World Screen

LOS ANGELES, October 27: High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the first theatrical release in Disney’s lucrative film franchise, took in $42 million in its opening weekend in the U.S., setting a new record for movie musicals. The weekend take …

LONDON/UNIVERSAL CITY, October 27: Universal Pictures is aligning with Top Up TV for TVBox, a subscription VOD service in the U.K. delivering current and library series from NBC Universal’s portfolio of episodic content. The offering builds on the success of …

MUNICH, October 27: ESPN is said to be mulling a bid for the rights to Bundesliga German football matches, reports indicate, and is looking into plans for a local-language service to broadcast the games. Bloomberg, citing two people close to …

UNIVERSAL CITY, October 27: NBC has updated its Wednesday night schedule, relocating Life to a 9 p.m. slot, where it leads into Law & Order, and shifting Lipstick Jungle to Friday nights, where it will follow Crusoe. In addition, the …

NEW YORK, October 27: MSNBC will begin telecasting in full 1080i high definition as of spring 2009, following on the heels of its one-year anniversary of relocating to NBC News world headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. …

BURBANK/ENGLEWOOD, October 27: Production is set to begin in early 2009 on Spartacus, a new original drama produced by Starz Media with executive producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Joshua Donen. The 13×1-hour series will provide a new twist on …

LOS ANGELES, October 27: Jason Wiles (Third Watch) and Australian actress Daisy Betts are the latest cast members to join Fox Television Studios’ (FtvS) Persons Unknown, a new one-hour mystery drama. Michael Rymer, who directed the Battlestar Galactica pilot, has …

BURBANK/SEOUL, October 27: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed an agreement that sees Sorority Forever, a new original series from McG and the producers of the hit Internet offering Prom Queen, airing in Korea on GOM TV, an …

LOS GATOS, October 27: Netflix has upgraded its video player with Microsoft Silverlight technology, a move that expands the online movie rental company’s streaming service to subscribers with Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers. The deployment, which will initially touch a small …

SYDNEY, October 27: Beyond Productions is producing a new children’s series, Crime Scene Detective, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dorling Kindersley. The series, which features kids solving real mysteries with a hands-on approach to forensics, …