World Screen

NEW YORK: NBC took in $206 million from advertising during the Super Bowl last night, a new record for the annual American football event. NBC Universal sold out its ad inventory for the game to 32 advertisers across a range of …

TORONTO: In the wake of its expanded production slate, Cream Productions has added a new member to its management lineup along with promoting two current executives.    Mark Carter, Cream’s head of production since 2005, has been named director of …

LONDON: Make, Shake and Jake, airing on Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito in the U.K., is presented bilingually in English and sign language, aimed at both deaf and hearing children.  The program was developed and produced by Handle and Sprout, and includes …

SILVER SPRING: Gang Nation, a new series hosted by investigative journalist Ross Kemp that looks at notorious gangs, will make its U.S. premiere on February 10 at 10 p.m. on Investigation Discovery (ID). Each hour-long episode follows Kemp as he …

LOS ANGELES: Regent Worldwide Sales has picked up the international sales rights for Little Ashes, and will present the title to distributors as a market premiere at this year’s EFM in Berlin.  Little Ashes stars Robert Pattinson (Twilight) as the …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has renewed its long-standing licensing partnerships with Polyband Film and Dutch Film Works as DVD distributors for Germany and Benelux, respectively.  Under the terms of the agreements, both Polyband Film and Dutch Film Works maintain the …

LOS ANGELES: Christina Norman, the former president of MTV, has been named CEO of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, effective February 17. Norman will be based in the Los Angeles headquarters of OWN, a joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications that …

LONDON: The U.K.’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport has released the Digital Britain interim report, promising to give all homes across the country access to broadband by 2012. Presented to the Parliament by the Secretary of State for Culture, …

TOKYO: Third-quarter net profit at Sony Corporation plunged 94.8 percent to 10.4 billion yen ($115.9 million), with revenues down 24.6 percent to 2.1 trillion yen ($23.7 billion). The company also reported a quarterly operating loss, of 18 billion yen, versus …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, revenues for the motion picture and video production-and-distribution industry gained 7 percent in 2007, reaching $66 billion. The data also shows that between 2006 and 2007, publishing and broadcasting revenues from the …