World Screen

LOS ANGELES, March 8: Independent non-fiction distributors Ocule Films and Solid Entertainment and online stock footage house Stock Footage World have joined forces to form O.S.I. The partnership will offer up award-winning documentary specials and features, reality and non-fiction series …

SEATTLE, March 8: More than 200 movies from Lionsgate, including Saw III, will be available to stream on the ReelTime.com content platform. ReelTime customers will be able to access Lionsgate fare such as Employee of the Month, Crank, The Blair …

LONDON, March 8: Five has suspended all of its programming involving premium-rate telephone services after it learned from Endemol U.K. of problems involving the daily quiz show Brainteaser. The move comes a week after ITV pulled the plug on its …

NEW YORK, March 8: Nickelodeon will add three new animated series to its 2008 schedule—The Umizumiz, Bubble Guppies and Making Fiends—and has unveiled iCarly, a new live-action comedy series that will incorporate user-generated content. Nickelodeon has green-lit 13 episodes of …

STUDIO CITY, March 8: Crown Media, which today announced a renewed agreement with EchoStar Communications Corporation for carriage of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, has reported a 2006 net loss of $389 million, versus last year’s $232.8 million loss, …

BUENOS AIRES, March 8: NBC Universal’s SCI FI Channel will be available across Latin America beginning April 1, with carriage on DIRECTV Panamericana and Cablevision in Mexico. Aimed at viewers aged 18 to 49, the show will feature original series …

ALVISO, March 8: With revenues up 22 percent to $57.4 million in the fourth quarter, TiVo has narrowed its loss from $21.1 million a year ago to $18.7 million. Tom Rogers, the CEO of TiVo, commented: "Fiscal 2007 was marked …

DALLAS, March 8: Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures has asked a Texas federal court to issue a subpoena against Google as it seeks the identity of a user who uploaded illegal copies of some of the studio’s releases to Google Video …

NEW YORK, March 8: CBS Corporation has taken its first step towards setting up a film unit, naming former Paramount Pictures executive VP Bruce Tobey as COO of the CBS Feature Films division. In addition to being charged with establishing …

NEW YORK, March 8: According to the Financial Times, News Corporation is in “active negotiations” with other content owners to license titles that it would distribute through its social networking site MySpace. Peter Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media, …