World Screen

MUMBAI: The Indian media and entertainment market is projected to rise by 12.5 percent in the next five years, reaching 1.05 trillion rupees ($21 billion) by 2013, according to a new report from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce …

LONDON: Cake Entertainment has finalized the sale of Fresh TV’s animated surf comedy Stoked to Cartoon Network in the U.S.  The character-driven animated sitcom is about six teenagers who come together one summer to work, and surf, at the renowned …

OTTAWA: Asian Food Channel and Australia’s Premier Media Group have struck deals for License to Grill and Junk Brothers, respectively, from Knight Enterprises.  Australia’s Premier Media Group has acquired all 52 episodes of Knight’s popular furniture-renovation series Junk Brothers for …

LOS ANGELES: David Smyth has left BSkyB after eight years to take on the role of VP of sales for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution in Europe, effective immediately.   Smyth will be responsible for growing Fox’s initiatives in the co-production and …

PHILADELPHIA: Fourth-quarter profit at Comcast Corporation dropped almost 32 percent to $412 million, largely as a result of a $600 million pretax impairment charge on its Clearwire investment in 2008. Revenues in the period gained 9 percent to $8.8 billion, with …

SYDNEY: First Australians, produced over six years by Australian Aboriginal filmmakers Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale, leads off the slate of SBS Content Sales for MIPDOC and MIPTV.  The multiplatform project encompasses seven episodes, an online experience, educational and retail DVD, a hard …

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LOS ANGELES: The actor Don Johnson has filed suit against the producers of Nash Bridges, alleging that he never received his share of the profits of the ’90s CBS show. According to wire reports, Johnson lodged his complaint in the Los …

LOS ANGELES: Sorpresa! is now airing a branded kids’ block on Mega TV via DIRECTV, expanding its audience by more than a million Hispanic satellite subscribers through DIRECTV Más in addition to Sorpresa!’s existing 1.1 million cable subscribers. The in-language, in-culture preschool …

ENGLEWOOD: Penelope, starring Christina Ricci, is among the first-run titles Starz Entertainment has acquired from Summit Entertainment.  Starz also took on the drama Never Back Down and the 3-D children’s adventure Fly Me to the Moon, as well as the …