World Screen

CANNES/BEVERLY HILLS: Televix Entertainment has teamed up with Foundation5 and private investors to form Animepop Enterprises, a new venture that will launch its first interactive anime Internet portal in the second half of this year. The portal will offer content, …

Michael Katz VP, Programming & Production AETN International Having a "larger-than-life" character at the center of its programming has been a successful pull for AETN International, which has a number of new series in its catalogue that follow this trend. …

CANNES/MUNICH: Bavaria Media has clinched a deal for Lebanon-based Charisma to produce a version of the French telenovela Second Chance for broadcast across the Middle East and North Africa. Charisma has scored the rights to remake 180 episodes of the …

NAME: B.F.F. Best Friends Forever ORIGIN: B.F.F. is based on the comic book Pahe’s Life by Patrick Essono, published by Paquet. DISTRIBUTOR: AB International Distribution handles the worldwide rights to the series. CREDITS: Literary Adaptation: Patrick Essono and Christophe  Guignement …

CANNES: A new multi-year output deal provides BET International with the broadcast rights to Image Entertainmnet’s entire catalogue of urban titles, as well as new projects, to air in the U.K. and Africa. Through the output deal, BET International will …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company is negotiating to take a stake in Hulu, the online TV venture from NBC Universal and News Corporation, according to the Los Angeles Times. With the equity investment, Disney would make ABC shows available on Hulu, which attracted …

CANNES/NEW YORK/DÜSSELDORF: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is working with the media authorities of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to foster relations between leading German and American television professionals. The initiative, announced at MIPTV, will also …

CANNES: A trio of appointments have been made within FremantleMedia, including Vasha Wallace being promoted to senior VP of format acquisitions. Wallace was behind the acquisition of Hole in the Wall and Let’s Dance, and will expand her responsibilites to …

CANNES: As the director of international media development/special projects for Metan Development Group, Jennifer Moravitz will look to forge business alliances and strategic media partnerships within the global entertainment community. Moravitz joins Metan from ABC Network News, where she worked …

CANNES: Indian animation studio DQ Entertainment is producing a new CGI take on The Jungle Book, with ZDF and ZDF Enterprises on board as co-producers on the project, budgeted at about 9 million euros. ZDF and ZDF Enterprises will be full co-producers on the series, with …