World Screen

NEW YORK: Univision Communications has launched La Fabrica UCI, a new in-house digital content production unit meant to create, script and produce original video for new digital brands and the company’s digital platforms in Spanish and English. La Fabrica UCI …

NEW YORK: The rising value of content and increasingly lucrative retransmission fees will be key influences on deal activity in the entertainment and media sector, according to a new update from PwC. The value of deals in the U.S. entertainment, …

DALLAS: New research from Parks Associates shows that usage of TV apps is on the rise, with 55 percent of U.S. smartphone owners and 61 percent of tablet owners using TV-related applications at least once a month. The firm expects …

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI) has licensed the CBS special The Beatles: The Night That Changed America—A Grammy Salute, which aired in the U.S. over the weekend, to broadcasters around the globe. The Beatles: The Night That Changed America—A …

SILVER SPRING: A 64 percent gain in revenues from its international networks helped drive Discovery Communication's fourth-quarter revenues to $1.5 billion, a 28 percent boost over the year-ago period, delivering a net profit of $289 million. “Discovery’s strong 2013 results …

AMSTERDAM/LONDON/BURBANK: Warner Bros. Television Group has entered into a deal to acquire all of Eyeworks' businesses outside of the U.S., encompassing outfits in 15 countries. Founded by Reinout Oerlemans in 2001 in the Netherlands, Eyeworks produces a broad range of …

NEW YORK: A large majority—93 percent—of the CEOs of media and entertainment companies surveyed by PwC are somewhat or very confident about how their companies will fare in the global economy over the next three years. PwC has released the …

SANTA MONICA: Lionsgate announced a 13 percent increase in revenue year-on-year for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2013, largely driven by the success of films such as Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Revenue for the quarter was $839.9 million, compared …

SOCHI: NBC Olympics, a part of NBC Sports Group, is working with Twitter to lure viewers to NBCUniversal's coverage of the XXII Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and increase conversation about the Games on Twitter. Under the deal, Twitter will promote NBC …

SEATTLE: There are ten new pilots from Amazon Studios launching exclusively on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. and LOVEFiLM in the U.K., including a project from The X-Files' Chris Carter and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch detective drama. The Bosch …