World Screen

PARIS, November 27: To celebrate its first anniversary next month, the French international news channel France 24 will broadcast 24 hours of programming in Arabic on December 6. The special broadcasting schedule will kick off at 8 p.m. (Paris time) …

SINGAPORE, November 27: Singapore’s Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) has inked a $10-million deal with financing partner Cinema Solutions to fund two motion pictures for the international market. UDE is a creative and financial partnership between production company Upside Down Concepts …

SINGAPORE, November 27: TV France International is participating at the Asia TV Forum this week for the seventh time, hosting 20 companies. Attending producers and distributors are looking to further build on the number of French exports to the region, …

SANTIAGO, November 27: Promofilm has inked a deal with UC-TV in Chile for a local version of The Singing Bee format for launch in January 2008. A name for the Chilean version of the show, first launched in the U.S. …

TORONTO/SINGAPORE, November 27: Shaftesbury Sales Company is exhibiting at the Asia TV Forum for the first time this year, highlighting Life with Derek on the heels of inking a multi-territory deal with Super RTL for the first two seasons of …

SINGAPORE, November 27: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) have issued a call for submissions for the Cross-Media Challenge—Singapore, with the winning project set to receive a S$15,000 co-production development deal. …

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, November 27: Zodiak has further expanded its operations with an investment in the new British production outfit Lucky Day, headed by former Celador development chief Damon Pattison. Lucky Day will focus on entertainment, specializing in prime-time game and quiz …

LONDON, November 27: BKN International has released its financial results for the year ended September 30, 2007, reporting record net income for the third year in a row, with revenues up 29 percent to 16.3 million euros. Profit before tax …

SINGAPORE, November 27: Singapore and the Philippines today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster greater ties between their respective media industries. The agreement covers the areas of media policy and information exchange, training and human resource development, …

MIAMI, November 27: Telemundo will roll out its first Spanish-language late-night talk show, Más Vale Tarde con Alex Cambert , which will premiere online on Yahoo! Telemundo the day prior to its linear television debut on November 29 at 11:30 …