World Screen

CANNES: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), Singapore’s Net Leader Holdings (NL Holdings) and China-based Gobi Partners have issued a joint call for proposals from Singapore producers in collaboration with Asian partners to co-produce original content for international distribution. …

CANNES: Telescreen has scooped up the worldwide all media rights for the Dutch book-publishing character Fingerling (Pinkeltje), including related characters and stories, for adaptation into movies, home entertainment and merchandising, among other platforms. Further areas for exploitation include Internet, mobile …

  April 2009   The Shine Group consists of four British production companies: Kudos, Dragonfly, Shine TV and Princess, which have created a slew of hits, including Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars. Last year, Shine acquired Reveille, the producer …

CANNES: The ProsiebenSat.1 group has optioned ShineReveille’s paper format Fame and Fortune for the German Free TV’s station portfolio. The local version will be co-produced by the newly-formed Shine Germany and ProSiebenSat1’s production company Redseven Entertainment under the creative lead …

ABU DHABI: twofour54 ibtikar, the media industry funding and support pillar of twofour54 Abu Dhabi, has signed its first partnership deal, an agreement with the U.K.’s 3Line Media to co-produce Driver Dan’s Story Train, which will air on CBeebies. twofour54 …

CANNES: FremantleMedia Enterprises has set up a joint venture with the Chinese production company Asian Union (AU) to faciliate the traffic of factual content in and out of China. Vision Ventures Media will be headed up by Liu Xiao Lin …

LONDON/NEW YORK: Nickelodeon International chief Steve Grieder is adding international program sales at MTV Networks International to his remit, and has already announced two key Asian deals sealed at MIPTV. As the executive VP of Nickelodeon and program sales for MTVNI, …

NEW YORK: IFC tv has given the greenlight to its first original movie, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, based on Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling paranormal fantasy novels and produced by Lionsgate and After Dark Films.  There are currently 16 books in Hamilton’s series, published …

NEW YORK: News Corporation’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has named Jonathan Miller, the former CEO of AOL, as the company’s chairman and CEO of the digital media group and chief digital officer. In this newly created position, Miller, who will …

LONDON/NEW YORK: After selling Classic Media to Entertainment Rights in 2007, Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman set up Boomerang Media in partnership with private-equity firm GTCR. Today, Boomerang becomes the new owner of ER, after the kids’ programming outfit, unable …