the channel’s 11-year history with 3.2 million total …

WEST PALM BEACH: In renewing its affiliation with Dish Network, ION Television has secured distribution on the pay-TV provider’s most wide reaching programming tier. Starting this month, ION Television joins the Classic Bronze 100 programming package, expanding the network’s distribution to …