World Screen

ENGLEWOOD, November 6: While its revenues were up 17 percent to $2.6 billion, Liberty Global posted a third-quarter loss of $308.9 million, as compared with a profit of $40.4 million in last year's results, which included a one-time asset disposal …

CHICAGO, November 6: Playboy Enterprises recorded $6.3 million in restructuring charges and provisions for reserves in the third quarter, resulting in a net loss of $5.2 million, as compared with last year's $2.6 million profit. Without those expenses, the company …

BURBANK, November 6: Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher are executive-producing a new series for ABC Television Network called True Beauty, which will feature good-looking contestants unknowingly being judged on their inner character. Hosted and judged by TV personality Vanessa Minnillo, …

STUDIO CITY, November 6: Crown Media, the parent company of the Hallmark Channel in the U.S., increased its third-quarter revenues by 17 percent to $64.5 million and lowered its loss to $17.9 million from last year's $37.9 million. The revenue …

LONDON, November 6: Five has commissioned Zig Zag Productions to produce Madonna & Guy: Where Did It All Go Wrong?, an hour-long documentary that features the ups and downs of the power couple's seven-year marriage. Set to air on November …

LOS ANGELES, November 6: The romantic comedy Virgin on Bourbon Street leads off Echo Bridge Entertainment's slate of new theatrical features available for the international market at the AFM, which opened in Santa Monica yesterday. Virgin on Bourbon Street stars …

TORONTO, November 6: Filmmakers Yung Chang, Sarah Polley, Shelley Saywell and John Walker are set to participate in the inaugural CFC/NFB Feature Documentary Program, which will launch in January 2009. The six-month program was created by the Canadian Film Centre …

SANTA MONICA, November 6: Germany's Beta Cinema announced at the AFM that it has sold Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, about the controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, to U.S. distributor MPI Media Group, among others. The German-language rights to Il Divo …

SYDNEY, November 6: Granada International Australia has sold a number of first-run British dramas, including Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot, to New Zealand's Prime Television. Prime has also taken on season three of Lewis, a detective series set in the …

LONDON, November 6: Killer Couples, a 4×1-hour series from British indie True North Productions that looks at the relationship between deadly partners in crime, has joined Passion Distribution's catalogue. In each episode, international best-selling crime novelist Mark Billingham looks at …