World Screen

LOS ANGELES: PorchLight Entertainment has teamed up with Hidden City Games to create an animated television series and long-form film content based on the Bella Sara property. PorchLight will have the worldwide rights to the animated productions and will simultaneously …

NEW YORK: News Corporation’s MyNetworkTV is undergoing a revamp this fall, shifting from a broadcast-network model to a "hybrid" service that will continue to deliver content to its affiliate stations. Now being positioned as a programming service, MyNetworkTV will cut its …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has secured the first deals for its debut Studio Lambert title Undercover Boss, which is currently in production for Channel 4 in the U.K.  The format has already been optioned by Endemol in France, Nordisk in Finland and Gil …

COLOGNE: ohm:tv has landed a deal to distribute programs from Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ in Spain. ohm:tv will have mutually exclusive distribution rights with RTÉ for its catalogue, which includes more than 200 hours of programming. Titles include the hit …

NEW YORK: There will be 500 million users of mobile-TV broadcasts worldwide by 2013, according to new data from ABI Research.  ABI predicts that the transition to digital will see mobile TV rollouts in new markets across the globe, creating opportunities …

SANTA MONICA: For the third quarter, Lionsgate reported a net loss of $93.4 million, as compared with the year-ago profit of $7.3 million, despite an 8-percent increase in revenues to $324 million. The independent studio attributed the loss to the underperformance …

LONDON: Entertainment Rights has expanded its partnership with 3DBA to develop 3-2-1 Penguins! as a franchise for 4-D theater attractions worldwide. Deals are due to be concluded with partners across Southeast Asia and the Middle East in the near future. …

HILVERSUM: Peter Adrichem will succeed Paul Römer as managing director of Endemol Netherlands, with oversight for the company’s scripted, non-scripted and sport business units in the region. Römer left the post in October and took up the role of global …

October 2008 They go by the names Ray Mysterio, Santino Marella and Michelle McCool. They are some of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstars, and a huge business has been built around them. WWE’s television programming can be seen in …

December 2008 Over the last few years, Malaysia’s Media Prima Berhad has made an ambitious play to reach the nation’s more than 27 million residents on as many platforms as possible. Malaysia’s largest integrated media company operates four of the …