World Screen

NEW YORK, June 12: Mirage Studios and 4Kids Entertainment are gearing up for the 25th anniversary of the animated kids’ property, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) in 2009 with the launch of a new teaser website this summer. The TMNT25 …

HARRINGTON PARK, June 12: Janson Media will release the three-hour documentary series Secret World of Wellness to television, VOD, DVD/video and new-media markets in the U.S., Canada, China and India. The series is also available exclusively through Janson Media to …

LOS ANGELES, June 12: Scott Sternberg Productions has signed an exclusive development deal with New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author and financial guru Robert Shemin. Scott Sternberg Productions will develop unscripted formats based on Shemin’s …

TOKYO, June 12: RTL2 has acquired 48 half-hour episodes of Toei Animation’s Digimon Data Squad and 64 half hours of Dragonball GT. Digimon Data Squad is the fifth season of Toei’s hit animated series Digimon. The franchise currently airs in …

SANTA MONICA, June 12: Speed Racer Enterprises has appointed four agencies to represent both Speed Racer: The Next Generation and the classic Speed Racer series for licensing and merchandising across the world. Speed Racer Enterprises has tapped G Squared Promotion …

LONDON, June 12: Zodiak-owned Bullseye TV’s director of production, Delroy Dixon, has been appointed as its deputy managing director, overseeing the company’s expanding slate of content. More than 180 half hours of factual-entertainment programs are currently in production. For the …

April 2008 Grey’s Anatomy premiered in March 2005 and took the medical-drama genre to a whole different level, not with splashier special effects or more gruesome cases, but with honest portrayals of people: interns, doctors and patients, and the relationships …

TORONTO, June 11: Americans will spend an average of 8 hours per day consuming multiplatform entertainment—including video games, web programming and DVDs—by 2013, according to a new report from Solutions Research Group, up from 6.1 hours this year. Of the …

NEW YORK, June 11: Global retail revenues of licensed Disney merchandise is expected to exceed $30 billion in fiscal 2008, Andy Mooney, the chairman of Disney Consumer Products, announced at the Licensing Show yesterday, with the tween franchises alone contributing …

LOS ANGELES, June 11: HBO has made an undisclosed financial investment in Funny or Die, in addition to commissioning ten half-hours of programming from the web destination, founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. Since its launch last …